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A man with dark blue eyes and silvery-white hair, wolf-like ears atop his head and a tail behind his back sat down over a desk, glancing at the starry night from the window of his office within his large manor, where he managed many things around the big city's underground.

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Although he seemed like a plain old man smoking something, the aura he emanated was that of a Rank 5, with a silver, magical aura coming out of his body, which he did not try to suppress at all.

He was perhaps the only Rank 5 Magus in the entire city at the moment… if it was not because Frank had arrived a few days ago.

His name was Akron, and he was the Boss of the Lone Wolves Organization, which managed most of the other organizations in the underworld except for a few strong ones such as the Shadow Snakes, which were barely able to not be suppressed by him, but this might have been mostly because the man did not like to fight as much as his power implied.

After finally getting to know about Gustav Eastgrande possessing the Jewel of Eternal Life half a year ago, Akron had set a series of tasks and negotiations with the man for the acquisition of such a treasured object.

He knew that the item could be hidden in a place he could never find it, or even broken before he could get his hands on it, so being aggressive or trying to steal it from Gustav would have been a terrible idea.

Inspired by the idea of saving his deceased wife Eleonora and revive her, Akron has been negotiating and trying to convince Gustav that he could buy the legendary artifact for any price.

In these months, he had been desperately trying to find the Tree of Rebirth within the depths of the Dungeon of this town, but very few results had arisen through this entire time.

Unaware of the schemes behind Gustav's acts and negotiations, he kept giving resources and many other things to the rich man, without knowing that an entity of the long past has been using him as a stable source of cultivation resources that not even the Eastgrande Family could easily get their hands on.

Now, after various months, the old man was growing impatient, and had begun to realize that Gustav might have been using him this whole time…

"I have been such an idiot… He's not going to give it to me on good terms, isn't he? Sigh…"

Akron sighed as he sipped some alcoholic drink with a strong and citric flavor, sighing afterward once more.

He glanced at the shiny white moon above the starry sky as he recalled his past with Eleonora, the only woman he had ever loved.

He gripped his fists as he gnashed his teeth.

"Hahh… Have I only been dreaming this whole time? Is the Jewel even a thing? Would… it even work, to begin with? This whole time I have been trying to grasp over a hopeless dream like a fool, trying to cope with her death as much as I could…" he sighed.

Akron sat down and began to drink more.

"Being strong doesn't mean I can bring those I loved back from death… I might be strong but… No, I cannot get myself like this… I have things to do. And… if that bastard is never going to give me what I want. Then I am going to force myself through it and grab it for myself. Eastgrande Family? A bunch of parasites of this city…"

"If Gustav does not comply with me, I will force my way. I already know that he is planning something shady behind the scenes… That demon woman…"

Akron quickly sips the last cup of alcohol as from around his body, several masses of liquid metal began to form one after another, floating around him and revealing the man's incredibly rare magic, the one he had used since he was a child to pave a way through a world that was nothing but unjust.

The liquid metal quickly shaped themselves as floating knives and blades, as the man's eyes grew sharper, his bloodthirst growing bigger and bigger as the alcohol intensified his emotions of rage and frustration.

"…Even if that new Rank 5 gets in my way… No one is going to stop me… No one…"

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It has been two days since Frank created the new Transmigration Cycle and leaving Hades with Abraddon and Thineas, and although things stabilized, the world as he sees it through Death Magic would never be the same anymore.

Why?

Even though the main transmigration cycle was created, and the majority of souls were able to be reincarnated, there was still a large portion of them that was left going around, way more than before.

Although most of them were being slowly absorbed by the transmigration cycle, there were many still that remained within the mortal plane.

And due to the intensifying miasma within the environment, the Undead began to slowly raise all around the world, not only being exclusive to dungeons but quickly becoming a problem of the entire world.

Of course, in just two days this should not be noticeable, but as time went by, Undead-type monsters would become more and more common.

Although Frank had the power to tame Undead, he did not have the power to tame Undead all around the world and such Undead would quickly turn into a bigger problem.

However, for the time being, Frank had to plan things out and slowly assess the situation, while coming out with his next course of action.

Through these two days, he used his guild to complete a series of Guild-only tasks, which came with the extermination of large groups of Monsters that sometimes roamed around the city… and a large horde of Undead that had caused an emergency in the capital, which had appeared right in the middle of the large graveyard of Westwind.

Frank and his guild had to quickly rush there, finding several Skeletons, Zombies, and Ghosts making a big ruckus, although all of them were weak Rank 1 monsters, they were hundreds, having already taken the lives of some of the civilians that lived near the graveyard.

Due to this, a group of Magus accompanied by Frank and other guilds and Adventurers started a slaughter fest of Undead.

Although Frank could take them, he did not want to show his powers to the public and exterminated the Undead alongside his party, where Kamei's Holy light Magic came in handy a lot, purifying the Undead and forcing their souls to immediately fly into the Transmigration Cycle.

Holy Light magic seemed to have the ability to purify souls, making things easy for everyone, especially for Frank as he did not have to deal with these pained souls later.

The Undead had indeed caused a lot of commotion and fear of the overall public in the city, but after it was finally done, Frank and other Magus specialized in Sealing Magic quickly created a magic barrier that sealed Miasma from entering the graveyard, stopping the creation of Undead.

Alongside this, Kamei and other Light Attribute Magus generated a light field that would last a few days, purifying everything until no souls were left roaming these places.

Frank's guild made a large commotion due to their amazing strength, becoming the spotlight of the city for the days to come.

However, after everything was over Frank and his family rushed back to their home, resting for the rest of the day.

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