Several questions floated in Maxwell's mind but one thing took over his consciousness, how she was behaving was clearly not normal behavior but her words penetrated his body. Doubts began to appear in Maxwell's mind but his pride immediately rejected them, from behind he was looking at Fia, he noticed that her head was making small movements up down right and left, she was checking the area, despite the tunnel deviating it continued for a long time surely.
The tunnel was dark if it wasn't for Fia's fire light he would have crushed many times, with his careful gaze he saw Fia turn her head slightly back to check it out of the corner of her eye.
Fia turned her head forward again '[Map]' a small greenish screen appeared in front of Fia's face, instead of zooming the map in she zoomed out to see how far it was.
"Ow!" Fia said in a slightly loud voice after colliding with something it was a wall.
'What the fuck?' Fia thought to herself while Maxwell stopped a few meters behind, Fia began to analyze the wall.
No draft of air came out, the noise did not bounce, it was a blind alley a fucking blind alley!
With a light sigh Fia analyzed the wall to see the material. The material was simple rock.
"Tsk" clicking her tongue Fia began to search for something in the pockets of her belt, she pulled out a brown small bag with a yellow lace.
She removed the yellow lace and took out some climbing objects.
'W-what?' Maxwell thought to see the things that Fia was taking out from a simple small bag she took out some crimson red ice axes, some climbing glasses, and some ropes, she had also taken out some boots to avoid slipping.
With an almost non-caring look Fia looked at Maxwell and said in an almost cold tone: "Surprised? It's not the first time you should see an item box, this belt has several pockets and each one has an object that is a item box, it's very comfortable especially because you can never be too safe, I learned this a while ago, carrying extra things always comes in handy."
At that moment the image of a cold girl who kills without caring crumbled in Maxwell's mind "pfff!" A small laugh tried to escape from Maxwell's mouth but he wanted to hold back.
Wearing the climbing gear Fia ran a little mana with Cyd, in hers and Maxwell's feet to lighten them and make the climb perhaps faster.
Putting on the ice axe Fia went first, one hit at a time Fia climbed but not by much, behind her was a gorilla or as she considered Maxwell this because he was all muscle and no brain and was easy to manipulate she had had proof of it.
The two of them didn't speak, you could only hear the sound of the ice axe penetrating the stone and the flame generated by Fia to illuminate to avoid put the foot in the wrong place and falling.
'At a rough guess we should have climbed about fifteen or twenty meters.'
The climb continued, they couldn't afford the luxury of a small break because they couldn't because they would have fallen. "Uffff" a breath of tiredness came out of Maxwell's mouth, he looked up and saw that Fia didn't show any signs of getting tired.
Her jacket was slightly long at the bottom, perhaps to prevent the others from seeing her ass.
"Tired?" Fia asked, inserting the ice axe in another point to climb.
"Yes," Maxwell said directly, his body was tired and trim, he could bear the tiredness but not the thirst.
"Here" a kind of gum surrounded by the wind of Cyd's magic came down from Fia. "What is it?" Maxwell asked, looking at the gum. "Put it in your mouth, don't worry, it's not poison."
Maxwell a little reluctant swallowed some saliva and brought his mouth closer and bit the gum that was wrapped in the wind, suddenly a shock of energy spread through his body and he rehydrated again.
"What the fuck is that?!" Maxwell shouted surprised, a small shhh came out of Fia's mouth, "Don't scream crazy it might all collapse."
'How boring' thought Fia hearing him, "If you want to know what it is it's a grade C+ energy gum a package cost me a year's salary so you have to give it back to me as soon as we get to the top, and don't get any strange ideas the gum won't have saliva and will return to normal as soon as you take it out of your mouth." Fia explained to him continuing to climb, the climb became slightly more difficult but the two managed it without problems.
'I was right to put the shield in my item box' thought Maxwell, he had the idea that it would be difficult to climb and the shield would get in the way. Silence fell again 'another ten minutes' thought Fia checking the map, the problem was the fact that the map was in 2D this made things more complicated but the dot that marked its position moved slightly by sight they had to hold out for another ten minutes.
"Uff... Uff... Uff" a breath of tiredness came out of Fia's mouth despite the gum that she also had in her mouth, the energizing effect of the gum couldn't keep up with the tiredness.
"Uff... Uff... Uff" the same thing applied to Maxwell, both were tired and their arms were shaking from tiredness, they didn't know if at any moment they would fall, the breathlessness became stronger.
"Shit!" A curse came out of Fia's mouth, she was starting to feel tired to death, any moment her muscles could give out.
'Just a little more!' Fia thought while she had sweat on her face, suddenly a light bulb went on in Fia's head.
"Bingo!" She said with a satisfied tone, she had understood what to do.
Author note: Update of the chapters publication time. Monday, Wednesday and Friday the chapters will be published at 4 pm (Italian time.) While on Saturday and Sunday at 1 pm always Italian time