Chapter 178: She disappeared Part2

"Hey. Step away from there." Tang Yue shouted.

"What? Why?" 

Charlotte absentmindedly answered her as she glanced at her beautiful reflection on the still azure waters of the lake.

A pair of familiar enchanting eyes stared back at her, a tinge of sadness hidden within them.

Charlotte's mind wandered to the various events that had happened recently.

She looked at Tang Yue from the corner of her eye and felt guilty for everything that she had done to her.

But as Tang Yue's gaze met her eyes, she quickly turned away and looked at her reflection again.

She was too embarrassed to meet her gaze.

"Just do as I tell you. Move." Tang Yue shouted again.

"Ok," Charlotte grumbled and decided to step away. 

But as she glanced back at her reflection one last time before stepping away, a pair of big round fluorescent yellow eyes suddenly surfaced in the spot where her reflection was previously visible.

The face that was staring back at her was no longer her own reflection.

Aaack 

Charlotte shrieked in surprise and fear and stumbled back, falling on the rough ground as she lost her balance.

"What the heck is that?" Her lips trembled. 

She had fallen back too quickly and only vaguely remembered seeing the gigantic outline of a head beneath those clear azure blue water as if the head was a part of the lake itself.

Imagine peeking into a lake and a monster suddenly jumping out of it to devour you. She almost had a heart attack.

"I must be hallucinating." Charlotte weakly smiled and tried to dust off her shock and fear, as she got up from the rocky ground.

But unfortunately for her, she was not in the least hallucinating.

A huge bumpy head azure blue in color slowly emerged from the lake, stirring the calm and still waters into a ravenous vortex.

The azure colored body emitted a soft glow similar to the tiny glow worms on the ceiling of the underground clearing.

But this one was in no manner tiny. 

The enormous glow-worm roared alive as it splashed out of the water, half its body hanging in the air.

Its lower body was still submerged deep within the lake, making it impossible to fully tell its length.

"This… This…" Charlotte stuttered and gaped in utter shock.

Tang Yue was also completely dumbfounded, unable to blink her eyes.

This was because the beast roaring and swaying in front of them was neither a simple high-grade beast nor a rare-grade beast, rather it was one of the supreme existences in Xion, standing at the top of the food pyramid, an epic-grade beast.

Its power and strength alone were akin to a storm dragon that had terrorized the entire Nine countries a few centuries back.

Even Xander was equivalent to an ant in front of this humongous monstrosity.

In front of the monster's strong aura and raw killing intent, Tang Yue and Charlotte were not even able to breathe, let alone think.

It was as if they were frozen solid in shock.

As its gargantuan body emerged from the lake, the beast roared ferociously, its shrill voice sending a tremor through the entire mountain range.

The intense sound waves were strong enough to blast the small pieces of rocks bordering the lake.

Both Charlotte and Tang Yue were tossed aside by this sheer pressure as if they were nothing better than the rocks which had shattered.

Tang Yue was luckily flung into the tunnel through which they had entered, while Charlotte's slender body rammed on the cave's wall, still within the underground opening.

The elf's eyes drained of all color as she turned towards her side and panicked. 

She was still a few meters away from the tunnel opening, through she could potentially run and escape, but that few meters right now might as well be a thousand kilometers.

There was absolutely no way that she was ever going to get out of here alive. 

Tears streamed out of her eyes as the elf weakly tumbled on the ground from the impact of the hit. 

Blood spluttered from the back of her head.

Tang Yue was also gravely injured as her body hit the hard cave floor.

But the injuries helped her snap out of the shock and the trance-like state. 

She had somewhat regained her consciousness and awareness. 

This was it. There was no point in hesitating anymore. This was the time to use her ultimate trump card.

The snake hoped and prayed that this would work as she bit her lips and muttered with a ghastly expression on her face.

"Lucky sticker! Purchase and activate!"

Tang Yue trembled. There was a second of eerie silence that ensued after the beast's terrifying roar.

She could hear her heart loudly thumping against her chest. 

She could feel the fragility of her life stark naked in front of her. 

At any instant now, she could die and disappear completely from this world.

"Come on. Come on. Work… please…" Tang Yue silently pleaded, when suddenly a series of notifications ensued.

Ding. Congratulations! Your soul strength has been consumed and one lucky sticker has been purchased at the cost of half of your soul strength.

Ding. Congratulations! Lucky Sticker has been activated.

Ding. Congratulations! Little snake is blessed with heaven-defying luck for the next 5 minutes.

These notifications which she had always considered to be silly and stupid, now sounded heavenly to her bleeding ears.

Not long after that, a loud rumbling noise echoed.

The beast reared its head again and let out another heaven shattering roar, as the tunnel inside which Tang Yue laid started crumbling.

It was as if that section of the mountain itself was collapsing and shutting itself off from the gigantic monstrous beast.

"Ahhh" Tang Yue shouted in realization. 

She quickly grasped what was happening and what was the best route of escape for her. 

She started scrambling out and running away in the midst of the huge chunks of rocks that were crumbling all around her.

She needed to get out of here! Now!

If she could successfully put some distance between herself and the lake, then she could probably escape this dire predicament.

As Tang Yue's feet mindlessly raced out of the tunnel, she crawled and ran, dragging her injured body along with her.

But as she was about to take another step, the image of an elf popped inside her brain.

"Charlotte…" 

She had almost forgotten. The elf was still stuck back there, probably wounded and half-dead.