Chapter 18: Suspicious cave (2)

Elliot shot arrow doused in alcohol and a fire arrow followed by Perseus and Emma smashing the bottles near the entrance.

Perseus then lit the entrance up as they all back away, Nova and Dabria use their arcana and shoot light beams at the cave as rubbles then fall and block the cave entrance.

"Don't fire need air to stay lit?" Perseus asked

"Won't be long till whatever is in there suffocate then" Siege commented

"Unless they don't need air to breathe" Ace added "Slimes don't and I bet a few more doesn't need air too"

"That's why when we go in, we should still not let our guard down" Nova chimed in "Let's make a camp out here. Whatever you do and wherever you go, make sure to not go alone, we don't want to be attacked"

"When are we going in?" Emma asked

"Tomorrow after breakfast" Nova answered "I'll take first watch and switch to Elliot during the night, and we'll alert you guys if something is up"

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"Wake up" Elliot woke everyone from their sleep "Something is moving the rocks"

Everyone then got on their armor and took out their weapons as they hear something digging through the rocks from the other side.

After a while, several gold mechanoids burst through through.

"Those are tier 6 stuff, usually found in dungeons" Perseus said to the group "I knew that cave was suspicious"

"They already locked onto us, and we won't be able to outrun them" Nova shouted "Call out your familiars, we might be in over our heads for this one"

"We're here" Damon said as him and Diana appeared

"Yeah, you can leave this to us" Diana nodded a she then send out black flames towards the mechanoids.

Damon charged in and beat them with his fist as they broke into pieces after each punch.

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"You guys are strong...I really don't deserve you guys" Perseus said "You guys took them down in one hit"

"Yeah, if we really have to go to war against these guy in the spirit world, we stand no chance" Elliot shivered

"You're being to nice" Diana chuckled "But our lives are now intertwined, don't hesitate to call us for help"

"So do you want to go in further?" Damon asked "We can accompany you to make sure you all are alright"

"Well guild master, the decision is yours" Diana nudged him

"Well we'll have a vote, there's 7 of us if we exclude the familiars" Nova suggested "So we shouldn't have hard feelings regardless of the results"

"Yeah sounds fair, me and Siege will raise our tail since we don't have hands, and we can't raise our paws that high" Ace nodded

"So raise your hand or tail, if you want to go in" Nova said as he then raised his hands

Every casted their vote and all of them supported the notion.

"We should gather the heads and parts of these mechanoids, we can submit it as proof and get an instant promotion to tier 2 adventurers" Perseus said as he gathered them into his spatial ring

"Tier 3 probably and we'll probably get an instant promotion too" Elliot joined in to gather the parts "I'll help since our spatial ring got limited space"

"I brought more spatial rings just in case" Perseus took them out his his pocket since he spatial rings can't be contained in another spatial ring "You just need to imprint them"

"You really are prepared, but I'll take one if you don't mind" Emma then took one

"Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if he brought along 1 month worth of rations" Dabria added

"I did actually" Perseus responded "Just in case we all get stranded somewhere"

"Yep totally not surprised that he brought that much food for a a quest that would've taken a week at most" she sighs

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"Our fire did a lot of work huh" Nova commented as they walk inside the cave.

Damon was in front and Diana at the back to protect them from all sides. Wilson can't go with them because of his size so Emma was a bit disappointed.

"Hopefully we get some treasure" Emma said "Because those machine thingy are scary"

"They're called mechanoids, a r-" Perseus informed her as he then got cut off by Emma

"Whatever, you should loosen up sometimes" she waved him off

They were walking down the tunnel and they kept as quiet as possible in order to not alert anymore mechanoids or beings that may be in the cave.