"What is this?", Adhara said in surprise.
Rex also looks at the walls surrounding him in awe, he has never seen anything like this.
There are ancient writings filling the walls with unknown letters, there're also drawings and symbols of the sort written on the wall.
It looks like it has been sitting here for hundreds of years, and the writings and drawings are carved into the wall.
From just a look at it, Rex can feel the weird energy is present in these writings and drawings.
He looks to his front and saw drawings at the end of the cave wall.
Rex approaches the drawings at the wall before he reaches out his hand to touch it, he can feel that the writings and drawings are written using weird energy.
It makes the four of them looks around in shock,
The drawings in front of Rex starts with two creatures facing each other,
The creature on the left is a human-shaped creature with a long deadly scythe in hand, its body is hulking and covered with armor, and its skulled face is covered by a hood.
Rex knows that the creature is hulking because of the drawings of a woman beneath it.
The creature on the right, on the other hand, doesn't look like a human at all, it looks more like an insect with eight legs that is bigger than the creature on the left.
Two big symbols are written above each of the creatures, and Rex didn't understand it at all.
Beneath the two creatures is a woman figure that held two chains in her hands, and that two chains wrapped around both of the creatures above the woman figure.
It's still not done yet,
Beneath the woman figure is another drawing of four creatures, there's a line connecting the four creatures with the chains the woman figure held.
And there are many writings in ancient words that Rex doesn't understand after it.
'System, I want to learn this language', Rex asks.
<Proceed scanning, please do not let go of the user's hand>
Reading this, Rex kept his hand touching the walls before another notification follows,
<Scan Complete!>
<Finding the origin of the language...>
<Language found!>
<Do the user want to learn Neksekhi language for 10,000 Gold?>
Rex reads the system's notification before his eyes widened in surprise, '10,000 gold?! Why is this language so expensive, even the Orc Language only cost me 500 gold'
Seeing the cost, Rex immediately declines it.
He only wants to understand the writings because he's curious, but for it to cost him 10,000 gold is certainly not worth it in Rex's opinion.
"What are these writings?", Adhara asks in awe.
Edward then replied while rubbing his chin, "Whatever it is, it seems to tell us of somekind of prophecy or even a ritual"
"These two creatures at the top are certainly linked to the four creatures at the bottom, and from how the looks of it, a woman can control these two creatures at the top", Rex said while squinting his eyes.
Rex can somehow guess the drawings, and he didn't like it at all.
But then, his eyes landed on a creature at the bottom that is drawn to have a wicked smile on it, 'Could it be?'
'System, can you just translate the writings above this drawing', Rex asks.
<Translation will cost 500 gold, do the user want to proceed?>
'Yes', Rex answered before the writings below the creature with a wicked smile changed in his vision turning into a language he can understand.
Rex saw the writings before he mumbles softly, "Rurvi..."
Turns out the creature with a wicked smile is Rurvi, and this place is Rurvi's lair.
The drawings portrait Rurvi as a huge tiger that has sharp spikes all over its body, and its wicked smile makes Rex disturbed as if he can feel its evilness.
"This place is clear, let's check out the other way", Rex said before he go back.
Rex will make this cave to be a shelter for them during the Yule Moon, so it will be better if they can clear the other way to make sure there's nothing here.
The group of four then went back and go to the left side,
While they are walking along the cave, they felt nothing except for the emptiness of the cave that started to make them restless.
The cave is not that big, it can only fit a couple of people walking side by side.
For Rex and Edward, this is not a problem because they have gone through tighter places, but for Kyran it seems like the cave is choking him.
"I don't feel good", Kyran said feeling his stomach growling.
Cold sweat started to run down his forehead as he looks the tight cave walls,
Rex looks at him before he said to Edward, "Take him outside, he'll have cabin fever if he stayed here for too long"
Hearing this, Edward shakes his head before he takes Kyan out.
Kyran is already started panicking while looking at the confined cave, it makes him even more restless before he got carried by Edward outside.
After they both left, Adhara and Rex continue deeper into the cave.
The way on the left leads into a deeper cave than the right side where it leads to the writings, they already walk for ten minutes but they still didn't find the end of the cave.
"Rex, I want to ask you something", Adhara said suddenly.
Rex keeps on walking forward before he replied, "Just ask away, why do you have to ask for my permission first"
Adhara went silent for a moment,
"What are your plans for Ryze?", Adhara finally said, she seems concerned about Ryze.
Hearing this, Rex sighs while still walking.
The light tap of theirs steps reverberated by the cave walls, the wet ground makes a clicking sound as silence covers the both of them.
He didn't answer Adhara for about ten seconds before he said, "I don't know yet"
Rex didn't know what he will do about Ryze, he bought Ryze as a backup if he somehow didn't find anyone that he can turn into a Werewolf.
But that got covered by Kyran, and he's quite satisfied with how Kyran turns into.
So with that, Rex still doesn't know what he's going to do with Ryze.
He thought that he will take Ryze back to his hometown, but he doesn't know if Ryze still has his parents or not.
Ryze got caught by the Platchi and turned into a slave, and his parents certainly didn't just stand by and let their son got taken away.
The probability of Ryze's parents has died is high, but Rex will ask him about it later.
"I know that he's a slave but he's not born a slave, so maybe we should be taking him to his hometown and find someone to take care of him", Adhara suggests.
Rex wanted to reply but suddenly,
Chirr...
He suddenly heard a sound in front of him, he instantly summons his Black Devil Gloves and commanded, "Adhara, create four fireballs to light up the surrounding!"
Adhara nodded her head and do as Rex said.
The cave around them got lit up by Adhara's purple flame,
Rex didn't order Adhara or Edward to do this sooner because it will waste their mana, it will be better to use them in such condition as now.
In front of Rex's vision, he saw many white dots appeared from the darkness.
Rex instantly scans the surrounding before multiple stats tab opened, turns out there're many mutated animals in front of him!
<Obisidan Black Spider>
Race: Arachnids
Power: Rank Four(Mid)
Mental: 70
Strength: 70
Agility: 95
Endurance: 60
Intelligence: 0
Looking at the black spider's stats, Rex is not concerned but the number of these stats tab opened greatly concerned him.
Just in his vision alone, he can see at least 20 of them.
SWISH!
The black spider spat a web from its mouth, they attacks Rex and Adhara straight away.
SLASH!
Rex turns his hands into claws and slashes the coming web, it got slashed easily by Rex but some of the webs make Rex have to dodge.
"Adhara burn them!", Rex shouted.
Adhara's body started to glow in purple flame but then Rex remembers, 'Wait, this will not come by very often. I'll get as much exp as I can'
"Wait!", Rex shouted.
Hearing this, Adhara looks at Rex in confusion, "What are you stopping me for?"
"Let me have a piece of them first, I'll let you burn them after", Rex said before he dashes to the horde of black spiders.
Rex already activates his skill as his body glows with a white hue.
The combination of his skills and the night makes him even stronger, he felt his body brimming with power, "Force Beam!"
BOOM!
Four black spiders got squished by Rex's fist as notification rings in front of Rex.
<Killed a Mid Rank Four Mutated Animal, Obtained 80,000 Exp>
<Killed a Mid Rank Four Mutated Animal, Obtained 80,000 Exp>
<Killed a Mid Rank--
Seeing the notifications flooding in front of him, Rex can't help but smile as he starts rampaging through the black spiders.
Every time Rex uses his skill, the wall cracked as multiple black spiders died.
Adhara saw this from behind as her body trembles in excitement, she then dashes towards Rex to join the fight with her dagger.
This is a perfect opportunity to test her dagger-wielding skill,
Both of them drown in fighting against the black spiders, the two of them are like a chainsaw that sawed through every black spider that got in their path.
Adhara swung her dagger left and right, the dagger cut through the black spider cleanly.
Her body moves in the rhythm of the black spiders jumping on her, and her dagger dances leaving a purple fire arc where ever it goes.
"Just a little bit more!", Rex shouted.
He saw that the black spiders started to dwindle in number, the fight will be over soon.
But the sound of their fights attracts other black spiders around, they got swarmed by the black spiders once again that comes out from the depth.
Adhara saw this as she shouted, "REX! It will never end, let's retreat!"
Hearing this, Rex nodded his head because the black spiders are still coming like hungry ants seeing a block of sugar.
Just as they turn back, they suddenly saw the path on their backs is blocked.
Some of the black spiders got slipped past them and web the path to go back, it seems the black spiders have some intelligence.
"Burn them Adhara", Rex commanded because the black spiders are getting close.
Adhara didn't hesitate before she fires her purple flame engulfing the black spiders that are running towards them.
SWOOSH!!
The purple flame burns the black spider as its body melts.
It was an effective attack because the cave is cramped, and Adhara's flame becomes even more deadly in these circumstances.
But soon, her purple fire stops.
"I need a minute to gather more mana, I'll try to burn through this web after", Adhara said.
The attack she uses before is mana-consuming because it's not a spell, but rather she just forces the purple fire out to burn her front.
Rex looks at the coming spider before he said, "Take your time, I'll handle this"
Adhara looks at Rex and saw that Rex's body is cracking with black lightning, his eyes are also sparking with black lightning as a smile appeared on his face.
He then touches the ground with his hand, and chanted, "Black Field Orko"
ZOOM!!
The ground beneath Rex's feet turns black, he activated his spell as the spell engulfs the ground beneath the black spiders.
ZAP!
Every time the black spiders enter the black ground, they got electrocuted by Rex's spell.
The horde of black spiders that filled their vision started to fall one by one, they can't penetrate Rex's Black Field Orko spell.
Some of the black spiders went through the ceiling of the cave, but it didn't help.
The black ground spat black lightning and hits the spiders on the ceiling, all of the black spiders that got hit died instantly.
Their charred bodies give off a burnt smell.
Adhara looks from the side in awe, 'He becomes stronger again'
She then snapped out of her awe and started ripping the web with her hands imbued with purple fire, the web can be burned with some effort.
And not long, Adhara manages to open a hole for them.
"Rex! Let's go!", She said before she went through the hole.
Seeing this, Rex cracked a smile and said, "Looks like our fight ends here, here's my last gift as thanks for the exp you guys provide"
Rex put his hands in front of him, his hands cracked with black lightning.
His eyes then turn fierce before he shouted, "Lightning Spell, Lightning Salvo!"
CRACK!!
A black lightning strike came out of his hands and strike straight into the horde of black spiders, every spider that got caught turns into meat paste.
Rex smiles before he left the place, his smile didn't fade even after he's far away from the black spiders.
His smile came from many notifications that appeared in his vision, it was endless and Rex can't help but smile, 'That's quite an exp haul'
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