Chapter 498 - 498. In the last moment...

I shall edit tomorrow this chapter

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Looking at the huge bird Kendra smiled. The tiny birds got scared for nothing, it's just huge geese. 

But the same geese opened her mouth and whole row of sharp teeth appeared. What the hell? Since when do geese have teeth?

It was not just her that had same thought. 

Anyway, the birds scattered but geese caught one and just swalowed it down, like it was nothing. Freaking chain of food. Does this even make a sense?

Kendra started cursing in her mind while her heart beat hard. The geese seemingly had no intention leaving and just circled around.

"We must run. To her we will be just ants, bit if she lands down here, who knows how long she might stay. this is perfect place to lay eggs." Kendra saw that geese was eying this place and she had hunch why.

Everyone became fearful and when they saw her rushing out, they followed her. Luckily they did that. Just as last one passed the next level gate the geese went down and really chose this place to lay down. Her whole body filled the passage and no matter how they looked, it would have been impossible to pass anytime soon. 

Next level was strange waterway. Knee deep water that slow river went over the hard. stone. There was no sand so they could see everything clearly. 

But after walking for hours without stopping, they felt tiered. The fire users tried to regulate the temperature of the water so they wouldn't freeze. 

The problem is, the water was not deep enough to swim in it. Suddenly a slightering found could be heard. It was getting darker.

So far they had enough light trough the broken sealing, but it was slowly getting darker.

"Draga, Noa, did you find it?" Kendra was worried as there was no safety room in sight do far. And no place where they could leave a bit this place to rest. A sand bench on protruding stone. Anything.

"Not far from here is a safety place, but feels weird. I really have bad feeling even getting close to it." Draga looked behind and Noa agreed. "Kendra, trust me, that place is bad deal."

Kendra was tiered. Just like everyone else. They went to the safety gate and she stepped right back. "This place reeks of death."

The problem is, this time the gate was blurry, so anything could be inside. Few cultivators started complaining, but Kendra was hard. 

"I have no plans to put any of you in danger." She took out spirit potion and felt recharged. "I will share now spirit potions. After that water users can help me make ice plates for each cultivator. With that we can float down the river. The water is anyway becoming deeper. Look." 

Everyone realized that water was so far somewhat under their knees but now was double as deep. It was for most of the people over the knees. 

The few cultivators refused. "We will go inside and rest. We will wait the end of the task. Can you leave us some food?"

Kendra glanced at the safety place and really considered everyone going in, but then fave up. Something is really wrong with that place. "Listen, this place feels really wrong. I know you all are tiered, but considering what we will gain on the end a bit water is not big deal." 

No matter how much she tried to make them change their minds, they refused do she just gave them enough food for one month each and hopped onto the frozen pod.

The water, fire and wind users dried and warmed them up and they slowly floated down, while the few people entered the safety place and disappeared from their sight.

Suddenly the walls became wider and the water faster. Kendra waved her hand and connected the pods into one big ice piece.

With one hand she touched the water and felt scared. This is not only wider, it was as well deeper. So deep that she couldn't search the ground. 

"Quickly, make ice be thick. Few meters thick. We are over very deep waters and they are very fast. Wind user use your powers to stabilize the speed, fire users send fireballs towards that entrance. I fear we will get in trouble soon." Kendra made quick commands and was stunned. Just before the big hole was next door. But to enter the door they have to pass huge strong whirlpool. 

And as it seems they had only these two options. "Quickly drink potions, we all need strength for this!"

As they pushed their icepod right towards the heavy circulating whirlpool, Kendra started making the ice larger and larger. 

Unfortunately it was too late to connect two sides so they could run over it. With all the strength they all could gather they fought the whirlpool, but it was strong. 

Just as they finally escaped the whirlpool the water became stronger and started pushing them towards the black entrance.

Kendra drank another potion and used last streght to push the ice pod towards the next level entrance and as it slammed onto nearby wall she just felt dizzy and fainted.

Stars and smell of the sea. A small child slept in one of those contraptions. She forgot the name. She forgot who she is, what this is and who is this child?

A set of glowing eyes hidden in the darkness slowly approached it slowly rose its hand to touch her and whispered. Kendra... Kendra...

"Kendra, wake up! Don't scare us!" A small fluffy creature sat on her chest and hit her softly.

Kendra slowly opened her eyes and saw Taffy sitting right on her left side and rose her eyebrow. "Yo, Taffy. I didn't know you swing that way. Tsk tsk, sorry, but I prefer men."

Huh? What is she talking about? Swing? 

Taffy at first stared at her with questions written all over her face until she realized what Kendra said. "You... you... You!!!''