25 Entrance (2/2)

”The map said that the treasure would be at the deepest part of the cave.”, Kate said. ”Follow me.”

Just walking for a few minutes, they saw that the pathway was separated into three tunnels. Kate then lead them to the right tunnel and disappeared from the outer chamber.

After they entered the tunnel, they didn't know that the cavern slowly closed up.

***

Meanwhile, in the basement of a tavern at the Riverboard City.

There were a lot of bloodied corpses on the ground. Lord Levine, Mr. Sanchez, and the merchant wearing a hat that was shadowing the upper half of his face, were surrounding a frightened man.

”Y... y... you're monsters!”, the man shouted in horror.

”We're just cleaning up the true monsters.”, Mr. Sanchez calmly retorted.

”Just tell us where is your base of operations, and we'll let you free.”, Lord Levine said.

”You'll never know!”, the man made a gesture with his hands and pointed at the corpses of his fellows. Suddenly, the corpses' eyes glowed green and rose up from the dead.

Lord Levine calmly smiled and said, ”Such a cliché move.” He released holy light from his hands and focused it on the corpses. When the light reached the bodies of the zombies, the said creatures wailed and crashed back to the ground with green smoke coming out of their orifices.

The man was stunned, ”Y... you're a Holy Priest?!”

”I don't know.”, Lord Levine casually answered.

”But still...! You'll never know! You'll never know where it is!”, suddenly, the body of the of man glowed red, and his body inflated. He was going to self-destruct!

”You'll never leave out of this place alive! Hahahaha...”, the man crazily laughed.

However, the merchant made a flick with his fingers, and the man's state went back to normal in a flash!

”W... what?”, the man was stupefied. The self-destruction that he was doing upon himself, was stopped with a flick of that merchant's finger!?

”W... wh... who are you people?!”, the man asked. A Holy Priest that could defeat a necromancer's spell with a wave of his hands, which was impossible, Holy Priests couldn't do that by themselves, they needed a staff first so they could at least release holy energy, however, what this priest used was Holy Light, a very powerful and hard to learn spell!

Then there's the merchant, he stopped his self-destruct sequence with a flick of his fingers, even powerful wizards can't do that! In addition, the self-destruct spell that he used couldn't be stopped, even by the caster himself!

And finally was the man, who didn't yet do anything, even during the fight!

”You're just wasting our time, talk now or...”, Mr. Sanchez didn't finish his sentence and just looked over to the direction of Mount Watchtower.

The merchant and Lord Levine also looked to the direction of the mountain.

Making use of this chance, the man was about to desperately cast another spell when the merchant flicked his finger once again, dispersing the spell.

The merchant sighed and looked at the man, ”My spells have denegrated to this point at the hands of you useless living beings.”

The man was surprised by the merchant's sentence, ”Your spells?! Who are you!?”

After a pause, the merchant asked, ”Levine, aren't we going to kill this man? He isn't even that cooperative to us.”

”No... not yet. We're going to search for his memories when we get back.”, Lord Levine said.

”Alright then, after you search for his memories, I'm going to take his soul.”, the merchant said.

”Okay.”, Lord Levine replied.

”Take my soul!? Answer me first, who are you?!”, the man asked.

”You're in no position to ask you annoying c***.”, the merchant calmly said. He then looked at Mr. Sanchez, ”So, you sent three kids at that mountain? You know that they can't handle the danger in 'that' place.”

”I know it's dangerous, but then, why would I send them if they can't handle it?”, Mr. Sanchez said.

”You're just referring to that kid with that dagger, aren't you?”, the merchant asked.

Mr. Sanchez ignored the merchant's questions. The latter didn't seem to mind it and kept looking at the terrified man.

”I'm worried for them.”, Lord Levine said.

”As I am. However, we can't enter that restricted place with our bodies. It's better that they would be the ones who will kill that thing sooner and later and get those treasures.”, Mr. Sanchez said.

”Hais.”, Lord Levine sighed.