The gnome tribe.

A place where a real underground kingdom existed.

Inside Ben's room.

A gnome guard entered the room and said, "Reporting to Lord Ben, that human has entered the Hell Array. It was General Axel who forced him into it."

Ben's smile turned vicious before he laughed satisfactorily. "Hahaha... You dare to hit me? This is the outcome of hitting me! I will send you directly to hell! Tell General Axel that I will owe him a favour. Oh, right, send out my command that the little prince cannot know about this."

He could tell the relationship between Fernando and Maxwell wasn't simple.

The status of Prince in the gnome race was extremely high, so why would he call a human his boss?

In order to prevent any unknowns from happening, Fernando definitely cannot know about this.

Immediately after, Ben revealed an extremely disdainful expression and coldly harrumphed: "You actually called a lowly human your boss? Simply losing face for our entire gnome race! You trashy brat, once you hand over the King's Seal, you'll be going to hell for a reunion with your parents! Humph!"

A brief flash of light appeared in Ben's eyes.

The facial expression of the guard beside him turned slightly grim as he said softly: "Lord Ben, the setup of the Hell Array was a bit hasty, therefore..."

"Out with it!"

Ben coldly harrumphed: "Therefore, what?"

Cold sweat appeared on the guard's forehead as he said, "Because the time was too short, the layout of the array wasn't completely perfect. We only used normal beast cores as the core of the array. Since we had to hastily set it up, we didn't have time to get a fire attribute beast core from the beast core mountain. Therefore..."

The guard paused for a bit. When he saw Ben's expression getting worse, he immediately added, "But we used a hundred normal beast cores, so the power difference shouldn't be too much."

Arrays!

Any array in this world requires an external energy as support.

One could use upgrade elements, soldiers filled with mana, or beast cores.

The energy from a beast core was, in a sense, richer. Especially when it came to high-ranked beast cores. Each spawned beast had been cultivated for thousands of years before they became known as a high-ranked spawned beast. The mana from the heavens and earth they've absorbed was incomparably thick and rich. A beast core from them could maintain a formation for a very long time. If the core was not destroyed, it's possible for it to last for tens of thousands of years.

Hello Array!

It required fire-attuned beast cores to maintain the entire array.

The stronger the energy inside the beast cores, the more powerful the array would become.

If other beast cores were used, the power would be a bit weaker, but it was still considered quite powerful. There was only a slight difference, like power within the formation.

Ben's brows quivered as he was about to vent his anger, but he then coldly laughed and said, "Even though it's normal beast cores, a trashy human like him can only dream of breaking the array! The Hell Array is a rank 4 array, and cannot be broken unless there are over a hundred people trying at once. Most likely that human is already dead inside, hahaha..."

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Inside the Hell Array.

A single person and a single blade.

He looked particularly fierce as his face looked like an angry warrior monk, while his blade was dripping with blood.

The more he killed, the more Fire Demons could appear. Even though Maxwell had brought out the Vampire Blade, it was still useless in this situation. There were fiery existences surrounding him like they were intending on barbecuing him. His body had turned hot red while his sweat constantly sizzled when striking the ground.

"If this keeps up, my body is going to collapse from dehydration."

"This can't go on; I have to come up with a way to break out of here!"

Maxwell frowned as he looked at the sea of fire surrounding him. There was nothing special in the area, and he couldn't think of any ideas even after thinking things through!

The gnome race.

They were good at forging and hunting for treasures. They were even better at engraving arrays and creating formations. In the era where a myriad of races lived together, they relied on their strong formations and arrays to safeguard their treasures. Even the super-strong dragon race couldn't deal with them easily.

The Hell Array was developed during that era.

There were only two people who managed to break the array since then.

One was Barry, whose intellect reached the heavens and his cultivation reached the King rank. The other was the one known as the Demon King.

Those two were undoubtedly godly experts who stood at the pinnacle of this world.

Maxwell's strength was only at the Diamond rank, and he had no inkling about arrays or formations. His wanting to break this array was beyond difficult!

Numerous Fire Demons pounced over with playful cackles.

"Even you guys are ridiculing me!"

The anger inside Maxwell was already burning at the max. He swung his blade and rested it on his shoulder. He didn't make any further moves because he was currently observing everything and trying to calm down.

The nearer the critical juncture, the calmer Maxwell's heart became.

His spiritual senses were sent out to carefully observe his surroundings.

Seeing how the Fire Demons pouncing over were only several meters away from him, Maxwell noticed the fiery heat had started burning his hair with sizzling sounds.

"All these Fire Demons don't have any aura of life in them."

"Wait, no life!"

"Then they aren't real entities! This means in this sea of fire, there should be a real entity possibly hiding somewhere!" Said Maxwell to himself. His brows formed a frown as these Fire Demons had already arrived in front of him. Each of these blazing embers contained a power that wanted to burn all matter.

Maxwell leapt into the air...

While sending even stronger senses to sweep about.

He methodically searched the areas nonstop. He firmly believed there must be a real entity hiding in the sea of fire.

Suddenly, he noticed an ember of flame faintly tremble.

This flame was very small and was exuding a tiny amount of life.

In the blink of an eye, Maxwell instantly moved as his Blade struck down. "Found you!"

"Bam!"

The Vampire Blade's path of slaughter power was directly smashed down.

The small flame was destroyed with a single strike.

It was also at this time that the surrounding Fire Demons started emitting ghostly wails before quickly disappearing.

"Crackle!"

"Congratulations to player Maxwell Gillette for killing the Fire Demon."

"Reward: 15,000 XP, 2000 mana"

Maxwell faintly smiled and said happily: "That's quite a bit of XP!"

When the current him killed above gold rank spawned beasts, he only received a few thousand experience points each time, which could no longer satisfy his need for levelling up.

The surrounding sea of fire disappeared and turned into pitch darkness. It was similar to floating in a void where one couldn't see anything around. Maxwell couldn't help frowning as he said to himself, "Didn't I break the array? How come I still can't get out?"

It was at this time that the system gave a notification tone.

"Crackle!"

"Congratulations to player Maxwell Gillette for comprehending the level 1 esoteric of the Hell Array. Fiery Kill!

"Crackle!"

"There are only eight more levels of esoteric to comprehend the complete Hell Array!"

"Bloody hell!"

"This damn array has nine levels?"

"The first level was Fiery Kill, then what kind of kill is the next level? Nine levels with nine types of killing arrays... This is practically playing me to death! Ben, you damn midget; you want to slowly kill me with this array, huh? What a vicious individual!"

"Screw it; I will take my time to break your dog's fart lotus array!" Maxwell shouted angrily.

He was extremely pissed.

But at the same time, he became serious.

He could terrify others when he went crazy, but he could also terrify others when he became serious.

Tens of thousands of years ago, the Hell Array was also called the Nine Kills Array!

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