Daniel looked at Kayn and Melia's bodies and sent a small mana shock into them to wake them up.

When the sudden mana entered their bodies, their eyes snapped open. At first, they thought they were being attacked or something similar, but when they saw that it was only Daniel staring at them, and that it was clearly his doing, they let out sighs of relief.

Still, there was obvious dissatisfaction in their eyes. Couldn't he just call them? Did he really have to use a method like this?

"What happened?"

"The plan was mostly successful. Lyra was returned to the humans. She's in the safest place we could arrange for her right now," Daniel replied indifferently.

Of course, he didn't explain anything about the fight or the other events. First, there was no need. Second, he didn't feel like it. He was too lazy for that, and whether he explained it or not wouldn't change anything.

Melia froze for a moment, then her shoulders relaxed and she let out a long breath of relief, as if a weight that had been crushing her heart for a long time had finally been lifted. In a quiet but trembling voice, she said:

"Thank goodness… at least the Saintess is safe."

Her biggest concern had always been the Saintess's safety. Even her own life was secondary. If anything had happened to the Saintess, she would never have been able to forgive herself.

In this chaos and darkness that had engulfed the world, the Saintess was like a symbol of hope. If she had died and the news had spread, it could have caused immense harm to humanity.

Kayn, however, had not calmed down yet. He looked around the cell, at the dark walls, the rune-covered bars, and the suffocating space, then stared back at Daniel.

"What about us? What are we supposed to do now?" They had spent a long time here, and he truly didn't want to stay even a moment longer.

Ever since he realized that demons were behind that mission, he wanted to return as soon as possible and report it. There was most likely a spy inside the organization.

"Escape," Daniel answered without hesitation.

After saying just that one word, he stood up. The sound of his joints stretching echoed through the silent cell. He rolled his shoulders, tilted his neck slightly, and prepared his body like someone who had just woken up.

"We've stayed here long enough."

"But we don't have access to our powers…" Kayn and Melia stood behind him. Kayn said hesitantly.

Unlike this man, they had not been able to break the seal suppressing their powers and free themselves. In other words, they were completely useless and couldn't help at all.

"It doesn't matter." Daniel didn't even turn to look at him. He could free their powers, but after a brief moment of thought, he decided not to.

He planned to forcefully send them across the gulf, into territory controlled by humans. If they had their powers, the process could become a bit more complicated.

He walked up to the cell bars. When he placed his hand on the dark metal

A spark of electricity burst out, sending a sharp shock through his body. These were multilayered spells designed to restrain high-level beings. But Daniel didn't even blink, as if he felt nothing. The bars trembled under his fingers.

"After we leave this base, our paths will split for a while," he said at the same time, without looking back.

Kayn opened his mouth to say something, but before a single word could come out, a silent black wave spread out from Daniel's body.

Death energy settled over the bars like invisible mist. There was no explosion, no sound. The metal simply began to rot, crack, and within a single breath… turned into ash and fell to the ground.

Daniel stepped out of the cell.

Kayn, and especially Melia, followed him with wide eyes full of shock. Melia had even forgotten to breathe. The scene felt far too unreal to her.

The prison corridor was long and dark. Cells passed by one after another.

Each time Daniel passed a cell, without stopping, he placed a tiny trace of death energy onto its seals, not to break them immediately, but like planting a seed that would grow later. Escaping this base was not easy.

If they wanted to survive, they needed to trigger multiple layers of chaos at the same time. This was part of a plan Daniel had prepared in advance.

They reached the entrance of the prison section.

Several demon guards were stationed there, wearing dark armor, holding spears, their eyes filled with boredom.

Kayn and Melia instinctively stepped back, trying to hide in the shadows, but Daniel only gave them a brief glance and said:

"No need."

And he walked straight forward.

The guards froze for a moment when they saw him. Their minds searched for an explanation: What was this human doing here? Why was he free? Wasn't he supposed to be in a cell?

But they had no time to think.

A black shadow spread from beneath Daniel's feet, silent, fast, and suffocating.

Like a curtain suddenly pulled over the world. The space darkened, sounds were muffled, and breathing became difficult. One of the demons shouted angrily:

"Human! What are you doing here?! How did you escape?!"

They couldn't understand how a human had escaped his cell.

Setting that aside, how did this human still have his powers? This was something they had never seen before and needed to be reported immediately.

However, Daniel didn't answer. He had no patience to waste time on these idiots and preferred to end things as quickly as possible.

He attacked.

No shouting, no theatrics. His movement was direct and lethal.

One of the demons tried to establish communication, but immediately realized the space was sealed; signals seemed to die the moment they were sent.

That was when they understood that the only way out was to kill this human, either they killed him, or they would definitely be killed.

Still, they were thinking too much. They were nothing more than low-ranking, ordinary demons and had not the slightest chance against Daniel.

The fight was short, brutal, and completely one-sided. Bones broke, blood splattered, and bodies fell to the ground one by one. None of them even had the chance to let out a full scream.

To be sure they were dead, he crushed all of their cores, killing them for real.

A few seconds later, the shadow receded.

The light returned.

Daniel walked past the corpses. Melia stared at the fallen bodies with a pale face, not out of fear, but shock. For the first time, she truly understood what level this human stood at.

Even though these demons were weak, because of their innate trait that granted them semi-immortality, killing them would not be easy even for a Grand Climber. And this man had crushed them like insects.

She was now certain that this man was without a doubt a Divine Climber.

"…So we're leaving from here?" Kayn looked toward the exit and asked in a low voice.

"Of course not," Daniel said with a smile.

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