Awaken Hero In The Same World

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Jiren and the rest of the Crew were already inside the portal for a while now.

“For a low B class portal, this portal looks easy.” Jiren said, withdrawing his lance from the skull of a huge spider like monster on the ground, causing the black blood from it to splatter on the ground. The focused ahead, wanting to go in further without fear.

“Don’t get too confident now, this is a strange place, anything can happen. I’m sure you’re aware of that.” Theon the leader of the group of five that had entered the portal said to him. Theon as well was cleaning his sword from the black blood of the spider like monster. 

Theon was a man in his early 30’s and having a nicely shaved beards.

There were spider monster corpses all over the ground, the ones that the team had dispatched as they proceeded further inside. 

The portal they had entered led to a cave like terrain, with several stalactites and stalagmites structures made of the same rock as the cave. 

The cave looked very large, with several routes and crevices of which the spiders They had dispatched  crawled out from.

It was somewhat dark and hard to see very well, it was almost looking like it was night. But the fact was that there was no source of light in the cave, hence why it was dark. Making it the ideal breeding ground for the spider like monsters, should they share the same qualities as regular spiders. 

Theon and his team were only able to navigate the caves because they had a teammate whose unique talent was navigation.

“So Sky, which way now?” Theon asked, turning his attention away from Jiren to her. 

Sky was girl with blonde hair and the navigator of the team. She crouched to touch the ground activating her talent, immediate she could see the entire terrain like a holographic map.

“this place is like a large mountain, inside the mountain are different levels that look like caves and we are at the middle. I sense the energy core of this portal at the lower levels of the mountain, so if we follow this route, it should lead us to the lower floor” she pointed to her left, where there was a cave like entrance again for them to continue. 

“Excellent,  we heard her. So let’s get going.” Theon announced to the group as he sheathed his sword and began leading the group ahead. 

“but there seem to be another location or someplace else underneath the mouth,below the energy core. I don’t know, for some reason I can navigate that territory, it’s just showing as a black region on my navigation map.” Sky expressed a little worry as she told the rest of her group. It was just like her talent could not reach there,  or was not supposed to reach there and she could not tell why. It was like she had CCTV cameras and footage installed in everyplace she navigates, but the cameras in that place were not working or was destroyed. 

“what’s there to fear. If anything comes up, I’ll just kill it. Have a little confidence in yourself will you. There’s no threat out there that I cant handle,  at least in this c class portal world or whatever this place is.” Jiren said with confidence, reassuring her. 

Talia who was also among the group sighed at Jiren’s exuberance. 

‘But he had been correct though, he had always managed to kill everything monster that had come their team, both in this portal and other portals. So maybe there’s nothing to worry about . Besides she is also here and Theon is here as well, and I know how strong I am and how strong Theon is.’ She smiled softly and then continued on behind Theon.

All five of them continued ahead, along the route that Sky had provided for them,  and just like she said the route led them down, they could feel how the road got steeper and steeper as they continued, until they got to the lower levels.

“we are here” Sky said. 

“Yeah, it’s quite obvious” Theon said as he unsheathed is sword and readied himself for what he was seeing. 

Ahead of them about 300ms away, was the energy core, a glowing crystalline gem, glowing like an electric bulb. But hanging on the ceiling was a nest of the monster spiders numbering about 100 and then a ginormous looking spider in the centre, supposedly the mother spider. 

“yup, now we do what we came for” Jiren smirked grasping his Lance tighter knowing that there was going to be a fight. The monsters won’t just let them destroy the energy core just like that. 

“so that’s the energy core, powering the portals?” Sky asked looking at it since it was the first time she was seeing one. It was the first time she was accompanying them to the final stages of a portal.

“yeah, that’s it. Without that energy core, the portals will collapse and close up in an hour and monsters can no longer cross over to our world..” Donre said. The last male in the team, a huge looking man with beards, wearing more armour than all of them combined, and still able to move very fine.

“enough talk already, let’s do this. I have to get back home for dinner. My wife is waiting for me.” Theon said as he moved ahead slowly, swinging his sword that had began cackling with electricity. Since he just activated his talent. 

*Talent: lightning Class B: Thunder sword *