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“Hmmm.” It didn’t feel like this was a world of illusions, but I did wonder if we were missing a hidden passage somewhere in the midst of this dark inner cave.
“Are you stumped?”
The sudden presence of power in my mind kindled a grin to form on my delicate lips.
Lily. We need your help.
“Ask and you shall receive,”she encouraged.“It’s been a long while since I’ve seen these inner walls.”
Wait. You’ve explored here?
“When you’re dead for years, it only makes sense to explore what holds the roots of your agony,”she quietly confessed.“This hidden gem is a place that leads to the very root of power within the depths of Demon Valley. To be honest, I’d forgotten about its existence since it’s been so long, but Malifer surely must have recalled these parts, which is why he’s somewhere in this maze of tainted energy.”
So we’re on the right track at least.
“You are.”She sounded very cautious.“However, this is the most dangerous part of the valley, Lexianne. I’d advise you to be very careful. The demons here can steal souls and leave you in a world of hallucinations if you allow it.”
That makes me a little worried for Lauren and Colton.
She didn’t answer immediately, as if assessing their strengths and weaknesses with a simple sense of the atmosphere around me.
"They will reach the sacred spot where they will be safe from the deadly creatures of this realm of darkness, but they won’t be able to follow you after that,”she explained.“However, you’ll need to leave your new pet here.”
“I have to leave Goldibitch here?” I asked out loud before I turned my attention to where she actually was.
When I didn’t see her, I could only look at Lauren, who simply shrugged. That led me to look at Colton, who chuckled and pointed downward.
“Tainted Vixen cut the bitch’s tongue and threw her over the edge when you were deep in thought.” He told on the Time Keeper like it was a secret he’d been desperate to share for years.
“You’re not supposed to rat me out like that,” Lauren muttered, which only had Colton laughing long and hard.
“I’d do it again and again if I get to see that glaring expression of yours,” he praised. “Besides, Lexiboo is going to know my ass didn’t send her down.”
“Why did you do it anyway?” I decided to ask for the hell of it.
“She’s our distractor, right?” Lauren reminded me. “Let her distract by being the perfect bait.”
“Bait for wh…” Colton began and trailed off as the ground beneath our feet began to tremble ever so slightly. Lauren and Colton tugged me further away from the cliff as they stood before me almost protectively. The three of us glanced around before Laura’s piercing, shrill scream echoed against the hollow walls.
We couldn’t even ask what made her scream like that because the biggest creature of darkness I’d ever seen came into view as it climbed along the opposite wall.
All of us gawked at its giant width. The scales on its back alone were mere centimeters from touching Colton and Lauren while the rest of its body oozed thick black liquid that burned through the rock’s surface itself with just a single droplet of its tainted essence.
What left us speechless and frozen in place wasn’t its massive body or the stench of death that came with its appearance, but the mass of bodies that practically made a form of armor along its scaly, oozing flesh.
Shifters of various shapes and sizes were intricately placed along the creature’s body as if they were medals of honor that deserved to be displayed.
It paused in its movement, tendrils of black whipping around as if to grasp more prisoners for it to feast on.
I caught onto Laura’s body, noticing how her complexion was now purple while her bulging eyes were oozing black blood. You could literally see the life leaving her with every second that passed, but the creature began to move once more, crawling upward until an opening on the opposite wall emerged and gave it access to slide its massive body into its chambers.
“That should keep that creature occupied for a while,” Lauren declared with a disgusted look on her face.
“Should we even ask what that was?” Colton pondered more to himself as he continued to stare upward. “And we ain’t getting Goldibitch back, are we?”
“She can stay with that Dazolace until we’re done,” Lauren suggested. “Those are one of the deadliest dark creatures of any dark realm. In human literature, they’re creatures that live in the deepest depths of the ocean and are triple the size of the eldest whale in existence. That clearly had to be a baby Dazolace since it’s able to fit the radius of this place.”
“A baby…” Colton muttered. “Ya…once we get this crown, let’s never come here again.”
