"Now how are we supposed to find them" Daniel looked around, the general environment was not much different than the outer layer

But the atmosphere was completely different, the air was much colder, the rain fell harder and faster and instead of the sound of the raging sea there was another sound

Come… come… come find me…

This voice kept echoing in their ears, like the voice of a little girl asking for help, but they were not stupid enough to be tricked by something like that

"I don't know either, all we can do is search carefully and hope we can find them" William said after a moment of thought

There was no direct way to find the S Ranks, the only option was to search the whole island and hope they would come across them

"Should we search this way" Daniel looked at the fork, one path to their right and the other to the left, both were dark and barely lit

Worse, both directions gave him a sense of danger, clearly there were things down there that could kill both of them

After all this was a Purple Rank dungeon, the fact they had encountered so few monsters so far was strange on its own

"What are you doing" Daniel turned and saw William covering himself with mud and then rubbing large leaves on himself

"Obviously trying to hide my scent, you want some S Rank monsters to find us"

Daniel wanted to say something but then nodded, it came to his mind that maybe monsters could track them through divine sense or something similar

But then he remembered that all senses were heavily restricted and weakened on this island and could not be used properly, meaning the monsters probably could not find them any other way than smell

He also covered himself with mud and rubbed some leaves on his body, not sure if it really worked but at least it was free to try

Besides he was not that worried about his life, if they ran into some overly strong monster he could simply use Fallen Step to get out of here

"Which way should we go" William looked at both sides and asked

"Let's go left" Daniel thought for a moment before answering

"On what basis did you decide that"

"I just feel like there's less danger there" in reality he had just asked Vorak for help and his Fallen told him there was less danger on the left

William glanced at him then walked left, they entered slowly and suddenly the massive trees covered above them

The trees were over a hundred meters tall and the leaves were so large they nearly covered the entire sky, even the raindrops could no longer reach them

For strange reasons a sense of peace and safety washed over them, as if as long as they stayed under these trees they would be completely safe

No need to worry about monsters or dangers… maybe it would not even be bad to spend their entire lives here… even the fruits of the trees looked delicious

Though both quickly turned their heads, their eyes locked on each other and they swallowed their saliva

"What was that"

"Mental attacks our minds are under attack be careful not to fall" William warned

Daniel nodded, raising his guard to the highest level, his mind had almost fallen, if that happened the result would have been disastrous

He slowly tried to stay away from the big trees and walked in the middle of the path

Because there was no day or night in this dungeon and the sky was always half dark half bright with endless rain, they had completely lost their sense of time

At this point they did not even know how long they had been walking, or how long they had been in this cursed dungeon

Maybe just ten minutes had passed maybe an hour but it also could have been a full day

There was no way to know how much time had gone by while walking, William even tried to count seconds and minutes but each time he got distracted by that strange voice and lost the count again

"Let's rest a little" Daniel suggested after seeing William's poor condition

Their minds were extremely exhausted, the fact they had endured all these mental attacks up until now was already a miracle

"Alright" William said and leaned against a huge rock nearly twice his size, rubbing his eyes with his hands

Because the rock was near the trees Daniel did not dare to get close and instead lay down in the middle of the path staring upward

Unfortunately the giant leaves had blocked the sky and it could not be seen

"I'm hungry" William suddenly said causing a frown on both his and Daniel's faces

"Are you kidding"

"No I'm really hungry"

Daniel wanted to say something but then his own stomach growled loudly announcing hunger, the frown on both their faces deepened

This should simply be impossible with their ranks they should not even feel hunger at all, their bodies could easily use mana and internal energy to replace food

It seemed they both realized something, they quickly checked their mana and energy reserves and what they saw shocked them

"What the hell" William said in disbelief, more than eighty percent of his mana and energy reserves were completely gone and worse he had not even noticed

"How the hell is that possible" Daniel groaned, the same thing had happened to him, and worse his body should have been able to regenerate energy quickly

So why had it not done anything and how had he not even noticed that much energy vanishing from his body

"What do we do now"

"You're asking me who am I supposed to ask"

"We need to get out of this part of the island as fast as possible" William said with discomfort

Daniel nodded and stood up, they were not stupid and had realized there was something wrong with this path they had entered

A heavy sense of unease surrounded both of them, they felt like something bad could happen at any moment

William also tried to get up but then realized… he could not move he tried again and realized his body was restrained

"Help me!!" he shouted but before Daniel could react the huge rock William was leaning on suddenly turned jelly-like

Without giving William any chance to react the stone swallowed him

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