101 A terrifying sigh (1/2)

Vidio began to run at breakneck speed, keeping his trousers up with both hands and leaving behind a bunch of speechless mercenaries. He spotted the Dungeon entry not far away from him. Their voices though were getting nearer and nearer.

”Shit.”

With a last sudden movement, Vidio reached for the cave and rushed into it. A shroud of thick darkness swallowed him up like a monster's jaws. Vidio's Mana seethed violently through his Meridians. He hastily transferred it to his skin, that soon began to emit a feeble glare which was shiny enough to light up that absolute darkness. Vidio hurriedly looked about himself as he slowly slowed down to button his trousers back.

It was definitely no plain Dungeon. There were no tunnels nor hallways. It was an endless underground area whose slope seemed to lead him lower and lower as he advanced. The area ended in number of ravines and steep cliffs.

Out of the corner of his eye, the young Master saw several demons cast him bloodshot glances, causing a shiver down his spine. There seemed to be more monsters than he had thought. Given that he could survive Beritius' hit men, then he was likely to die by hand of those monsters.

”Looks like I'm in a pretty nice barrel full of shit,” Vidio said angrily. After all, Beritius hadn't been that foolish. He had it all mapped out; if Vidio survived death by human hands, he would need to rush into a hardly survivable Dungeon. It was basically impossible to get out of there alive. This way, none could dare denounce Beritius' harsh move to send him there, since he would get rid of the mercenaries as well. No trace would be left behind of any of them.

As Vidio pondered on this, a bunch of bolts darted a few inches from him, like circles ripping the darkness of the Dungeon. ”I already have an ass-hole! No need for one more, thank you anyway,” he cursed.

For a few seconds, Vidio inspected the bottomless gorge unravelling all the way down from those uncanny cliffs. He made up his mind. It wasn't like he had much of a choice anyway.

He jumped off.

Without waiting for any second longer.

Which was probably the best thing to do, since a new attack had just been delivered. One more second of hesitation would have meant a chest thrusted by an arrow.

Vidio hastily ran a hand through his sweaty hair as he fell off: ”You all wanna grab a bite of this wonderful ass, huh? Sorry for you guys, get in line!”

With the coolest clear thinking, Vidio brought both legs to his chest, generated an electric field under and about him, and then began to glide down as his slowed his rate of descent.

There was no way to acquire any flying capabilities before the Fifth Phase. In the Third Phase though, you could learn the Divine Sense. The Divine Sense was a fully-fledged sense the user would create by means of Mana. Its power was directly related to the user's talent. It was an outstanding power indeed, which could easily turn the tables of a fight, if used properly. And its primary, basic function was the detector one. Despite being a pretty rough usage, the Divine Sense made for a great sensor which would fathom the very depths of a place or a person, given that the latter had a weaker Divine Sense.

”Captain! Captain!” a voice cried from the edge of the cliff.

The hit men had reached the Dungeon as well. They hadn't lost the slightest heart! But Vidio was now flying down low and therefore impossible to reach. He must have crashed against the floor even.

The head of the group gave the order to retreat.

The Dungeon monsters were already gathering around their group. Some attacks flew through the air. The group leader wouldn't have much trouble in facing them, but the same couldn't be said of his subordinates. The monsters were too many. And also, that damned gorge really caused a shiver down his spine.

That Dungeon was definitely one of the most disquieting he had ever stepped into. The whole area exuded a weird deathly Aura which made his hair stand on end. The leader checked the ravine depth that scoundrel had jumped off of. Most likely, the bottom - was there one even? - must host even more terrifying creatures than those up there. How was a common pleb yet to reach the Third Phase supposed to be able to step down on the ravine depth unharmed, and then survive the terrifyingly powerful beasts that lived there?