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Chapter 4 - Chapter 4: A time to shine

As the duo make down the steps, tip-toeing, trying to walk down to the first floor without alerting the monsters. With hearts pounding like jackhammers and the stress getting into their heads. John soon then spots Goliath's Wrath searching around and when seen up close, had the face of a deformed wolf and the black liquid oozing from its body which melted the surface of the floor. It looked much more intimidating up close than on a screen. As they attempted to sneak towards the flipped furniture for cover, Max slipped on a chair leg, which made a loud clanging sound. Startling John and causing Goliath's Wrath to turn to his back and look at the pile of furniture that both were hiding behind, shouting a deafening scream that stunned both of them in their place. Sweat began to travel down the backs of both them as they were clueless on what to do.

John then had an idea to be able to kill this abomination, but he requires to test whether his theory was right.

"It would be too risky for Max to attack it head-on and I was not able to do anything due to its immunity to electricity. So I have to use the environment to my advantage.", John thought to himself as he spotted that the black liquid does not only melt the floor, it remains there for a while as the reaction was slow. He thought that the black liquid could be very reactive.

John then asks Max to help him distract the monster for a little bit. With a blank expression on Max's face, He suddenly realised what John asked him to do

".... what. No way man, no way in hell I'm distracting that literal killing machine.", Max whispers and yet feels like it was him shouting at John at the same time.

"I just need 5mins, its either you try to save our lives or we die here being smashed into goo by that thing.", John whispers and yet tries to shout at Max.

With the monster getting closer, with the smell of rancid cheese and the sound of the growling coming from the monster could be heard. Max rolls his eyes and stands up and looks straight at the monster and shouts

"Hey Cheese Brain! Over here!"

It began running towards Max and he begins to sprint with everything he's got. John got to work and notice that when it was closest to where they were hiding, there was a giant glob of black liquid present and confirmed that due to the smell from the monster, it was acidic.

"Wait, the floor tiles are steel plates and its dissolving. Hydrogen is present now if the gas was contained with the monster within, we could blow that disgusting abomination into pieces.", John thought to himself.

John signals to Max to follow him and saw how Max is using his spear to aim the monster's strikes away from him. It looked as if a master is directing the flow of water from a stream with a stick. Max noticed John's gestures and began running towards John and both ran towards a room further within the building.