Dark Side Of Humanity (II): New Enemies(Prey)

Rezar looked behind him completely surprised by what he was seeing if he wasn't wrong he had only resurrected this mole for the whole of thirty minutes before he decided to go check out his environment. But yet it had somehow gotten smart enough to start following behind him and Screet ever since they left their cave.

Rezar couldn't wrap his head around it, but it seems when this mole was still alive, it was smarter than the norm, heck it even looked a lot more different than the others. Its tail was shorter and there were tiny nubs on its head as if it wanted growing horns or something of the sort.

Given enough time Rezar reckoned it would have leveled up and evolved into a mutant or variant monster. In Elysium there would always be a special breed amongst a particular species of monster that would set them apart.

It's like humans in the sense that some are born with blue eyes or blond hair while the majority have black hair and black eyes. But not all mutation or variation was good, simply put some might turn out to be quite defective, also in a manner akin to humans born with genetic defects.

Of course defects in their variation and evolution aside, they were still monsters, and being a special breed of monster means that they always had an edge that the other members of their race could not hold a candle to.

And this particular cavern mole seems to be incredibly smart when it was alive, and that smartness seems to have been retained in its new undead existence, giving it a trace of intelligence that the other moles and even the evolved Screet didn't have.

"Well what are you waiting for? Keep up with us, we don't have all day!" Rezar said to the mole that hurriedly caught up to them, its rotted innards trailing on the ground behind it, with a wound on its rump.

That's when it hit him, cowardly mole! This was the mole that had attacked him and tried to run away! He had decided to name it cowardly mole at the time, but maybe smarty mole would do until he's able to get it to the spire and evolve it. It could last for another ten hours, he should be able to find a way and convince Red to let him use the spire for a few seconds.

He only had to wait two more days; before he can return to the town, but the mole would be expired by then. So maybe a few bribes would be in order so that those people out there wouldn't give him too much of a hard time.

They kept moving up at a steady incline for about fifteen minutes before the came up to the opening of a large cave. So far all of the caves they had seen before coming up to this were no more than a meter deep, making it nothing more than just a small hole or indent in the cavern wall. This cave however had a rather ominous vibe to it; the first Rezar noticed was the bleached white skeleton of a human being laying half buried in front of the cave entrance.

Finding the remains of a person wasn't that surprising to Rezar, after all there used to be miners here, but the cost of mining and dealing with the monsters of the cavern was too much to handle for weak slaves. So they pretty much ignored the place, however that didn't mean that there won't be remains left behind.

There was nothing else apart from the skeleton, and ahead of them was the cave. It stands to reason that whatever had caused the death of the person who these bones belongs too would probably by chilling in that cave.

Well it might not be chilling per say, but it's definitely there, but apart from that Rezar didn't know how long ago this person was killed. So there was a very high probability that whatever killed this person was now a lot stronger than when it killed the man. Both ways standing here wouldn't help, and he couldn't ask Screet to go scout.

Quite frankly the mole-man wasn't smart enough, so even if he scouts, without the ability to use neither words nor even show images, it would be a complete waste. Leaving Rezar with no other choice but to go in himself, of course just to be safe, Screet and cowardly mole would take point.

The trio of unlikely master and servants walked into the cave, it took Rezar a few seconds to get accustomed to the darkness within the cave, but his life sight helped a lot. Basically he could sense anything that had to do with life, it was a bit abstract but Rezar felt it wasn't just limited to things alive, but also energy.

Either way the first thing he noticed was the heat, he felt as if it was not the kind of heat that would come from a fire source, but the kind of heat that came about as a result of lots of bodies squished together or even from breathing. Though he wasn't sure he could have sworn that there was a sort of red haze in his vision, but his life sight was still low leveled, a little more use and a lot of things would be that much clearer.

Very much like his own cave, there was tunnel at the back, the moment he entered the cave however he noticed the walls. There were weird scratches and grooves all over, but at the same time it was also extremely smooth, like someone had taken sandpaper to the walls or rubbed something on it to give it a glossy and smooth feel and look.

There were more bones within the cave, but none of these were actually human, or there might actually be human bones, but it's buried deep within all the piles he could see.

If it were a normal person, this would be where their senses start tingling warning them of danger by banking on their fear of death. But Rezar was defective, he had no fear and as such he had no danger sense. He walked into the tunnel in an s ingle stride, Screet and cowardly mole following close behind.

The tunnel was larger than he had expected, it was almost ten meters tall and spread out like a cone into a passage that was at its best about 25 meters wide. It had a narrow entrance, which in Rezar's opinion was a flawed architectural move. Whatever lives in there would be unable to move out seeing how small the tunnel entrance was.

But there was something to be noticed about this tunnel, it was rough and filled with rubble and dust, very much unlike the cave behind him. If Rezar didn't know better he would have to say that whatever lived here, was probably trying to expand the tunnel to make it easier to come and leave, or maybe to just give a much larger creature a chance to walk out.

Rezar paused, he was fearless not stupid, so if this was being made for a larger creature to walk out, then just where was this larger creature, and beyond that....where the fuck were thing things responsible for expanding the tunnel?

*chiririririrhciriririr*

Rezar moved his head to the side and in the same motion pulled out his broken sword and removed a head. He took a couple of steps backwards until he was standing right back at the entrance of the tunnel. Then he quickly shifted his attention to the system message he just received.

[You have slain giant fire ant lvl 5. You have gained 110 battle exp]

But just one death didn't really matter in the long run, there were hundreds of those ants hanging above his head, it was as if all they were waiting for was for Rezar to take action.

A deep red glow began to suffuse the entire body, with their heads and thorax pulsing rhythmically. But it wasn't the glow that was eye catching; it was their large and extremely sharp mandibles that were dripping acid. Rezar didn't need anybody to tell, he turned and ran.