Chapter 36: The Skeleton with the Tail
Marina tried to convince the Hatchet to go deeper, but the next thing the Hatchet said made her shut up. "Miss Marina, the road ahead will be harder, but it will not be as easy as it is now!" Glacian had a very serious expression on his face, which Marina had never seen before, "If you go any further, someone will die—either you and me, or them." ”
As he said this, he looked at Eko and Chris, and finally at Lulunaka.
Lulunaka hadn't been dragged into the fight, but she looked frightened and shivering. Witnessing so many skeletons crawling up from the water and then rushing towards her side is not something that everyone has ever experienced, and her current reaction is just what a normal person should be, and no one will blame her for this. The only question is probably why she's here.
Looking at Lulunaka, Marina's determination to go on was weakened a lot. She touched the magic book in her hand, the leather cover had a dent in the lines, and when her fingertips touched it, a cool sensation spread from her fingertips to her body. The direction that the magic book showed her was getting closer and closer, and the reaction became more and more intense. It was a calling, a mark, that only she, the owner of the magic book, could feel. This call takes her to the King's Castle, into the rat passage, to the sewers...... until they come to this world far from the earth.
Although the call is so strong, Marina does not lose her mind because of it, especially when impulses only bring death. She hadn't expected to reach her destination all at once to see where the spellbook was going to take her...... In other words, the teacher who left this magic book to her wanted her to go wherever the teacher who was no longer in the world wanted her to go.
Since the goal cannot be achieved all at once, then she really shouldn't be so impulsive and rush to go deeper underground. Maybe she'd have found some more fighters as experienced as Shortaxe and Chris...... Eko is also considered one, although he is young, but he does have combat power.
Marina has thought about a lot of things in a short period of time, and for a mage, keeping his mind clear is always a priority, otherwise a mage would be no different from an ordinary person. There are no skeletons in the reservoir to climb up for the time being, but there are already skeletons patrolling the surrounding passages, intending to find any presence with the breath of a living person.
The team stayed where they were, the entrance to leave here was not far from them, and the skeletons didn't notice them for the time being, Shortaxe and Chris were very patient, waiting for Marina to make a decision, as for Eko, he would only listen to Marina and would not have any opinions.
Chris's gaze stayed on the reservoir, "The water level is still rising. He turned back to the crowd and took a few steps closer to the entrance.
Marina sighed, "Let's go." "Maybe next time, she will have a chance to move on, but not now.
"Then hurry up, when the surface of the reservoir submerges the passage below, there will be more things to climb up to, which will not be easy to deal with. With that, the axe turned around and walked towards the entrance.
At this time, Lulunaka suddenly exclaimed, and stretched out her hand to the passage below, "There...... There was what I wanted!"
Lulunaka pointed to a water-soaked corner of a wall that glowed with a green glow. It was a glowing moss, something that Lulunaka "needed" so much.
"Lulunaka!" Marina tried to call out to Lulunaka, but Lulunaka had already sped away, past the shards of bones, the bones of her hands or legs that were still moving, and the skull with its mouth opening and closing. She trotted to the area that glowed faintly barely visible, and splashed under her feet. She almost slipped and fell in the shallow water, but staggered forward, and didn't really fall to the ground.
She crouched near the green moss, pulled out her knife and slashed it hard, a large patch of moss peeling off the walls and corners. She didn't care how dirty it was in her hand, she just held it in her hand, rolled it into a small roll, and hurriedly ran over to Marina who came over.
Now was no time for her to do this kind of work slowly, she ran into the water-soaked passageway, and the sound of the water under her feet had already attracted the attention of the skeletons around her, and they all approached this way. Lulunaka fell and fell to the ground as she ran up the slope, but the rolled moss in her hand was held tightly in her arms, showing how important it was to her. It was indeed a valuable thing, and Marina knew it was an essential material she was going to use to save her uncle.
Marina walked over and picked Luluna up, "You're too messy. ”
Lulunaka looked up, a look of anxiety on her face, "If this little risk can save my uncle...... And you're leaving, I'm not so lucky next time, and someone as kind as you can take me down. ”
Looking at Lulunaka's little face, stained by the water on the ground, Marina couldn't say anything harsh. This was indeed Lulunaka's last chance, and her eyes and luck had allowed her to find a piece of glowing moss, and it was just as they were about to leave.
Marina saw a smile on Lulunaka's face, which then changed to an expression of horror and fear. "Be careful!" she pushed Marina away as she stood up, and her strength surprised Marina, this petite body had so much power that it could push her, a grown woman, directly to the ground.
As Marina fell, a long black shadow swept past where she had been standing. The shadow was not noticed, it came from above everyone's heads, silently, and even Chris did not react until it caught Lulunaka in consciousness.
Lulunaka, who had pushed Marina away, was swept up by the shadow, and left the ground without even letting out an exclamation. Marina, who was pushed to the ground, looked up and saw a scene that made people hold their breath. It was a long tailbone, almost as long as two normal people, and it was too easy to wrap up a petite girl. On the pale tailbone, attached to the upper body of a humanoid figure is nothing more than a skeleton, and the bones of the head are obviously very different from those of humans. The bones of its face spit out forward, and it looked like a sheep's head, but it had no horns on its head and no teeth at the mouth of its mouth. In the sockets that should have been pitch black, there were two turquoise gems, shining like eyeballs, staring at the people below who were like prey.