Chapter 18 Red (Blood) Mountain

Red Mountain, which is also called blood mountain.

Apparently, many people and monsters died at that time, so that's why there is a strong killing aura in the surroundings.

You need to have a strong mental will and power to resist the killing aura or you will just become a mindless killing machine.

So you have to protect yourself.

There are two hidden pieces in this place.

These hidden pieces were mentioned in Kaya's route.

In the game, the evil organization made a conspiracy to kill her parents and successfully killed them.

After that, they suspected that she might take revenge on them for that.

So they planted one spy in the academy by tempting him with that elixir.

But in the end, that spy was just killed by our Protagonist even before he can get that elixir, and players don't know what happened to that elixir.

Now Rain was going to take that elixir and other things also from there now.

Rain stood at the foot of the blood mountain and then started going straight to the top.

But after walking halfway through he stopped at the hillside, then he took a sharp turn to his left and started climbing the mountain again.

After some time, near some large boulders, he saw a cave. And he entered that cave. Quite easy, right?

'Easy your foot!!'

'Going to this damn mountain with this dense killing aura is painful and tiring.

If it wasn't some strength increased and my protection artifact. I can't even step on the mountain.' Rain grumbled inwardly.

"Huff… Hah… Huff…" Rain was quite exhausted. As he fought with the red wolf before coming here and now he had to defend himself from killing aura. It took a toll on his body.

After entering the cave successfully, Rain drank one stamina recovery potion.

As Rain stepped into the cave, he was immediately struck by the darkness that enveloped him. Without hesitation, he reached into his space ring and retrieved his headband with a flashlight. He wore it and with a simple flick of the switch, the beam of light illuminated the immediate area, revealing the rough, rocky terrain of the cave floor.

As he continued walking deeper into the cave, the beam of light from his flashlight revealed more of the cave's features. He could see that the cave walls were jagged and uneven, with stalactites hanging down from the ceiling like menacing teeth.

The air was thick with the musty scent of damp earth, and the sound of water dripping echoed throughout the cavern.

As Rain's eyes adjusted to the dim light, he began to notice something unsettling about the cave. Scattered throughout the cavern were the remains of many creatures, both human and monster alike. The skeletons of humans lay scattered amongst the rocks, their bones picked clean by the ravages of time. The remains of monsters, on the other hand, were still relatively intact, their powerful frames are frozen in death.

Yeah, these are remains of 'Great Reshuffle'.

Although Rain could loot them as they might have some good things. However, for now, Rain just started walking deep into the cave.

At the end of the cave, there was only a single skeleton. Its position was like he was resting for the last time.

Even from the aura of the skeleton, Rain could say that he was SS-RANKER when he was alive.

Seeing it Rain just slightly bowed with respect and started searching for it.

Soon he got something.

'And here we go.' The thing Rain got from him was a high-tier space ring and in that ring space in it was quite wide.'

[Note: These are the storage sizes of the space rings.

Low-tier space ring-around 1×1×1 meter space,

Mid-tier space ring-around space equal to a big room,

High-tier space ring-around space equal to a house

There are also supreme-tier space rings, but they never appeared in the game.]

In this space ring, there was quite a space.

There were some documents, maybe regarding the military or the war.

There were also a bunch of weapons for self-defense and the last thing is the elixir.

That elixir was Foundation Building Elixir.

It is said that the general of the military got this elixir by killing the alien race leader.

Because of this elixir, even gentle and kind students of the academy got tempted and became a spy for the evil organization.

'But now who cares.' Rain just scoffed at the plot.

This elixir was the reason that Rain came here. Although he can come here in the future too. However, he needed to come here now. There were some reasons. First, only people with a below D rank can use it and second he didn't know when that crazy people from the evil organization would come here. It's better to finish his business as early as possible.

Although Rain wanted to use it quickly however he remained cautious as he scanned his surroundings.

'Let's first make a grave for these skeletons. After all, they died on the battlefield as brave soldiers.' Rain thought.

After making a grave for them, Rain slightly bowed in respect for them.

Then he sealed the cave entrance with a large boulder because he wanted to spend the night there.

After making a grave and clearing the cave. The killing aura in the surroundings subsided a bit.

Soon Rain found a place to sit, he took out the bottle of the elixir and consumed it.

*GULP*

*GULP*

The taste of an elixir was like rotten milk. Rain really wanted to vomit but he controlled himself.

After drinking the elixir, Rain's bones started cracking, his muscles tensed, and there were slight cracks in his skin and black liquid flooded out of his body pores.

'It hurts like hell.'

Rain wanted to scream at the top of his lungs.