Chapter 10: SHIT!!! FIRREEEE!!!

Chapter 10: SHIT!!! FIRREEEE!!!

Immediately, Captain Aelia said that, two of the soldiers moved forward, both of them stretching their hands out, and magically, a small hole opened up on the metallic armor covering their palms.

What followed was a large stream of air that shifted away the sand particles from the surface of the metallic covering. After 30 seconds of blowing away the sand, the air finally stopped oozing out of their palms.

What was now on the ground was a circular metallic covering made of some strange dark crystal that radiated with motes of dark energy to Hael.

Bending to the ground, one of the soldiers carefully twisted the metallic covering and removed it.

With a raised hand signal, fingers clenched in a countdown of five seconds, Captain Aelia immediately jumped down the hole, her intense stare flashing around the darkness as she held her guns tightly in her hands while scanning the area.

But she could easily see there was no visible difference. Immediately after five seconds of her being in the hole, the entire group started descending down the hole, and Hael, who just happened to be the last to jump in, simply followed the crowd's movement.

Looking around him, he saw a pretty huge dark cave illuminated by the multicolored crystals hung all over the large stalactites and stalagmites emerging from the ground and from the top of the dark ceiling.

A long narrow path that continued far into the distance could be seen, and immediately the group steadily and stealthily advanced forward, white light from their guns illuminating the area for Hael to see as they rapidly traversed the straight and smooth path of the cave.

Thirty minutes later, the group was still traversing, the sight of the smallest creature not having been caught, nor a single anomaly having arisen.

That was when the feeling of danger began assaulting Hael's senses, the feeling as if something bad was about to happen. And that was what made him even more vigilant, as he spread out his senses and tried to connect with it, the only thing he was familiar with from Aetheria, and seemed to be unchanged no matter the location: the Mana.

"Yes, Captain Aelia..." "Come and stand behind me, and replicate every of my steps. I don't trust you enough to think you wouldn't activate the traps due to some stupid sorry mistake that could potentially ruin the mission..." Captain Aelia said as Hael's eyebrow furrowed, but he got tapped on the shoulder by Zhng, who gave him a look that said, 'You can trust her.'

"Yes, Captain Aelia..." Hale replied, and he made his way forward, coming to stand directly behind Captain Aelia.

Immediately, the signal to keep moving forward was sent as the group began moving forward in a strange zig-zag manner, even though the narrow path was no wider than ever.

Standing behind Captain Aelia wasn't only safe for Hale, as she was no doubt the strongest one among them and should better save his sorry ass in case of danger.

He could also now experience the dark magic present in those lines and the deeper they went, the more than Hael recognized something, something very strange.

"Captain Aelia..." He whispered behind her back as they kept advancing forward.

"What is it, Kiddo?" "I feel like... I feel like..." Hale struggled to say as Captain Aelia immediately stopped from her feet, the same as the rest of the soldiers, and she turned her full attention to Hael.

"You feel like what, Hael?"

"I feel like these traps were made just two minutes ago..." Hale declared as Captain Aelia's face massively changed, and in the next second, she immediately raised her gun directly into the air, and there it was, a large group of strange alien creatures that hung around the ceilings on all fours, their pitch-black eyes currently staring at them.

"SHIT!!! FIRE!!!!"