Electus - Chapter 506

Having it difficult to accept this whole plan, Eric challenged all of their thoughts. “What if this blood plan fails? All of you seem scared of the monster, I guess we will be dealing with something large?”

Fairly breaking a sweat and not due to smashing that Ignite gem, Justak answered with certainty. “Let’s just hope we don’t have to think of a plan B, or else even the boots won’t be enough to stop that monster!”

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After sprinkling enough Ignite gem shards in the blood, be it small enough to look like dust or big enough to look like a fourth of the finger, the next step towards its weaponisation was taken.

Another grand master brought a clay bottle, there they stored the alchemical piece of work and stuffed a cloth in it.

Which fairly compressed the liquid in between considering the size of the cloth was bigger than the foot long clay bottle itself.

Signifying that the product is ready, the entire group made it out of the big cavern and headed for the staircase.

However they didn’t put their knees through the torture of climbing up the stairs but instead took a sharp left turn right nearby.

Following the tunnel they went into, next thing that captivated their field of view was a 4 foot wide hole with its depth unknown.

“So is the beast down here?” Eric asked before doing a mistake of taking another step forward.

“No, but it’s close.” Huna answered and tossed a rope towards it while holding the other end.

And then offered it to Sekun, stating. “You’re the strongest here that doesn’t have powers, hold this rope so we can climb down.”

Fairly insulted of being labelled powerless which here was another word for useless, Sekun contradicted. “Might not have powers but I can fight that monster, so someone else has to hold this rope.”

Ending a possible debate before it started, Eric first gazed at Ada’s eyes that showed an urge to tag along since her look seemed like that of a puppy’s.

Taking safety under consideration and firmly trying to form a plan B, the golden blood demanded. “It’s not that you people are weak but I don’t want all of you to die.”

Seeing that no objection bloomed just yet, Eric continued. “This beast killed grand masters if I’m guessing right, at this point it would only be dumb to tag you along. I don’t want to dig your grave, common, don’t give me a burden like that.”

Understanding what Eric’s trying to say and appreciating the thought of it as well, Ada walked forward and granted a soft kiss right on the boy’s cheek.

And afterwards whispered, “Stay safe, I can’t lose you just now. You’re going to live for 300 years right? Hehe.”

Trying to keep a positive attitude, Eric ȧssured. “If all goes wrong I’ll use the two most powerful moves I know. Those moves took down a Kushenisura, no beast would be bigger than that thing.”

Before any other debate could find a foundation, Eric fixed his gaze towards Sekun and requested. “You keep everyone safe, if we fail then you will fight off anything that would come out of here, keep my town safe okay?”

Climbing down the hole wasn’t necessarily a task that was hard doing, the grand masters are massively physically fit considering what sizes of lava they can manipulate.

And Eric had trained and travelled long enough to climb down 15 meters of rope without running out of breath.

It felt odd to climb down considering that he can fly but the grand masters insisted for the approach to be so.

They’ve slid down to a cavern, there wasn’t proper illumination down here so he can only ȧssume that this place’s size.

Keeping silent, the grand masters led directly towards the left side of the cavern, tip toed towards what to Eric seemed like the unknown.

And finally met with a scene that wasn’t so usual for the golden blood as a newcomer and for these grand masters who lived in this town for hundreds of years.

They seemingly approached too close so something lit up and provided proper illumination, light blue in colour.

After fighting off the displeasure of being blinded by the unknown, Eric’s field of view was captivated by something that was harder for the eye to comprehend.

There was a creature, as if merged with the cavern wall and slithering from one side of this roomy place to the other.

The creature twists in all directions just to fit in the walls although not moving, which only signified a large size.

Apart from being long, excruciatingly long, this creature seemed thick as well, perhaps 10 meters or so wide from one point of view.

The monster glows light blue in colour, enough to illuminate the whole cavern although most of his body seemed trapped in rock.

Only one part of the beast’s skin was visible to the visitors here and that granted all of the illumination, they haven’t even found it’s head yet.

Another key feature, where light didn’t shine from the creature, it was because of a dark line that ran over it.

These lines usually stretch 5 meters long, some longer and some thicker while the common girth being a foot.

The lines also tend to have random shapes, wavy or straight, up or down and even some curl like a snake.

Its complexity was fairly random but we can’t ignore that it made the creature slightly prettier.

Approaching Eric, Huna explained. “Okay the past grand masters have trapped the monster in rock but it’s dumb enough to understand that.”

Hearing a rumble and fearing the worse, the lady’s throat felt heavy under the paranoia of actually waking up the beast.

But thankfully the dirt cloud causing rumble stopped so the grand master could continue explaining. “We need to kill it before it understands that it’s trapped in rock.”

Bringing the clay bottle of blood closer to Eric, Justak whispered. “Will you do the honours of setting the cloth on fire?”