26 Reached!

After entering the right tunnel, the trio immediately took out of their magical burning torches to light the way.

Luckily, the ground they were stepping wasn't ruggy nor too dangerous unlike other caves and their pace was considerably fast.

"How long will this walk take?", Drake asked.

"About a few hours.", Kate answered.

"I guess the next few hours will be uneventful.", Drake sighed in disappointment.

"Do you want to fight more spiders?" Kate snickered.

Drake: "You!"

"We should still be careful, there might be monsters in here.", Allen said.

"Yes... but do you think there will be any giant spiders in here?", Drake asked.

"Most likely.", Kate and Allen answered at the same time.

"Oh.", Drake took out his dagger from his sleeves while holding the torch with his other hand.

Allen: "..."

Kate: "..."

'At least he's always prepared.', Allen inwardly chuckled.

Suddenly, the cave shook, almost making them fall of their balance. After which, the stalactites fell from the ceiling, raining down towards trio.

However, the three of them already prepared for the stalactites to fall, the other two took out their daggers and all of them sent dagger flashes towards the falling stalactites.

-sou-

The stalactites that were heading for the trio were sliced apart by their dagger flashes, though the ones heading for Allen almost turned into dust.

The other stalactites, on the other hand, either broke when it made contact with the ground or crashed with the other stalactites.

"Did you use too much energy to your dagger flash?", Kate asked.

"No, I just used the normal amount of energy.", Allen replied.

"You're almost catching up to our level!", Drake commented.

Actually, earlier, Kate and Drake only used below average amount of energy to release dagger flashes that were strong enough to slice apart the stalactites that were heading to them. On the other hand, Allen used the normal amount of energy to release his (Dagger Flash).

Now that most of the stalactites had fallen to the floor of the cave, the ground became ruggy and dangerous.

"Be careful on where you will step on.", Kate reminded.

"Mhm.", Allen and Drake nodded.

Several minutes of arduous travel passed, and the trio reached a large chamber with many more tunnels stretching out to seven different directions.

"The right path is at the middle.", Kate looked at the map then kept it back afterwards.

They continued their walk, however, when they were already near the tunnel, Drake stepped on a rock which sunk into the ground.

Drake noticed what just happened and felt there was something wrong, "Uh oh."

"What is it?", Kate asked, while Allen made a curious gaze, but before Drake could say amything, the ground rumbled again; luckily, this time, there were only a few stalactites on the ceiling, which didn't go towards the them even once.

The boulders scattered around the chamber shook, and rolled towards the largest boulder beside the tunnel. In a few seconds, they stacked up on each other, and two glowing eyes appeared on the highest rock.

Recognizing what was it, the three couldn't help but suck in a cold breath as they thought at the same time.

'A golem.'

When the golem stabilized it's footing, it blocked the passageway using a boulder beside it. After which, it howled and slowly walked towards them.

Each of its steps could shake the whole chamber, making the monster more intimidating.

As the distance between the golem and the trio wasn't that far to begin with, then it started to attack with it's fist. However, the trio already backed away from their previous location.

-whoosh- -bam-

When the golem's fist hit the ground, it created an another tremor, after which, it lifted its fist back up, there, the kids saw that the ground that they were standing before was caved in due to the golem's punch!

"Good thing the golem is slow, or else we're already blood pastes by now!", Kate remarked.

"Is there any way to defeat the golem?", Drake looked at Allen. The latter was the most intelligent in the group to begin with.

Kate also looked at Allen, "It better not be a pickaxe... right?"

"Don't worry, it's not!", Allen assured as he tried to remember the weakness of the golem.

"Could the golem also be under the curse?", Drake asked.

"No, basic elemental beings won't be affected by almost any kind of curses.", Allen said.

-bam- -bam-

The golem's steps were heavy as ever as it slowly approached the trio, however, the kids had already increased their distance once again.

"I got it, we need to destroy the the golem's core inside its chest.", Allen pointed at the golem's chest, which was also the largest boulder.

"We need a weapon that could pierce through stone, but we don't have that kind of a weapon.", Kate said.

Allen thought of the Erchian Dagger at first, but dismissed the idea. The said weapon was too risky to use, and most likely won't even last a second in Allen's hands due to his small amount of energy, even after Lord Levine helped him increase the energy of the body that he could store.

"How about we continously damage the chest?", Drake suggested.

"We could, but the golem could probably heal the cracks.", Allen said. "We don't know all of its abilities."

"Are there any other ways to destroy that monster?", Kate asked.

"I'm sure there are, but I don't know them.", Allen shook his head.

After a brief pause, he said, "But we should try probing it with dagger flashes first."

"Alright, I'll use the average amount of energy needed.", Drake said.

"Me too.", Kate said. "Release it at my count, one, two, three, now!"

Each of them made a dagger flash which flew towards the chest of the golem.

-bam-

Smoke and dust rose up from the golem's chest, however, when it settled down, there wasn't even a scratch!

"It's tougher than I thought.", Allen massaged his forehead to think of a way, then he said, "I got another idea!"

"Kate can you make it blind with throwing knives that are charged with energy? If we can't kill it, let's just leave it here.", the kid continued.

"Alright.", Kate took out two throwing knives, and this time, she inserted energy in it!

-whoosh-

After which, she threw them, and accurately hit the eyes of the golem!

-boom-

In addition, due to the energy that was inside the throwing knives, it exploded and the golem held it's eyes in pain. Even though the golem could probably heal cracks on its body, it's a different story when it came to its eyes, because the said part of their body was special and almost irreplaceable.

"Drake could you make it attack the boulder blocking the center passageway?", Allen asked.

"Of course.", Drake activated his Speed Amulet and rushed in front of the boulder blocking the tunnel they were suppose to go in.

"Hey, I'm here!", Drake sent out a dagger slash towards the golem. Just like what happened earlier, it didn't create a scratch, but it was enough to get the golem's attention.

It howled angrily and charged towards Drake's location while punching out with a hand. The speed of the golem's charge was much faster than earlier, it was as if it was disregarding the possibility that the chamber might collapse, however, the kid's reaction was fast and got out of the way in time.

-bang-

The golem punched the boulder blocking the way, and cracked into pieces! As it was about to punch again, Kate sent out a dagger flash from behind the golem, making it go towards the girl's and Allen's location.

But it was all under Allen's plan, the two already ran away and regrouped in front of the center passageway with Drake.

"Let's go."

...

This time, the walk through the passageway almost took an hour until they finally entered another chamber.

When the trio entered the new chamber, they weren't able to spot the walls nor the ends of the said location, even with the magical fire of the torches they were holding other than the location near them, the whole chamber was pitch black!

"This is the final chamber, the treasure is suppose to be in here, but where is it?", Kate pondered.

"It's probably at the far end of the chamber.", Drake said.

However, in an instant, the ground shook violently, alerting the trio. However, it immediately stopped after a few seconds.

"Did somebody just stepped onto something?", Drake asked.

"No.", Kate said.

"I didn't.", Allen added.

"Let's go...", before Kate could finish her sentence, they all suddenly felt hot air battering their bodies.

"Kate, did you just fart?", Drake asked.

"What?! No!", Kate angrily replied and she hit the back of Drake's head.

'Ow!'

Meanwhile, Allen had a surprised expression with changed to a pale one. The other two then noticed his complexion.

Kate asked, "What is it, Allen?"

"I think I have a guess why the barbarians couldn't take over this mountain without the help of necromancer during the war.", Allen said.

"Oh? What is it then?", Drake asked.

"I remembered that I read something in a book about Mount Watchtower, it was said that long ago, even during the war... a dragon was living in this place.", Allen gulped in his saliva.

Drake blank look at Allen then laughed, "Hahaha... that's impossible, right? Tell me it is! You are just kidding... right?" He already met the giant spiders in the mountain that he feared the most, now they're going to meet a dragon... how crazy was that?!

If somebody else heard what was happening, they would have become insane by now!

Suddenly, they felt hot air battering them again, but this time, they felt that it came from where their backs were facing!

Earlier, the hot air came from above them!

After which, two giant eyes opened behind them.