The Traps are Raining! [C30]

The zone where Shu Himo and the others are now is the only way toward the cursed weapon. Every angle is made of small stone blocks, and everything is really dark, reducing the visibility to the minimum: while as cultivators it is possible to slightly feel the surroundings, with the sight almost blocked it is still hard to orient themselves.

"Oh! My name is Ru Seji, nice to meet you all!"

Hearing the prase from Ru Seji after 5 minutes of walking together, the other four finally noticed that they still did not yet introduce themselves as they were too caught with finding the cursed weapon.

"Right, we did not yet introduce ourselves... my name is Lu Shela, nice to meet you too." The only girl in the group was the first to answer.

"My name is Li Reiji."

"My name is Li Serdis, me and Li Reiji are siblings." Those two were both men of few words, so they just introduced themselves and stopped talking.

"My name is Shu Himo." Weirdly, Shu Himo, the one that usually talks too much did not say anything apart from his name, why is that? Ru Seji was surprised, is he trying to be low-profile?

Still, he decided to not mind it and just acted as if it was normal.

Shu Himo is indeed occupied with another thing: feeling the cursed aura.

Isn't this way too much? It feels at least three times stronger than the one of the Scythe!

The others don't feel it too?

"Do you guys feel perhaps this cursed aura?" As he was perplexed he just decided to ask, but he then immediately regretted asking.

He immediately saw three pairs of eyes almost popping out looking at him in disbelief, as if they had seen a ghost. They then immediately started running toward Shu Himo and surrounded him, looking at him with eyes full of expectations.

Shu Himo immediately got startled, but as he did not feel any malicious intent against himself he waited to see what they wanted.

"How can you distinguish the cursed aura from the rest? We have to use an artifact to find it!" The one who posed the question is Li Reiji, the one that was usually of fewer words of all of them.

"I just compare it to one I already saw in the past, but this one seems three times higher..." Shu Himo's answer startled all of them: does this mean that he already saw a cursed weapon in the past?

And he still says that he will get it? Did he perhaps get the one he was talking a moment ago?

They wanted to pose a lot of questions, but a moment before they could keep talking they immediately heard a defying *BOOM*

"What was that?!?" Turning around, they noticed immediately what was the problem: an enormous 5mts high spheric rock was rolling towards them threatening to crush them!

They all panicked and were about to run, but they then heard a nonchalant voice from Shu Himo who said, "What are you so worried about, it's just a rock."

*Sli*

The sound of something splitting was heard by everyone, followed by the sight of a rock now divided in two halves, stopped aside a young child who is holding a scythe bigger than himself, giving the feels of absolute dominance and terror toward his enemies.

Putting the Scythe of Doom back in the storage, Shu Himo then smiled towards them and said, "Didn't you want to see the cursed weapon I saw in the past? That was it." Laughing, he then started walking again toward the source of the Cursed Aura, with the three dumbfounded youths behind and a calm one, that seemed almost to be expecting what just happened.

A couple of hundreds of meters later.

"The aura can be felt stronger here, we should have almost arrived." Shu Himo now felt the Cursed aura getting stronger, now it was almost four times stronger than the one of the scythe, how is that possible?

Stepping at the entrance of the next room they all got blinded for a moment as unlike a moment ago where everything was dark, the last room suddenly became bright.

At the moment they had closed their eyes, all sorts of traps immediately started flying toward them, and Shu Himo, who noticed it for first lost all the color and became pale seeing them.

"The traps are raining!" While he screamed to attract the attention of the others, he analyzed the situation.

The traps consisted in: more than a hundred arrows falling from the sky, a seeming sea of water coming straight towards them threatening to drown all of them, and an enormous fireball coming from the sky.

While he may be able to save himself using stacked [Hopper], all the others would die!

While he was thinking of a way to resolve the situation he heard from behind him three chants.

The siblings are the firsts:

"I ask thee;

Offer me the greatest defense;

Earth Wall!"

Normally it would not be enough to hold the sea of water, but as both siblings chanted together the effect got strengthened. The earth suddenly generated a small earthquake and started raising, forming a wall as high as 20 meters, enough to stop the flux of water.

The second chant is from Ru Seji, who created a fireball that exploded in the midst of arrows, deviating from their trajectory making them all fall around the group.

The third and last chant was from Lu Shela:

"I pray thee's help;

Destroy the poor lambs that dared oppose us;

Extinction ray!"

In front of her hands, a light that seemed to devour everything gradually formed, and then after a couple seconds, it immediately shot towards the enormous fireball utterly disintegrating it.

Shu Himo was startled, he did not even have to do anything!

Isn't that too lame?

Hoping that something else came for him, his desires got answered.

*KIIIAAAAA*

A tremendous shriek resounded in the hall, revealing three banshee-like monsters;

Two of them are rank 4, while the other is a rank 5, one that could easily destroy the entire group!