Chapter 148
2 hours later Xara finally woke up, it turned that she'd really fainted due to mana exhaustion.
"It was all your fault! If it wasn't for you then I wouldn't had to use that spell," she shouted at Spene right after she gained control over her body. Favian tried to calm her down but it was of no use.
Finally when the atmosphere cald down we decided to move further into the labyrinth. While Xara was fainted, Favian and Spene had also rested and recovered their energy.
Hence, we were on the move once again.
Passing through the spider corpses we soon left them behind and ventured again into the depths of the labyrinth. The passage we were going through was not narrow—like the one we started through, but it wasn't as spacious as the area where we fought the spiders either.
As we were walking forward, my eyes fell on the walls. There were spider nests all over the place and so of them even had bones stuck in them. Xara's mana had restored so she was using her fireball to illuminate the path which gave the walls a golden shine and I also felt warmth since I was close to her.
We were again the formation with Xara on the front, behind her was Spene, then I and Challes, and in the rear was Favian.
"Do you know where are we going? Since I can't map this place at all," said Spene as he glanced back at .
"Well, I haven't co this far before due to the monsters, but I do have a general idea on where we had to go," I derived.
For once, I wasn't lying here. I really didn't know the exact way to reach the item I'm searching for. In loli_pop's novel, Leon directly jumped from floor to floor with the help of his system that allowed him to explore labyrinths in a more efficient way.
Due to that I didn't know the exact way to reach the floors so I was just moving based on the information I gathered on the labyrinths of this world before starting this whole thing—and so far there was only one way to go forward so it wasn't much of a choice anyway.
"Can you all also hear that sound which I'm hearing right now?" Favian asked.
"What sound?" Spene queried.
"Well, it's like the sound of…like water, as if there's a river sowhere near us, and the sound is getting louder and louder as we move."
"Hmmm, let see," Spene stopped in his tracks—and so did Xara and I—closed his eyes and bought his hand close to his ears in a funnel type shape. Then he looked as if he was trying to focus and try to hear the sound Favian was talking about.
"Ah, I do hear sothing like that," he said after a few minutes of silence.
I kinda know what he was taking about; I was hearing the sa sound from the ti they were fighting the spiders. At first, I thought that water was dripping into a puddle from so stone or sothing but as we went further into the labyrinth, I ca to realize that it was more like the sound of a water fall—and it was most likely coming from the direction we were going to.
"I hear it too," I added.
"How long are you all gonna stand here hearing so sound or whatever, huh? Is that what we ca here for? Hey Ichigo, weren't you hear to mine those…those…crystals?" Xara chipped in.
"Oh co on Xara, it isn't like we spent our whole life here!" said Spene in a sarcastic tone.
"I'm really not in the mood to hear anything from you, so you better shut up unless you want another one of these fireballs; and this ti they won't extinguish before burning your skin, she fud and turned around to look give a death stare to Spene—maybe it worked since it seems as though Spene broke into a cold sweat.
And it turns out she was still pissed about the thing with Spene.
Spene didn't want to anger her even more hence he zipped his mouth and began walking again.
Around 20 minutes later, we reached another open space—not as big as the last one though. We did stumble upon so more spider monsters on the way but because they weren't in a big group, they were taken care of easily.
Coming back to the situation right now, we finally knew where that sound was coming from.
The place where we were standing right now was a spacious area as I've ntioned before and it was probably diamond shaped. The length of the spikes coming out of the ground was slightly bigger and there was even so moss at certain places.
But aside all that, on the right side of this area was indeed a stream of water that was getting its supply of water through a small waterfall coming from the ceiling. Seeing this I determined that the water was probably the water of the river—the one we saw outside.
We stepped inside the place and looked around, after a few minutes of research we realized that there were no monsters here.
'Then maybe this isn't the second floor,' I thought.
Sure this sowhat looked like the second floor of this labyrinth I've read in loli_pop's novel but if there ain't no monster here, then most likely this isn't what I think it is.
However, there was no way to get out of this area either. There were no other passages connected to here other than the one we ca through and the one where the river was going into—this almost looked like a dead end.
Though I was kinda able to guess where the way was thanks to the knowledge I have from the novel, and the presence of this moss and stream of water here.
I walked up to the stream and stood beside it, the direction its water was flowing looked like a tunnel—similar to the train tunnels they had in my forr world but a small version of it.
"I think this is the way," I announced.
"You sure?" Spene inquired.
"Yeah…pretty sure. I an, this is the only other way that's leading sowhere."
"That is true...okay, let's go then. Not like we'll get anything from wasting ti here."
Everyone agreed to that, so we put our feet into the stream of water—which was around 30 centitres deep I think, and began walking in the direction where the water was flowing.
Now, as we walked further the surface started getting slippery and it was hard to maintain balance—we even fell many tis. There was a reason for it; the ground was leaning in one direction the more we moved forward.
If I had to explain it simply, then I'd say that from few ters away from the waterfall, the ground was titled into a 35 or 40 degree angle. This made the stream work like a waterpark slide and we were falling down.
This went on for a few more minutes before—
"Oh fuck I'm going down! Xara, stop ! I an, hold my hand or leg or whatever you can and stop ! Ah fuck I'm going down! I'm going down! I'm going down!"
Spene tripped and fell, this ti completely. Thus we were probably nearing the end he started going down the path, just like the kids in a waterslide.
He begged Xara for help but the icy stare she gave him was probably the most cruel thing I've ever seen…just kidding. Though this didn't change the face that she enjoyed the scene as Spene slid down the watery path and get devoured by the darkness—who knows, maybe she was smiling inside.
She was also barely on her feet because she was supporting herself on the staff she had by planting it down to the ground but even that wasn't going to last long.
Eventually, she also fell and went down the sa path as Spene. And so did I, Favian, and Challes. I increased the length of Challes's chain in between so that I can avoid getting tangled with him.
A few seconds of a not-so-good ride later, we landed into a pool of water with a splash. The pool wasn't as deep as to drown us but it was deep enough that the water was up to our neck.
One by one we got out of the water and sohow got the water out of our clothes by clenching onto them—without taking our clothes, of course.
When we were done, my eyes caught the sight of what was in front of us.
(A/N: Yeah, I know that I only uploaded one chapter today but I'm kinda sick, so can't help it.)
Reviews
All reviews (0)