55 Rescue Mission (2/2)
Some of these thoughts popped into Leo's mind, but that did not stop him from continuing forward. Right now, what mattered the most was timing and if he delayed, that could potentially limit the amount of people that him and Christopher could save within the cave.
As they entered the cave, Leo and Christopher came across quite a few spiders lurking about within the tunnel towards their main base. Leo without wasting a single breath of time, would dispose of these spiders one by one as they continued moving forward, until they finally arrived at their destination.
”Alright so you said that you saved me from the webbings but that my body was located with the rest of those?” after masking their presence and hiding behind a boulder nearby, Christopher pointed towards the pile of human and non-human shaped webs.
”That is correct. You stay here since you are much bulkier and easier to spot than I am, and I will slowly find some more of your comrades and drag them over. Since the tunnel is now fully cleared of spiders, I will need you to take them back one by one to the waterfall area and give them a drop of the antidote I gave to you.”
”If I start feeling a sense of danger, I will head back to the waterfall while carrying as many people I can find while you are gone and will meet with you on the path, we decided on that we would be using to retreat back to the waterfall area.”
Christopher had no choice but to agree to these terms since Leo was clearly able to move much swifter using his wind element techniques. Plus, Christopher was indeed a bit larger built and bulkier which made him move slower in general. If Christopher could carry one or two of his comrades back at a time while Leo continued to cut them out of the webbings, then it would be more efficient of a method to use for this rescue mission.
Leo quickly made his way over to the pile and located all the human shaped webs. ”So, there are actually over thirty of them? Good thing I experimented earlier with the tiger cub. If it is like this, I can easily save them all myself. I just need to send Christopher off first before I begin the real rescue.” Leo thought as he finally started to free the first human.
After he originally freed Christopher, Leo was able to locate some of the thinner webbing areas which made this process much faster than before. Within only a single minute, Leo successfully freed the first human and gave him over to Christopher.
”This is someone who I ate meals with back in our village. He was a fine warrior and was able to defeat me every time we would spar in our training. If we found him, it is possible that we can find the rest of those who the spiders saved to eat for later down the road.” Holding the freed man in his arms, Christopher could only explain his thoughts before quickly fleeing with this comrade over his shoulders.
Seeing that Christopher was now completely gone, Leo started to begin by separating the human shaped webs and the non-human shaped webs. He then deposited all the human shaped webs into his inventory screen as he did with the tiger cub earlier. It was not a surprise, it worked flawlessly!
”Now that the rescue mission has been completed, we can now simply bring all of these humans back to the village without delaying any longer. Once they recover their full strength again, we might be able to quickly make our way back here and destroy this base once and for all.” Thought Leo as he slowly made his way back behind the boulder.