The goblins fell over and rolled over the ground due to pain as blood leaked out of their body and warmness out of their flesh. The eyes of the nearby goblins trembled in fear but the eyes of the hobgoblins widened in anger at the suffering of their kinds.

"Roar!" They roared yet again, causing all of them to charge towards him.

"RED Moon Gaze!"

Vincent's crimson eyes turned a shade darker, and at the same time, a giant with six-arm with one of them holding a weapon manifested behind him. It was standing between him and the goblins, and as it had a rather big physique, its shadow draped over all of them and made them feel like It was a demon that was going to devour all of them.

The 20 goblins, as well as the two hobgoblins that were charging towards him, came to a sudden halt. The red monster had suddenly appeared in front of them carried such madness within it that it made them stop in their track out of sheer fear. Their eyes showed fear, and their hearts palpitated in despair.

"kill!"

At his command, it charged towards them like a bull released from its shackles, kicking up dust in the air.. It slammed into five of them and blasted them backwards. The others around It met their ends under its blade. Then, it squatted, remaining in that position for a brief moment before springing upwards towards them. It stomped down on eight of them, causing their body to burst.

It had taken down eighteen of them and Vincent had taken down eight of them, leaving only four.

Whoosh!

Vincent threw a crimson spear at the hobgoblin standing the farthest from him, and it moved with such speed and force that it pierced halfway into its skull before it even managed to catch sight of it.

"K-Kiek?!"

Its blood splashed on the Hobgoblin standing beside it, causing its eyes to widen in shock and surprise. Right at that very moment, Vincent reached up to it and drew a red line across its neck.

Just like that, with its eyes widened in fear, the monster died.

Plop.

Its head fell to the ground, displaying the emotions it felt a moment before death.

[You've killed all of the goblins and earned the right to enter the 31st floor.]

[Would you like to advance?]

Vincent didn't have time to waste as his avatar wasn't going to last forever, and he needed it to fight the monsters on the next floor.

"Yes," he said, an urgent look on his face.

Immediately, a portal opened up in front of him. He and his avatar charged into and they appeared in a dark place. However, he was able to see everything clearly because of the glowing crimson figure before him. He was standing on top of a lake, meaning that the softness below his feet was hard enough for him to stand on it.

Standing on such a surface felt a bit weird, but he didn't think too much about it.

He turned to the red figure, who was looking at him. As his gaze focused on it, shock and surprise surged into his mind. That person looked just like him! However, it had hair as red as blood, nails as black as ash, and eyes surging with madness. Not just that, but its entire figure was red, seemingly as if made out of blood or ruby.

"What's going in here?!"

"Welcome to the 31st floor, One's Inner Self."

His crimson doppelganger spoke in a raspy but thick voice while looking at him with those horrifying eyes.

"Huh?" Vincent's eyebrows raised.

"In this place, one must fight their doppelganger who can use their skills and techniques as good as themselves and defeat them; at least that's what the creator of this place intended. How could she have ever known that her paradise would help me awaken from my deep slumber, would help me experience freedom once again, would help me breathe in the same world as you?!"

Vincent saw his doppelganger's lips stretching backward, stretching from ear to ear!

"Hehe, hehe, HAHAHAHAHA!"

His doppelganger laughed out loud, at the top of his lungs. The crimson Vincent couldn't help it. It had been too long since that day, a point in time where he had lost all his freedom under the hands of the person he trusted the most.

"Bam!" He didn't notice when Vincent had appeared before it as it was indulging in joy, but by the time he noticed, he had already stuck his face!historical

Vincent's fist carried such overwhelming force that it dislocated his jaw and sent him flying away from him. He watched the crimson version of himself tumbling on the surface of the water several times, causing its surface to ripple at different spots, and then he finally coming to a halt. He stood up, and under Vincent's crimson eyes, the crimson one snapped his jaw back to place.

"How can this be?! You! You! How could you be so pathetically weak!" A look of disdain was visible in the crimson one's eyes as he said those words. "Could it be that father extracted my power from your body and swallowed it? He did, after all, betrayed me. Shit! I can't believe trash like you is using my body! How could a father do this to me?!!!"

The crimson version roared out in despair, the madness in his eye surging to new levels.

"Enough of your nonsense!" Vincent shouted in anger as he rushed at him along with his avatar. "How dare you badmouth my father!"

When Vincent reached near him, the crimson one struck out his fist in a swiping motion. However, Vincent stepped aside with such speed that he left an afterimage behind. The crimson one didn't realize that, though, not until his hand passed through him. His eyes widened as Vincent delivered a kick to his face. His boots smashed on his face, inflicting a high amount of damage to him and throwing him backward.

Right then, his avatar charged up to him and grabbed his feet, stopping him from going away, then pulled him towards itself. Right after, the crimson one kissed his knuckles that broke his nose, followed by several more punches to the face and the guts, which ended up in him getting disfigured. Between the fists to his face and his stomach, the crimson one wasn't able to put up even an ounce of resistance.

Then, the crimson giant got behind him, released him from his grasps, and as he was falling to the water surface, kicked his butt, sending him flying towards Vincent.

Vincent charged towards the crimson one and elbowed him in the chest, causing his mouth to gape open in pain. It opened so wide that his jaw threatened to touch the ground.

Then, he kicked him up.

"Remember this beating and next time, don't talk smack about other's parents!" While shouting that, he blasted two crimson towards it.

Whoosh!

The crimson spears whisked through the air and stabbed straight into the crimson one's chest as he was coming down the air. The ends of the spears came out of his back, blood surging out of the holes in his body and sprinkling down on Vincent's face.

Plop.

The crimson dropped a step away from Vincent, who believed himself to be the victor.

"Weak! Too weak!! Pathetically weak!"