"Do you know why there are only 4 mythical class monsters in this cave? Because monsters have this weird tradition, when a certain monster reaches a certain level before reaching mythical class. All the monsters in the area will gang up on that monster to prevent it from evolving. As if they were setting a deadlock to balance this place."
Amiya looked at him while narrowing her eyes. "Thanks, that is very useful information, Clinton, but I would rather not hear about it while we are still inside the dangerous cave in the topic."
Clint stopped as he saw Randall in front of them. Randall went first to scout the area. "How does it look?"
"It's passable, there's a deep hole beneath. But, as long as we're careful enough, it should be no problem crossing it."
Clint nodded. "Then, let us get it done."
Randall guided them towards the passage of their route, to get to their destination they need to cross over a passage filled with cliffs and holes. The path was just a thick line of rocks in the middle of the cliffs, wide enough for multiple people to pass over.
"This hole will lead to the second floor if you do not want to fall in it, just stick with me." Clint led the way.
Following him were Amiya and Gwen.
On their way, multiple fireballs emerged around them to light up their way created by Gwen.
And the last one in the line was Randall to scout their back.
Amiya glanced in the dark holes. "I cannot see the bottom of it. Gwen, I need a hand."
"Sure." As Amiya asked, Gwen grabbed her hand and they walked next to each other.
They reached the end of the path and passed through the cliffs. All of them released a sigh of relief the moment their foot touched the solid floor.
"I'll go check ahead." Randall passed through them.
Clint nodded. "We will be coming after you."
They walked towards the huge passage.
At the end of the passage were a chamber and an enormous hole in the wall. They found Randall standing at the entrance of the hole while his face was full of awe.
Randall looked at the 3 newly arrived with disbelief on his face.
"Is there a problem, Randall?" Gwen ran towards him, following her is Clint and Amiya.
The 3 gazed inside the hole and discovered what brought Randall in great awe. The hole was a lair, and the owners of the lair were lying on the floor and no longer alive.
The corpses of the 2 gigantic Fenrir were at the middle of the lair, their entire body was completely burned due to some kind of powerful magic attack.
Amiya covered her wide-opened mouth due to her surprise.
Clint walked towards the corpses. "These are the 2 mythical class monsters, the 2 Fenrirs. They are supposed to be 2 of the most powerful monsters inside the Fairy dungeon."
"What kind of monsters could kill such a class of monsters? At once?" The awe on Randall's face was still visible on his face.
The sound of a huge explosion from afar instantly took their attention. Countless monsters roars were could be heard and the unnerving roars were slowly moving near towards their location.
Clint walked back and passed through them. "We have already got more than enough information we need. We should take our leave now."
"Oh, are we going now?" Amiya followed him.
With such haste, they reached the cliff-filled dome and immediately walked into the path.
"What were those sounds?" Gwen asked as she followed him, next with her was Amiya.
Just like before, Randall was watching out the backside.
Once more, the unnerving roars resonated throughout the area, and the sounds were nearer than earlier.
Clint pulled his sword. "Randall."
Randall from the backline nodded and grabbed 2 of his daggers. "I'm on it."
"Gwen, I need you to light up the entire place while we are crossing, prevent any monsters to come near us. I think that roars were from the Gaia centipedes, they can use stealth, so guard up your mana sensories. Amiya, stay back with Gwen and get ready to support us." He grabbed the shield on his back and wore it in his hand.
"Understood, Leader."
Gwen activated her Fire magic and filled the entire dome with Fireballs and lit up the entire place.
From the passage there were heading, the first silhouette of monsters emerged from the shadows, around 10 cave wolves rushed towards their direction as if they were running from something.
"Halt!" Clint shouted as he stepped in the side of the path while slowly walking forward.
The 3 did the same and let the cave wolves pass. What they were anticipating were the monsters that just arrived behind the cave wolves.
"They are here," Gwen announced as she activated her Ice magic.
Countless Ice spikes emerged around them and blasted towards the edges of the dome. Multiple Small lesser Gaia centipede instantly fell to the hole with Ice spikes stabbed on their heads.
The Small lesser Gaia centipedes were everywhere, to the walls, ceiling, and even beneath the path they were stepping into.
A Small lesser Gaia centipede jumped on Clint, but he skillfully blocked the attack and pushed the enemy to the hole while slowly advancing towards the end of the path.
Some tried to sneak behind, but Randall took care of them by stabbing them with his dagger.
Amiya raised her Staff, the orb on her staff lit up granting a considerable amount of enhancement in both magical and physical defense and mobility for her allies.
Thanks to their coordination and reliable skills, they managed to eliminate the wave of Small lesser Gaia centipedes.
However, a sudden roar came from the other side where Randall was wherein.
Amiya wandered her eyes. "Are they gone?"
"Why there is a lot of them? Gaia centipedes were not the type of monsters that will attack in a swarm. Why they are all here as if something gathered them?" Clint's face was full of questions.
"Uhm, guys, I think we have a bigger problem here."
All of their attention darted to the problem that Randall was referring to.
"What kind of holy oddity is that?" Amiya spouted out of surprise.
The Gaia centipede roared as it walked towards the path they were in. A 3 meters long gigantic centipede.
"That is a Gaia centipede, Gwen, cover us with your Fire magic, that thing has nasty acidic webs, Randall, do not engage, we need to get out of this hole as soon as possible."
Clint gave way to Amiya and Gwen while Gwen was continuing her bombardment of Fireballs and Ice spikes towards the Gaia centipede.
"I am running out of mana," Gwen announced.
The Gaia centipede extended its pincers towards Randall, but he stopped the attack by stabbing its pincers using his dagger while jumping backward.
He inserted his hand in his pocket and grabbed the bottle of Mana potion inside and threw it towards Gwen. "Catch!"
Gwen caught the bottle and immediately drank the mana potion. "Thanks, Randall."
"Just continue your attack Gwen, Gaia centipedes are intelligent enough to withdraw once they received a certain amount of damage, we cannot defeat it, but at least we can drive it away." Clint ordered.
Gwen nodded.
Gwen and Amiya reached the solid floor while next to them was Clint. Due to the continued attack, the Gaia centipede slowed down and after taking enough damage it finally decided to retreat and fled away from them.
After seeing that the Gaia centipede was finally gone. They let their shoulders down while chasing their breaths.
Amiya raised her staff. "Is anyone need some healing?"
After holding both of his knees for a few seconds, Clint stood up. "I'm fine. How about you, Randa-"
Clint's eyes widened as he saw Randall at the boundary of the solid floor and the rock path, he was about to step up to the solid floor, however, above him was about 5 Small lesser Gaia centipedes blasting towards him, the momentum of the rushing Small lesser Gaia centipedes were so unrealistic that as if they were launched by some kind of powerful force towards Randall.
With a blink of an eye, Randall fell to the hole with the Small lesser Gaia centipedes rushed towards him.
"Randall!"
Clint sprinted to grab him, but he managed to grab nothing, Randall was already too deep.
Passed through him was the silhouette of Gwen about to jump in where Randall fell.
"Gwen!"
He immediately grabbed Gwen's robe and pulled her from the hole where she just jumped into without any hesitation.
"Are you out of your mind, Gwen? What are you doing?"
Out of his surprise, Gwen violently pushed his hand away.
"Get off me! If something bad happens to him, I will make sure you will regret that you tried to stop me!" Gwen looked at him with her raging eyes.
Out of surprise due to the tone and words he did not even imagine he would ever hear coming from Gwen's modest mouth.
"Gwen?"
He walked back and look at Gwen with great confusion on his face. He could not even maintain eye contact with Gwen's sharp gaze.
Amiya immediately approached Gwen and touched her cheeks. "Gwen, calm down. We will save him, of course. But you need to calm down."
The sudden realization on Gwen's face occurred as the tears ran down on her face, with great fear in her eyes she looked at Clint. "We need to save him."
Clint walked towards them. "You do not need to ask. We will. But not by jumping on that hole. That hole will lead to the second floor. We have a map so do not fret."
Gwen nodded and brushed the tears on her face. "Thanks, Clint. And forgive me for the harsh word I just said."
Clint grabbed his sword and shield and smiled at her. "Do not worry, Randall is a tough guy, I am pretty sure at this moment he is just lying on the floor using his arms as a pillow, crossing his foot while waiting for us."