CH.45

After sleeping for who knows how long, Johanna was woken up by a spider crawling in the hole in which she had been sleeping until now. Johanna killed the spider who woke her up and focused on her body's status. She wasn't tired anymore, and she wasn't hungry after eating and nearly throwing up the spider again, but her leg was still hurt, and overall, she was still pretty miserable. The poison felt like a minor hangover, but it wasn't affecting her senses anymore.

Johanna peeked her head out of the hole and took a look through the cave; she couldn't spot any spiders, so it looked clear to leave the hole. As she left the hole, she saw the area she was fucked in yesterday, and luckily for her, there was a blood trail from her injured leg leading the way to where she came from. She hoped that the spiders in the cave dispersed away from the room since she didn't want the same thing to happen to her all over again, but this time she would also try not to touch their eggs or fall through their roof, and since she knew of their existence, they didn't have the same surprise effect on her as last time.

But as she followed the blood, she saw that it ended at a sharp rock on the floor. She was probably dragged over, so from then on she would have to guess the direction, but since she was in a tunnel right now, there was only one direction to follow, so it made no big difference. On her way through the tunnel, she stumbled upon a few spiders, whom she decided to kill so that if she was attacked by a "spider wave," it would be smaller and less dangerous. 

And as Johanna had expected, the tunnel was not only one linear one since it split up in multiple other directions. Since she had no idea which way she should follow, she followed an instruction she heard in the previous world, so she just always picked the left option. The tunnels always looked similar, but after walking for what felt like hours, Johanna found not a cave but rather a hallway with decorative statues and engravings on the wall. Since Johanna was way too curious to stick to her rule, she decided that it would be better to go in this hallway.

She followed the hallway, and as she walked through the hallway, the torches ignited themselves, which shocked Johanna, but instead of returning, she decided to press on since she could maybe find an exit this way. The walls had some weird decorations or inscriptions on them, which Johanna had to analyse; they looked like hieroglyphs, but she could only try to interpret the meaning of the pictures. They depicted a weird, dark figure being locked in a coffin and being brought here. She walked further and saw the shadowy figure fighting an army and winning, and the final conclusion could be a warrior who received some kind of holy sword to defeat the figure.

Johanna wasn't sure if it was a good idea to release it since the thing buried here seemed to have been very strong and dangerous, but she assumed that whatever was buried here would have to be long dead by now. So she continued only glancing at the other pictures on the wall, not reading them, since she didn't want to get scared and return empty-handed. 

She tried to convince herself that she could literally just fuck the being and take control over it as long as it was still alive, which it probably wasn't. As she continued down the hallway, she spotted a giant golden gate. She took a closer look at it and saw these same hieroglyphs again, and just like she convicted herself that she wouldn't read them and continued onwards, she did. 

The door required a lot of heavy pushing from Johanna, but the door eased up and was pushed open with a loud creak. Johanna took a look around the large room and spotted the coffin of the thing being buried here, while she also saw a lot of what appeared to be holy objects to seal away the evil being.

Johanna couldn't hold back anymore, so she approached the coffin of the being and took a closer look. Even though the being was buried by its enemies, it was still given a beautiful and golden coffin, which surprised Johanna, who decided that she should open the coffin up. 

The coffin lid was also very heavy, so Johanna took quite a while to open it fully, but after pushing the lid away, she saw the very comfortable-looking interior of the coffin, but the thing that lay in it was truly unexpected to Johanna.