Jumping through the forest I entered a path and ran through it at high speed outrunning some civilian carriages that travelled through the night
Breaking the sound barrier again I ran towards the forest path leading onto the grottos where I got attacked by Snakeblade and Richard's old party, I quickly ran past it as I didn't have any intention to get emotional ,I was short on time right now ,and in not time at all I reached the cliff when the suns were rising,looking down at the fog that still laid there I remembered Richard's words on flying monsters being there
SHIING
I drew my sword out and steeled myself and jumped down the cliff and dove into the fog with my eyes closed, they weren't that useful on such a fog ,so thick that one can only see a few dozens centimetres infront of him anyway, at time like this
RIGHT!!!
my senses were more useful, opening my eyes ,all of my attention focused on the right
Hissss
And out of the fog came out a flying snake the size of a hippo with the length of about 40 meters, with it's mouth open revealing it's monstrous fangs and forked tongue
Hisss
" Graaagh!! "
Meeting it's mouth i stomped on the walls on my left and shotted towards the incoming Ariel snake ,and when it was on range Spun on its side and evicerated it's mouth's sides killing it in an instant
Blood fell on my back getting me bloodied and doused in it's stench but I didn't mind
I didn't have the time to mind
HORDE!! GROUP!!
Focusing my hearing down the fig I could hear numerous hisses coming from below
But I only panicked a bit and cloaked myself in aura
" COME ON YOU DAMN LIZARDS!! "
HISSS
***
Swoosh
Burrrrp!!
Landing inside the familiar lake the blood on my leather armour and clothes washed off to some extent, as I fell deeper in the lake a certain thought came to mind
{ How the hell did Snakeblade and I even survived falling ? }
Indeed it was a mystery to me, just falling was a deadly experience in the sky of the dark forest as I nearly died up there, and to my surprise, I lost an arm and a leg to get down here ,had I not kill the last two Aerial snakes and glowed
{It would have been a shitty ending}
Putting the grim thought aside I sheathed my sword underwater and swam up and reached the water's surface and gasp for air
I looked around here and there and saw the shore ,I hurriedly swam out and looked at myself, the shirt's entire left sleeve was bitten off ,my pants, all the parts below the right top side were missing
With all this details I looked up at the fog with a grim expression accompanied by a frown
" I couldn't even kill 10 of them as I fell down "
I actually killed nine and then reached the water surface
And now with all these aside I turned to my left, and looked at the dark forest's entrance, spreading my senses in there ,hearing ,smell and mana sense in there, indeed I can understand why Snakeblade was so apprehensive of entering this place
DANGER!!
Even my own instincts kept screaming at me to not enter this dark and rotten place where demons are rumoured to be living in alongside high ranking monsters and mutants
But
{ I gotta do what I gotta do ,but before that}
I took off my clothes leaving only my under garments and checked the spatial ring i received
" From what I've heard about these rings from Mrs Fleese, I can see what's In it using mana right? "
With that I poured some mana in the ring and in an instant a computer like screen popped up
" A system ?"
[ Storage capacity - 1km²/1km² ]
»• White silk shirt - (3)«
• Black long sleeve shirt - (2)
• Skin tight black pants - (2)
• Wooden skull mask - (2)
• Black Lion coat - (1)
• Red Bear coat - (1)
• High grade belt - (2)
• Spare undergarments - (3)
• Socks - (3)
• Tough Jacket - (2)
• Gale boots - (2)
• Tough boots - (3)
__________________________
" Wow !! "
Checking it out ,I found out that I could control the selection arrows with my mind and the picked out one black long sleeve shirt and one black skin tight pants and wore them in a hurry,to my surprise the pants felt quite comfortable despite my size
Following that I also summoned something out from the armour catalogue
»• Iron armour - (3)«
• Gale plate armour - (2)
• Rhinoman leather armour - (2)
• Dive exoskeleton- (1)
• Soundless shell - (1)
• Tough leather armour - (4)
• Chained armour - (1)
• Flame armour - (1)
• Glider grace- (1)
• heavy plates armour- (2)
__________________________
{ That guy, even though he's a prince ,this amount of equipment must've been expensive,and in such a time of tragedy }" I'll have to thank him if I ever see him again "
Selecting the Soundless shell armour, sparks formed over my body as it automatically suited up over my body ,black clothing that felt thick and soft firmed over my body ,a tight metallic black cuirass on it's chest, all in all it looked more like a ninja's outfit rather than an armour but as it's name suggests even when I jump and landed
....
There wasn't a single noise at all, with that i picked up my sword and strapped in on my back and looked at the forest again
Taking a deep breath I entered it
***
Location - Nava mountains, far from Elkana near the kingdom of Jistella in the South
Deep in the mountains of Nava, infront of a cave ,a crack in space opened and out of it came 10 people
9 apostles and one man ,all wearing their respective armour befitting their race and classes
' Is this the place lord? '
The 4th apostle
Vivian Heart dressed in her mage attire holding a staff asked
The head of their cult,their lord stepped forward and walked infront of the cave's entrance and declared
" Yes it is, and we will enter this cave and conquer the dungeon inside it, I'll tell you all in advance, don't fail me, incompetence in such a place like this will anger the demons whom we worship fir delaying their decent on this world , get it? "
" As you command lord "
The 1st apostle Geny Mackaw, demonic human swordsman replied followed by a bow from them all
" Now let us begin this "
End of chapter