paranoianovel Chapter 73 Mysterious Cave
Chapter 73 Mysterious Cave
Chapter 73 The Mysterious Cave (Please Subscribe)
The constantly changing locations of the cave, the mysterious goddess at the entrance, the cake obtained in exchange for epic equipment—the eerie situation made Roy more vigilant.
The moment he stepped into the cave.
Suddenly, blue flames erupted from the wooden handles on both sides of the cave, extending deep into the cave.
Roy swallowed hard and approached the flames. Instead of feeling a burning sensation, he felt a bone-chilling cold and couldn't help but shrink back.
The deeper he stared into the cave, the more a nameless sense of dread arose in his heart.
"call!"
Roy took a deep breath and cautiously entered the cave, heading deeper into it.
The surroundings were eerily quiet, like a ghost town, and even the sound of one's own footsteps was amplified infinitely.
As if he were in an underground city, the concepts of time and space became blurred. Roy felt like he had only walked for a dozen seconds. When he looked back,
The entrance to the cave is no longer visible.
About three or four minutes later, a fork in the road appeared. Roy glanced at the map and headed to the left.
call out!
Just as Roy was about to enter the left-hand intersection, he suddenly noticed several dark figures flash past in the right-hand passage and quickly slip into a dark corner.
It was moving so fast that he couldn't even see it clearly.
"It's actually human?"
"He came in! How dare he come in?"
"Hurry up, if we run into 'that' we're doomed!"
The several dark figures whispered among themselves; though their voices were soft, they could still be heard in the silent cave.
Roy stared intently, a shiver running through him. The dark figures were neither monsters nor humans, but rather blue orbs of light draped in grey cloaks.
Like a ghost.
I saw a ghost in broad daylight!
Roy remembered the silver-haired goddess's warning: he must not enter other areas and could only pretend not to see them.
Several dark figures followed closely behind him.
The two go one after the other, without interfering with each other.
Following the map, Roy crossed one intersection after another, seemingly without end.
A bead of cold sweat trickled down Roy's forehead. The cave passage was exactly the same, with no reference points whatsoever, making it feel even more eerie than the underground city.
He tried to make a mark on the wall with a stone, but after a few seconds, the mark gradually disappeared and nothing was left.
Without a map, Roy was certain he would never be able to find his way back.
Roar!
Suddenly, Roy heard a roar, like a dog or a wolf, and his mind felt as if it had been hit by a heavy hammer, with a series of sharp pains in his brain.
Roy knelt on the ground, gripping the hilt of his sword tightly, a strong sense of crisis gripping his heart.
He had never heard such a strange sound before.
"It's here, it's here!"
"This human is dead, I'm telling you!"
The shadowy figures that had been following Roy were terrified and scattered in all directions, running away with their heads in their hands.
After waiting for a while, the roaring sound continued to ring out, but no one could be seen.
Roy gritted his teeth, thinking that the timid would starve while the bold would thrive, and continued along the passage.
The cave passage seemed endless, and the occasional roars were deafening. Under this double pressure, Roy's spirit was on the verge of collapse. He didn't know what he was doing; he just kept walking forward.
Finally, after who knows how much time had passed.
A cave appeared before Roy, and his previously cloudy eyes shone brightly, like a drowning man grasping at a last straw.
"arrive!"
Roy glanced down at the map, his face lighting up with delight. The two points of light he marked almost overlapped with the location of the treasure. He strode into the cave.
Blue flames ignited on the wooden handles on the interior walls.
The cave was empty except for a crystal coffin in the center.
Inside the coffin lay an elven maiden, possessing a beauty surpassing even that of a goddess, with emerald green hair, sleeping peacefully—a true Sleeping Beauty.
Her stunning beauty even amazed Roy.
Just as Roy approached, the elven princess slowly opened her eyes. Her emerald eyes reflected Roy's appearance, first with a look of recognition, then with a surge of surprise.
"My hero, I've finally waited for you."
The elven princess sat up, her small face showing a pitiful expression. She stretched out her lotus-root-like, jade-white arms as if to hug Roy, who took a step back.
Roy asked, "Who are you?"
The elven princess, with a gentle and tender voice, said, "I am Celtia. A thousand years ago, I fought against monsters that emerged from the dungeon and was severely injured."
This place can nourish my body and keep it intact for a thousand years. I have been waiting for a hero to appear and help me recover from my injuries.
Roy's eyes were strange. That familiar line: "I, Qin Shi Huang, send me the money!"
Suddenly, the elven princess froze.
She looked down and saw Roy's half-sword piercing her chest without mercy.
Why?
The Elf Princess looked on in disbelief.
"Before I came in, a goddess told me, 'Don't trust anyone!'" Roy grinned, revealing his gleaming white teeth, which exuded a murderous aura.
The alluring fragrance and soft touch were so realistic that even Roy couldn't detect a single flaw, almost losing himself in the experience.
That's terrifying.
"hateful!"
In an instant, the beautiful elven princess's face turned ferocious, her features twisted together, resembling a demon, and her hands transformed into sharp claws as she viciously attacked Roy.
Lord of Thunder!
Roy was enveloped in golden lightning; crackling sounds filled the air, illuminating the entire cavern.
Upon touching the golden lightning on Roy's body, the originally aggressive "Elf Princess" instantly withdrew her claws, and a look of fear appeared on her face.
Her figure transformed into a blue ball of light and fled in panic towards the cave entrance. It was exactly the same as the group of dark figures Roy had just seen, and they were some kind of eerie beings.
However, Roy was faster than her.
Roy activated the special effects of his Wind Chaser Boots, his legs wrapped in a whirlwind, and took a step forward.
Roy instantly bridged the gap between the two, pinned the other against the wall, and gathered golden lightning in his fist, delivering a heavy punch to the blue orb of light.
boom!!
The fierce fist pierced through the entire ball of light and slammed heavily against the wall, causing cracks to appear in the surrounding walls.
Golden lightning, like countless lightning snakes, crawled across the entire body of the "Elf Princess," and with a sharp scream, the "Elf Princess's" figure vanished into thin air.
After doing all this, Roy breathed a sigh of relief.
When he turned his head, he saw that the crystal coffin contained no longer the elven princess who had been sleeping for thousands of years; all that remained was a pile of yellow earth after the erosion of time.
And a longsword that was buried with him, which had been stored away for many years and was covered in dust. Roy picked it up and swung it around casually. It looked even worse than his village's best sword.
Roy really wanted to cry now.
He traveled all this way, but got nothing; he even sold his steel arm guards.
At that moment, Roy noticed a flash of red light in the ashes out of the corner of his eye. He quickly stepped forward, brushed aside the ashes, and found a blood-red crystal lying quietly inside.
Roy picked up the blood-red crystal as if it were a precious treasure, and in that instant, a panel popped up in front of him.
[Congratulations on obtaining Celtia's royal blood!]