Wake up... Wake up... Wake up~

(Who is it?)

That goblin over there, wake me up quickly!

(Noisy!)

Wake up quickly, you don't want to fall right here... Right?

(It's really infuriating to talk to myself there!)

Do you really want to give up, do you? Are you willing to stop here for the rest of your life?

(Shut up, shut up!, be quiet for me!!)

Wake up, goblins.

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"Hmm......"

It was as if I had broken free from the quagmire, and I struggled to open my eyes to see a somewhat dim environment in my otherwise dark eyes.

"Hmm......"

As I fell to the ground, I was about to sit up, and when I felt a dull pain in my chest, I frowned slightly, and my hair groaned, although there was still a dull pain in my chest, but it was much better than when I fell into a coma due to the severe pain.

(Is the broken rib still not healed?really...) That small bottle of healing potion alone wasn't enough for me to fully recover...... ）

Lying on my back on the ground, I thought as I pressed my left palm against the gravel ground with the palm of my left hand, which was not holding anything, and sat up with great difficulty. This has also led to the dilemma that my right hand is very sore now......

After the soreness in my right hand that was holding the hilt of the sword gradually relaxed, I grabbed the hilt of the "Lost Black Talisman" with both hands, inserted the tip of the sword into the ground, supported my body, and stood up unhurriedly.

At this moment, the 'Underground Guardians' standing at the mouth of the cave were looking at me with fierce eyes, and the expressions on their faces were almost eager to tear me apart, and I could sense a sense of fear of some kind of existence on their faces, and there was no doubt that this cave was... No, there should be other more dangerous beings in the underground caverns......

But think about it... I might be safe in this underground cavern now, if there is an extreme danger in this underground cavern... So why didn't it eat me while I was still unconscious? It can be inferred from that that it's probably safe, though not absolutely......

"Whew-"

I exhaled as if I was relaxed, and I began to untie the belt tied to my body, the belt containing the bottled potion, the short crossbow, the quiver, and the "frost angelica" in turn, and carefully placed them on the ground around my feet, and after doing this, I took off the leather armor I was wearing, and as the leather armor was taken off by me, only a slightly thin chain mail was left to protect my upper body.

Most of the chains on this piece of chain mail had been deformed by the force of the impact, and not only did the part of the chain mail that protected my chest so that it was still rigidly embedded in the flesh of my chest.

"Tsk!"

Looking at my chest that was embedded in the chain mail, I remembered that I had made up my mind, and I used my hands to untie the straps of the chain mail, and after untying the straps, I grabbed the sides of the chain mail and subconsciously bit my lips with my teeth.

Poof![The sound of the flesh being torn apart]

When this chain mail was decisively taken off by me, the part of the flesh embedded in my chest instantly tore off a piece of flesh from my originally recovered skin, and bright red blood continued to flow out of my chest, I saw this very casually discarded the chain mail in my hand on the ground not far away, this chain mail has no defensive use, and it can no longer be worn......

Looking at the chest that was constantly bleeding blood, I subconsciously pressed my hands against the damaged parts, and a cloud of magic that emitted an emerald green light instantly emerged from the palm of my left hand, and when this emerald green light of magic touched the wound on my chest, a piece of flesh was torn off and the wound was recovering at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.

When the wound on my chest was healed by the magic that emitted an emerald green light, the magic on my left palm instantly dissipated, and I did not hesitate to put the leather armor at my feet back on, and then I put my waist bag, potion belt, short crossbow and quiver, and "Frost Zhi" on my body one by one, and after putting on my belongings, I pulled out the "Lost Black Talisman" stuck in the ground with my right hand and began to carefully look at the surrounding environment......

"Ignition, 'Fireball'. ”

As I chanted the spell of the low-level fire-based magic "Fireball", wisps of flame emerged from the fingertips of my left hand, and then the flames of the fingertips intertwined to form a fireball the size of a basketball.

As this fireball was formed by me, the entire underground cavern that was originally slightly dim became slightly brighter, and looking at the surrounding environment illuminated by the orange-yellow firelight, I subconsciously opened my eyes wide, and the pupils in my eyes also contracted because of this action.

(Oh...) This place... Is it really ominous...... ）

I don't know if you have seen the statues, carved all kinds of beautiful statues, wood carvings, stone carvings...... In my previous life, there were many sculptors who specialized in carving statues, and these sculptors were divided into two schools, namely wood carvers and stone carvers. Sculptors will carve their own approved statues according to the pictures in the paintings, and each sculptor's carving techniques and styles are completely different, and the works carved by novices who have just debuted and some veterans with decades of carving experience are also completely different.

There are countless statues on the ground around this underground cavern that look like humanoid shapes but are not statues, and these humanoid statues are not exactly what they are...... Rather than statues, these things are more like "stone-like" corpses that have been dried for a long time.

[Note: (1) Stone-like: A rock-like substance that dries over time and becomes rock-like. 〕

Coo-dong - [the sound of swallowing saliva]

Some of these corpses standing in front of me were already white bones, some of them were prostrate on the ground, some were still running, some were standing, some were half-kneeling......

What is surprising is that these corpses that had died at some unknown time, they all stretched out their white bone hands in front of them, which was the unanimous action of these corpses before they died......

At first I didn't understand that there are decades to die... No... It may have been hundreds of years why they did this, but when I walked up to a corpse and saw the subtle movements of its facial bones, I instantly understood that there must be something in front of them that these corpses were so passionate about before they died......

(Treasure? Unknown things sealed here?...... ）

Thinking of these possibilities, I took my own steps and walked in the slightly dim direction ahead, and when I walked about ten meters or so, I subconsciously stopped my steps, and an uncomfortable breath came from in front of me, and I couldn't help but frown when this breath blew on my face.

It's a very uncomfortable feeling, as if you're entangled in some extremely evil being......

Just as I was about to take a step forward, I could clearly see something shining in front of me, a blood-red glow... What was amazing was that the blood-red light was floating in all directions like flowing water.

"...... that?"

I narrowed my eyes slightly, and not far ahead, something in the blood-red light made a puzzled sound.

(Surface... Possession?)

There was a rather suspicious mask in that blood-red light, the one that floated in the blood-red light... No... Rather, it was most likely that the blood-red glow was emanating from this mask.

It... The mask has a sheen that only metal reflects, well... It should be made of some kind of metal.

At first glance, it looks like a human facial bone, with a square groove on the forehead of the mask that is not sure what to inlay it with, goggles that appear to be made of some kind of crystal, followed by the nose without the bridge of the nose, and a pair of exposed teeth that should have been the mouth.

At first glance, this mask was an ordinary mask, but after looking at it for a long time, it gave me a terrible feeling......

(It's really...) Something that smells ominous...... ）

Looking at the mask floating slowly in the air not far away, I swallowed the saliva that came out of my mouth.

In other words, is the reason why the 'Underground Guardians' dare not enter this underground cavern because of the existence of this mask?

[Yo~ Finally woke up, Goblin.] ］

Suddenly, while I was still thinking about the mask, a sound that seemed to pass through my head drilled into my eardrums, and it was an uncomfortable, strange sound.

"Who is it?!"

When I heard this voice, my eyes became cold, and I asked loudly about everything that might exist around me.

[Who is it?That's a good question.,Who is talking to you?hahaha~Who else can it be?It's this mask in front of you that's talking.,Go-Bu-lin~]