Chapter 60 - Death March II

Riku and Emma were doing everything just to survive in this quest which was the Death March. In this circumstance, his task was to escape and remain alive while the process depended on him.

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The sound of monsters' magical attacks and their groans was enveloped the entire place, aiming at the man who was swiftly wanted to leave this cave.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A continuous explosion transpired. And Riku was right the wall in this place wasn't easy to destroy, it just made huge portions that were falling to the water.

Splash! Splash! Splash!

Moreover, the stability of his [Fly] ability was started to lose as the Sonic bats were releasing high frequency.

"Fuck this sound! It's rupturing my ears and I feel it's cracking my head!" Tears formed in the corner of his eyes, hadn't had an idea how they were going to avoid this kind of attack.

After that, Emma pinched his stomach just to bring back his senses. Or to be exact, Emma wanted him to focus to escape in this place and explained that there was no way to dodge the monster's attack.

"What are you doing, Riku? Back your composure and just spread wings we are near to reaching that hole!" Even though she was feeling severe pain, still, she was encouraging him since this man was the main key to seeing the outside world again.

"I know that, Emma! It's just way too hard to concentrate if you're feeling something like this!" Riku was complaining to her for no good reason.

Swish!

As soon as the sharp sound went to his ears, he can't stop himself to wouldn't glance at his behind and seeing the huge monster was throwing a tiny monster so that they could drag them down back to the surface.

To describe the monsters had a bulk body, it was looked like a tusk and had the ability to stand up like a human. Moreover, it had white fur, blue aggressive eyes, huge arms, three meters height, and originated inhabited in this magical cave. In this world, the adventurer here called it protector since it had high intelligence and power that enough to protect the place.

"W-Why does the protector suddenly appear in this place?" Emma stuttered while her eyes widened as she was savvied with this monster ability.

But for Riku that was the Tusk that can be found at the level C dungeon. By just simply looking at this creature, he already had an idea what its ability and how far the monster's strength was than him.

•[Commoner Tusk] - mostly this monster inhabited somewhere in the place that had a low temperature. By staying in this place, its ice ability and physical vastly increased.

[Commoner Tusk's skill(s)]

•[Fetch]- By using its high physical strength it can throw a large boulder even a certain car.

•[Serastes Ice!] By regulating the magical power inside its body, it can produce elemental magic which is the Ice. It can slow down the enemy and lose their stamina little by little because of the too much cold.

•[Brick wall]- this skill can easily destroy your opponent's defense no matter how hard they tried.

From the mutant in his world, it was one of the avoidable monsters as it can easily destroy their defense and kill them in just the blink of an eye.

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Back on the perilous place, Riku wasn't now looking at the Tusk, or to be exact, he was looking at the monsters that had green texture, sharp claws, and red gleaming eyes. At first sight, you will say that monster was a Goblin, but it wasn't. It was Goborabbit, the mixed breed of the Goblin and Sanry Rabbit, the two main horny monsters that Riku had been now.

Yet, it was also a dangerous monster. Remember, it was a mixed breed of the two monsters, so it means it possessed a high speed and precision to perfectly deal massive damage.

Sonic bats and one Goborabbit were flying in the mid-air, trying to reach the two adventurers who wanted to leave the place as the fastest thing they knew. However, Emma had a malicious smile on her face while looking at them.

"Just fly straight ahead, Riku! Leave everything to me!" Emma confidently said, then slowly closing her eyes while her mouth was opening smoothly, looked like she was murmuring some words that she was the only one who could understand.

Fifty meters was the remaining distance they needed before they reached the hole and safely leave the place without having any casualties.

After a few were moments. As soon as Emma aggressively opened her eyes, she narrowly climbed up at Riku's shoulders, then swung her black knife towards the monsters coming at them at once.

[Amazon Blade!]

And all of a sudden, a green-black magical circle appeared over their heads, and it was releasing multiples mid-range blades, also, of course, a force that boosted them up.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

A sharp sound of the green-black magical blades arose in the place, and by just simply hearing the sounds you could those attacks were penetrating the monsters' bodies.

Argh! Argh! Argh!

The monsters were groaning in pain, even the Goborabbit, unfortunately, could not survive Emma's attack. Moreover, two of them were rapidly flying in the hole because of the force given by Emma's attack.

"Oi! Oi! Oi! Why you didn't do that much earlier so that we can easily escape in this place!" He said with a broad smile on his face, knowing at this swift pace, the monsters were impossible to reach them.

"You have never asked me, Riku." She nonchalantly replied, seeing the monsters' blood come along on the water underneath them.

Emma was quite right since Riku still didn't know what was the ability Emma had. So he just smiled at her and felt lucky that this talented adventurer woman joined in his expedition. Even though Arisu offered some guards for him to join in this expedition, he refused. Why? He knew he can protect large numbers, at the same time, he was uncomfortable using the full potential of his ability.

As soon as the distance of the hole was around eight meters, he didn't hesitate to use his [Fire claw] skill, in order to destroy the last obstacles in front of them.

Swoosh!

His left was looked tougher than before as it was releasing extreme heat which made Emma quickly produce sweat in her entire body. "What is this? This is the power of the person who can control the transformation magic?" She asked herself as the firm of this magical power was way different than she had.

Boom!

The sound of rocks melting with his fire with the added sharpness of his claws easily destroys the thin hole above them. At the same time, the strong sunlight was entering inside the cave and let him feel some pain. However, he endured it since, at any moment, Emma and Riku escape in the suddenly death March.

Boom! Splash! Boom! Splash!

The portions of rock he destroyed were falling on the water, yet, they fly higher and fast just to eliminate the possibility that the other monsters would chase them once again.

Both of them were looking at each other come along with delighted smiles on their faces as they never anticipated they can possibly escape in that place.

"We did it, Emma! We are safe now!" Riku happily said.

"Yes! Riku! We succeeded to complete this small expedition, and I get one monster orb it's enough to have food for a certain week." Emma responded.

They were flying for a couple of minutes until they were totally made a huge distance within the cave and found out that the monsters were not chasing them. Furthermore, one Emma noticed while they were traveling, was the pace was started to slow down and their height was not that high as they now were leveling under the ten meters trees.

She looked above, seeing the tired of eyes Riku and noticed that he was stopping talking for no good reason. "Riku, you looked so tired, why we don't take a rest here before we come back to the Arzotoc village." She said with a worried complexion.

Riku was looking at her with his lifeless eyes, eventually narrowly nodded his head as he admitted that he was already exhausted in that occurrence. Since if he wasn't that exhausted, he will surely check the notification given by the screen that appeared right in front of his eyes and the item he received from completing the quest.

"I-I guess you're right..." He said in a weak tone, also the last words he could say as his vision suddenly became blurry and his black wings vanished.

It appeared using his wings for quite a long also consuming a magical power that drained his mana pool. They were now falling and rolled several times to the ground.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

When the moment they stopped, Riku's body was surrounded by numerous burns and scratches. To be more simple, in the last moment he tried to protect Emma from receiving damage from his failure.

"Hey, Riku! What happened?!"