Chapter 24 History Repeats Itself (2/2)

Daniel didn't knohat to do or where his party members were, so he wasn't able to protect them Luckily, the loud noises came from in front of him, so he was fairly sure that they were safe for now at least

The source of the deafening noise was slowlythe dusty cloud to settle once and for all, and allow them to recover their vision It was clear to him that, within the could of dust, terful entities were battling

Moving at this point was out of the question All he could do was to stand still and hope that these two battling parties wouldn't notice hi minutes passed before the intensity of the battle started to decrease The dusty cloud started to slowly settle, and Daniel was finally able to see the shapes of the battling monsters

One of theht nearing the three meters The two details that convinced Daniel that he wasn't witnessing a battle between humans, were the two enormous claws placed where a nor tail attached to his lower back

The other beast had a ht and thin body on which dozens of disgusting looking pair of legs grew Each of these legs were twice as long as the body itself, and were covered in millions of tiny quills

At the frontal extrerew This thorax had no head attached, and Instead, several s the food inside the beast's ht in the middle of his chest It looked like an enormous centipede with a human thorax attached to its extrerew on its shoulders, and right beloere two additional long arms whose estremities looked like sharpened blades

Daniel renized the first beast as the Commander Steel-back Scorpion He didn't knohat the other beast was, but since it was capable of fighting on par with a rank 4 beast, then it probably was a beast of the fourth rank as well

More time passed, and the could of dust had almost completely settled Daniel could see more clearly now, and was able to notice the state in which beasts were Tords came to his mind 'severely injured'

The commander scorpion's armor was covered in deep and cuts which leaked white fatty liquids, and one of its ar any better Various of his thin feet were broken, and its back had been puncutred right in the middle by the scorpion's aculeus

Daniel looked around and noticed that the rest of the team was further away Apparently, they had backed away the es of the dusty fog, waiting for him to come out

The otherthere, but before they could feel relieved, they noticed the two beasts battling right behind hiish, as the two beasts's exhaustion increased Unfortunately, Daniel's cover had al noticed, he tried to back away slowly The rest of the party had already recognized the Co

The moment Daniel moved he was immediately noticed by the commander scorpion, which looked at hi this s moved The beast rushed at the Coainst its body The ed its entire body with its thin legs

The scorpion reacted rapidly and pinched two of the centipede's legs with its re tail also punctured its eneain, in hope to o It instead tightened its hold around the scorpion's body, keeping it still while it tried to tear the scorpion's head to pieces with its strong mandibles

This was Daniel's chance He turned around and started to run away froo far, the scorpion sain

The tail moved faster than Daniel could see, and whenever the tail hit, the ground would tremble The Commander Steel-back Scorpion was a rank 4 beast, so its hits were rapid and precise It didn't take long before the ground started to crack

The scorpion was an intelligent creature, and knew that it was in a dangerous position It was injured and it couldn't get out of the centipede's grip Luckily, it had grown up inside these canyons, and it knew thereider and wider under the relentless hits of the scorpion's tail Until finally, the ground started to cave in right underneath the two beasts bodies

The cracks had reached way past Daniel's position, so when the ground caved in, Daniel lost his footing and ended up being sed by the enormous sinkhole that was created

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When Daniel woke up, he found hiainst solid, yet wet stone The first thing he noticed after waking up, was a sh which faint ht shi+ned

At his feet, he felt the calather his bearings He had been laying on a rock, right at the edge of a sround lake He then noticed the familiar colored boulders that had fallen with hih his spine

What Daniel had realized was that, if he had fallen a second earlier, he would have landed heavily against rocks Instead, he had landed in the lake and had h he had lost consciousness

Daniel could see alh, was the s through the distant hole on the roof

Clank Clak

A few rocks fell fro the sound of rock hitting rock reverberate through the entire cave Daniel had noticed this pile of boulders, andat its base

Suddently, one of the large rocks was pushed away, uncovering the large claw of the Commander Steel-back Scorpion