CHAPTER 58***PATH OF AGONY**

CHAPTER 58

***PATH OF AGONY***

The scorpions rushex towards Chen like a plague stinging his skin with their dangerous pincers. Chen bit his tongue , swallowing back the scream that was threatning to come out. The continious stinging of the scorpions gradually made him dizzy as the poisin was too much for his body to handle, the effect of the pain coupled with the poison was no trival matter. "No, i won't die here" he forcefully opened his eyes and with gritted teeth persevered and soon enough, he passed the path filled with scorpions arriving on an entirely new plane filled with fire, the fire blazed like an inferno. Chen's mind which was formally in turmoil almost broke down. "I can't continue this"said Chen. " hey Chen , just think of this as an illusion that no matter how deep you go, you won't die" Luna spoke. Chen, who was already bleeding walked into the blazing inferno. While Chen was going through these agonizing pain, Damian was having a tough battle on his own side with a crab like beast. It was incredibly agile and swift, countering all of Damian's attacks before it could hit the target and coupled with the fact that its shell was extremely tough also made it a formidable foe. Damian was kneeling on one of his knee, blood dripping from the side of his mouth while gripping his halberd tightly. He slowly stood up with his halberd facing the crab. The crab burrowed into the ground startling Damian who looked around warily searching for the next place the crab would burst out from. The ground began to tremble violently causing Damian to lose his balance. As soon as he lost his footing, the ground burst open and the crab burrowed out of the ground at full speed with its sharp pincers in front of it. Its pincers opened up and then closed with Damian in between the pincers. *Snap*. The clapping of the pincers echoed around the cave. The crab began to struggle all of a sudden as its pincers failed to close. It soon became clear that something was stopping it from closing, it was a hammer, the crab kept on forcing its pincers to close but the hammer restricted it. "Hurry up and get out of there, you jerk" A loud mocking voice was heard. Damian quickly jumped out of the mouth onf the crab's deadly pincers landing on the ground. Damian glanced at the owner of the voice and found it to belong to James whom Chen had defeated initially when they had fought. The hammer which was in between the crab's pincers flew back to James qho caught it easily. He pointed his hammer at the crab with Damian standing beside him wielding his halberd. "You finally decided to use the hammer Chen gifted you" Damian said "It was normal cause he destroyed my previous one, he didn't gift me, he replaced it". James replied. They stood facing the crab who would still be a formidable foe despite their numbers. James lept up into the air with his hammer, " arrghh" he roared, swinging his hammer downwards at the crab. The hammer gradually got larger at each passing second and it became as big as a meteor. The hammer landed carving a large crater on the ground. The crab which was supposed to be dead burrowed out of the ground behind James, clapping its pincers together.

*whoosh*, the piercing of the air was heard, Damian had earlier thrown his halberd at the crab's pincers piercing it. The crab screeched in pain, burrowing into the ground again.