The Underground Channel entrance located at the west side of the city, under the bridge, and near the river-dam that streaming steadily towards the end. On the opposite side of the entrance, there was a big dumpsite area that could be seen a little distant from the river-dam. The place was known as West District.
At the dumpsite, he could see some smokes that were flying towards the sky and resembles the clouds as they continued to hover higher.
After Yman stepped in the entrance, he asked his deity to activate the radar.
Sistela replied:<Why so suddenly?>
He said: "It's not sudden. It's better to have a perfect mapping from the entrance towards the farthest area that we can reach."
<What if I emptied my battery so soon?> She questioned him.
He scratched his face and replied: "Don't worry, we sure to leave the place before it happened.."
Hearing what he said, she resigned then followed what he wants and activated the radar without further retorts.
But she really was worried if she emptied her battery. Because when the battery of the deity was emptied, it also means disconnection with their resonance.
Ding! Something materialized...
12 inches in height and wide window screen reflected in his eyes as it animated before his face in a holographic manner. It was sending luminous brilliance around and slightly illuminating his face and the place.
Inside the screen was a tiny dot of green color. Around it was shaded in darkness, but as he was advancing slowly, the inside of the screen, around the tiny green dot in the holographic screen was slowly forming a map outline that resembles the place he currently in.
The radar had a distance of a 10-meter radius surrounding him. Only within this area the shaded part that was surrounding the green dot was contorting automatically to form a map outline of the unexplored place he was strolling.
Yman slowly dragged the screen on his upper-left side to avoid distracting his vision. Currently, it was floating on the left side, above him. This thing was no doubt his Map Section from his Cyber Screen.
Tak-tak-tak...
The deliberate sounds of his footsteps that slightly echoed the inside of the channel could be heard by the person itself. And sometimes droplets of water from the distance ceiling tickled his ears, sending chill in him which causes his body hairs to stand upright.
Yman was walking in such a place. His hand was gripping the hilt of a sword with odd size. His face was covered by a mask and his body similarly covered by a piece of cloth. He was wearing a pair of brown boots on his feet, which produces some noises whenever his boots landed on the dirty pavements inside the channel.
<Partner, do you think it is much darker here?> His trusted partner whispered in his ears out of a sudden.
He smiled wryly and said: "As you can see, this place seemed to be a scene from a horror movie." Yman replied to Sistela and darted his eyes while cautiously scanning his surroundings.
He tried to sound as normal as he could while seemingly unbothered by her question to avoid her from noticing what he truly felt at the moment.
Although there was only darkness around him, it was manageable to see because of the illumination from his Map Section. He could even define the complexion of everything around him.
<Are you scared?> Sistela asked after noticing his a little quickened heartbeat.
"Of course, not! Maybe you!" Yman strongly denied and throwback the words. He was wondering why this deity of him bothered asking him unnecessary things.
<I-I'm not too!>
"Then, that's that." He intentionally shrugged off the topic. Though his breathing was steady, Yman was really scared at the moment. Under the mask, he wetted his drying lips.
<Look, partner, some green objects are hanging up above the concreted ceiling and scattered down to the walls on both sides.> Sistela whispered again after she noticed some green weeds sticking and hanging on the ceiling and walls of the Underground Channel.
"I-It's just some algae." He replied after his eyes briefly followed to where Sistela mentioned.
Suddenly, his eyes landed on the ground and noticed something.
Using his free left hand, he dragged the Map Section down below to illuminate the ground and have a clear full view of the ground.
|Seemed like the dirty pavements were already littered in dark and brownish stains and were smelling odd.| Although he was already wearing a mask, the bad smell still invaded his nostrils.
|Such a strong penetrative force, huh.| He truly meant penetrative smell.
Yet, he paused for a moment while knitting his brows.
|Wait, why does it smells like some kind of rotting flesh and not muddy smell?| He questioned himself after noticing the oddness in the pungent smell. Then, he scanned further on the pavement floors.
<Oh Gawd! There were even some dry marks of blood on the ground! And the walls too! It seemed like trying to convey about the massacre that happened in the past few days! This is literally a horror scene!> Sistela suddenly screamed out.
Yman shuddered even more upon seeing the bloodied pavements. Certainly, it provoked his trauma from that certain day in his childhood. He suddenly felt goosebumps at this place. His body slightly trembled. He tried to bite his lips inside the mask to dispel such negative thinking that was trying to challenge his weakening braveness.
The inside of the channel was quite spacious for a person to pass. If he did an estimation on it: the wideness was about 5 meters from the walls on his left to the walls on his right, and the height of the ceiling from the ground was about 10 meters tall.
Certainly, he was more scared at the place than the monster itself.
For some reason, he felt like someone was following him. He even felt some cold arms trying to hold his legs. But of course, it just his mind playing tricks on him.
Yman remembered something as he was walking quietly. "My deity, do you have the data of the Evil Rats?" Yman tried to relive the atmosphere by talking with his diety. To lessen the scare he felt at the moment. Yet truly, what he asked her was not just from out of nowhere question. He just forgot to check it awhile ago.
After his question, she immediately answered with: <Don't worry, Evil Rats was of the common type of beast. Even on the Outerworld, there are plenty of them. I almost had all the necessary data of all the common beasts in these two worlds.>
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Hearing her reply, he sighed in relief. It was very helpful in the fight to have the monster's data that you would be fighting.
Yman continued asking her some question that was out of nowhere and unimportant. When she noticed his intention, she annoyingly ignored him and even teased him by scaring him through words.
Yman thought that this deity of him was really a mean one.
There bantering automatically died down when he finally reached a dead-end. At the moment, he was facing the wall that was covered with darkened algae. A small water-passage hole was present below it. But there's no water passing on it at the moment.
Yet, the hole was too small for a person to pass by.
Next second...
Squeak!
He heard some squeaking noises from the other side of the wall. Yman jolted back and readied himself from posible attacks.
Yman scratches his head and forced a dry laugh when he realized that the water passage was still too small for the monster to pass through.He remembered what Mrs. Merced (the woman who issued the quest) said to him. That when he reached the dead end, there was a hole where a person can pass through to his left side. But Yman could not see it, the hole that she mentioned.Suddenly, he heard Sistela's call: He then glanced at the map that was hanging steadily above him. He noticed a thin layer of the wall outline. Based on the map, it was located two steps away from his left side."Must be a camouflage." He muttered and summoned his spear from Cyber Storage..He then pokes the part where the thin layer on the map was shown. Yman narrowed his eyes when the wall that looks so sturdy bend inwardly like a piece of something soft like it was made of cloth, a camouflage cloth to be specific.|It's a well-made replica of the wall.| He thought. |But
Sistela warned after noticing the second Evil Rat made a wise leap in the air while opening its largemouth. Some green liquids were splattering around and looking like small particles of lights when they were hit by the illumination of brilliance from his holographic map.Yman narrowed his eyes. Even though this Evil Rat managed to avoid the ball-web traps, the smoke abled to hinder its vision.He summoned his strength and sent a stab to the leaping Evil Rat.Shing!-30 HP in the red text was visible in his vision when his stab was successfully landed on the Evil Rat's jaw, which followed by squeaking noises from the Evil Rat when the tip of Gladius sword dig in about 3 centimeters in its flesh.|20 defense!| Yman quickly calculated the enemy's defense based on the damage that he dealt it.He has 20 attacks and an additional 15 from the resonance with his deity and another 15 from his Gladius sword. It was 50 in total, but he only managed to take 30 of the monster's healt
Reflected in his eyes the shining image of the Evil Rat that was undergoing an evolution phase.The brilliance that envelopes its body had even brightened the place a little.Tsk! Yman as he gnashed his teeth. Never in his wildest dream to be able to see an actual evolution phase of a beast.Seemingly, beasts or monsters will undergo an evolution phase when their battle experience reached a certain threshold.Currently, Yman was downed on his butt on the cold pavement ground, while staring at the Evil Rat in surprised and without batting an eye. Sistela's voice rang in his ears which made him snapped from the shock and pulled him back to reality.He did not even notice his health points which now short of 150 points. After the tail whip attacked that landed on his back, -150 health points were taken from his health bar..He certainly questioned his luck. If seeing it from a different perspective, he might be lucky for witnessing such a rare event. But the situati
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