Chapter 25

With the help of the spider silk stuck to the top of the cave, Hopper kept moving at a high speed.

He skillfully bypassed the stone spikes and pillars in the cave and returned the way he remembered.

A giant light purple wind blade followed closely behind. Like a scythe from the grim reaper, it quickly swept past the path that Hopper had previously moved.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Following a series of cracking sounds, the thick stone spikes and pillars were shattered into gravel by the giant light purple wind blade.

Hopper looked solemnly at the purple-striped golden-winged bat that was chasing closely behind him.

Even though they were still some distance away, Hopper could feel the monstrous fury and killing intent from the frequency of the other party’s flapping wings.

“We’re already in such a dense area of stone spikes and pillars. I didn’t expect it to still not give up. It even kept using wind blades to open a path.”

“It’s a pity that it released a screech instead of a wind blade. Otherwise, I would have been able to use the spider silk to pull myself out of the hole.”

Hopper’s previous bet was that after he used the spider silk to dodge the wind blades from the purple-striped golden bat.

Even if the distance between the two sides increased, the purple-striped golden bat that missed would choose to continue releasing the wind blades.

However, the purple-striped golden bat was clearly not blinded by anger.

Hopper dodged three giant wind blades in a row. Hopper was now less than 10 meters away from it.

It did not choose to release the giant wind blades that were almost certain to hit at that distance.

Instead, it opened its bloody mouth and released a whistling sound wave that was comparable to a storm.

Hopper, who was already mentally prepared, did not take the risk. When he saw that the opponent’s next move was obviously not a wind blade, he turned around and ran.

The truth was just as Hopper had expected. If he had chosen to use the spider web or the claw to confront the purple-striped golden-winged bat head-on, then he would end up like those spider webs that were shattered by the whistling sound wave.

“Tsk! It seems that not only my body and torso, but my internal organs were also badly injured.”

Feeling the faint pain in his chest and abdomen, Hopper, who was floating in the air, narrowed his eight eyes slightly.

Even when he saw the purple-striped golden bat’s blood-red horns light up, the first thing he did was to turn around and find cover to hide.

He was also shaken by the shrieking sound waves, and he fell to the wall of the cave.

Fortunately, during the escape from the original route, Hopper picked up a lot of red-eyed silver-winged bats that he had not packed before.

After eating and absorbing them, he recovered some of his strength through the ‘blood-sucking’ characteristic.

However, the pain caused by his injury could not be eliminated in a short period of time.

I wonder how many wind blades this guy can use.

At the thought of this, Hopper endured the pain and turned back to take a look.

Although the purple-striped golden bat was unable to get close to him, it had never given up on the idea of chasing after him.

However, through the observation along the way, Hopper discovered that every time the purple-striped golden bat released a wind blade, the light purple patterns that covered its entire body would become dimmer.

Thus, it used the same route to return to the dense stone spikes and pillars along the way.

He forced the huge purple-striped golden-winged bat to release its wind blades to open up a path.

As he continued to go deeper into the cave, Hopper was getting closer and closer to where he was born.

The purple-striped golden-winged bat kept releasing its wind blades along the way. It began to have faint purple patterns on its body.

When it encountered some stone spikes and pillars that were not considered thick, it would even choose to smash them with its body.

“It seems that my guess is correct. That faint purple pattern is actually its energy reserve.”

“Now that the energy has been almost used up, he can only use his body to smash the stone spikes and pillars.”

After successfully returning to the vicinity of his birth point, Hopper could not feel a trace of joy in his heart.

Although he had temporarily distanced himself from the purple-striped golden-winged bat, other than a few cobwebs that he had laid out previously, there was nothing that he was familiar with.

Behind the cobwebs were several dark and damp caves that led to an unknown place.

Hopper could only vaguely see a few pieces of moss that were glowing.

‘If I were to go into any one of these caves, I would probably not be able to escape as long as I encounter other monsters…’

Looking around the caves, Hopper cautiously raised his fur and sensed the vibrations coming from each of the caves.

“This frequency is a bit strange. It seems to be… water? Could there be an underground river in this cave?”

After the characteristic echo was upgraded to level 2, Hopper’s perceptive ability was further strengthened.

Returning to his birthplace, he sensed a vibration from the cave on the right that he had not noticed before.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

He noticed that the purple-striped golden-winged bat in the distance was colliding with the stone spikes and pillars.

Hopper did not have time to think too much. He turned his head and shot the spider silk toward the cave on his right.

“Strange, it should be here…”

After a while, Hopper landed on a thick wall.

Although there was another path beside him, water droplets slid down from time to time on this wall.

Hopper was sure that his judgment was not wrong, and that the place where he landed was the place where the tremors were the strongest.

Along the way to the top of the cave, he did not see a single monster.

Perhaps it was because the ruler of this area was the purple-striped golden-winged bat.

After the other monsters heard the sound of it swinging its wind blades and colliding with the stone pillars, they did not dare to stay nearby.

Therefore, when Hopper stopped on the wall, the purple-striped golden-winged bat, which did not encounter any monsters, also arrived.

Seeing that there was finally nothing to block its way, the gray-faced creature instantly lit up the purple light on its wings and swung two giant wind blades at Hopper with all its strength.

There was a ‘boom’ sound.

Two giant light purple wind blades struck the wall where Hopper landed.

Hopper, who had been prepared, hung from the top of the cave with the help of the spider silk.

Crash!

After the wall was split open by the wind blades, gravel kept falling down.

Hopper looked at the fork-shaped gap.

Outside, there seemed to be a platform similar to a cliff. A waterfall formed by the rapid water flow was constantly scouring the edge of the cliff.

“It’s just as I thought! Behind the wall is either a river or a waterfall!”