Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 389 Mission: 15-1 Demolition Operation
"Hey Mondes, I heard you were looking for me?"

At the entrance of the Silver Bag Bank, under the surveillance camera, Dante appeared there with great fanfare.

This means that he and Nero are ready to take action.

At the top of the tower, Mondes laughed coldly: "You are overestimating your own abilities."

Even though he had seen the inexplicably silver-haired woman who had some connection to Sparta last night, and even though her strength was more than enough to block his furious attack, Mendes still wasn't worried about losing. In his opinion, these ants had no idea what they were up against.

He was the king of the demon world, the ruler of the demon world. Supporting him was the demon world's boundless—and limitless—power. This wasn't an exaggeration.

If he—"they"—wanted to, Mundus could destroy the entire universe in an instant.

Only one hit is needed as well.

And these two guys in front of him who have great difficulty in shaking the planet also want to challenge him?

Ultimately, the only threat he could pose was the Nephilim power within Dante. As long as Dante died, there would be no one left in the world who could threaten his plans.

So, Dante must die.

"Struggle as much as you can," he said with a cold smile, "but you cannot escape from God's clutches."

Then the Silver Bag Tower spread its wings.

Within the Limbo, the two secondary towers surrounding the main tower unfolded like silver wings, revealing the true form of the Silver Bag Tower. Mundus's immense magical power surged through the towers, radiating across the entire Limbo.

As the king of the demonic realm, he was the master of Limbo. The other demons were merely his subjects. Their control of Limbo depended on the king's brilliance. And now, Limbo moved in accordance with the king's will, twisting space as if to strangle Dante to death.

He was dragged into the limbo.

"Has it started yet?"

In the real world, Nero, seeing Dante disappear, realized that the plan had succeeded in the first step.

The Silver Bag Tower was a tower built in Limbo and the real world, and as such, its interior space remained virtually unchanged in Limbo. From this point on, Nero only needed to enter the Silver Bag Tower to find the passage to the Soul Forge, which he could then open for Dante, allowing them to reunite inside the tower.

So Nero walked into the Silver Bag Tower openly from under the surveillance camera as if he was in an empty place, and began to look for clues about the Soul Furnace.

Dante, on the other hand, couldn't handle it so easily. Limbo was now filled with demons, and he desperately ran through it, constantly passing through pieces of floating rock, dodging buildings controlled by someone and falling towards him, and only then could he slowly approach the Silver Bag Tower in the distance, like a tortoise.

He had to get there before Nero opened the gate.

"Could it really be the underground vault?"

The hollowed Nero followed an employee who knew nothing about this and walked into the elevator of the Silver Bag Tower.

Elevators are a frequent site of ghost stories and strange tales. This is partly because elevators are isolated, confined spaces, and partly because elevators themselves...contain a paradox that many people haven't noticed. It's a mathematical problem that can be puzzling.

Nero found the bright red button on the elevator control panel.

However, this paradox is actually a small mistake that occurred in human development. This mistake is that humans discovered the existence of "0" too late.

Because before the discovery of the existence of "0", humans already had the ability to build multi-story buildings, so humans named the floor of the building on the ground, which actually has no floors, "the first floor".

Think about it carefully: is there any difference in height between standing on the first floor and standing on the ground floor (where there is no building)? Actually, there is not. It takes one floor to get from the first floor to the second floor, but it doesn't take one to get from the ground floor to the first floor. Isn't this counterintuitive?
This leads to a problem: the concept of "0" has lost its place in the building. The "0th floor" has become non-existent. The first floor is directly below the basement floor. These two numbers, which are not adjacent in mathematics, have become adjacent in architecture.

So, if this "0th floor" that was erased by various coincidences appeared... naturally, something terrible, terrible would have happened.

Just like now.

The bright red "0", the non-existent floor between level and level -, appeared before Nero's eyes.

That number clearly told Nero that was her target.

Nero pressed it without hesitation.

It took Nero a moment to understand why it was Floor Zero. The Silver Bag Tower, built simultaneously between the two realms, was, in a sense, a bridge between reality and Limbo. This was a gap within a gap. And the last time Nero had seen the Soul Crucible in its true form... was in the Reflected City, located within the "non-existent space."

This "0th floor" that should not exist is the channel connecting the two spaces, a "common node".

That is, the soul furnace that exists on both sides of the mirror.

The moment the elevator doors opened, a surging heat wave engulfed Nero. This place embodied every human conception of Hell: countless groans rose from the bottomless abyss, and an eternal flame burned this space of floating rocks ablaze.

"Okay, I'm here. Now..."

Now it’s time to think about how to bring Dante in as well.

They had resorted to this desperate measure because Dante couldn't enter the Silver Bag Tower with Nero. As long as Dante successfully entered the Soul Crucible in the void, they could return to the Silver Bag Tower via the elevator and go all the way up to Mundus' office.

Indeed, as Phineas had said, this inferno, ignited by countless souls, was so intense that even Nero wouldn't dare touch it directly. Even Dante or Mendes himself wouldn't dare. So Phineas was right about not being able to enter through the fuel inlet.

Now that the Silver Bag Tower has been unfolded, besides the elevator "exit"...where is the other entrance?

Nero thought as he crossed the rising flames and crossed the furnace.

Finally, when Dante broke through the layers of obstacles of the demons and returned to the door of the Silver Bag Tower, facing the tightly closed door, he heard Nero's voice again.

"This way," she said.

(End of this chapter)