CHAPTER 43 : HIDDEN MINE

Myro, Boldes, and Tirse waited until Kiel woke up at noon. After Kiel woke up, they started rushing towards the forest.

In the forest they walked carefully. So don't dance the strong monsters in the forest.

Boldes who was walking and observing in front immediately shouted in a low voice so as not to be heard by the monsters "Stop!".

In front of them was a monster shaped like a rhino. This monster was called the Earth Rhino and was a monster equivalent to a tier 7 apprentice mage.

Earth rhinos have tough skin and are very difficult to hurt. Even Myro was sure that his fireball magic could only scratch the rhino's skin and not hurt it.

However, the Earth Rhino is a vegetarian monster and will not attack others unless it is attacked first.

Therefore, after learning that the monster was just an Earth Rhino then Myro and the others would walk away again.

But before they started walking, an enormous snake appeared in front of the Earth Rhino. The snake has jet black skin and very poisonous eyes.

When the Earth Rhino saw the huge snake in front of him, it was immediately startled and was about to run away. However, the snake immediately pounced on the rhino and immediately ate and swallowed the Earth Rhino.

Myro, Boldes, Kiel and Tirse immediately became silent. Such a large rhino can be eaten in one go by this snake. Even the snake's body has the shape of a very large Earth Rhino indicating that the snake has not digested the Earth Rhino.

Because it was full, the snake immediately went back to its nest and digested the Earth Rhino properly.

After the snake left, Boldes immediately said with fear "What snake is that? I've never seen it in the monster books in the Magical Plant Academy. Even the Earth Rhino couldn't fight back at all and was swallowed straight away. Maybe the snake could swallow us all in one go. one meal."

"Don't panic", shouted Myro in a low voice then said again "The snake may be on par with a junior mage. But right now, the snake is full and will sleep in its nest. Then this is our chance! The snake's body is not as strong as the Earth Rhino and the snake has weakness is under the head. We can attack the underside of the snake's head which is much weaker than the rest of the snake".

Tirse immediately said "Are you sure you want to attack the snake Myro? Wouldn't it be better if we didn't fight him? He didn't attack us anyway".

Myro shook his head and said "We are currently close to the house we made. Then the snake's nest must be close to our house. The snake can come at any time, so it's better to kill the snake now, while it will sleep and be in a good condition. weakest. If the snake attacks our house at night, then we will be killed easily".

"That's true", Kiel said as he nodded then said again "You know, snake nests usually have treasures. If we are lucky then maybe we will get rare cultivation resources there".

Hearing that, Boldes and Tirse also became interested. In most books it is explained that snakes and dragons often keep valuable treasures in their nests. Therefore, even though the dragon is strong but many people are interested in fighting it. Because after the dragon is defeated then they will get a comparable treasure.

They finally agreed and started following the trail left by the snake.

Along the path of the snake trail, there was not a single monster. Maybe this snake is the ruler of the area around here so the other monsters become out of existence so as not to be killed.

The snake trail continued until it arrived at a cave. The cave was so dark that no snakes could be seen.

Boldes immediately took wood to use as a torch. Then, Myro used a fireball spell to make the torch. So they can walk and see while in the cave.

Snakes are cunning monsters and are good at stealth attacks. Therefore, Myro and the others had to make sufficient preparations to face this snake.

When they will walk to the cave of the snake. Tirse immediately took Boldes' torch and threw it into the trees.

"What are you doing, Tirse?", shouted Boldes in confusion seeing Tirse's actions.

"Are you stupid?", said Tirse, saying again "The snake will soon sleep. If we go to it with a torch then the snake will wake up. Besides, the dark cave suddenly has a torch light, then the snake will definitely wake up" .

"Snakes are experts in sneak attacks and it is very risky to fight them in the dark. However, our goal here is that we are the ones who will attack the snake by hiding. If we carry a torch then the snake will immediately notice our attack. take advantage of the darkness in the cave to inflict a hidden attack on the snake."

Myro, Kiel and Boldes nodded. What Tyrse said was true. In a dark cave, if they carried a torch then they would be immediately noticed by the enemy. So it's better not to carry a torch.

Therefore, Myro and the others started walking towards the cave slowly. At first it was difficult to walk in the dark, but after a while they began to become experts in walking in the cave.

After approaching the end of the cave they became shocked. In front of them, a large snake with black scales that looked strong was sleeping. In his body there is still a form that resembles the shape of the Earth Rhino which means he has not digested the Earth Rhino.

But, that wasn't what surprised Myro, Boldes, Kiel and Tirse. But what surprised them was that around the snake, the stones in the cave were shining brightly. Seeing the stones of the cave, Boldes immediately said in disbelief and a voice so small that it was not heard by the sleeping snake "Low grade mana crystal mine?".

Tirse immediately nodded and said happily "Undoubtedly, this is a mine of low grade mana crystals. Judging by the size of this cave, there may be over a million low grade mana crystals. The Magic Plant Academy dumped us here, but they didn't know that even though There are many powerful monsters here but there are also many hidden treasures. With this low grade mana crystal mine we don't have to worry about our cultivation resources, at least to the level of a junior magician".

Myro immediately resuscitated them by saying "Yes, although there are many mana crystals here but the snake monster is still alive. We have to kill the snake first to get this mine".

Boldes, Kiel and Tirse immediately came to their senses and remembered their original purpose. This mine still has a monster that is currently sleeping. As long as these serpent monsters were alive, it would be impossible for them to mine the low grade mana crystals that were here.

After they talked to each other for a while, they decided that Kiel was in front and fought with his sword. Myro and the others would use magic to attack the snake.

After all, in this group only Kiel can wield a sword. Therefore, Kiel immediately cast a tier 0 spell of Plant Armor.

The plant roots immediately covered Kiel's body and formed a suit of armor. Then Kiel started to advance slowly and carefully so as not to wake the snake.

This short time, seemed like a very long time to Myro and the others. Because a single mistake can lead to the death of all. After all, the snake was on par with a junior mage. If the snake is not in a weak state due to satiety and sleeps. Myro and the others wouldn't dare to fight against the snake. Because they know, if they fight the snake head-on only death awaits them.

Kiel walked up close to the snake's body. After confirming that the snake was still sleeping, Kiel raised his sword and immediately slashed it at the snake's head.

Before the sword reached the snake's head, the snake had already opened its cold eyes. Seeing that, Myro immediately shouted "Be careful Kiel! Earth Shield".

Immediately an earthen wall appeared in front of Kiel. The snake that was sleeping before immediately rushed towards Kiel, but he didn't expect that an earthen wall would suddenly appear so his head hit the earthen wall with a bang.

As a result of the collision, the earthen wall was immediately destroyed. Myro immediately cast another spell "Melee Teleportation!".

Myro immediately disappeared and appeared beside Kiel then took hold of his clothes and cast the Melee Teleportation spell again to quickly retreat.

During the time Myro saved Kiel. Boldes and Tirse did not remain silent and immediately cast the Plant Binding spell. Soon plant roots emerged from the ground and tied the snake tightly.

The snake was still slightly dizzy from the collision with the ground shield earlier. Therefore, the roots can bind it easily.

Realizing this, the snake began to move vigorously to destroy the roots. However, Myro didn't waste the opportunity and immediately cast a Fireball spell.

Dozens of fireballs immediately appeared around Myro. Myro immediately gathered all the fireballs and formed a fireball that looked stronger.

After the collection of fireballs formed a large fireball, Myro immediately threw it at the snake.

"Booooom!".

The sound of explosions immediately filled the cave. The smoke covered Myro and the others so they couldn't see the state of the snake.

"Did we win?", said Tirse.

After all, the snake was hit directly by Myro's very strong fireball and hit his head. So the snake should probably be dead.

Myro looked around carefully. Then shouted to Tirse "Careful!".

Before Tirse understood Myro's words, a snake tail immediately hit Tirse and threw her into the cave wall.

"Tirse!", Boldes immediately shouted seeing Tirse who was thrown far and fell on the ground and didn't move anymore.

As Boldes was about to come to Tirse, he immediately felt a chill behind him. Therefore, Boldes immediately dropped his body to the ground like he was about to sleep.

A snake tail flashed above Boldes. If the previous Boldes didn't drop his body right away, then maybe he had already been hit by this snake's tail.

Seeing the very bad situation, Kiel immediately shouted "Myro, Boldes take Tirse away from here. I will buy some time for you guys".

Boldes who was still falling on the ground immediately shouted "What are you saying? There's no way we'll leave you!".

"We all can't die here", Kiel said with a smile "Otherwise who will hit that old fox in the face. After all, Boldes, Lily is still waiting for you. So you should go back".

After that, Kiel gripped his sword tightly and drained his mana. Kiel's sword was immediately coated with mana.

"Aaaah!".

Kiel immediately shouted and advanced towards the snake. By now, the smoke from the explosion of the fireball had dissipated. The snake can be seen again. The snake was still visible without the slightest wound on its body from Myro's previous fireball.

Myro immediately understood, it seemed that it was indeed impossible for those apprentice wizards to fight monsters at the level of junior mages.

Even Myro's strongest magic couldn't give him the slightest damage. Even though Myro's strongest magic is only level 0 magic. After all, Myro is only an apprentice magician.

Seeing Kiel who fought bravely for them, Myro couldn't leave him. So Myro immediately shouted "Boldes, you heard Kiel's words! You take Tirse away from here. Let me and Kiel fight this snake. Binding Plant!".

Myro cast a spell to stop the snake's movement. Hearing Myro's words, Boldes shook his head and said "If we die here then we will die together. I am not a coward after all".

After that, Boldes also cast Bounding Plant magic. The snake's movement immediately stopped due to being bound by many tree roots.

Kiel tried to slash the snake's body, but his sword couldn't hurt the snake. Even the side of the snake was only slightly scratched from his attack.

Myro suddenly thought of a plan and shouted at Kiel "Kiel, I have a plan to defeat the snake! You must approach him and stay in front of him".

"What?", said Kiel then said again "If I do that, won't the snake immediately swallow me if I stand in front of it. Even though this snake's body is bound, but it can open its mouth to swallow me".

"Do you believe me?" said Myro.

Kiel looked at Myro for a while and knew that Myro wasn't joking. Therefore Kiel said with a sigh "Hah..... I trust you! So don't let me down".

After that Kiel ran and stood in front of the snake which was struggling trying to free itself from the plant roots.

When he saw Kiel who was standing in front of him, the snake felt strange because this person was not afraid of being eaten. But, snakes are just stupid monsters. After all it's just a mindless junior mage level monster.

Therefore, the snake opened its mouth wide to swallow Kiel in one gulp.

Seeing the opportunity had come, Myro immediately cast the spell "Fireball!".

Dozens of fireballs appeared around Myro and quickly merged into a fireball.

Myro immediately shouted while throwing the fireball "Eat this!".

The fireball flew quickly and hit the snake's mouth which was wide open as it was about to eat Kiel.

The unprepared snake couldn't dodge the fireball and had to take the impact of the fireball's explosion head-on.

"Booooom!".

Another big explosion sounded in the cave. The snake that looked very strong, lost half of its head due to the fireball. After all, no matter how hard a snake's scales are, it will not have scales in its mouth. Thus, half of the snake's head was crushed easily without the protection of its scales.

Immediately, the snake's body fell heavily to the ground. Kiel, who was scared because he was almost swallowed by a snake, this time shouted with great joy "We won!".

"Win!", Boldes also shouted with great joy and immediately ran towards Myro and was about to hug him.

Myro immediately stopped Boldes and threw him away while shouting "Don't you already have Lily! Why are you still hugging me? You won't be a deviant because you've gone crazy on this island right?".

Boldes laughed with a little cry while saying "I'm so happy! I thought before that I would die here. But we did it! We won!".

Myro also smiled slightly. After all, this snake assassination was successful because of his efforts without the help of Shar and the other characters.

Therefore, Myro also felt a little happy about this victory.

But, Myro suddenly remembered something and shouted "Wait a minute! What about Tirse?".

They immediately remembered this and then saw a body that fell on the ground.