Pete's downfall

The woman was scared stiff. Her eyes widened and she looked up at the Alpha Snake Beast. Her eyes that was fierce faltered slightly due to surprise, but they got right back again. She glared at him openly before walking toward the 59th square.

The young man earlier who manage to get the jump square decided to go back to the 45th square. Currently, whoever use the square jump to move in advance will be unlucky. Every square they land to will result to a punishment square.

The others did not know about this. And sensing that the young man also did not use the benefits of the jump square, the Alpha Snake Beast commented.

"How useless. You human did not use the ultimate benefit of the jump square! Now you can't take the action back. What will you do now? What if the 70th square is actually a reward square? And it's something that can be used in the whole duration game too. Don't you think it's such a waste?"

"Did you know there's a clearance square? And it's really close to the end. Who knows maybe the 70th square is the clearance square? It was your last chance for an exit ticket young man and you just ditched it."

Cayden, who was standing close to the daughter and mother pair who committed double suicide earlier, could not help but frown at the Alpha Snake Beast's words. Clearance square? He highly doubt that one exists.

Because if it does, then why did he create a crystal eye as a reward? And its sole benefit is to show the winner the way out of the monopoly game. Isn't it useless to set up the crystal eye then if he will just spoonfeed the information to the whole group?

Also earlier, when the daughter is on her last breath. She open her already restored clear eyes to Cayden. She held her mother's body closer to her chest as she mouthed.

"Behead the snake." Her gaze landed to the Alpha Snake Beast.

At first, Cayden did not understand what she mean. Then he saw the crystal eye rolling from her hand. A small portion of smoke came out of the crystal before it showed cracks and disintegrate into the ground.

Cayden immediately understood.

In the beginning, they are already clear about the Alpha Snake Beast's disposition. His perverted notions to make every human his slave.

In other words, the Alpha Snake Beast did not create a clearance square from the start since he don't want to let them go. He only wanted to see their faces brimmed with hope just to totally crush their ego, dignity and mentality.

But the monopoly game will not be created unless there was an equal benefits for the player and the boss. Since the boss is a perverted slaver, the Dark Tower provided them with one way ticket to get them out of this situation.

The crystal eye.

It indeed showed Mei the true way out… it's just the price she has to pay for her choice is her life.

Cayden will keep the information to himself for now. Since there was no way for him to reach and contact Pete for this.

The next turn is Pete. He squared his shoulders, pretending not to be nervous as he stepped forward.

"Your body or your soul, which one will you leave behind?"

"Huh?" Pete was taken aback. The orb repeated the question.

"Your body or your soul, which one will you leave behind?"

"Uhh… Soul, I guess? Since souls could not be separated from the body. So.. I will bring the body back to me and scrape whatever's left off in his soul."

This is what Pete imagined it to be. If ever he encountered something that will attempt to extract his soul, he just have to fight it and endure the pain headstrong. He probably won't go crazy. Yet... It's really impossible to extract the soul from the body right?

The orb provided him with the number 5. Pete nodded carefully and followed the instructions really well. Just like he had always done in the previous rounds. He will not say a word nor a complaint about it. Even though his grievances were too poisonous that he wanted to rip the smile off that Alpha Beast Snake.

The moment he landed in the 72nd square, the red and black light of the square suddenly blared. Deafening their ears.

[The battle mode and punishment square has been triggered. In five minutes, you will experience the pain of almost having your soul extracted from your body. In today's technology, it is somewhat possible to do it. But rest assured your soul will not be damaged in any way… But undergoing torture… I don't speak well with the other beasts, who have been looking forward to this.]

Pete immediately paled. Now he finally realizes why the woman who was trapped inside the illusion while undergoing punishment could not escape. Because there was no way out! It's like watching your nightmare turn into reality.

He was suddenly brought to a very strange place!

Where he is, he does not know. He did not see Cayden. And the temperature of the place he's in is lower than zero degrees. No one can see him or hear him speak.

What appeared behind Pete is a large bed. And he was bound to it. Both his limbs and torso were exposed. And on the bedside, there are a lot of staff and personnel Pete did not recognize.

"W - who are you?"

At first, Pete thought they are all human with weird head costumes. But when they all turn around to look at him. Pure terror entered his mind.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

In reality, this large bed did not appear. It was only inside Pete's mind that the bed appears and he was bound to it. These 'things' who were here to help him turned out to be the same species as the hunters!

They wore monstrous alligator masks. Each of them stretches their fingers one by one. As if getting ready for operation and Pete is the patient.