(Chapter 34)

Shyrveen waited for the same time range, ten to eleven o'clock while standing.

But it's already thirty minutes passed and he was still in his room.

He decided to sit down on his bed but only to see how his sight changed from the walls of his room to the lush forest with big trees, in a blink of an eye.

His butt fell on the floor that full of dry leaves and can only cursed in his mind.

'... Are you trolling me, Irveen?...'

And he shook his head that at the same time, he heard the familiar voice.

"Brother Shyr!"

He saw Han Sen waving at him but something is wrong with his face.

"Brother Sen?... What's wrong?-!!!"

Shyrveen wants to ask him but only to be surprised as he was hugged by someone and he feels a naughty hands exploring his body.

"... Sweety?"

He asked even though he remembers her scent already.

'How?... I didn't felt her stare... Did she...'

"Yes, darling?~ I missed you~... Your voice, and your scent... You said that you're sensitive to stares. So~"

Yang Manli giggled while harassing Shyrveen's body to her heart's content but.

"... Stop your hands now, or you won't hear a thing from my mouth that will really make you happy..."

Shyrveen threatens Yang Manli and confused about why she is here.

Han Sen and him, alone, should be the only one who knows that this is his 'room', where he was bound to be teleported from Earth.

"..."

Yang Manli felt so confused, she wants to feel the love of her life and recharge her Shyrveenium after two days and eight hours that she didn't saw even his shadow. But she wants to hear this thing that he was talking about.

'Maybe, a marriage proposal!?... Or maybe he declared that he misses me and wants to do it with me!? Kya!!!'

She put her palms on her cheeks that dyeing with red-beet color and lost to her fantasy.

"... Back to reality, sweety..."

"Ah? Ahh! Yes, what it is again, darling?"

"Well, there's no harm for being truthful... I missed you too, of course."

Han Sen scratches his head and went to beside the creek and started counting Black Beetles.

'... I wish I can find my 'the one'...'

Shyrveen drop the bomb like it was nothing and made Yang Manli blushed to the extreme and forgot to ask something for why Shyrveen is appearing in this place and not in the shelter.

"!!! You can feel now!? Isn't that a go-..."

"Nope, still not, but my mind is lately being affected by your presence... So, let's say that you broke one wall to the path of making me fall in love with you..."

"KYAH!!! Let's make baby now!- Ouch!... Why?"

Shyrveen flicks her forehead but didn't say anymore, just hugs her for several minutes.

Yang Manli calmed down after being flickered and hugs him back without being naughty this time.

Then after savoring the warmth of each other's body. They slowly separated and Shyrveen lock with her eyes and asked.

"... Why are you here?..."

"!!! You!... Can you be more romantic, you idiot!? I thought you will kiss me!!!"

Yang Manli was triggered, kicks his knees and jumps on him, and bites his shoulder.

"... Ouch... But I'm really curious about why you are here... Aw, aw, aw... !!!... Stop licking my neck, sweety..."

"... Well, I eavesdropped to your conversation with Han Sen before you went back to your home planet."

Yang Manli simple explained while continuing to make a hickeys on Shyrveen's neck.

Which made Shyrveen stunned and scrunched his forehead to think how she can do that.

Each room is like an advanced bomb shelter. Had a shockproof, soundproof, fireproof, and waterproof. That has been said by Han Sen to him.

"... How?"

"Because some idiot didn't make sure that the door was locked... I followed you after we separated from our date...."

'... Wasn't that me who opened the door then saw Han Sen inside?...'

Shyrveen then remembers how he locked securely the door before saying anything.

"... No, I did not..."

Then stared at her, that she stared back too. But soon she gave and looks away.

"... Err... I put a simple stopper between the door's lock and door frame... The soundproof will be activated once the lock made contact with the door frame..."

"..."

Shyrveen was so speechless at this girl.

"... You're so unbelievably... Cute... But still dangerous... And you mean, you stalked me, right?... Haa... Well, nevermind that, but I didn't say that you will be forgiven once you do that again, alright?..."

Yang Manli nodded and continued making hickeys, while Shyrveen can only sighed about this girl.

"... So, is there a question about this?..."

Shyrveen sighed and carried her for the time being while he went to Han Sen beside the creak.

Yang Manli stopped making some hickeys and the thought went back to her mind.

"Ah!... Well, why you're being teleported here? You should be appearing to the teleport station in the shelter, right?"

"Haa... Because there's no such teleport station on my home planet... And... Don't ask about it for why for now..."

Shyrveen stops Yang Manli after seeing her opening her mouth to ask questions about it.

"... Alright. I'll wait for you to say about it or share it with me... So... Do you have any plans for today?..."

"Yeah, I plan to max my Primitives before hunting Mutants, with brother Sen."

"Ohh... Then I'll need to go back first to do the gang's paperwork, then let's meet up after lunch?..."

"Err... I'll try, sweety. Something might happen and you will just wait for nothing... Just check my bedroom in the gang if I got back once I didn't appear in our usual meeting place."

"Got it!~ Bye, darling~"

Yang Manli thought for what she will do since it's still morning and decided to let herself be freed from works before savoring her time with Shyrveen alone, then run away from the creek without forgetting to kiss Shyrveen's lips first.

"..."

"..."

"... Should we go to the lake now?"

"Yeah..."

Han Sen stared at the back of Yang Manli then glances at Shyrveen's face that still staring at Yang Manli then to the hickeys.

'... What a lucky bastard.'

Shyrveen woke up from his stupor after feeling the cursed look of Han Sen.

"What?... By the way, something serious happened on Earth, so the friend that I was talking about, will be introduced once he is free."

"Oh, is everything alright? This is my first time hearing you saying something like that."

"Yeah, for the time being. Since there's a time dilation, I have plenty of days here but still, I need to spend each hour to be worthy as possible... That's why I'm prioritizing to get the thing in the Ethereal Loch first."

"Alright... Let's go! Let's see what's this thing then... This feels like treasure hunting, no?"

"Hahaha. Whatever you say."

Both of them traverse the west side of the Steel Armor Shelter and soon reached the lake of Mutants.

"What we will do, brother Shyr?"

"Since, I returned back the shadows to their owner. I can't lure the Mutant fished to one side for us to search the other side... Wait."

Shyrveen summoned the Dragon Tadpole and Han Sen saw the new appearance of Obsidian Dragon.

"... More majestic now than from the past... But still infant?..."

"Yeah, something like that."

"So... You will use your pet to lure them?"

Han Sen asked and looked again at the lake, and remembers that there should be a Sacred-Blood creature below too and notified Shyrveen.

Shyrveen nodded and they started their searching operation after making sure that there's no humans or activities in the vicinity.

They went on the shallow part first before Shyrveen ordered his pet to go the other side and start luring the fishes.

Both of them took a dive and Shyrveen summoned his melded new arrow and shared the properties of the Mutant Fish while under the water with Han Sen, which summoned his beloved golden armor and started to swim to search this crack, a gap that Shyrveen told him, with him.

With the size of the lake, it took them three hours before three cracks, and two big holes near the center of the lake were found.

They didn't see anything like a Sacred-Blood creature which made Han Sen confused for why he was wrong.

The Beast Soul Pet was full a long time ago from consuming some mutant meats.

While the Mutant fishes decided to retreat and soon found the two sneaky humans and aimed at them instead. But only to stop on their tracks after seeing the hateful high ranking creature, protecting them.

They swam to the shallow parts again and decided to check the cracks first before the holes in the center parts.

Another thirty minutes was done, and they found the right crack or gap that leading them into an underground cave, but decided to check the two holes first.

But only for Han Sen to be scared out of his wits after seeing the whole hole was full of Mutant Crimson Iron-Bone Fish, with eggs and smaller ones.

And they hurriedly swam away to the shore to make the fishes calm down before going back to the hidden underwater cave.

"Fuck! That was their breeding grounds!... Just only remembering all of their eyes that were staring at me, making me shivers! Wooo!"

Han Sen massages his arms and continued.

"I was right! Even with my golden armor, with those many Mutants, I'll perish for sure, and maybe that's where the Sacred-Blood creature is napping!!"

"... There's at least 500 of them there, and the holes are too deep, maybe there's some channels and chambers to accommodate them?... Do you think we can lure the Sacred-Blood creatures below?..."

Han Sen can't believe what he is hearing from his friend.

For him, he will agree for sure if this is on land but he can't imagine himself, or the two of them fighting those many.

'Under the water? Against what? 500? Plus Sacred-Blood creature? We don't know yet if there's only one or two since it's a big fucking nest...'

"... Brother Shyr... I'll suggest to max out our four Geno Points first before fighting them as two people against 500+ Mutants... Even the current strongest in this First Sanctuary will run away for sure after seeing them... Unless we can drain the whole reservoir, no?..."

"..."

"..."

They stopped talking and let the water on the lake be calm again.

After another thirty minutes, they dive again on the right path this time.

While Han Sen is looking back to where the holes are from time to time, to check if they will be chased by angry fishes again or not. And he sighed in relief after it didn't happen.

Then they started checking the surroundings after they reached the open cave and went up to the ground.

The cave is so dark and too wide but because it was expected by Shyrveen, he told Han Sen to focus at practicing his Jadeskin too in these past two days, and so they can see well now in the darkness but still limited to ten feet away.

They traverse the one way cautiously and slowly. They didn't speak or make a noise that might make echoes to the end of the cave and just to awaken if there's something lurking.

Forty-two minutes passed, which was calculated by Shyrveen in his mind before they noticed a blue tail, a big fat blue tail that as if the scales were sculpted to be finished sapphire jewels, and it's only the end of the creature's tail with the size of eight feet in diameter already.

'... Too big and making this adventure to be dangerous too, brother Shyr...'

Han Sen felt the hairs on his body stand up.

This is his first time seeing a creature that is so big like this. He imagines what will be the size of the creature once they walked to the middle part area.

'Brother Shyr... Can we go back?... I'm so scared... T-This!... This is my first time seeing something so outrageous creature like this... Even if this is Sacred-Blood... Still too absurd!...'

Then Han Sen's eyes went so wide, the first time in his life that his heart skips a beat, that he swears that his heart is trying to get out of his chest right now.

He saw his friend, courageously went the tail, and slowly raised his hands to feel the scales.

Han Sen gritted his teeth and went closer to Shyrveen, grasp his wrist, and asked him.

'What are you trying to do?...'

'... Something is weird...'

'... What weird?'

'That's what I'm trying to check now... Let me... Even if this creature is still alive, we can still outrun it since it can't slither its head back to follow us. The cavern wall is big, yes. But with the should be the size of its body, it will be difficult for it to follow us... Unless the head and tail will be switching position instead, and that's when we will die...'

'...'

'...'

'... You're so crazy... Fine. Just wish that this creature is already dead though...'

Han Sen let go of his wrist and saw the finger of the hand that he once stopped is now trying to touch the scale but upon contact, he saw Shyrveen pulls away his hand so fast and check his middle finger.

Han Sen and Shyrveen both blurted out what they saw in it.

'Frostbite...'

'... It's dead... But how?...'

Han Sen sighed in relief but he released the question while still whispering.

And Shyrveen added while still staring at the big fat blue tail and mumbles his real concern.

'The second question is... How this creature has been frozen to death?... The whole cave isn't freezing, right?... And the last question...'

'We practice Jadeskin, so somehow we are immune to cold... But, how cold this corpse can be?... Because your frostbite is already in the fourth stage that was caused by just a millisecond contact with its body...'

That only to be continued by Han Sen while checking Shyrveen's middle finger, which already turns black and hard after the tissues died on it...