148 Weird 2 (1/2)
Chapter 148: Weird 2
Celine shook her head, she didn’t understand what it meant.
”Let’s go, for whatever it’s worth, the folks upfront have already cleared the way by going ahead,” Garen walked into the door.
Behind the door was a room about the size of a small house’s living area. The walls of the room were decorated with carvings of weird faces, some crying, some in fear, some stern faces etc.
All around the walls of the entire room were filled with these stone faces. It was as if they had protruded out from within the walls and were trying to escape, hundreds, if not thousands of them.
Celine couldn’t help but inch closer to Garen as they walked carefully towards a pair of massive stone doors on the opposite side of the room.
The right door was ajar, obviously someone had already walked into it.
As the pair walked into the door.
SHHHHHHAAAAA
Tens of metal needles suddenly shot out from every direction in the corridor beyond, blocking the way forward.
Garen pulled Celine and took a step back.
SHHHAAAAAAA
The needles shrank back into the floors and walls, once again revealing the dark and seemingly endless corridor.
”Be careful, it looks very dangerous,” Celine reminded, ”I smell a horrible stench coming our way.”
”A stench?” Garen was stunned hearing that, and he started paying a lot more attention to the walls on both sides of the corridor.
On each side of the wall was a small hole about the size of a fist. From within each of those holes, a wormlike creature that glowed a dark green hue started to climb out. When both wormlike creatures finally made their way out, they revealed locust-like wings from their body and started flying; then only the duo could make out their full appearance.
These weren’t just worms, they were little girl-like things that had dark green skins covered in smooth insect scales. While they had a slender and potentially attractive body shape, their faces were a total turn off as they looked incredibly sly and evil, not to mention the horrible stench.
The worm-girls flapped their wings rapidly, and made insect like noises. They were headed straight for Garen and Celine. As they got closer, they opened their mouths to conjure some sort of an evil smile, revealing a set of saw-like teeth.
”Sprites!” Celine took two steps backwards, hoping to pull away from them, ”these must be the legendary sprite, be careful! They have very sharp teeth!” She slowly pulled out her belt, her gaze never straying away from the two sprites.
”Sprites?” Garen was at a loss for words, these abominations looked absolutely hideous, and yet they still had such cute names, surely their appearances did their names no justice.
”Garen you focus on protecting me! Sprites especially like eating little girls, they’ll definitely focus all their attacks on me!” Celine yelled in fear.
”Ha?” Garen only just noticed, the two sprites only paid attention to Celine with their gazes of greed and lust.
WHOOSH
The two sprites suddenly pranced on Celine. They didn’t even bother with Garen, they just circumnavigated him by flying around his left and right.
SLAP!
Garen reached out his right hand and very swiftly caught one of the sprites. With his left hand, he flicked the other sprite with his finger, sending it on a collision course with the wall.
Grabbing the sprite felt just like grabbing a typical beetle. Their body had no warmth whatsoever.
”Just like a typical insect, so weak,” Garen frowned.
”Be very careful, sprites have a really resilient body structure, the Neptune Fist have records about them in their books, documenting how they’re very hard to kill!” Celine quickly reminded, ”no matter if you burn, drown or stab, whatever you do, you will never be able to completely get rid of them!”
”Wow, that’s something,” Garen’s frown grew deeper.
On the other side, the sprite that had been struck to the wall got back on its feet and was now back in the air. This time, it was onto Garen with deadly speed.
SLAP!
Garen swung his free hand and slapped that sprite to the wall, then he squashed it against the wall to be sure.
BANG!
The part of the wall which met his hand sank in around his palm, a great amount of dust fell from that spot and around the corridor.
As Garen lifted his palm off the wall, the sprite underneath was unscathed, looking only a little dizzy.
”They’re really strong indeed!” Garen finally realised.
KA CHA!
He suddenly felt a sharp pain on his right hand, and quickly let go of the sprite he was clenching in it.
As he pulled his palm back, he saw a small wound cut open by the teeth of the sprite. They definitely had some really sharp teeth, seeing how they were able to bite through his tough skin with ease.
”Let’s just run! Head straight towards the needles!” Celine drew her belt in one quick motion, whipping the now free sprite, sending it into a dizzy spell like its other half.
Garen followed closely behind Celine, running towards the spot where the needles protruded earlier.
SHHAAAAAAA
The needles protruded from every part of the walls and floors again, but this time, Garen mustered his might and kicked right into one of them. With a loud snap, it broke into half, revealing a small space for the two of them to run through, and away from the sprites.
They sprinted for a while, encountering many junctions along the way, but each time Celine wouldn’t even hesitate, she would sniff the air for a split second, then continue forwards.
After a long run, and a few more flights of stairs, they were finally stopped by a massive black arched door measuring at least 10 meters in height. Like the other doors from before, it was also ajar, revealing a spacious black stone hall within.