Bab 22: Trap
"Nope."
Juniper immediately turned around and was gonna walk out.
"Hold up, why are you going? There is plenty of room for you guys here."
Jack said, trying to get them to stay.
Mila really wanted to do the same thing as Juniper, but she knows she and her team need a break.
Lena knew what Mila was about to say and whispered in her ear.
"Mila, if we stay with these guys, they may try something on us and I don't want any of us to take an unnecessary risk."
Mila thought about it a bit more, and considering the hostility between the teams and that she didn't know how long Jack's team had been here, she decided that she and her team should leave.
Jack saw them all leave without bothering to look at them one more time and got frustrated.
"Shit, I should've known Mila had someone that could look through our bullshit..."
When Jack looked at Lena, he saw her eyes looking at him as if trying to read his mind. When she stopped looking at him and went over to Mila, he knew she saw through him.
'What the hell is with the people Mila brought?'
Jack got even more frustrated when he remembered back to Adonis's apathy toward him.
"Aaahh screw it, at least that's not our last plan."
Jack had prepared a plan to at least get rid of one of them, that being Adonis. Jack was pissed that someone not even at the Refinement Stage could make him feel fear, so for his pride he prepared a plan to get rid of him.
"Alright you three, you know what to do right?"
Three of the six Mountain Sky disciples stood up and said "Yes"
"Good, then let's get to it."
"Wait, Jack."
One of the disciples that were sitting down said to Jack.
"Huh? What is it?"
"Are you sure you want to use such precious items to take out one person that's not even at the Foundation Stage?"
Jack look at the disciple and began laughing.
"Hahahaha! Don't worry about it, these items aren't worth much in my eyes anyways."
The items that Jack had were called "Shroud Amulets" This item when activated could cover the person with wind magic, hiding the person away from the naked eye. This item was an Earth grade Good-quality item.
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The team spent about another hour searching around the cave for another path and decided to leave after finding nothing.
"Welp, at least we're not leaving with nothing."
Juniper said to lighten the mood
"Yeah, I mean, at least got some valuable crystals out of it."
Barrett said, agreeing with Juniper
They didn't mention the Orb as the rest of the team agreed with them and didn't look so down.
All of a sudden, when the team was at the part of the cave where the path diverges in two, they heard this loud sound as if the earth was moving.
The team looked toward the right path where the sound came from, and they all looked at each other.
All of them didn't know what that sound was, but they went to check what it was but being very careful about proceeding forward.
Mila was at the front and Lena at the back to make sure nothing was able to surprise attack them. They went in further, eventually reaching the cavern and stopping. Mila used her senses but didn't find anything strange, which she found strange nonetheless.
They walked carefully further, but then Adonis's foot fell into an indent in the ground. Adonis wondered if this was there before, then the indent grabbed Adonis's foot and dragged Adonis at fast speed toward the cavern.
"ADONIS!"
Lena was the quickest to react and ran toward Adonis to grab him, but then a massive amount of rubble fell and blocked the cavern's entrance. Lena dodged out of the way but the rubble continued to fall.
"SHIT!! IT'S A CAVE-IN!!!"
Barrett yelled, the team ran in the other direction, out of the cave.
Jack, who caused the cave-in was already outside of the cave with 2 of the disciples. They activated their Shroud Amulets and waited for the Green Valley Sect disciples to get out of the cave.
The team ran out of the cave right before the rocks fell and blocked the entrance to the cave.
The team was now getting a breather after that.
"FUCK! WHAT SHOULD WE DO NO-!"
Barrett didn't have time to finish his sentence when Lena ran at him with her sword in hand.
However, when Lena stabbed toward Barrett, she stabbed past him and hit a blade that was gonna kill Barrett from behind.
The invisible assailant was surprised when Lena blocked his attack but Lena was not done yet. She threw Barrett behind her and made her assault the assailant.
"MILA, PROTECT THE OTHERS!!"
Lena yelled when she sensed 2 other people, one nearing Juniper and the other far off.
Mila calmed down and sensed the ground to tell who was there, she found one of the assailants nearing Juniper. Mila immediately sunk the ground Juniper was on top of and made it so that the slash narrowly avoided Juniper.
"EARTH SPIKES!"
Mila used her spell to kill the assailant.
"MANA BARRIER!"
The assailant used a spell of their own and a barrier made of pure mana appeared right before the assailant, but Mila was stronger than the assailant overall, so although the spikes slowed down, it still broke through it and hit the assailant across their sides and shallowly stabbed into their gut.
"Kuh!!"
The assailant groaned, and he immediately backed off and ran off into the forest.
"Bastard!!"
Mila used a spell called 'Nail Bullets' which sent many sharp projectiles from the ground toward the assailant. What she didn't notice was the two spatial bags on her waist being taken away from another invisible person.
"RUN! We got what we want!!"
Jack's voice resound and he used a spell called 'Terra Sprint' which moved the ground under him so that he would move faster.
Mila already knew it was Jack behind this, but still got more pissed off when it was confirmed by her own eyes.
"DAMN, YOU JACK!! EARTHLY MULTI-PILLARS!"
Multiple pillars shot from the ground and continued to grow and fly toward Jack.
"Dissipation!"
A half-dome appeared behind Jack, stopped the Earth pillars, and grew into a full dome sucking in the pillars and becoming one with the ground again.
"Dammit!!!"
The last assailant ran from Lena and you could see the multiple slash marks across his body and terrified face that Lena showed no mercy.
"You're not getting away."
Lena used her 3-star speed ki to chase him and use one of her long-ranged spells.
"Aero Disks"
Lena sent 5 disks with a high rotation speed toward the assailant and he didn't even get the chance to use a defensive spell before the disks got to him.
Four disks cut off his limbs and the last one cut his head, ending him.
Lena was gonna continue running after the others, but she felt a hand on her shoulder stopping her. Lena looked behind her and saw Mila stopping her.
"You will only get hurt if chase after them."
Mila knew Lena was above her cultivation level when it came to certain things, but she didn't want her to fight Jack who was the same.
Lena took a few breaths but she was still pissed off despite knowing Mila was only doing this to make sure she doesn't die. Lena shook off Mila's hand and neared the blocked entrance, she leaned her head against it.
Lena's interest in Adonis only grew as he kept showing more and more, not only was he strong, but he was also a quick thinker, and had an amiable side to him but also a serious one. He never had an arrogant look to him or have hidden intentions, she felt like he could've become a good friend of hers if they spent more time with each other. Now she felt upset that that could never happen now.
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Adonis was dragged into the cavern and he was thrown into the center of it.
"Aahh...fuck, what was that?"
Adonis looked at the entrance and it was blocked by rubble, but that became the least of Adonis's concerns when something inside of him yelled at him to dodge.
Adonis immediately jumped and then used Stun Pulse toward the ground. When the Stun Pulse was used, he saw three visages get struck with it and all of them fell over.
Adonis used Flame Pillar to get rid of them, and after he used the spell, he used his senses and saw them no longer there. Adonis landed and continued being cautious, it paid off as he looked behind him, and on the other end of the cavern, a hole opened up, and appeared the three visages that he now saw were the Mountain Sky Sect disciples.
It didn't take a genius to figure out that the cave-in was a trap by Jack's team to take Adonis out.
Adonis held back his anger and looked toward his enemies, Adonis felt nervous since now he was gonna fight three people in the Refinement Stage, as a person in the Foundation Stage. One thought came into Adonis's mind.
'Can I do this?'
Status Power Mingguan
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