"As everyone can see, the Temple of Horus has four different official portals, one on each side, but we won't enter through any of them." Azrael pointed to the north-western entrance of the temple and then slowly moved down, explaining in the exact way he was briefed back in the guild, "Right below this entrance, there was an underground tunnel, which leads to a crypt that was flooded. The only problem is that the entrance of this underground tunnel lies at a depth of 2060 meters, where there is a hole in the barrier, unnoticed by the werewolves. And it goes like this."

He drew the imaginary line at a 52-degree angle and connected it to the altar, which is at the center of the temple.

Some guys hooked onto the new piece of information revealed by Azrael and listened to it seriously, while the others, like Jaden and Lucas, who are still angry with him, half-heartedly nodded.

Cyro then said, "Mr. Azrael, the hydrostatic pressure at the bottom at such depth will be more than 20 million Pascal (Pa). And from there, we should swim upwards for 2 more kilometers in the tunnel. Not everyone could withstand the pressure and accomplish the task."

"Ah! That tunnel is actually big enough for a submarine to enter." Kitty Ranger suddenly commented, gaining the attention of everyone.

The Arcana Master gave a meaningful stare at her as if they were asking why she withheld the information, and embarrassed them in front of the rookie.

Azrael, upon finishing his narration of the story to Cyro, then said, "After I soul energyged to escape with grave injuries, I lost my consciousness and got picked up by Special Forces. The rest is known to everyone."

"Hmm, wait a second. You haven't told us about how you managed to escape the werewolf lord." The beautiful, blue-eyed blonde, Celia Storm (codename: Aurora), who was also listening to his story curiously, voiced her opinion.

Azrael took a glance at her and shrugged his shoulders, "I don't remember much. The memory is still hazy."

Iphi Magnolis narrowed her eyes…

Later that day.

After three hours of flying, the transport helicopter landed on a large aircraft carrier sailing in the middle of the ocean.

Named after a Arcana Master who sacrificed to save thousands of people during a 9.4 magnitude earthquake, which eventually created a massive tsunami, the Captain Atomic Aircraft carrier is the third largest aircraft carrier in the world, with over 432 meters in length, a displacement of 170k tons, but still could move at a top speed of 58 knots (107km/hr).

Due to the fact that people looked more toward Arcana masters and did not support many scientific technological leaps like Camelot or the northern countries, it took 34 long years to build this nuclear-powered aircraft carrier for the country of Llyne in order to guard the south.

Azrael was completely impressed by the sheer size of the aircraft carrier, thousands of crew, dozens of aircraft on the outside, and the things inside, like a gym, a bank, an indoor sports area, grocery stores, a cafeteria, dining facilities,an excellent air-conditioning system, and sleeping cabins…

And the thing that shocked him the most was the bar. Isn't it quite dangerous to have liquor in this place? What if everyone just gets drunk and a war erupts outside? He couldn't help but wonder when he saw it.

As for his teammates, it wasn't the first time for them to board this warship. Without bothering to admire their surroundings, the team of eleven proceeded to their respective sleeping cabins to rest until lunchtime.

As soon as he entered the room, he locked the door and switched off the air conditioning, not wanting to fall asleep. Instead, he sat on the bed in a lotus position and closed his eyes, going into a state of meditation.

Soon, his deep bluish aura formed a layer over his body while the tremendous amount of natural energy from the sea started to rush toward him.

Compared to the desert and air, the waters of oceans and seas were very rich in natural energy, giving life to billions of aquatic living things. Adding on top of that, Azrael was already near to the breakthrough to the next tier of this energy Condensation.

Hence, the absorption and spontaneous refining were quite faster and smoother.

Roughly after three hours, the door was knocked on, a few times, disturbing his concentration. He opened the door to find Iphi Magnolis standing outside.

"What is it?" Azrael asked with a frown on his face. He wasn't displeased because it was Iphi Magnolis who wanted to talk to him, but it was because he was almost at the doorstep of his next breakthrough.

Energy condensation is a technique that constantly improves the body's capacity to hold the Soul energy particles. For example, if the capacity of the body is a bucket, then the water is the Soul energy particles.

Upon every breakthrough, the bucket becomes bigger, and then, human cells will interact with the existing Soul energy particles attached to them in creating more Soul energy particles, thereby increasing the reserves of a superhuman.

He was at the brink of a breakthrough but now, this girl is disturbing his progress. So, how could he not be displeased?

On the other hand, Iphi Magnolis has no idea what's going on with Azrael. So, she misunderstood that this young man didn't want to see her. Unfortunately, it is important. She had to meet him in person or else, she felt like she would regret it.

Taking a deep breath, she handed him a letter. "This is serious." She gave a warning and ran away.

"Eh? A letter?" Azrael looked back at the letter.

For a moment, it felt like a scene from Azrael's memories from middle school, where a girl handed him a love letter before running away in shyness.

Locking the door once again, he opened the letter in curiosity. "Whoa." He exclaimed as he read the contents of the letter. It was a simple but powerful warning.

"You might be abandoned or worse, sacrificed at the temple before we reach the heart of the dungeon. Trust no one but Cyro."

The meaning was quite clear. Azrael could also guess the identity of the one who will be digging his grave.

However, Azrael has no plans of depending on someone's mercy from the start, anyway. So, it didn't bother him at all.

He continued with his training for a couple of hours more before stepping out for lunch.

Instead of going to the cafeteria for a full meal, he just went to the grocery store and bought instant cup noodles. The kettles are obviously available there. So, he managed to fill his stomach as quickly as possible and returned to his room before proceeding with the training.

The evening arrived, and Azrael continued eating the same thing during dinner, skipping the meals with the teammates.

Jaden was happy that the rookie wasn't there.

Celia Storm felt pity for the rookie and wondered whether she should have a talk with him to show that she is friendly.

Iphi Magnolis misunderstood that her ex-roommate was ignoring everyone due to her letter. She felt proud of her act.

While Cyro was of the opinion that it wasn't good for Azrael to eat instant noodles all through the day, the others assumed that Azrael was probably nervous because of the mission.

None of them knew that Azrael's agenda was something else. Without taking any rest for the whole night, he continuously absorbed the natural energy and spontaneously refined it into Soul energy particles inside his meridians.

The time was around 3:40 in the morning. More than half of the crew was sleeping while the other half was on night duty. The aircraft carrier continued to sail in the sea.

Inside Azrael's sleeping cabin, the bluish aura around him was deep blue. It has been getting deeper and deeper for the past few hours, and finally, the aura shed its bluish color and turned green.

Feeling a surge of energy in his body, Azrael let out a smile and opened his eyes, "Haha… finally… the next tier. Now, I can absorb from as far as half a kilometer. But then again, nothing has changed much. At most, I can use big moves like Absolute Reality a couple of times. If I put it aside and just focus on minor illusions combined with minor hypnosis, I might hold my ground. Anyway, there's still time. Why waste it…"

He closed his eyes once again and continued to practice the Soul energy Condensation technique to increase his Soul energy particles' limit as much as possible.