29 The Trek Through Thunder Mountain 2 (2/2)

With one last long breath, the little kitten was able to recover to a normal breathing rate and took this time to observe the other fight's around her. She found that there were quite a lot of Tiger Ape's lying motionless on the floor and she was just in time to notice Uncle Kil's right fist striking right through one of the white Tiger Ape's chest!

Soon after, she also found that Jonathan's pray had also been struck dead with a series of ice spikes that had struck out from every direction, sprouting from the ground, trees and even the leaves. Pierced by a few dozen spikes made of ice, the beast's eyes soon turned dull and lost all its luster.

Finally, through the combined work of the Wilderwolf Soldier's, the last few remaining beast's were cleaned up in an orderly fashion, their teamwork on full display.

After Extracting all their gains, Uncle Kil pushed everyone to hurry onward as they were losing track of the other groups. Time moved slowly once more as everyone ascended Thunder Mountain step by step. Every now and then, they would encounter beast's unfortunate enough to run into them and other times they would find themselves coming to the aid of a few other groups who had encountered more trouble than they could chew.

As the hours passed with constant struggles, eventually, dusk came and the moon rose into the sky, glowing in its usual dazzling silver colour. Around the same time, the large party of Magician's and Magical Beast's had arrived to their first destination.

This place was not even a third of this large mountain, only reaching the apex of the first and lowest point out of the five pointed tops of Thunder Mountain. The autumn forest opened up and a large cliff could be seen as far as their eyes could see, swirling into the distance. One could see the autumn trees dangling above the cliffs and heading into the distance up the mountains once more.

Directly ahead of all of them, they could see a large, several meters high cave that dug into this cliff to an unknown distance. Around the outer rim of the cave, one could see ruins curving in an arc around the cave's entrance.

”So this is the first checkpoint.” Jonathan noted as he gazed upon the sight in front of them. In his hands, he held the little kitten who been using the last few small moments of peace to continue her cultivation.

”Alright everyone, if there are any Ruin Master Magician's out there, I would like you to aid me in activating the cave ruins!” Mist Step spoke out in a loud and clear voice. Discussion broke out in the many individual groups before a few people began to walk forward to stand in front of him.

Mist Step lead these people to the cave entrance while Hidden Blade lead everyone else into the cave. Inside, the little kitten noticed a line of unlit torches gracing the walls before they were suddenly lit alight in quick succession by Hidden Blade with the flick of his index finger.

Looking inwards into the now lit up cave, the little kitten could now see that the cave continued on for a while before opening up to a huge open area. As Jonathan walked into this open area she found that this space was massive. Reaching around 100 meters in length.

Soon, people were dragging out their belongings out of their Magic Pocket's and setting up their tents once more, preparing for the nigh ahead.

Looking back to the cave entrance, the little kitten also noticed those people who are known as Ruin Master Magician's standing around the cave's entrance, their fingertips glowing in a visible azure glow as they danced about, seemingly interacting with something that she could not comprehend.

”Everyone, settle down for the night and make sure not to leave this cave, not that you can anyway.” Hidden Blade gave off his last order before entering the largest tent that was the same one from before at the bottom of Thunder Mountain.

Suddenly their was a gleam of azure light and looking at the source, she found that the cave entrance now how some kind of azure, see through barrier and she saw Mist Step and the few Ruin Master's nodding their heads and speaking before walking towards the encampment.

Day One was completed with no incident.