Chapter 180: Buried

Chapter 180: Buried

Lake didn't let the panic set in and just kept a cool head as he tried to start to climb his way upwards. Lake could tell right away that the Demon Worshiper was doing something to the earth around him to make it frictionless or at least he couldn't get it to provide enough support to use it to move upwards.

Once he realized he couldn't move and he was starting to run out of breath he couldn't stop himself from getting a little scared. Thankfully he hadn't stopped gathering Wind mana and he now had enough to try and use Fly. He wasn't sure what would happen if he tried to fly under ground but he needed air.

Getting the Mana spinning Lake cast fly and felt himself move but he wasn't really able to get very far before the area around him opened up again. Lake was able to see in the dark so he could see that he was now in a sphere and when he reached the top of it he felt it was stone. It seemed the Demon Worshipper was able to tell he had been making his way out of the earth and changed the form of imprisonment.

Lake was sure this would work on normal people because there weren't many who could get out of this while still struggling for breath. He was able to breathe now but the air in this bubble seemed to be thin, probably from the way it had been created underground. Lake had the perfect plan though. Continue reading on No_veLbIn

He had accidentally done what he needed to do now earlier when he had thrown his knife into the ground after using Crunch. Using Mana Vision Lake looked for the Demon Worshipers core Grabbing his knife Lake used Crunch and threw it towards the core.

He threw it as hard as he could so it hit the Demon Worshiper almost instantly and then Lake put his mouth up to the hole he had made by throwing the knife to get the stream of air that was now coming to fill the bubble he was in.

"I think it was when I left, but I didn't stick around for too long after the Demon Worshiper got away." After Lake said this, Freed turned towards the group that had gathered and said. "We Need someone to go tell Masters we have something here that needs investigators." After he said this a few of the people in the group volunteered to ride the elevator back up to get the people at the guild involved and Freed nodded saying they could go.

As they were watching them leave, Freed said. "Lets just set up a perimeter for now. I don't think it's a good idea to go down there till we have someone here who could kill something like that with magic or at a distance." Lake thought he probably could if someone told him how to get rid of the barrier but he was all for letting someone else do it for him.

After they spread around the house to watch it from all angles to make sure no one went in or out, Freed came over to him and asked. "So what happened after we ran?" Lake had no problems telling Freed what he had done because it made him sound like a hero so he told the truth. "I used a skill to collapse the roof on the Demon Worshiper behind the barrier because nothing I had was affecting it in any way and it was the only thing I could think of to stop him from completing whatever it was they were doing."

Freed nodded and said. "Yeah we really didn't have the time to drain the barrier in a normal way. You made the right call if you don't care about surviving." Lake looked at his dirty body and guessed Freed thought he had had to dig himself out of the collapses and said. "The collapse was actually stopped by the Demon Worshiper though once the barrier was down. It seemed they were an Earth mage and were able to control the stone to rebuild the room. All this dirt is actually from an attack they used on me before they ran."

Freed nodded and said. "So you didn't just collapse the room onto yourself, you were able to get away and that was why you used that method. In that case I guess it was a good plan all around. Nothing wrong with using a brute force method when necessary. I remember this one time back before I came to the Metal Domain I took a mission to kill spiders inside a cave and instead of going inside to fight them we used a nearby river to flood the cave."

Lake looked at Freed as he was telling the story and guessed the fact they were having a conversion like this Freed was starting to see him as one of them. He was flattered but he would have rathered if Freed started to see him as someone to look up to. Once the story of killing the spiders was over Lake asked. "What were the other groups doing before you went to get them?"

Lake knew there were probably other groups of Demon Worshipers here on this floor and wanted to know where because he was sure the Demon Worshiper that had gotten away had went strait there and he hadn't thought to put a mark on them so he couldn't just know where they were when ever he wanted.

"They were doing similar stuff to what we were before you came along and told us that there were Demon Worshipers in the building we were watching. Don't worry we'll get to it before the day is over." Lake nodded and looked around at the others they were now working with to guard the building and wondered if they would be ok with him skipping out now to go after the one that got away.