Chapter 125 - Into The Secret Path!

"There is a way to reach the outer wall without going through the trade central area and the gate," Vicar said that to me. 

"Really? there is a way to get to the outer wall..." I ask him as I never know that there was away. 

"Are you joking? You don't remember... you also know the secret way." Vicar said that as it makes me think. 

I then think for about five minutes until I realized that I indeed knew the secret way to the outer wall. It was the way that we tried to use it when we wanted to enter the town. It just that we had to turn back as there were so many lurking giant rats in that place. 

When I think about it, that place was really dangerous as it has the nest of the giant rats in there. Vicar could get himself hurt if he trying to use it. I then ask him whether he really wanted to use that path as we might be in much more trouble if we use it anyway. 

"Wait does that mean we're gonna use that way? Isn't that dangerous..." I said that as that place was still full of giant rats. 

"I know it's dangerous but I do think I could handle them now, cause I can use my skill now," Vicar said as he was really confident in his skill to defeat the giant rats. 

"I believe you as I already see how capable you are when fighting the undead..." Somehow I believe he could kill all of the giant rats as the giant rats were that much powerful compare to some skeletons that we fought. 

"Just for the information that the secret path entrance was in the noble district, so we need to go there," Vicar told me about it. 

With that, Vicar went back to the alleyway that we once used to get to the noble district as it was the fastest way to get there. Along the way, I ask Vicar some questions that I wanted to ask him about and it was related to his skill. 

"Vicar? While we still on our way to the noble district... may I ask you something." 

"Sure! Just ask me as I don't think we will have time for question when we fighting Eli." Vicar said that as he didn't mind me asking him a few things. 

"I'm curious about your skill, why didn't you used it before... because you start using it when we fighting the Elite Skeletons," I said that as I was wondering why he didn't use it before. 

"I simply can't use it before I fight the Elite Skeletons..." He said. 

"Eh? You can't use it... so how come you can use it now." I ask him as it doesn't make sense that he was able to use his skill now. 

"I don't know, I remember that I tried to use the skill when we fight the giant rats but it didn't work..." Vicar said that. 

"So that means that you also didn't know how you could use the skill suddenly right?" I ask him that. 

"Yes! I absolutely had no idea why I can use it now... I don't know maybe because I believe I could use it when we were in trouble while fighting the Elite Skeletons." He said that as he tried to say that the power to believe makes him able to use it.

I disagree with him but I wouldn't say it directly to him, I believe that it might be because of me. I realized that when Vicar said he can't use it before and able to use it when fighting the Elite Skeletons. My theory was that because I had reached my max level, Vicar could use his skill. 

When I haven't reached my max level, he couldn't use it. It must be related to me why he was able to use it but I shouldn't care about that right now as I should be a focus on the task at hand. Luckily, there were no skeletons crawling up from the ground and it makes arrive at the noble district with just a few minutes. 

Vicar stands for a while, it seems like he was thinking about something. I then ask him what he was thinking about as I could help him to solve it if there was any problem. Vicar then said something and it was indeed a real problem. 

At first, I thought he was just joking around but after I ask him to stop to make any jokes in this situation. He then said that he was not making any jokes as Vicar really didn't know where the entrance of the secret path that could help us get to the outer wall. 

"You didn't know the entrance of the secret path!" I said that as I thought Vicar would know it. 

"I just know the location would be in the noble district but didn't know which one as there were many manholes in this area." He said that as he doesn't know which one. 

"I guess the only choice we had was to open all of them and look for the one that has a giant rat inside..." I said that to Vicar as it was the only option we had. 

Vicar agrees to my idea and does it immediately. We open the first manhole that was near us and look inside it, it was not the secret path as it was just the sewer. He then returns to the ground, Vicar didn't give up as he kept opening another manhole. 

More than seventeen-minute has passed and yet we still didn't find the secret path, it feels like we wasted our time searching for it as we could just go through the trade central area and the town gate. It might be better than this. 

Vicar then walked to another manhole in the area. If I was not wrong, this will make our tenth manhole of the day. Vicar lift up the cover and went inside the manhole, it was dark compared to the other manhole that we check on. 

Suddenly we hear some sound, we had heard this sound before and we noticed it right away. It was the sound of the giant rats, squeaking, and chattering sounds. We both realize that we finally found the entrance of the secret path that was in the town. 

We then realized we had to repeat the same mistake when we first enter this secret path, it was not carrying any light source. We were completely in the dark and we wouldn't know when the giant rats will attack us. Vicar could only take out his dagger and prepare for the attack. 

"How can we forgot to bring a torch..." I said that to Vicar.

"We were pretty dumb to forget about that right?" He replies back as the sound of the giant rats makes us know that it was near us. 

"Hahaha! So do you think you could handle the giant rats in this dark?" I ask Vicar about that.

"I believe I could handle it and you know my power of belief could make me overcome anything right?" He said that he uses his catchphrase once again. 

"Well, I guess it's up to you then…but if you going to say that. Prove it to me that you were able to hit one of the giant rats in the dark with your power of belief!" I said that to Vicar. 

I was kinda annoyed with the power of belief of him but I didn't expect that he could really do it. As I realized that Vicar's body suddenly moves and seems to hit something. It must be the giant rat that tries to jump on Vicar but get slash by the dagger. 

"See? Is that enough to be proof or you want me to kill all of the giant rats in the dark so you can believe in the power?" He said that as he makes another slash in the dark.

That random slash again hit another giant rat that trying to attack us as we could hear a sound of high-pitched squeaks. I don't know whether he has gotten lucky or it was really the power to believe that makes him able to hit the giant rats in the dark. 

I know that Vicar was hitting the giant rats but I don't think it would be that easy to kill all of them in the dark. We still need a light source to light up this place. 

"I wish that we had a light source..." I said that to myself. 

To my surprise, I started to glow. My red gem started to glow brightly and because of it, we could finally see the whole place now. We both were shocked when we were able to see this place, we really thought that it would be easy but it was not. 

"This wouldn't be easy..." I said that to Vicar.

"It seems we would have to spend more time here..." Vicar reply.