Elliot kept walking around the mountain and slowly checking every corner to find that grotto he had seen, finding it in real was a lot harder than through the map so it took him more than an hour to finally see it.
However there was an issue, the grotto's entrance was on a cliff which meant he had to climb up, he had bought a rope but he didn't have any way of using it to secure the climb from the bottom so it means that he would be going without anything to secure his life even though he had no guaranty there was something in there.
'Is it worth it ?'
He thought, of course dying from a fall would be too stupid so it made him hesitate, at the same time he looked at the map and the scene made him more and more surprised, the horde had grown larger since earlier and it's speed had also increased. It had grown so big that when he listened carefully he could hear the monsters stomping down the ground !
'There must be around two or three hundred monster ? Since I can hear them from here they must be of a way larger size than yesterday's crab.'
Now he was getting more and more curious about what would happen there but still didn't want to go, first he didn't have a reason to, second he didn't have any time to lose and third he knew it would be dangerous to head there.
'Alright time to climb, I have a feeling there is something in there !'
Finally he put the events happening at the breach at the back of his mind and started climbing very slowly, the grotto was around 25 meters up from the ground and a fall from there would definitely be deadly, the rate of deaths from a 25 meters fall is 100%. Even though this figure wasn't correct since there were people who had survived higher falls, he wasn't willing to try his luck.
Very slowly but steadily he tried each grip's resistance to avoid having it break while he was climbing and after a long 10 minutes climb he finally reached the entrance of the grotto!
"Phewwww!! Finally, I felt like it lasted 76 hours !"
He said out loud while lying down on his back, his biceps were feeling sore after putting such a huge load onto them. He had just climbed the equivalent of a 8 storey building!
Now that he was safe he looked at the map that he had never closed and saw the green dots around the breach grouping up.
'I guess they finally realized what was happening, most of them will probably go back through the breach. The ones who stay so close aren't very brave I guess or have other plans than getting treasures.'
Elliot stood up and looked towards the depth of the grotto, he didn't feel like watching the other humans anymore and couldn't be bothered by what would happen to them.
After a few meters the grotto went completely dark and the sunlight couldn't reach it anymore, Elliot felt like it was weird that it became completely dark so close to the entrance but didn't think too much about it.
He pulled out from his backpack a flashlight and started moving forward, he treaded very carefully as he had no guarantee the map showed all monsters. Even tho there were no red dots around him he still had some doubts.
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At the same time around the breach thousands of people had set camp, tents were lying everywhere around the breach and people were just out there living their lives.
The closest to the breach a sort of market had been set up, the things sold were all bought from earth, some people had the idea to start a business by refueling and selling food supplies to the other adventurers.
"Do you hear that ?"
A young woman with dark skin and blue braided hair asked her party member that was standing next to her.
"What?"
"It's a deep sound but I think it comes from quite far away. I've been hearing it for a whole minute now, I first thought I was hallucinating but I'm sure about it now."
Her party member closed his eyes to focus on his hearing and after a few seconds suddenly opened them again.
"I hear it ! I think it comes from the south."
Both of them walked around the breach that was blocking their view and went completely pale, they saw a pack of huge wolves each one the size of a truck running towards them while leaving a cloud of dust behind them !
The most eye catching characteristic of the wolves was their number, the rough assumption of Elliot was right, there were 200 hundred of them !
"What the fuck ?!"
The man yelled, by now lots of people had heard the sound and also came to check. The quickest to react had already went to pick their stuff and exited the breach but the area was filled with people and a lot panicked and didn't know how to react.
After all never had anyone seen such a huge beast, it was all new for them and there was nothing surprising to be frightened when seeing monsters for the first time.
In a few seconds the camp was taken over by chaos, everybody wanted to be the first one to leave and didn't care about others, pushing them and fighting to be the first through the breach. Lots of people realized that it might be too late if they picked up their stuff before leaving so they just left it there and ran away.
The human camp that had barely started being build up was already a mess on the second day of the breach's opening.
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Elliot walked down and the further he went the steeper the ground became.
'I'm going down, I have to be careful not to fall in some hole. My rope won't be of any help if I do.'
After a whole hour of cautious walking Elliot made it in front of a stone door. He looked it from bottom to top with wide eyes, the door was huge !
'This look as big as the cliff I just climbed, will I even be able to push it open ?'