Goodbye Bat cave, Hello wasteland!

Professor Musha is being informative in his instructions. He wants Jack to suceed since he reminds him of himself when he is young.

"After you climb up in the Rapunzel's Thread, you will find yourself at the center of Fields of Asphodel." Jack listens carefully since he doesn't know what kind of place is Asphodel.

"The Fields of Asphodel is like a jungle without trees. I mean, the place is full of grass. The dead soul out there are just standing, looking at the sky without moving. Since the karma of dead souls in the Fields of Asphodel are neutral, they didn't do bad or good things." He said it to the young lad without much emotion.

"At the end of the Fields of Asphodel, you will see two paths across the road." He paused for a minute, trying to recall the information.

"In the right path is the Fields of Punishments, where the sinners will always tortured. And in the Left path is the Fields of Elysium, where the good souls resides." He tells the young lad now that he's certain.

"So when I'm in Fields of Elysium, where can I meet this Queen Persephone?" He asked the professor.

"That I don't know, only the worthy souls can find the place where Queen Persephone resides. Even I didn't see what Queen Persephone looks like. Now its up to you." Jack wonder how he knows why Queen Persephone can help her, but his lips are tight sealed.

"Now that you're apprenticeship is finish, you have to resume your journey full of perils. Until we meet again, young lad." Professor Musha said.

"I see you when I see you." Jack waves his hand to say goodbye.

Walking again inside the cave reminds him when he first came here. He skillfully kills the mabeast that previously, he needs to trick or use some strategy.

"Atlast! Goodbye bat cave, Hello wasteland, we meet again!" He cheerfully marched the wasteland full of hope.

"Summoning Technique!" He summon his spirit animal, Pumpkin a silver owl, with red eyes. When it appears out of nowhere, it naturally sits at the right side of his shoulder.

"Hey Pumpkin, thank you for joining in my party. As you can see, we're on our own. That's why we have to help each other. I want you to attract mabeast so I can kill it. How about that." The silver owl nods, and fly away.

He continues he's march without waiting for Pumpkin since they have a connection and he also can see its vision. After several days, while he's walking alone again, he encounters a big red slime, and there's a skeleton with only an upper body swims inside the mabeast.

*ROOAAR!*

He use his threatening roar immediately. While he tries to use the Scorchfire, he's intinct rings a bell due to danger. Without hesitation, he leaped backwards so he can make some distance to the slime. To his surprise, the agility of the slime exceeds his expectation, in a matter of a second, the slime is now a meter away.

"To think that this slime is immune to my roar." He said with a surprised look.

While he tries to dodge the tackles of the slime, he picked up a certain mabeast in the eyes of his silver owl. A hybrid of gorilla and a scorpion. with the upper body of the gorilla but the hands are the pincer of scorpion. Same with the lower body, with the full body of scorpion with six legs and a long scorpion tail.

"Cool mabeast." He commands the owl with telepathy to bring the gorilla scorpion to the fray. He carefully dodge the series of attacks of the slime while calculating on how much abilities he will get once he execute this properly.

Time passed and his owl appeared in the sky, signifies that the hybrid is almost near.

"Time to step up the game." He lured the slime until it meets the hybrid, the slime's attention did not change while the hybrid attacks him. Because of his plan, now it become two versus one.

"Bloody Hell! I didn't sign up for this! Arrgghh wait..." He uses his parallel thinking and hunter instinct just to dodge this flurry and deadly attacks. He doesn't know whether to laugh or cry since the one who came up with the plan is himself. Thanks to his immense stamina, he can prolong this stalemate of attack and dodge.

"Two on one is still not very good for me huh, then let's make it one on one." He declared.

*ROOAAR!*

He knows that the slime is not affected, but what about the hybrid? Now the hybrid can't move, he lured the slime so its attack will meet the hybrid, making it anger. Fortunately, instead of the slime pursue him, he continues to attack the hybrid.

"That's more like it. Let's see how marvelous my flame is. Flame on!" A powerful and sickening dark green flames envelop the two mabeast. The protective coat of the slime evaporates completely and the skin of the hybrid melts. He didn't have to wait longer to see the two magnificent soul stones.

After the incident, he realized how powerful his flames are. Even a mabeast with fire resistance didn't stand a chance.

"So much for that. Now what do we have here." He approach the two crystals with eagerness. He consumed the two crystals immediately so that it wont disappear in his presence.

"This is what you called a level up Pumpkin. Its still ashamed that the two mabeast didn't kill each other." The silver owl flies away trying to find some mabeast, or better yet, finds the oasis. While Jack walks forward lowering his guard, so if there's a mabeast saw him defenseless, he will devour him like a venus fly trap.

Since Jack can manage himself in killing mabeasts, he tells to his silver owl to find the oasis. He couldn't believe that Tartarus are so vast, that even if you live here forever, you will never mapped out this land.

*sigh*

"How is my mom doing? Even though I'm dead now, I still worry about her being alone. I hope she can find happiness even I'm not around there." Since walking without a companion, he remembers his previous life.

"Now that I always travel, I miss my bed. Lying down while reading manga, such a bliss." He said.

Time flies here without your knowing. What you only see in Tartarus are a vast land full of big rocks. No trees, just dry lands. If you're unlucky, you might get killed by a random mabeast.

Speaking of random mabeast, a group of direwolves suddenly appears and surround Jack. Using his hunter instinct to hide his killing intent, he appears a prey in the eyes of the wolf pact.

*growl*

Some of the direwolves are salivating, ready to pounce there prey. The coordination of the direwolves are superb, the direwolves in the front are trying to distract him. Making the direwolves on the back are sizing him if its time to sneak attack.

*ROOAAR!*

However, they didn't expect that the roar will make them crippled.

*whimper*

Jack smirks at the thought of having a free meal, to think that they will take the bait. The wolf pact are being desperate. To find such a fine meal and not eating it is such a waste.

"Let's end this. Flame on!" he literally destroys all the direwolves that he could see. Turning the dry wasteland into an intense hot inferno.

"If only I can lure some mabeast here." He thinks deeply on how to attract some mabeasts.

Thinking a ridiculous idea, he place his hands above and shoots an impressive amount of flames. He realize that since finding some mabeast in this vast wasteland is difficult and there rarely see some fireworks, he shoot out his flames upward in the hopes of attracting mabeasts.

Fortunately, it didn't betray his expectation. There are dozen of giant bats with lion on its head are approaching him. When the dozen giant bats are almost there, he sensed a thick killing intent waiting to devour him.

*ROOAAR!*

*SHIIEERK!* *SHIIEERK!* *SHIIEERK!*

"Bloody Hell! They cancelled my threatening roar? Damn, how can I survive this?" He doesn't know whether to laugh or cry since he did it to himself. Thinking under pressure, he needs to formulate a plan if he wants to make it out alive.

"My mind isn't working! What should I do? Hmmm... I don't know anymore, let's just kill these sons of b*tches!" No use thinking now, it is a matter of time before it will start the battle to the death.

He burns two of the giant bats who is the closest. The giant bats has a fire resistance so they're complacent when they've been doused by dark green flames. They didn't realize that there skins are already melting, until they've burn alive.

Seeing this, some of the giant bats are now hesitating. But the ones at his back are not, taking chances in sneak attack. The giant bats didn't realize that they already been marked.

When the three giant bats that tries to do sneak attacks are almost close, Jack use flicker and appeared in the backs of the three giant bats.

Before they can turn around, they've already been doused by fire without mercy.

*squeak!*

A cry of pain suddenly shouts in the mouths of the victim giant bats. Now the rest of the bats are being wary and they're glaring at him.

He decides to finish this in one go, and prepares himself to go full throttle.

"To the infinity and beyond!" Flames suddenly emits in his hands and feet, making him fly.

The remaining giant bats are now following him like a tracking missile, hoping that they can take him in the skies. The giant bats became confident since in day one, they can fly now. They are the predators in the sky, no one match there ferocity when it comes to air battle.

When he noticed that the giant bats are now aligned, now is the time to end this game. He rotate his body and face his pursuers and while the feet still has a flame to support his weight in the air, his hands are now aiming at the remaining giant bats.

"X Burner!"

The most powerful technique that he use as of now, the pursuer can't even squeal and they've been burned effortlessly. Sweating profusely, he smiles to himself that he is strong enough to fight one versus many. Now he is confident that through this experience, he can conquer many battles.

"Time to reap the loots." He collect first all the scattered soul stones and eats them.

"Ha... Haha! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

The three steps of laughter escapes his mouth because he can't contain his joy now that he realize how powerful he can be.

"I have to think about mabeast that has resistance in my roar or mabeast that can cancel my roar. If you ask me, I like to kill mabeast effortlessly, but then again it is also a benefit to move every muscles so it can't become too rigid when I fight."

He proceed to move forward again while thinking on how to cope with mabeast.

Suddenly, he sensed that the owl now found the oasis. When he peak in owl's vision, he saw the golden rope that hangs above in the oasis. The silver owl went closer to the golden rope to inspect if there's anything special about it, but to his surprise, the vision already cut off.

"What the? what happened to my Pumpkin?" He tried to summon his spririt but to no avail. For some reason, when he tries to call the spirit, it will automatically sever the connection.

"Bloody Hell! No use to wait then. To the infinity and beyond!" Thinking on what danger lies in the oasis, he speeds up and fly to the oasis.