The cave was narrow and dark on the inside and the only way they had, seemed to be leading to a source of light, possibly an exit to the cave. Currently, that path was their only way to head outside this cave
Darien had with him a sharp tooth that was as long as his whole palm which had patches of blood covering it, he and Asper were both quietly moving ahead, making as little noise with their steps as possible
Grrr , they heard a sound they were both accustomed to by now and sure enough, another wolf-like monster with no eyes and long fangs appeared in front of them, Its crimson fur glowing in the dark cave and saliva dropping from its mouth
Asper just looked at it without flinching even a bit and her gaze was like a god looking down at a mindless creature but Darien was different, he gripped the fang in his hands, which were trembling, even more tightly, and stood still in a defensive position waiting for the wolf to attack first
The wolf ferociously gazed at its prey and made sounds to make its prey fear it, after a standstill between both parties it finally attacked Darien with its fangs wide open but as soon as he did that Darien brought his other hand in front of him and thought in his mind 'Almighty Push'
FOOM
A strong force suddenly hit the wolf and send it flying back, it was powerful but only enough to push the wolf back it didn't inflict any actual damage, the wolf got back up and roared towards Darien but the only thing it saw was a fang right in front of its eyes
Squish!
Blood scattered everywhere with Darien breathing heavily and his face full of sweat
"Looks like you are getting used to it"
"shut up" He stood up with difficulty and started moving again, Asper just smiled and followed him
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"So how do I use my skills?"
"First, open your system window by thinking about it and go to the skills option"
Darien did what she said and another window appeared,
Skills
Skill 1 --
Name - [Unknown],
Rank - [Unknown],
Skill description -
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you
But when the leaves hang trembling
The wind is passing through
"Why is it unknown?" Darien was confused and why does the description sound more like a poem
"Because you are a bit different" Asper replied
"Different? but why? Don't tell me I am actually a genius seen in every hundred years or something"
"Nothing like that, but your skills will be much different than others because you've met me"
"It's because you connected our souls?" Darien was now excited
"Yes, it is precisely because of that, but I can't tell you the specifics"
"I figured that would be the case" he stood up and asked, "So how do I use it?"
"Seems like It is related to wind, try imagining wind blowing around your hand" She was giving him a deep look which was a contrast to his excited face "Don't you think you are a bit hypocritic? Just now you were complaining about how unfair things are and now you look so happy and excited"
Darien closed his eyes, 'Hypocritic?' he thought a bit about what she said 'It is not just me' he grinned evilly
'Humans are all hypocrites by nature' he knew that fact too well... Asper had a slight glint in her eyes when he was thinking that
After that, he did not spare it any more thought and started focusing and imagining the wind blowing around his hand
Fuush
After around 20 seconds, he could feel it, the invisible wind blowing happily around his hand but...
"What is this!?" he exclaimed while looking at the small gust of wind on his hand which he dissipated with just a blow from his other hand
"How the f*** am I supposed to fight with this"
hahahah Asper burst out laughing, "Or what you thought you could become god of wind or something?"
"You will have to improve your control over channeling wind from around the atmosphere, that will require training and time, most of the others have to train their skills as well"
"Let's go we will train your skill on the way" she started walking towards the only way
"Wait What about you? what skills do you have?"
"Me? I don't have them or rather I can't use them, from this moment on you will be the one struggling and I will just walk beside you"
"What? so you are just a dead weight"
Bam, a hit landed on his head
"Let's go, It won't be too hard to get out of here"
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"Yeah right, this is so easy I feel like I can do this all day" Darien was still catching his breath
"I didn't expect these many monsters around here, seems like the tentacle monster was slacking off on its job" Asper looked at him with an apologetic expression
"By the way, what was that 'Almighty Push' about? I almost burst out laughing at that moment" She had a grin on her face
cough cough, he was flustered
"Um ah that sorts of help in imagining things you know"
"also... DIDN'T I TELL YOU NOT TO READ MY MIND!!?"
she giggled in her sweet voice
huuu , he took a deep breath "I can finally at least push things with my wind right now...." he paused for a sec "If they are light enough that is"
"Don't worry you will improve pretty soon" she smiled "look we are almost there"
Darien looked in front and saw the end of the narrow cave, it was blocked by a wall of boulders but the light was seemingly coming out of a hole above the wall
They just stepped on the area where the light was falling when
BOOM
Rocks and boulders suddenly started falling from above, Darien jumped back to prevent getting crushed by them and Asper did the same but she wasn't panicked
BAAM
Another sound of something crashing down came but this time it wasn't rocks..
"What the f***" Darien was unable to close his jaw as he saw a seemingly dead green mantis, the size of a two-storey building with wounds covering all over it, and a girl with tattered clothes soaked in blood, stabbing a sword in the mantis's head