Monster Integration

"Let's hope I find the place," I said as I looked at the vast model of the gorge in front of me.

All my clones working on the inheritance stopped for a moment and now helping me find the destination.

A few minutes passed, and we found nothing. Everything seemed to have a reason behind it; those soul's waves I had released went quite deep and brought clear data.

'At least, I now know how good the method is,' I thought to myself.

"There, this energy signature looked different from all the others," said the third clone; pointing at a very pale cloud of reddish energy.

"It might be from some monster?" I questioned, but my clone shook its head and brought out another graph. 

"It is not from the monster," I replied to my own question, seeing the graphs.

Monsters may have different energies, but they all have a specific life signature, but this energy didn't have it. It is different from all the other energies from the gorge.

It is faint and fading every minute, which is what confused me, but seeing there is no other lead, I decided to check it out, while my clones study the data further.

I swam toward it, avoiding any monster I had come across before finally reaching the place.

The energy there was even fainter than before, but aside from it, there was nothing. All I could water and gorge the wall; I scanned everything with soul sense thick with forbidden power, but found nothing.

I was about to leave when an idea came to my mind, and I took out the map.

For a second, nothing happened before it started to glow and within a second, that glow brightened up. Scaring the hell out of me, seeing there are a lot of monsters here.

Some had started to come at me.

"Fuck!" I cursed and activated the formations across my body for the preparations when I saw a golden gate forming in front of me.

It took a second to materialize fully, and I went toward it.

I could have waited and observed, but there was no time. I need to get away as soon as possible; the monster is not far behind me, and I am not its match.

I passed through the gate, and everything darkened, and it remained dark for a while before it came clear.

"Wel..coe ho…der of key, the chall"

I had just appeared when I heard a broken voice, which abruptly stopped after a few seconds.

"Did I make a mistake?" I asked myself as I looked around.

I have found myself in a vast space that is dilapidated. It is not just a building around me that seemed dilapidated, but also the space; it is broken with a couple of rifts.

Though, despite rifts, the space is quite strong or strong enough that Earth Sovereigns and even Sky Sovereigns wouldn't be able to make things worse here.

The entry of the prime would collapse the whole space. Thankfully, the primes wouldn't be coming here.

I looked back and, as I had expected, there was nothing there. If I want to get out, I will need to find the exit, but first, let's see the key.

Yes, there is a key in my hand. It is white and looks to be made of marble with a numeric three written on it. 

I scanned the key and felt nothing, nor receive any information from it. This key definitely had some uses; it might even help get out of this place.

I really want that.

The other places I want to go are complete and many still have a lot of interesting things. If I am able out of here on time, I could still follow my schedule and visit them.

Though looking at the state of this place, it won't be easy to get out of here.

I scanned the area of my soul, and my expressions couldn't help but turn serious. I had already expected there could be people other than me when the gate materialized in front of me.

The residual energies I had seen are from it.

The thing that makes it even more dangerous. That five residual auras, I had sensed, three are Sky Sovereigns; one is natives, and two are Grimms.

The two Earth-Sovereigns are also the Grimms.

These three arrived here a day before me; I am sure, there is much to be more. Especially the Grimms, who have been on this side of the realm for more than a month.

This might not be the only entrance.

Thinking that, my expressions couldn't help but turn serious. However, one would see a completely different thing focusing on my heart, which is beating excitedly.

Hun!

"Let's go," I said to myself and stopped a moment later.

I tried to put the key in my storage, but it repelled itself. I tried with my core and the result was the same.

Seeing that, I put it in my pocket. Since I couldn't put it in storage, the pocket is the only option I have. 

I have sealed the pocket with my energy and there is armor around me; it wouldn't be hard for the key, to escape through this dual protection.

With that done, I moved with my soul spreading wide.

I noticed many things that turned my expression serious. Like the signs of the battle of the Sky Sovereigns and a broken formation, which is releasing a tiny burst of energy every second, which is powerful enough to harm the Sky Sovereign.

As for what it will do, for the Earth Sovereign. Well, they will be vaporized; I will be no exception to that.

There are many broken formations like that one, and some are extremely dangerous.

I avoided the debris of the building ahead of me and the broken formation. I looked for something useful, but everything that was useful or precious seemed to be picked clean.

It is not surprising; this is the entry point. It is the first place that gets looted in a place like this.