After running for 2 hours and a half straight, Rem finally arrived at the swamp.
'Now where is the Temple? Karasu..!' Rem used her Shadow Creation skill and Karasu appeared in front of Rem.
"Kaw..?" The crow tilted its head in confusion.
'Search this whole swamp. Do you know how a Temple look like?'
"Kaw!" Karasu nodded.
'Good. Roy will stay with me. While you go find the Temple, Roy and I will explore this swamp for a little bit. After all, I need the system to remember this place. Now off you go.'
Karasu flew away and began searching for the Temple. Rem and Roy explored the swamp while searching for the Temple as well. Meanwhile, in Arka City...
"Whoa!!! What is that???" Person A asked.
"I have no idea... These days, abnormal things have been happening a lot lately." Person B replied.
"Everyone! Please stand back! A Tower has suddenly appeared near this city. Nobody is allowed to go near it! These days, as you may know, many portals, dungeons, temples, and towers have been appearing everywhere all around the world. Do not panic! The Knights Of Arka will protect you all!" Knight A announced.
"Our captain will be here shortly! As long as you don't go near the portals, dungeons, temples, and towers, you will be fine. I assure you, you will not get hurt! As for now, nobody is allowed to go in or out of the city!" Knight B said.
"What? You can't do that!" Person C yelled.
"That's right! You can't just lock us in the city!!!" Person D said in anger.
"Many knights are patrolling the city. It's dangerous inside and outside the city. We were ordered to guard this gate." Knight A said calmly.
The people at the gate gave up and left in anger. Nobody was allowed to go in or out of the city.
'Where's Remie..?' Karina thought worriedly when she saw the knights guarding the gate.
'I just hope she's not outside right now... I hope she's alright.' Karina looked at the gate and left towards her dorm room, bringing the groceries she bought with her.
•••
After hours of exploring and trying to find the Temple, Karasu finally went back to Rem with some news.
"Kawww!" Karasu stood on Rem's left arm.
"Did you find the Temple yet?" Rem asked.
"Kawww!!!" Karasu nodded his head.
"Bring me there."
Karasu flew to the direction the Temple was located. Rem followed Karasu as Roy flew next to Rem. After a few minutes, they arrived at a river. Karasu flew towards two pillars being surrounded by many trees and landed on one of the trees.
"Kawww!"
"The Temple is here..? I saw many pillars around this swamp. Are you sure this is the entrance to the Temple?"
{This is the entrance to the Temple.}
'Hmmm... How do I get in..?' Rem inspected the area.
Rem saw two pillars that had vines surrounding them. Rem got rid of the vines and saw a wind sign on both pillars.
'Maybe I need to use wind magic to open the entrance?' Rem used her wind element and attacked the pillars using her wind magic.
The pillars began to lower to the ground.
"!!!" Karasu flew towards Rem, alerted.
Rem backed away from the moving pillars. After the pillars disappeared in the ground, a huge gust of wind came and a Temple began to appear in front of Rem. After a few minutes, the Temple stopped moving.
'Whoa... A Temple just appeared from underground..!' Rem walked towards the entrance of the Temple, amazed.
Rem entered the Temple with Roy and Karasu following her from behind.
{I can sense a lot of traps in here. I advise you to be careful.}
'Okay... I got it. I can sense where all the traps are somehow. Roy, get in my backpack again. I don't want you getting hurt.'
Roy climbed into Rem's backpack and Rem ran towards the East of the Temple.
'The first thing I have to do is explore every nook and cranny of this Temple.'
{Temples have many hidden rooms and traps. You can get lost easily in here but you have me so you won't get lost.}
'Yeah, yeah.' Rem arrived in a hidden room without getting into any traps.
{You have arrived in a hidden room.}
'Is this supposed to be a hidden room..? It's not hidden at all...' Rem thought as she entered the room.
After entering the room, the doors closed behind Rem. In front of Rem, there were a few monsters. Rem inspected the monsters.
[Name: N/A]
[Role: N/A]
[Race: Evil Wind Spirit]
[Level: 50]
[HP: 50,000/50,000]
[MP: 70,000/70,000]
[Element: Wind]
'There's about 8 of these Evil Wind Spirits and all these monster's levels are so high!!! 002, do you want me to die or something..? You never told me Temples are this dangerous.'
{It's fine. You will survive. You have me so you won't die. Rest assured!}
'Urg... Now, what is that monster over there?' Rem inspected its stats.
[Name: N/A]
[Role: N/A]
[Race: Evil Wind Spirit Summoner]
[Level: 60]
[HP: 60,000/60,000]
[MP: 100,000/100,000]
'Aw, c'mon! I better kill that Summoner first..!' Rem thought as she activated her Shadow Chains skill.
The chains made it so the Evil Wind Spirits and Wind Summoner was not able to move.
'I should try the new skills I got right now. This is a great opportunity!' Rem pointed her finger and made a gun shape using her pointer finger and thumb towards the Wind Summoner and activated her Electric Blast skill.
A beam of lightning appeared on Rem's pointer finger and it shot the Wind Summoner. The Wind Summoner was shot on its arm but it did not die yet.
'That was fast... This attack only lowered the enemy's health by 30,000... This skill is quite good but the problem is it's cooldown time. Five minutes is long... I'll just finish it off with a few of my upgraded Wind Slashes.' Rem activated her Wind Slash skill and slashed the Summoner a few times.
After slashing the Summoner 3 times, each attack lowering 10,000 of the Summoner's health.
'It's finally dead. I probably shouldn't use Raging Tempest in this Temple since it may collapse due to the storm. Lightning Vortex is an area, attack skill. Let's use that...' Rem activated her Lightning Vortex skill.
A vortex appeared above all the Evil Wind Spirits.
'This looks more like a storm that appears above your head...'
*BOOMMM!!!
All of Rem's enemies perished when they got attacked by the vortex.
'Oh... I guess that was cool. Roy won't have to do anything since he can't gain any EXP anyway. I'll look at my stats later. Now, moving on..!' Rem thought.
{You have to defeat all the monsters in this Temple before the main entrance to the Temple appear.}
'That's good to know... This is going to take a while.' Rem sighed and continued to find all the hidden rooms and defeat all the monsters in the Temple.