At the entrance a giant crab reared its head.
It came out of the mud while the soldiers were resting.
Before the soldiers understood what was happening a giant claw clasped the arm of a soldier.
"AAAH" the soldier screamed out from the unexpected pain.
The other soldier stood up fast and got their weapons.
"Get it off me!!"
screamed the soldier that got snagged by the giant claw.
One of the Spartans stabbed his spear forward aiming for the joint of the crab.
The spear stabbed trough the flesh of the crab.
But its meat was as stringent as leather.
And the spear didn't go through fully.
The crab looked at the soldier with its beady eyes.
It didn't seem to feel pain.
He tried to take his spear out.
But the crab had already released the other soldiers arm and extended his claw reaching for his head.
And before he realised it his head flew through the air.
"Noo brother" one of the soldier yelled before he jumped on the crab and stabbed it in the head with his short sword.
After he took the lead the other Spartans followed, and stabbed their spears into the crab effectively killing it.
Deimos who heard the commotion from the back of the cave flew over fast, but was still to late to save one of his men.
"What happened here" he asked.
Still with the voice of a boy what strangely contrasted, with how big he was.
"We got ambushed" sire
Said one of the guards at the entrance of the root system.
"But what is this, and why is it so big?"
"It is a crab sire and we don't know why it is so big."
"I see"
"Please give your brother a short funeral"
"We have to move tomorrow morning"
However when he said this, he missed the sand moving behind him and how beady eyes reared their heads.
But with his enhanced hearing he did turn around when he heard the moving sand.
"Poutana" Deimos swore when he saw all the crabs.
"Everybody take up your arms and retreat slowly deeper into the cave."
"Do it orderly so not to strample each other."
Syeinos who was still at the back of the cave began ordering the soldiers to retreat.
Deimos who was in the front began ripping the crabs asunder.
Claws and carcasses flew trough the air.
50 of the soldiers stayed behind with him delaying the hundreds of crabs.
The entrance of the cave was shallow and the giant roots of the mangrove tree sealed a big part too.
Allowing the Spartans to hold the line at the entrance.
"Go move with the rest I will hold them off."
"Yes sire."
The captain of this squad awnserd.
Going into retreat together with the rest of the men.
Deimos is was bravely holding the entrance making sure no crabs made it past him.
The 1498 men slowly made their way down the cave, and while they were doing that it became clear that this cave was not naturally formed but artificially made.
The walls were getting smoother and steeper.
And there were even some murals, on the wall.
As they went deeper it was becoming clear that this used to be a maze the tunnels kept splitting up.
So when the Spartans moved trough they left some thing by the entrance from where they left.
Making sure they could find their way back, and Deimos could find them.
But one of the soldier couldn't keep is curiosity and touched a mural on the wall.
It depicted a giant white bull.
And the moment the touched it the maze began to rumble and about 300 of the men started to fall down, as the floor below them disappeared.
Screams of pain and horror came from below, together with the exited sounds of beast feasting on flesh.
The remaining men looked down with pale faces.
Their group was now split up by the gaping hole between the walls of the maze.
Syeinos had been walking ahead with a group of 267 men while the remaining group was still behind the gap.
Galartor you will have command over the men on that side, we will move on to look for a way to reunite.
Meanwhile at the entrance of the cave Deimos finished the last crab.
[THIS DOES NOT ADD UP]
[THE GARAN SPIECIES IS NOT THIS STRONG]
[ESPECIALLY AT THE AGE OF 7]
[YOUR SPIECIES INCREASES IN STRENGTH WITH AGE LIKE MOST LONG LIVED SPIECIES]
[CURRENT SCENARIO IMPOSSIBLE]
[TAKING OVER COMMAND OVER NANO BOTS TO DO A BODY SCAN]
[CONNECTING]
[ACCESS DENIED]
You don't have to try my nano bots have gone through some changes.
[UPDATING DATABASE]
[UPDATE COMPLETE]
[NEW CALCULATIONS]
[YOU ARE STRONGER THAN 67% OF SPIECIES ON THIS ISLAND]
Well that's good to hear.
But do you know where i can get home.
We came here trough that weird storm, and I begin to get worried.
[SCANNING]
[FOUND A WEAK SPACE BREACH AT THE CENTRE OF THIS ISLAND AND IT CONNECTS TO ISLAND CLOSE TO SPARTA]
Well how do I get there.
[FOLLOW THE CAVE INTO THE LABYRINTH]
"Oke then"
And so Deimos turned around and made his way inside.
He followed the many footsteps of the soldiers into the cave.
And when he got to the murals on the wall he was mesmerised by its beauty.
It depicted a monster half men half bull.
With white fur, and big horns.
But different from the soldiers he could read what was written down.
The language classes he had with Dariel, finally worked out.
It was written in Asai, the language of a acient civilization.
Just when Deimos was about to read it he heard sounds coming from the cave entrance.
Not felling like fighting again, Deimos used his arch human bloodline to command the earth.
And the cave entrance crumbled and burried any change of getting in or out.
Turning his head around he continues reading.
It was a tale of their civilization and their downfall.
Greetings seed of the Asai, if you are able to read this it means you are one of our remnants.
And you may lay claim to our legacy.
Let our failure teach you a lesson in caution.
And let our legacy be the beginning of a new civilization and a new Empire.
For we were the Minoans.