Slowly and with serious looks on their faces, Austin and Nasir approached the monks.
"Well, it sound like we will have to fight our way out," Austin said, frowning.
"I know what you're thinking, but I don't think it will work,"
the old monk replied, shaking his head.
"Over the years, we have tried to battle our way out so many times, but we always fail.
The white skeleton shadows are too strong for us to defeat,"
the old monk continued.
"But things are different now. We have Master Nasir. All of us will make it out of here alive,"
Austin reassured them.
'Master Nasir stands no chance against the five white creatures over there, but it should be no problem for him to destroy the white skeleton shadows, ' Austin thought, scratching his chin.
"Who are they?"
Nasir murmured to himself as he sized up the white creatures in the center of the open space.
As if the white creatures were answering him, an explosion was heard and a burst of white death energy appeared on their bodies.
Waves of pressure swept across the ground from the
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for his tricks,"
Austin said, wiping a layer of sweat off of his forehead.
"Austin, that was actually very impressive.
A long time ago, I was in the same position as you and almost walked all the way to that creature.
The thing that saved me was the fact that I'd been studying the Buddhism for years, and that I'd learned the truth about life and death. I returned to my senses before it was too late.
If I was not versed in Buddhism, I would have died in the hands of the five white creatures,"
the old monk admitted with a bitter smile.
"That's right.
Over the years, we have relied on our collective chanting of the Buddhist scriptures to resist the temptation of death from the five white creatures,"
another monk added.
"Austin, we need to leave this place.
These creatures are a huge threat to us,"
Nasir told Austin, looking at him with wary eyes.
Austin turned back to look at the array patterns around the five white creatures and shook his head slightly.
"No, I'm not leaving. Please give me some more time," he refused.