It's very dark here. What place is this?
Am I dead? Maybe this is the afterlife!
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The room is empty, dark, and a bit hot. Stuffy and fishy mix. A gasp in the pitch-black darkness. Taja opened both eyes but only darkness was visible to his eyes.
"Where am I ...?" asked Taja in surprise in his own mind. His breath felt like it was being squeezed by a heavyweight. He felt his body was in a downward position, and he couldn't figure out where he was. Taja slowly moved his arms and legs.
"I am blind ... or... this place is so deep dark?" Taja thought again, feeling his body on top of something moving gently. Half conscious, he tried to crawl out of whatever it was.
"What's this ...?" he screamed under his breath, feeling his body on the shifting surface. Not dirt or rock, but a slippery texture.
"Why is it shaking a bit?" Taja slowly shifted until he felt his back hit something rough rock.
"Am I still in the cave?" Taja thought as he fumbled. It feels like a rock wall. You can smell the air of dry moss.
"Or ... is this afterlife?" Taja's thoughts became increasingly erratic. Finding out where he was in the pitch-black darkness, not yet fully conscious. Remembering the last time a big snake devoured his body.
"Could it be ... I'm in the stomach of a snake?" Taja gasped in surprise.
A soft hissing sound was heard, awakening his awareness that this was not a dream. For a moment to caught his breath, then Taja moved his fingers while gathering energy to cast the spell.
"Alhirri ...," said Taja weakly because he had drained a lot of energy. Sparks of light flashed between his fingers several times.
"Alhirri ...!"
A weak white light radiated from Taja's fist, then was thrown into the air. You can see the surroundings at a faint glance.
"Hah ...?!" Taja gasped in surprise. Taja's eyes roamed around the cavity full of snakes piled on top of each other, entangled with each other. Even more shocked, Taja realized he was on top of a pile of snakes. However, his weak condition prevented him from moving quickly.
"What place is this?" trying not to make any noise, Taja immediately moved away from the nest of snakes piled up in one cavity. At one time he fell between the rocky paths leading to who knows where. It felt like his back hit a steep wall.
"Agh!" Taja's voice in silence became the most resounding sound around the eerie silence. He tried to get up as hard as he could, staggering aimlessly. Blurred vision, occasionally collapsing because consciousness has not yet recovered.
'Raojhin! Where is he?' It crossed Taja's mind what the fate of his friend would be. He got up again and took shaky steps.
At the end of the darkness, there was a faint figure welcoming him. Whoever he was, Taja was forced to approach him.
"Raojhin ...?!" Taja called out to the frozen figure in front of him as if he had seen his presence.
"Is that you?!" Taja stepped towards the figure standing between the walls of the cavity with a little dim light.
The figure there slowly approached Taja, walking unsteadily. The sound of the figure's footsteps could be heard hitting the ground heavily. It also appears that large claws are making a clicking sound on the ground.
'That's not Raojhin!'
Realizing the figure of a foreign creature, Taja immediately took a step back. Turning around, away from the figure of whatever creature it was. But the creature's huge form suddenly gave chase. After several jumps managed to block Taja. The heavy thud of the pitch-black creature's body hit the solid ground. Right next to him, Taja fell. In the blurred vision, you could see the big clawed feet of a lizard, their claws pounding on the damp rocky ground and stopping right in front of the fallen Taja.
"Krrrgh ...!" a black, scaly creature growled heavily. Taja rolled down a steep steep side.
"Aargh ...!" not quite ready, Taja jumped down but stumbled, ultimately landing imperfectly. When he reached the bottom of a steep slope, a large snake suddenly appeared and grabbed Taja's body.
"Aaagh!"
Taja shouted. The heart beats wildly fast. Once again, he was devoured by a large snake that grabbed his body. From the top of the steep, a black, scaly creature jumped just once, right up to the position where Taja was struggling in the snake's mouth.
The snake left Taja lying on the ground just like that.
"Nggshhh ...!"
The black, scaly creature snorted sharply. A pair of white eyes stared at Taja. Long flowing hair from head to back. Half standing like a human, half bent like a lizard treading on the ground. Spurs stuck out sharply between the claws of walking legs.
"Rrrgh ...," the black creature growled again with claws to reach Taja's face. Taja quickly crawled, avoiding the creature as quickly as possible. One chance grabbed a nearby rock and threw it at the creature repeatedly. However, throwing stones did nothing to the immune scales all over the creature's body.
Taja was shocked beyond belief, when he picked up a stone carelessly, accidentally grabbing scattered bones.
'Is this a human-eating creature?' Taja thought in horror, 'What place is this?!'
Taja saw a tense dark atmosphere. Only the bottom of the valley is rocky surrounded by high cliff walls. More and more scattered bones appeared around the place.
"That creature is a predator!" Taja screamed, slipping between the cracks in the rocks, hiding from the black, scaly creature, for a moment thinking about how to get out of that place. Apparently, the place was very closed off from the outside world.
'Did that creature ... prey on Raojhin?' Taja was again thinking incoherently.
Meanwhile, step by step, the figure of a black, scaly creature combed the rocky area. His snout sniffed out Taja's whereabouts hiding behind dark crevices in the rocks.
What was left of his cultivation energy, as soon as Taja thought of a strategy. Taja spread his fingers wide. The fairy cultivation in his body was at a weak point. The energy of the 'Golden Flower Soul', Taja awakens the remaining cultivation. The last hope to save yourself.
Focusing his mind, Taja closed his eyes. Breathe in and out rhythmically. A few moments later, his eyes turned into a clear golden light. Urgent situation, Taja was forced to do this. It has been a long time since the poisonous and deadly Golden Flower Sukma has been used.
"Hey!"
Suddenly Taja's body rolled out of the crack in the rocks. Fragments of golden petals scattered around his body floated lightly in the air.
"Humph!"
Once Taja's foot stepped on the rock, his body bounced up and up again. Standing again on higher rocks, Taja soared high. Up to the very top, the edge of the ravine coincides.
Taja floated, circling around the rocky walls of the ravine. There was no way out anywhere. Just ravines and ravines in the pitch-black darkness.
"Rrrgh … You are in the very depths of the underworld … Rrrgh …!"
A hoarse growl echoed from various corners of the silence of the place. Apparently, black, scaly lizard-like creatures can talk like humans. Taja was alert, hearing the creature's voice echoing everywhere.
'What is that creature?!' Taja thought, floating slowly, circling the rocks of the dark, silent ravine. Be fully alert so you don't get caught by the scaly creatures that are hunting you.
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