"Roar!"

    "F*ck!" This was the only word that escaped Myne''s mouth when he emerged from the portal. Never in his wildest dreams did he expect that the other side wouldn''t be familiar, empty space, but a horde of creepy-looking monsters, who attacked him without wasting a single second.

    Thankfully, it seemed these monsters still possessed some basic intelligence. Not completely mindless, they recoiled as the portal appeared before them out of thin air. This gave Myne time to assess his situation, and he was able to cast a hypnotism spell on ten monsters around him. These now desperately carried out his orders, acting as meat shields and giving Myne time to think.

    "Damn it, how could these bastards from the Church World be defeated so easily? It''s barely been an hour since the awakening, and the trial mission started!" Myne cursed inwardly. "And I thought they were more powerful than barbarians. After all, they''re able to open portals to other worlds, kidnapping people nonstop and sacrificing them to increase their powers. God knows where those sacrifices went if they are so f*cking weak!"

    He kicked away a dark blue-skinned, fish-headed, humanoid, aquatic monster, who, unsurprisingly, wasn''t wearing anything. The sight of its weapons hanging between its legs was something Myne wouldn''t have wanted to see even for millions of gold coins. He quickly opened a portal beneath his feet and escaped the encirclement.

    Wanting to get a better view of the situation, Myne opened a portal one kilometre high in the sky. His jaw dropped in shock as he took in the scene below. The small area occupied by the church world people had secured for their shelter was surrounded by countless aquatic monsters of all types, kinds, and sizes.

    There were also super-large ones, around ten or more meters tall, standing at the shore with only their disgusting, black-coloured heads with red eyes, covered with seaweed, protruding from the water. They watched the battle, their behaviour similar to bad parents watching their kids bullying weaker children in the park, feeling proud of their "growth."

    Myne also saw a giant, titanic creature, which has tentacles probably around a hundred meters long and dozens of meters thick, occasionally shoot out of the black sea, grab some large creature that had come from the depths to watch the fun, and drag it back into the deep, probably gathering ingredients for dinner.

    As for the Church people''s shelter, aside from the main church building in the centre, whose only entrance was still tightly guarded by an invisible barrier, hundreds of weirdos in black robes were throwing black-coloured fireballs or blue arrows made of energy, which shot with high speed at a single thought, directly targeting headshots, barely able to hold.

    But it seemed the level of these black robes was low. They barely knew three spells, and their physical fitness was very worrying, as none of them had any weapons, or were good at close combat. All of them were using magic to attack the aquatic monsters, which had hardly any effect. After all, their numbers were too great; killing a few thousand might not be enough to even make a ripple.

    "They seem not to have realized the potential of the talent they have awakened, or they were simply too busy to check about those things," Myne muttered with a thoughtful look on his face. To remain airborne, he opened two portals on top of each other and simply fell into one and came out of the second, right on top of the first. This loop continued until he had seen everything he wanted.

    The arrogant blonde girl Myne had seen before in the basement was hugging Finn, her mother, crying hard and blurting out whatever came to mind.

    "And whose fault is that? Didn''t I tell you to find a good man before?" Instead of coaxing her daughter, Finn who had a black line on her forehead, also started venting her emotions to calm herself down. "You''re already twenty-five, but because of your dreamy fantasies of finding a perfect boyfriend, you''ve refused countless good proposals. Now you''re regretting it. What can I do?" At your age, I have broken up with three boyfriends, and had got engaged with your father." This only made her daughter cry harder.

    "But those boys just wanted to get close to Father through me, and none of them loved me," The blonde girl said, tears streaming down her face, with some mucus running from her nose. Even in this terrifying situation, she wasn''t willing to let her mother scold her. "How can I fall in love with those selfish bastards?"

    "Fine, then stop complaining. You stay here. I''ll go look for your father. Maybe he got caught in some urgent situation and can''t get back. If I don''t find him in ten minutes, I''ll come back, and then we''ll leave him behind and escape from here... Without him..." With that, Finn forcefully pushed away her daughter, who was reluctant to let her go. Without giving her a chance to follow, she hurried out of the room and slammed the door shut, finally breathing a sigh of relief.

    "Hello..." Myne who was shamelessly eavesdropping on mother and daughter''s conversation, spoke in a low voice with a smile.

    "AHHHHH!"

    "Sss, it''s me. Why are you screaming like a little girl?" Myne hurriedly covered Finn''s mouth, who had let out a terrified scream at his voice and scolded in a low voice.

    "Mother! What''s wrong? Why did you scream? Have those monsters invaded the church? Are we about to die?" Hearing her mother''s scream, the blonde girl, who had been hiding under a blanket, rushed to the door, wanting to open it. Finn, not wanting her daughter to see Myne, gripped the doorknob tightly, preventing her from opening it.

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    "Sorry, dear," Finn said, feigning composure. "It was a messenger with a creepy face who looked a bit like those monsters. He suddenly appeared in front of me and caught me off guard. Don''t worry. The monsters outside will still take a long time to break the shield. Now, go back and lock the door. Don''t come out before I return. It''s not safe outside anymore."

    After deceiving her daughter and confirming she wouldn''t try to leave, Finn grabbed Myne''s arm and quickly walked to the door at the end of the corridor, pushing it open and entering with him, locking it behind them.