Ekolia Lite 25 Chapter 18

"Good lord, I'm sooo hungry…" Chika complained.

Anko responded, "Quit your whining, we all are."

She sighed, 'Haa…"

The group decided to take on the Quest-less quest and went to the second pathway on the right. Just like the book told them to, they really need to go down for sure, but it didn't tell them that they need to go down the ropes to reach the bottom.

They have done it safely with Tenko's help. When it comes to survival, her helpfulness is at its peak. Though, even with that, Chika still managed to mess it up and accidentally cut the rope with her dagger as she went down.

Now they're stuck in the wide-open s.p.a.ce only G.o.d-knows-where.

The book only tells them that it has been buried here in this place, but didn't actually tell the exact location of it.

They have been walking for quite a while as they grabbed to the side, afraid of getting lost. There are many stones that can visibly be seen from here that supports the ceiling so it won't go down on them, but looking at those… are making them very uncomfortable.

Tenko saw something odd from the stone… its shape is… very unique.

Suddenly, Chika stumbled upon something, "Gyaa~Mmphf" Tenko quickly shut her mouth. The other two got startled by it.

"Mmmphfhfhf"

Tenko hushed, "Shhh."

*G-r-u-u-u-u-m-b-l-e*

Chika flushed in red as her stomach shaking like an earthquake.

Tenko tried hard holding her laughter. Tokaya walked back to them and whispered, "What's wrong, Tenko?"

She shifted her eyes to the weirdly shaped rock and pointed at it, "There, can you see it? That rock is really weird."

"..." Tokaya's eyes quickly widened, "That's not a rock, Tenko. That's a monster!" she yelled in a whispering voice.

The group instantly went into guard mode, and quickly went into their position.

"Anko, take her backpack. Tenko, you, never mind. Wait here. Chika and I will go check it out."

"Hieee, why me?"

"Cause you got the Appraisal skill, dumba.s.s."

"Ngh, you don't have to call me that."

"Whatever, come on."

Chika sighed, and the other two stay on guard, holding their position.

The two stepped quietly as they went closer and closer to the odd-shaped rock, after hiding behind another rock that is closer to it. They managed to get close enough for Chika to inspect it with Appraisal. Her eyes widened, it turns out to be true. It is a monster.

[Silver Earth Golem lv. 68]

HP: 12.800 / MP: 0

Chika quickly puffed her cheeks.

Tokaya in a whisper, "This is bad, we should go around it and—"

*Croak*

"…"

The odd-shaped looking rock slowly moved, reforming its shape and shove away the dust. "Err… sorry." Right in the crucial time, her frog just HAD to make a sound.

Tokaya palmed her head, and they quickly ran off. The golem starts reforming.

*GRunT *HgrrnNNnnGhHhnNgH

The other two members that are waiting for they comrade to return, opening their eyes wide as they saw something is going on behind the two comrades as they run.

Tokaya yelled, "TEAKKOOOOOOO!! RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNN!!!"

Yelling the combined name of her comrades, made the said comrades furious, but that doesn't matter since they have something huge in front of them.

Tenko quickly takes the backpack off of Anko's shoulder and then ran off with her following from behind. Tenko raised her hand, the torch, so the others can see them.

They ran in the speed of light heading to the Torch's direction.

*Grunt*

The golem successfully formed to its true form, it stood so high from the ground with its two rocky feet. It went to chase Tokaya and Chika as they ran. "Grooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaahhh" roaring a tremor.

*Boom *Boom *Boom

The ground is shaking each time the giant took a step, Chika stumbled but Tokaya quickly noticed it and then catches her in her arms.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" Chika flushed in embarra.s.sment, but Tokaya ignored it and quickly ran so far away while gritting her teeth, "Good G.o.d, you're so heavy, Mona. Have you been gaining weight recently?"

"NUH?! IT'S MY ARMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORR!!"

In the meanwhile, Tenko is moving rapidly and fully concentrated on her side end, looking for a hole or something similar. Not a hole she found, but something even better.

A door made from steel, at least that's what she sees it right now.

She and Anko went inside, finding themselves in another narrow pathway. The two right now just need to wait for the others to come. "K! OVER HERE!"

Tokaya heard Tenko's call. She's running not as fast as Tenko before, but Tokaya gritted her teeth to catch up to that. She dashes and ran even faster than before. She uses her eyes to manipulate the status to appeared in front of her, looking down, she went to upgrade her DEX status. It turns out she hasn't done it until now.

She put all the points into it and then in an instant, she runs even faster.

The giant step took longer to catch up to her speed, but when it did, it's going to be a really huge problem, no pun intended.

Tenko is antic.i.p.ating every moment, thinking if she should go and help them, but she doesn't know what to do in this moment. Suddenly, Anko tapped her shoulder, "Uhh, Tenko…"

"Hm?"

"We got company."

Tenko shifted her eyes behind her, "Oh my G.o.d, you've got to be kidding me."

A huge disgusting monster with an uncountable number of hands, and the head that looks like a human's mouth, appeared behind them.

Without Chika around, they don't know if it's powerful or not, and they cannot leave the place to look for another one since the golem is approaching closer and closer.