The Sailors didn't falter because they knew that death to them was already decided so, why not embrace it bravely than to chicken out. They better drag some Cavern Cats with them to the netherworld, they will not go their alone - everyone among them had decided. If they were cultivators of other attributes in the other planes, they would have already wetted their pants or pasdsed out due to the overwhelming force of the cats but the cultivators of the dark attribute always had a screw loose in their minds. Their personalities were already corrupted and deviated after absorbing too much blood energy from this place, in that they didn't feel being alive anymore, they feel like they had became the undead themselves. They didn't jitter - the only regrets they had was that they will no longer enjoy their lives and that they will miss their families dearly especially the ones who had already married and had several kids.
"I will make sure that you bastards regret for having ambushed us!" A very chubby guy who resembled a pig slightly, growled. He was bulky and had a great sword in his hand, ready to decapitate the oncoming cats. No one was laughing, they were too concerned about their well-being. The cavern cats jumped from one rock to the other while others came from the ground. The rest came normally but their sheer numbers made a huge mushroom cloud of dust to rise to the air thus obscuring the vision of the cultivators.
Cries and whimpers were heard everywhere. They thought that the cats wanted to kill them but that didn't seemed to be the case, in just a few minutes, all of them were brought down to their knees and then they were fettered.
"What do these cats plan to do with us?" A girl who had a rodent face asked.
"Maybe they want their kids to "play" with us for some time before they make dinner out of us." A guy who was also from the pig race answered her expressionlessly, as if he didn't even care what the Cavern Cats were going to do with them. His gaze never left where the Cavern Cats' elders were seated because behind those elders, there were many little kittens which were gawking at the captives with sparkling eyes as if the captives were a very delicious thing that they had been yearning for.
But the captives didn't have to wait for a long time because after everyone was bound, they were brought to the elders of the Cavern Cats one by one. The Cavern Cats' elders didn't absorb their blood energy or eat them alive as they had thought earlier but cats then used their abilities that the cultivators were so much afraid of. Some of the cultivators in the group simply wanted to kill themselves after seeing the torture that their comrades were going through, but they didn't have that option because they were so tightly tied.
"We are fu*ked up guys. I would have killed myself when I had that chance earlier."
"We were so foolish to think that we can contend against them. I now know why the Cavern Cats are so feared by many."
"We can just sit here now and await our demise. I am totally disappointed with myself." A beautiful woman who had butterfly wings coming out of her back said to herself as she stroked the pendant she was holding. The picture of a little, cute, copy of the woman can be seen on that pendant.
The elders had given the first group of cultivators to the little kittens which then latched on them and started leeching their souls. They imbibed their souls as if it was some tonics. The cultivators screamed but the Cavern Cats didn't release their grip on them, they were even more fervent when they heard their screams as if it was the best music in their ears and thus, they latched on them even more tightly making their paws to dig into the captives' skin. It was not a quick process and a cultivator will have to undergo the painful moment for about thirty minutes before their bodies turned hollow. The other Cavern Cats around were all glee and they jumped from a rock to the other while others jumped up and down zealously. It was as if this was a ritual to please their gods.
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