Chapter 242 - ?

Osira was about to head back and wait for her team along with her people at the very beginning of this, lets call it dungeon. This place, is far beyond her and her team's expectations so she feels a bit frozen and optionless. Because, what if there actually is something in there? What if it catches her off guard or at a blind spot? She could be dead before she knows it and let all of this contribute go to waste without ever having a taste of proper victory!

She grabbed a boulder blasted in because of the explosion, maneuvered it just a little bit so her back can meet the tunnel walls and was ready to wait. It would take at least an hour for her people to arrive here from the Cave they took residence at while the plan was in motion!

Keeping one eye at the road and the other at the tunnel behind her to assure safety, she patiently started her little task of waiting as she crossed her arms to attain some body heat. The thought of this place not appearing how she figured it, started storming through her mind like raging thunder setting a little village on fire. But at this case, the village was her willpower.

"What if this place isn't big enough to support her people?" She bursts a thought of worry, "No snow Ignite or ill.u.s.tratio has the slightest chance to kill us. But starvation will!" It became troublesome, because they didn't think about the food situation they might or might not face after blowing a whole damn portion of the mountain off!

They thought that the Oasis would carry one fruit after the other, unlimited trees providing shelter along with enough food to last for ages! They thought of this place as heaven on Earth, but judging from the black and red colouring in the tunnels, it can be quite the opposite!

She was forced out of her deep thinking when she heard a loud pig like scream echoing across the tunnels, after that scream countless others followed and it was nothing like a harmonious melody! No not at all, for one second she even thought that this place is haunted.

Standing on her feet and raising one arm over the other to form a battle pose, she awaited boldly to face whatever scared her down to her soul. She is scared of the unknown here, but she isn't scared enough to flee and drop everything she and her team contributed upon!

At first, several pairs of red eyes shone across the tunnel, seemingly 15-20 meters away! A thought appeared right away that these yelling creatures are ill.u.s.tratios, because they are known to have blood red eyes! "What the hell are ill.u.s.tratios doing here?" She whispered to herself as rage arose in her heart with the thought of ill.u.s.tratios putting their nose everywhere as a source of her rage.

"If anything, Snow Ignites should be here primarily!" Thousands of thoughts went through her mind at the moment! Especially since the first snow Ignites inhabiting this... place are rumoured to be extinct. The inaccuracy her team is about to go through because they based their work on rumours and legends, is far beyond managable.

When these, creatures managed to reach closer by the passing second, the fire she has already burst through her palm to fry anything approaching, illuminated the Tunnel and shed more light to this sudden puzzling event.

The Creatures approaching, indeed had red eyes but along with such a characteristic came pitch dark bodies! Hard to spot in the dark indeed, but their horns somehow reflected the light. Considering that fact, she noticed the bundle of bodies storming their way through the tunnels.

Giving it a quick thought, these screaming human like horned creatures aren't allies, they are charging with all their might! Having a firm footing to the ground already, she crackled a 6 foot wide Fireball which carried a short tail afterwards but packed quite a punch.

The first round of... Creatures were burned almost in half Vertically and some portion of Fire of which slipped through the first round, damaged a few of the second round far beyond prepare. Although Osira had no chance of knowing, she blinded 4 of the second round and badly burned 3 others.

A few of the first round fell on the ground along with the second and managed to trip countless others even though they had no further life intentions! Such a move helped turn the tides in battle, here it is more than required.

Her shot indeed effective against a handful of enemies, but at this situation a blink of an eye is enough for her to met eternal slumber! She took a glance at her chances and just flew out of the Cave before it was too late! And her choice is indeed great, because if she stood her ground here? Well, take a look at the situation.

These, creatures didn't stop running even though they were meeting a 200 meter drop below! Naturally the drop would be even further down, but part of the mountain was shaken to its foundation and the aftermath formed like a natural set of stairs upwards. Anyone could climb it with care but it would break bones if anyone ran through it on their way up!

The creatures fell to their doom, mindlessly running through the exit even though they saw wave after wave meeting a sharp turn down! Maybe they are crazed? It is not certain, but for a bundle of tens to possibly hundreds, their average IQ seems zero with zero.

Osira never saw such a sight, these human like creatures are like animals! Even some animals have the capability to think beyond their instinct, but them? No. She witnessed in interest accompanied by fear as she clung on the side of the mountain 15 meters higher from the exit.

"What did these Snow Ignites do? How did they meet such a transformation?" She thought to herself as she witnessed body after body going splat on the ground with their internal organs spreading across the rocks 200 meters deeper to slightly soften the fall of their brothers and sisters in craze! "Perhaps standing up here for so long has made them go crazy?"

She wanted to analyse the situation deeper even if it means just staring at these beasts fall to their death, but fate didn't allow her to do so! Because, apparently these creatures aren't as mindless as we thought of them!

One of these creatures climbed its way up! A thought is that it was smart enough to notice where its kind is mistaking, or maybe it managed to take a whiff of a different species above its head.

Using its thick claws it climbed up the mountainside with ease and was aiming to reach Osira with intentions undoubtedly impure!

Having a little peek, she noticed that its claws are at least 4 inches thick each! Far worse than a Cave Bear, a Source Bear even who breaks around a ton in weight doesn't have claws this thick.

To make it worse, they were about 10 inches long and faced a curve before meeting their sharp pointy end. Perfect for mountain climbing, Osira even saw the Creature clawing the rock so hard that bits of rock broke and fell behind it. Fascinating but terrifying.

This creature interesting indeed, but there is one key characteristic here which we have to remember. Fire can burn it! Using one hand to cling on the mountain side and the other to shoot, she blasted a foot wide Fireball to blow this swiftly climbing creature off the mountain.

The shot is destined to kill it, but just in case it doesn't, the large drop beneath it will contribute to deliver the finishing blow! She could have blasted a Bigger Fireball and victimize a few others of these Creatures, but blasting anything above a foot wide could hit portions of rock and possibly blow them backwards due to the impact.

Bits of hot rock hitting the skin, would grant pain strong enough to take her focus hostage and the chances of disorientation aren't slim either! Either way, the shot worked!

The Creature fell on the bundle of bodies behind it with its head mostly blown off! She could even see its white shinning bone before the corpse was lost in the wave of its brothers and sisters in insanity or animalism.

Giving it a quick thought, she decided to leave this situation be. There is no way for her to fight off hundreds... yes hundreds of these Creatures! And the suicidal drop most of them are making is doing the work for her, she can just stand here and watch the bodies pile up. It is the best she can do apart from blasting a few who approach too close.

She felt like this situation is manageable, but the tides have turned for the worse when several of these beings crawled their way up the mountain with a dash on their claws, shooting one down as a start of this battle wave, she only saw a handful of these creatures climbing up as a second wave before even more followed!