Timothy was very close to a heart attack, but his willpower was unbreakable, he wasn't afraid of death! However, he didn’t want to die so randomly either, so he put something in motion to try and save his life.

  Gustav seemed to be oblivious through all of this, it took him a while to realize that something was wrong with his friend. When he saw Timothy holding his chest, he thought that he was choking on a cricket leg or something, so he patted him on the back!

  The old master hadn't attacked Gustav yet, and this was for the best, because he helped create a great diversion. Timothy leaned forward after he atted on the back, as if to fort himself a bit, but iy, he was just trying to hide his hands uhe table.

  A sed ter, a single bolt flew out of Timothy's opeher bag of bony bolts, and it darted towards the master! He had been summoning the Bone Multiplier ability while his hands were uhe table, and was strong enough to unch a single bolt.

  It was a solid faow, his gut was very often right, and he vowed to always trust it from now on. Tim was right to trust his gut to begin with, this castle ended up nothing but vague threats, and dangerous tasks to them, so he was lucky that he had set the bag of bolts oable to begin with!

  The bolt ended up pierg the master's forehead, and killed him on the spot! It would appear that an all knowing master of telekinesis wasn't strong enough to stop a tiny bolt, or in this case, it was likely that he hadn't seen it ing. Everything happened within a blink, and the master bli the wrong time!

  It took the two other men in the room a moment to realize what happened, but Timothy could make use of this negligence. His heart was safe now, yes, it escaped the master's grip, but he still needed a moment for his blood pressure to stabilize again. He had to breathe.

  “I hate you for what you made me do, master wrinkly tits…” He thought to himself, he was very ashamed that he had to kill a human.

  “What did you do!” Gustav asked seds ter, in panic, after the master fell off of his chair.

  “Nevermind what I did,” He said, and without much of an expnatiohen attacked Tonirus.

  Tonirus had been walking over here, and judging from his tightened fists, and rigid body nguage, he was walking over to start a fight. This was another flict that Tim couldn't avoid, so he ended up flinging the other een bony bolts against this man!

  Tonirus stopped ten bolts, he mao do that in a blink, but the rest of them bashed through his armor, and pierced his chest and guts! They went up to three inches deep, so this was a death sentence as solid as any, though he didn't die immediately.

  “What are you doing!?” Gustav yelled, grabbed Timothy by the colr, lifted him off of the ground by a couple of feet, and bashed his fa the table. “I thought you liked humans! Why did you kill them?”

  “Because they tried to kill us, just now!” Tim excimed, and then he pushed his body against the table, sending Gustav backwards by a few feet. His rength & speed upgrade came in handy here. “That task with the tipedes, it wasn't a request, but a demand! As soon as I refused, he tried to crush my heart!”

  Gustav caught up with what happened, and he issed. Despite his extensive beliefs and discipline, he got this urge to go and kick the old master's corpse around!

  “Wrinkly bastard!” He cussed, and thus he went against his own rules once more.

  The best idea now was to make a run for it. They couldn’t hold their own against the several other telekiic mages, it was stupid to fight them, so they had to go out of this needle universe immediately, and maybe return with backup ter on! The tter was Gustav's inal pn when he saortal, and he was absolutely right to think so, they shouldn't have e here alone.

  However, before they could've dashed, they heard a faint whisper. Tonirus was calling for them, and he forced a few words out. “Hey… please e here, please listen…”

  It was a miracle that he was still breathing, but he was going to die soon anyway, so the two of them walked over, and figured that they had twenty seds to spare to listen to him.

  “You must close the portal, get the book…” Tonirus started gurgling on his own blood. “Library…”

  “Ah, hell nah!” Timothy excimed, and thewo of them just walked away. “We're not closing the portal while we're still in it!”

  Gustav felt the same, but as they crossed through the library moments ter, their curious nature got the best of them. They stepped into the small library, and grabbed any and all books that seemed abnormal. They figured that if there was a book that could somehow close that portal, it had to look unusual, and not like a on instru book.

  “Maybe we try and close it when we're close to the portal, we bring the book there.” Gustav pitched, as they tio search through the library for it.

  “I don't think that'll work,” He said, and perhaps both of them had a point, but for now they just hoped that they wouldn't get jumped.

  Timothy ended up tossing a bunch of books off of the shelf, he did so actally because he was rushing. But after he did so, he did discover something weird.

  “That's as devilish as it get,” He grunted, a over to pick up a book, which between its part papers, had a page that was made entirely out of metal.

  The page had the carving of a red star on it, so he automatically associated it with demons. He wao browse the rest of the pages as well, but he actally cut his hand oal page's very sharp er instead!

  Once a few drops of his blood nded on this ‘devilish’ page, the book shone faintly for a few seds, and then it disappeared entirely! Inwardly, he started realizing that this was a very stupid mistake to make, as he just accepted something unholy in his body.

  A sharp paied deep within his head seds ter, and it was beyond the pain threshold that most goblins could ha wasn't fun. But thankfully, it only sted a few seds!

  Although the pai unholy at first, it was actually a blessing of sorts, because he just accepted a new ability, a new power! It was never a bad thing to obtain a new power, but since everything about this process has been against his own free will, he wasn’t a big fan of it.

  “I'm pretty sure that I wasn’t supposed to be cut by that bastarding devil page, but…” Tim bbbered, half of his sentence was difficult to follow along. “I should be able to close the portal now, we don't need any books. That devil page gave me its powers, that book was supposed to close the portal, but here we fug are!”

  [The Devil's Kiss ability has successfully been added to your arsenal,] The system beeped.

  Then, she beeped again. [You successfully killed two telekiic, human mages, both of which had a different quality of mana. You get 8,000 points for killing the master, and 3,000 points for killing the gatekeeper. I must gratute you, as you're wealthier than ever now, with a total of 19,000 in your sum!]

  “I 't be too happy about that, I just killed a couple of human beings.” He thought.