90 Making herself at home

What was it again? About her plan to stay far away from trouble and not gain any attention from the monsters?

ha!

It was laughable, to be honest. She was like a walking fish bait in the middle of sea full of predators.

It didnt took her long before she had to face another monsters. Note that, Monsters, as in plural and not singular.

Iiana sigh. But the good thing is, she gained more than what she expected. New information and bigger haul.

Along the way, she had gained more of the gatcha stones from killing monsters along the way. She met the same species as the snake earlier and curiosity made her cut open the snake head. She wanted to know, since she didn't get to do so earlier. She found a smaller gatcha stone, the color of red. More monsters and more gatcha stones, different colors. By connecting the dots, she begin to understand that, the weaker monster have smaller gatcha stone, the color of red and so on. But to make it simple..

From her investigation, this was the conclusion she made;

Monster of high level= red small gatcha stone

Monstrous level= royal blue medium gatcha stone

Disaster level = purplish medium gatcha stone

Divine level= gray large gatcha stone.

Godly level= well, she haven't encountered one yet and she hope she would never encounter one. if this nightmare world could spawn a disaster monster that scared her shitless, she couldn't think what Godly monster would do? It scare her more and if she has a choice, she would rather not face one. Though, seeing her rotten luck.. she was better off preparing for the worse than just hoping for an empty, meaningless and hopeless wish to come true.

Encountering other monsters made her improvise her way to kill the monsters. She choose not to waste a lot of mana, and simply kill it the easiest way. But then, she couldn't waste the opportunity to train her power or improve herself. Thats where she began to occasionally use her power for a bit before using her devil seeds to take care of the monster.

Everything can be solved if she could just purchase more stuff from the interdimensional shop. Maybe they'll sell some kind of magical weapon? She didn't have a chance to check out the shops since theres a lot of menu and categories. The thing is, she didnt have much of spirit stone left and there is nothing here could be use to sell online.. except the gatcha. But that thought soon was wiped out from her mind since Uric had said that it cannot be brought outside of this world without refining it inside of this nightmare world.

"Damn you, Kuro!!!!!" She screamed out loud. She was tired and wished that the perfect spot could just pop out of no where and save her some trouble. She's hungry, tired, she need to bath, and a lot of needs that will need a proper listing on the Do-it- task later.

She plopped on the ground, her butt cushioned her fall but it didn't changed the fact that every part of her body was screaming in pain and exhaustion. One thing she couldn't get over with was the fog that was limiting her sight. It wasn't that foggy before this, yet she noticed about two hours ago the fog become even thicker and her limbs feel heavier than before.

She open the menu and didn't care much about the monsters anymore. She activate the appraisal mode.

"Appraisal-fogs"

<<<natural phenomenon in Nightmare World. It happens every eighth hours. Last for 2 hours. Effect- the gravity pull around the fogs increases than normal>>>

<<another attribute: ????????>>

She rubs her face and swear. You gotta be kidding me! That's explain why it was hard walking around for the past two hours. What a sadistic way to torture people. Where the heck does Kuro got this idea to make people miserable like hell???

Iiana took a small rock and throw it into the damn fog with a half-ass attempt.

"Argghh!!! This is frustrating and damn irritating. How the f**k am I gonna leave this place when I can't even find a-" and it bounce back to her, ONLY to knock on her forehead and cause a purplish bruise on it.

"F**********************kkkkkkk" iiana screamed out loud. her temper spike for another level. This is just too much, she thought. Her eyes pooled and she glared at the fog. She knew then the other hidden attribute was actually talking about the characteristic of that fog- a freaking misleading/ the maze fog. Or something like that. She will keep on going circle, not unless she could get out from that fog. Anyone caught inside the fog would be forever be trapped.

She sighed and rub her temple, trying to control her emotion. She felt weird the moment she woke up in this place until now. It was as if her brain was muddled, and she was having the worst PMS mood swing ever. Her brain refuse to cooperate with her, even for the simplest solution.

What was it again? What was she trying to think earlier? Damn! Think. Think. Think. She saw the fog and slapped her own forehead.

Ah, yes!!! The fog! She need to do something about the fog. She knew the answer to her dilemma was so freaking easy but the idea seems to be slipping away every time she almost got it within her grasp. It was moving away from her like a slippery eel and its super frustrating.

Unbeknowingly to her, the shadow ninja that was tailing behind her, pitied her. He know that accursed fog too well. They dubbed it as the 'Lost & Found fogs'. It will trap anyone inside of it, make one to loose their sense of direction and themselves-their mind. How many of them had failed and had to return to the real world to get retrained their mental and inner self in order to conquer the fog. The fog will make you as retard as you can be, rendering you like a newborn baby with empty mind.

He remembered the first time he had entered the fog. He knew he had learned a technique how to make a simple compass to get him out from there. The moment he tried to make one, he seems to forget what he was doing and how to make it. No matter how hard he had tried, it kept on slipping away, the memory playing a tug war with him. It was later on that he had learned that he needed to improve his mental training in order to win the tug wars between the unseen force in order to retain you memory/sanity.

Seeing the mistress.. he shook his head. Isn't The Lord being too harsh on his wife?

It was then the Mistress did something out of ordinary. She put both of her index fingers on each side of her temple. He could see her fingers was glowing, and something happened. It was like there were some kind of round blue blob? Slime like around her head. It was rather... odd and doesnt mesh well with the mistress's appearance. But then, she wasn't bothered by it and took only few second to blow away the whole fog with a strong wind. She was looking at something in front of her while stabbing on something on the air. He noticed that she would do that strange gesture once in a while, sometimes he question her sanity.

As the wind dispersed the fogs, and she stopped poking something on the air, she began laughing. He followed her line of view and his jaw almost dropped to the ground.

He couldn't believe it even if he slapped his face silly.

She found the best spot of all.

He had a wry smile on his face.

"How the heck that we never find that place before???" He know this place for god knows how many years. From the moment they had reach their puberty, they were thrown into this insane world as part of their training lessons. None of them can get out, not unless their senior went to fetch them up or if they manage to somehow stumble upon the portal back. And dang, it was one in a million rare chance for you to find one. He still couldn't find the connection between the portal where it appears. Other shadows that had a rare encounter with the portal said that it was at the east of the swamp. While the others said that west. When Lord Arya heard that he just shook his head, and said the portal spawn randomly after the condition is fully fulfilled. Even he doesn't know what the condition was and he was the person who had been with the Lord for so long. He had been thrown in to the Nightmare world more than all of the shadows gathered altogether. Everytime he irritates Lord Kuro, this will be his... playzone until Lord Kuro ordered us to fetch him back.

Currently, the tradition of training the newbie shadows was still on going and most of them was already on the second layer.

He still remembered the last time he was here.

At the age of twelve, he had ran toward the monster and fight. Full of vigor, fill of trepidation and adrenaline rush. It didnt last long, though. He had endless nightmares, days and nights. Fatigues and the smell of carcasses was his constant friends.

He had wandered around this first layer for four years. He knew this place like the back of his hand. never in his life he had seen this place before. Wasn't this supposed to be that poisonous swamp with dense trees? How did a singular huge ass rock mountain appear there? It was up so high that it look as if a sword had penetrated the sky.

What the shadow didn't realised was that, when Iiana was fighting the divine level monster, she had used the earth element to level the ground. Using her own method and imaginations , she had imagined that the soil underground would move like how earthquake happens. The earth plate slip down and pushing the earth away. Reversing the method, she pushed the earth to make a hole to trapped the divine level monster underground before pouring her devil seeds down there to stab the monster to death. She didnt even give it a chance to show its prowess and ability. She simply kill it in just five minutes span.

It was actually her weird way of handling the power when the people in this world simply think that they should make the ground drop and make a huge hole. And where did the soil slip to? It was pushed far away to where there is much smoother and damper soil on its pathway. It emerge from the ground and shot high up to the red sky.

It was all thanks to Iiana idea that leans more toward science before relating and manifesting it using her power. That is what both of them wasn't aware of.