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"You aren't my match," he said as he dismissively waved his hand. "Just go away before I turn serious and harm you."

"Hehe," the girl with the mask laughed a little. "I admit you are strong for someone at the bronze rank, but you are still nothing in front of me."

As her words left her mouth, a very intense pressure released from her, causing the ground beneath her feet to crack.

Almost instantly, wisps of golden light began to leak from her body, and in no time she was surrounded by the golden light all around her.

"T-that…," Orion was shocked, feeling the familiar pressure and seeing her familiar state; he felt like he was having a Deja Vu.

At the same time, when Orion was feeling shocked, the golden light surrounding the masked girl began to move towards her back and condensed into a golden ball the size of her fist, hovering behind her back.

"That's the Three Divine Ways."

Orion finally uttered these words after seeing her transformation. He couldn't believe his eyes and was so shocked that his jaws were hitting the floor. He had never thought that someone around his age would really learn the Three Divine Ways.

He had experienced for himself how difficult it was to learn the technique and had thought that only some seniors would be able to truly practice it.

Yet before him stood a girl no older than sixteen who had already mastered the first stage of the Three Divine Ways.

"Now I will let you witness the difference between our strengths," the girl in the mask said before she disappeared from her position.

A moment later, she was in front of Orion with a golden sword in her hand, but the sword didn't reach him because a hand in a red glow caught the sword before it could reach him.

Orion used the absolute defense in his hand at the last possible moment because he felt that the new golden sword in her hand would slice right through his hand if he were to catch it barely.

He then tightened the grip on the sword, causing cracks to appear on its surface before the sword broke into pieces like mirrors.

The girl in the mask quickly stepped back, seeing that, and once she was at a safe distance from Orion, she clapped her hands together.

As if responding to her call, the golden sphere behind her began to spin violently, releasing three balls of light each towards her on either side and above her head.

Almost instantly, these three balls of light transformed into a golden dragon, a golden phoenix, and one other entity Orion didn't recognize. The entity appeared to have three heads and four limbs.

Seeing such a wonderful use of the Three Divine Ways, Orion's mouth became full of water. He couldn't help but want to learn this technique; however, remembering the difficulty of learning, he cursed the seven generations of those who invented such a difficult technique.

He then sighed as he summoned his other three swords to counter the three monsters, but at that moment, someone interrupted their battle.

"Hey guys, why are you fighting?"

Orion and the masked lady both turned to see a boy around their age with milk-colored white hair standing before them.

Meanwhile, Orion suddenly felt a sense of inferiority as he looked at that smiling face that was oozing with handsomeness.

'Why is this guy so handsome?'

He cursed the original owner of this body for not being handsome, and he also cursed the newcomer for being too handsome.

"Can you guys help me?" The newcomer said his face turned slightly red with embarrassment.

Orion wondered what's wrong with this guy. They were in the middle of fighting, and this guy needed help from them.

He sighed as he turned to look at the girl in the mask.

"We should stop," he said to her as he gave her the silver rank core. "Here, take it."

He felt that the masked girl wouldn't stop if he didn't give her the core and thought that he could get his hands on some high quality cores himself. He just had to grind more for that.

The masked girl accepted the core and was about to go on her own way when the white-haired guy called out to her. n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Hey, don't go," he said, a little flustered. "I need you two's help."

"What help?" Orion asked as he raised his eyebrows.

"I think I am lost," the white-haired guy said weakly. "I don't know how to get out of here."

Orion had the urge to laugh when he heard him, but he controlled himself.

"Don't worry," he said, assuring him. "I also want to leave this place. So, just follow me."

"Thank you," the white-haired guy thanked him.

Orion nodded and turned to look at the girl in the mask.

"Are you also leaving?" He asked. "If so, then we might as well go together."

She nodded.

Seeing that, a small but subtle smile appeared on Orion's face.

"Alright, then let's go," he said as he took the lead.

The white-haired clumsily followed behind.

The girl in the mask also walked behind them.

As they walked along the cave, the white haired guy introduced himself.

"By the way, I am Ron," he said. "It's nice to meet you guys."

"I am Orion Darkwood." Orion nodded as he also introduced himself.

At that moment, the atmosphere became a little awkward as Ron kept looking at the masked girl, hoping to get her name.

Seeing that, Orion facepalmed himself.

"Ron, listen here, buddy," he said, getting close to him and whispering in his ear. "Don't you see her wearing a mask? She definitely doesn't want others to know about her or her name."

"Ah, sorry, I didn't think of that," Ron said as he tilted his head.

Orion shook his head as he wondered if this guy had some screws loose or something.

After a few minutes of walking, Orion felt something was wrong. They shouldn't have been that deep in the cave for it to take so long to walk out. However, he also considered that, in the heat of the battle with the monsters, he might not have noticed how far he had gone.

But as more time passed, he realized something was definitely wrong. After walking for nearly an hour, they still hadn't found the exit of the cave.

Finding this situation peculiar, he turned to look at the masked girl.

"Tell me I am the only one who feels that there is something wrong here," he said as he looked at her with a solemn expression.

"As much as I want to agree, I can't," the girl in the mask shook her head, saying. "We should have reached the entrance of the cave by now, but we haven't. That only means there is indeed something wrong here."

Orion's face turned ugly as he heard her.

"Has this happened before with others?" He asked her.

"I have been here for a year, but I haven't heard anything like it," she said, shaking her head.

"Maybe we really are lost," Orion said after thinking. "We should walk for another hour or so; maybe we will find the exit."

The girl in the mask nodded at him.

However, after another hour of walking, Orion realized the bitter truth: they hadn't lost their way; there was indeed something wrong with the cave itself because even after another hour they still didn't find the entrance of the cave, and Orion had a feeling they had only been walking in circles.