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Klaus stared at the small windows of the system, not knowing how to react.

'Did I trigger an Endless Bath? Is this what it means by endless bath?' He thought as he saw all the cursed energy around him slamming against him repeatedly.

Also, much more cursed energy was coming in through the cave entrance, so more and more waves were slamming into him.

Cursed energy in itself was dangerous, so having an endless bath of it was like a death sentence for anyone.

Still, Klaus could feel his body trying to adapt to it quickly, but he couldn't do it alone. So Klaus moved the cursed energy inside him and surrounded his body from the inside.

It was hard to do because this energy was used to create the necessary foundation; it was not there to protect.

But when he was able to do so, he immediately realized that it was useless.

The cursed energy inside him lay dormant as if it had nowhere to move around.

'Tsk, go back to your place.' He frowned and began to pace once more.

The waves continued to pound his body, but he endured them with strength and positive energy as much as he could.

'I have 24 hours to domain the hill... This is absurd. I don't even know how powerful or how numerous the beasts are here.'

After exiting the cave, Klaus noticed a greater amount of cursed energy coming towards him. 'That's right. If I'm outside, the cursed energy that will hit me will be much greater because there's more of it.' His mind quickly moved to try to dodge those waves.

He ran out of the cave at high speed and jumped into some nearby trees, then propelled himself onto a nearby rock at high speed. Still, that allowed him to see that the cursed energy was like chewing gum.

It followed him everywhere and had more and more speed, so he gritted his teeth and let himself be hit.

He was easily engulfed by huge streams of cursed energy, pushing his body and power to the limit of what he could withstand.

'If I avoid it, the blow will come harder. How troublesome.' In the end, he resigned himself to withstand the surging blows of cursed energy.

Then he looked up when he felt some auras nearby.

In the distance, he could see several people staring at him. 'So, these are my opponents, huh.' He thought.

They all looked at him with a certain hatred, and it was clear why: Because of him, they now had only 1 day to pass the tests.

They were on the ropes.

The strongest ones could not understand why they had to kill such a powerful beast in the first bath, so several made different plans. But suddenly, a guy appeared who somehow angered the cursed energy. Now, one of the biggest fears of the Baths was attacking, and the mission now had a time limit in which it would expire and kill them all.

No one knows what would happen the moment an Endless Bath was unleashed. There were no stories about it. No one may have ever survived it, so there were no stories about it.

And that's what caused the most fear.

That's why the hatred in those guys' eyes made sense.

Still, one of them jumped between the branches and came a little closer to Klaus.

"Aspirant, I've gathered all of us together because we have a strategy to kill that cursed beast. The idea is to focus on killing it first to eliminate such a dangerous opponent. Once we do that, we can fight for dominance on the hill. What do you think? We've been preparing the ground for several days; if you join in with your Endless Bath, we could try to make things better." He spoke

Klaus stared at him for a moment.

'They've been here for several days; it's normal for them to have prepared things. But is it convenient? Most likely backstabbing in this kind of situation.' He thought. 'Although, none of us can kill that beast on our own anyway, so an alliance to do so is inevitable.' Klaus smiled and nodded.

The waves continued to pound him, and his body creaked with pain, announcing to him that it was best to do things as quickly as possible, although, if he thought about it correctly, he could still hold out for more than 48 hours at this.

However, he seemed to overlook the fact that the cursed energy attacking him was slowly building up in his body and could cause irreparable damage if he held out too long.

The man in front of him cheerfully nodded. " That's Good. Then come with us to tell you the whole plan and introduce yourself. What's your name?"

"Klaus."

"Okay, Klaus. You can call me Tom. From now on, we'll be partners; at least, let's keep up appearances until that beast is dead, and then we can fight each other." He looked like a nice person and one that anyone could trust, but that kind of person was not one of the best people for Klaus to like, from bad experiences with several similar people.

Still, they both headed towards where the rest were, and soon, they were reunited. Klaus was further away from the rest because the cursed energy he kept attracting was dangerous and powerful. None of them wanted to get involved in such a situation.

"Guys, let's go over the plan. We've been preparing this for several days, and it shouldn't be the time to carry it out, but we have an emergency, so we must hurry. Even so, I'm telling you that this plan can succeed in only 6 hours, so we still have time to wait for the exact moment." Tom was the one who stood in front of everyone and gave different looks to each of them.

His words seemed to mean something else, although Klaus couldn't see through it with so little.

Soon, Tom began the explanation of the plan of attack.

"This strategic attack plan is with the intention that at least one of us will win the hill, so we must do it faithfully so as not to adversely affect all of us. If anyone is going to win, it can't be that cursed beast."

"Now, the plan is simple, but simultaneously, it requires us to watch the beast for a while, looking for the best time to start. The next 15 hours will be spent on that, so we will strike with all our might once we find the perfect opportunity. We must do it fast, as we have a new member who is going through an Endless Bath. We all know that's the biggest fear of this place, and we don't know if he could die in that time frame, so let's be quick."

After he finished saying those few words, he began explaining the plan.

Still, Klaus frowned once he heard it in full.