Damion falls down into the caverns. Before he hits the ground he casts a spell on himself.
Damion-"Unbinding skill: speed unbind"
Damion removes the speed from his body the moment before he hits the ground cancelling his momentum. After he stands still a couple feet in the air for a moment he begins moving again and drops onto the floor.
Damion-"Looks like I've fallen down"
Damion looks around and doesn't see any of his companions.
Damion(not yelling)-"Hello? Guys?"
Nobody responded.
Damion-"Well I need to find them"
Damion looks up and sees vines starting to go down towards him. Due to being a curseborn he is able to see dark magic radiating off of the vines.
Damion-"Unbinding skill: mana unbinding"
Damion uses his skill to separate the magic from the vines causing the vines to go limp and stop moving.
Damion-"There are a lot of holes in the walls"
Damion walks up to one of the tunnels and looks through it.
Damion-"It's dark in there. My friends have to be through one of these... guess I'll pick this one"
Damion begins to walk into the tunnel. As he does he begins to hear the same faint whispering from before. However, the whispering has become louder and more clear than before.
Whispers-"Help, help me"
Damion-"That doesn't sound like anyone I know"
Whispers-"Please help me"
Damion-"Last time I heard that it was a monster. Probably good to go in the opposite direction"
Damion turns around to go into a different tunnel.
Damion-"Although, Adam and Elise will probably go towards the monsters so if I want to meet up with them, I should go where the monsters are"
Damion returns to his original course and follows the whispering voice to try to meet Adam and Elise.
Meanwhile in a different cavern.
Adam-"Take this vermin! Evolved skill: crescent moon"
Adam slashes his sword and cleaves the vine monster in front of him in half.
Adam-"I can't believe we got stuck here. To think I let myself get tricked by that monster on the surface, I'm supposed to be better than that!"
Some vines stretch out from the wall behind Adam.
Adam-"Evolved skill: new moon"
The vines miss Adam as he turns invisible. He then slashes all of the vines in an instant. Adam returns to being visible.
Adam-"We can't be that far apart from each other, if I make enough noise they'll find me"
More monsters start coming out of the tunnels around Adam.
Adam-"Of course that means more of you will be coming too. But that means-"
A group of monster lunge towards Adam.
Adam-"Evolved skill: lunar gravity lance"
Adam thrusts his sword forward creating a beam. The beam impales multiple monsters and then pulls the surrounding monsters into it. Afterwards the beam explodes destroying all of the monsters.
Adam-"There will be less of you attacking my friends. And if that's what it takes to keep them safe I will happily fight 1,000 of you"
Adam(in his head)-"I'm certain that Elise is thinking the same thing right now, hopefully she doesn't get hurt"
Adam smiles.
Adam-"Now I have to kill more of these monsters than her, that way I can brag about it to her later"
The monsters continue funneling out of the tunnels. Vines start descending from the ceiling.
Adam(yelling)-"Bring it on! Evolved skill: lunar tidal wave-"
Adam places his foot forward getting ready to swing his sword.
Adam(yelling)-"Tsunami, of, slashes!"
Adam swings his sword and creates a massive wall of slashes obliterating everything in front of him including the walls.
Joe-"These things won't give up!"
A monster is chasing behind Joe.
Joe-"Archery skill: magic arrow"
Joe shoots an arrow made of energy at the monster. It pierces through its chest and the monster falls to the ground.
Joe-"Where the heck is everyone? We can't be that far apart"
Joe hears a boom echoing throughout the tunnels.
Joe-"That has to be one of us. It sounds pretty far away. An explosion would probably be either Elise or Julius. Hopefully the rest of the group heard it too"
Joe began heading the direction of the loud sound.
Julius-"This is strange"
Marigold-"What is it?"
Julius-"I haven't been able to find anyone with the drones yet"
Marigold-"Do you think... something happened to them"
Julius-"They wouldn't go down so easy, especially to monsters like those. Yet I haven't heard a sound or seen any trace of anyone. We all fell from the same spot and only could have fallen a couple hundred feet at most. We should all be relatively close to each other"
Marigold-"Maybe the tunnels were like slides for everyone else. They could have slid away really far"
Julius-"That is possible. But if it was a slide I feel like they could have stopped themselves from sliding. There's no way Adam wouldn't have slammed his sword into the wall to stop himself. Plus I'm sure Elise can probably fly by blasting fire but I've never seen her do that"
Marigold-"All we can do for now is keep looking for them. We can ask them how they ended up so far away from us when we get to them"
Julius-"You're right, let's get going"
One of the camera's on the screen turned to static.
Julius-"Looks like another drone got destroyed, looks like I'll have to make a new one"
Meanwhile with Elise.
Elise(yelling)-"How many of these stupid things are there!?"
A monster jumps from the ceiling. As it falls on top of Elise she grabs its face and slams it into the ground. It bounces off of the ground and then she kicks it into another monster jumping from the ceiling. The two monsters fly into the wall shattering the stone.
Elise-"I'm done with waiting for these monsters to come to me. I'm gonna find the source of these things"
Elise-"Evolved skill: scorching star!"
Elise creates a large ball of plasma and tosses it into the ground where it begins burning away at the stone.
Elise-"Now! Evolved skill: solar beam!"
Elise creates a beam of plasma that she shoots towards her scorching star. She uses the force of her beam to push the ball of plasma deeper into the ground and creates a giant hole in the ground with the sides of the hole being hot magma.
A monster runs up behind Elise. She chops it with her hand slicing it in half while continuing the beam with her other hand.
Elise-"You keep bothering me like this and I'll burn this whole cave down you hear me!?"
After burning through several hundred feet of stone and passing through several tunnels, her ball of plasma entered a large empty space.
Elise-"That looks like progress"
Elise jumps down the hole into the new area.
Elise-"I'll be out of here in no time"
End of chapter 78