When we entered the cave, the light blue shine of my magic in the Slissite of my blade illuminated the surroundings. The cave was covered in moss, of course, not the moss you’d usually imagine growing on some log in a forest, this moss had obviously been influenced by the corruption.
The moss was a shade of black indicating corruption, and was growing so fast you could see it spreading across the cave. We thought it may have some value, like most other corrupted beings, so stored some in our bags, but not too much, as it may just as likely be worthless.
“This cave sure is gross, it feels like we’re in someone's stomach or something.” Mathew comments.
“Well, they do say our world is alive.” I say.
Continuing down further into the cave, it opened up into a massive room. If the cave were an inn, this was the main hall. Many pillars stretched from the floor to the ceiling, making the room seem like some sort of stone jungle with a solid canopy.
All the thick pillars made perfect places to hide. I went out ahead of Mathew to draw out would-be attackers to allow Mathew to identify and kill them. There were many wolf gargs down in the cave, but it wasn’t just wolves, many corrupted beasts crawl in every corner of this cavern. Bats swooped down and tried to strike us overhead, sometimes being perfectly timed with surprise attacks from a wolf, or cougar garg.
A constant stream of attacks rained down on us as soon as we walked into the underground colosseum.
“We won’t be able to thin out the numbers here, Ray! We’ll have to move somewhere more tame!” Mathew said, struggling to fend off all the attacks.
I wasn’t going to hold up much longer under this barrage either, so I looked for a place to take refuge. We had made it to around the center of the room by now, so turning back didn’t seem favorable. We haven’t had time to collect any of our kills, and had simply left a wake of garg corpses behind us.
The gargs didn’t let up, and I found it hard to search for somewhere to go and look out for incoming attacks as well. This corruption truly was a strong one, being able to turn so many creatures.
I made my decision, “Just keep moving forward, Mathew! We’ll make it to the other side of this room and figure out what to do when we get there!”
I figured it’d be easier to find some shelter when we’re not so far from everything that isn’t a stone pillar.
“Right! Lead the way, Ray!”
I was using my greatsword more as a broom now, I didn’t need to kill the gargs, just get them off us so we could move somewhere safer. I stepped through the cave, sweeping up the trash, except this trash was trying to kill you.
We fought onwards, with me clearing out a path, and Mathew trying to cover anything attacking me from the sides or above. Even with his protection, some attacks manage to reach me, a wolf's jaw clenches on my side for just a moment before Mathew severs the head, and some bats manage to sweep by and scrape at my shoulder, tearing off the bandage I had applied over my wound from the fight with the lizard dragon garg.
“There!” From behind, Mathew called out to me.
I looked over to him and he seemed to have found a narrow passage past a thick bunch of the tree-like pillars. There was no guarantee it’d be safe, but it’d at least be better than fighting out here where threats could come from any direction.
I batted my way through all the gargs that stood between us and relative safety, and we eventually approached the opening in the wall.
As we got closer to the wall the enemies became fewer and fewer, it seems most of the gargs concentrated themselves in the center of the massive cavern, so the fight only got easier as we got closer.
It probably helped that we killed off a massive chunk of them too. If we manage to bring all our kills out and skin them, we wouldn’t need to worry about money for at least a couple months if we were smart about it.
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