Coming some distance away from the spot where he encountered those troubles, he came before a parting in the route of the cave of which from his experience so far and the little he observed from the looks of the cave, that there was going to be a lot more diversions and parting in the two routes before him. So it was another difficult choice that had been placed before him, of which he had to think critically and logically, considering every possible outcome that he could come across in each of the paths which he must definitely choose one out of them. He was really angry that he had to face such a situation again as he said to himself. “Not again…!” Though he was fucking worried about where to follow, but he it did not take long before he did the needful which was to call out the name of Zachary, facing both directions that he had to pick from, at least Zach should hear him calling this time around and answer him because without a doubt he was closer to him than the first time sinc
Coming very close to the place of the sound, reverse was the case, instead helping the creature that had been making the deceitful sound, he was knocked down by the creature only to raise his face and see that it was the orc who led them into the cave that was calling out for him. “Youuu…..!!!!!” Zachery cried in regret of falling for its trick. While anger filled the face of Zach, the orc burst into an uncontrollable laughter. It was very cheerful and annoying that Zach felt like striking the orc but that could not be possible since it was the orc who had struck him first and it was so hard that it had to take a couple of minutes or so to recover and deliver his own strike. Funny enough, the orc uttered some words which he did not know what they meant because he was not Eric who had the ability to understand what they were saying. The orc on its part was saying those words with the mindset that Eric had thought Zach how to understand and speak its language because during the perio
Back inside the cave where Eric was still searching for Zach with the lamp in his hands, but at this point he had stopped calling out his name since no one was answering his call and he was quite tired of shouting Zach’s name. While he continued with this search, the orc who had run away from Zach a few minutes ago and was still running thinking that Zach had pursued it to catch it, came to cross paths with Eric as they both hit themselves and fell to the ground in the opposite direction. Seeing that it was Eric that it had come to hit again, it hurriedly got to its feet to run away from him since it knew that it was also in danger of meeting Eric again. But Eric would not make that mistake again, though he did not get up immediately, he failed to let that be the reason why he should allow that creature to escape again. As it jumped on its feet to run off again, he instantly said with a commanding tone as he stretched his staff. “Come back here!!” Instantly, at the sound of his com
Eric on his part was also surprised at how he was making that possible. He did not understand how he was able to cast those spells with ease. To him everything seemed to be a dream because he could not recall himself practicing how to cast those spells. Everything concerning the powers was happening like a dream to him, even the actions and words he said to bring those powers to reality was another thing on its own which he could not explain as none was planned by him. Nevertheless, he made sure he did not make it known to the orc that what he was doing was done unconsciously else it would make the orc seek more means to escape again. This was just a simple application of wisdom that needed no special teaching. So in response to the demand of Eric asking the orc to repeat itself, the orc chose to say. "Let's get going... We don't have all the time." It preferred to say this instead of asking Eric to tell it how he managed to master his power to that level. "Better." Eric replied, "D
Eric did not understand what it said so he asked in a very curious manner. "What do you mean by that? What is that supposed to mean?!" He blurted out with anger and in a haste, thus he did not know when he repeated the same question in two different sentences. It was even as though he was going to use another phrase to repeat the question once again. But the orc had to start talking, thereby causing him to pause. "This was the stop where I last saw him." Hearing this response from the orc, what to say was not lacking in his mouth, he immediately said again. "And how is that supposed to be any of my business? I asked you to take me to Zachary and not to bring me to the last place where you saw him. Is that understood?" "I ran away from him when we crossed paths without one another here, so how am I supposed to know where he had gone?" The orc was now asking him. But that's none of Eric's business, "Are you going to do as I said or you will have me slay you and continue with the jou
Now the pressure was too much and the proof that death was sure if it failed to speak the truth for the last time. So the orc did not have the strong heart to keep lying. It blurted out at once, as he pointed towards a route different from the one it wanted to lead Eric into in the first place. "He went that way..." Then Eric looked at the route which the orc had pointed. He observed it for a few minutes as he looked at the orc too, looking for the slightest signs to tell that what it had said was false. Due to the stare at both the orc and direction in question, he was able to see that of a truth the orc was not lying again. So he said as his mood changed from being very serious to the normal way again. "I always knew that there was a way to make you talk. Now lead the way." Immediately, the orc exhaled heavily as its heart was already gone due to fear because it thought that Eric would not believe it even as it had told the truth about where Zach had gone. It took some time before
Now the orc had successfully given a very good and convincing answer to Eric but that was not enough to cause him to follow it into the cave once again. "I love your responses, but my heart tells me not to go in there again." "What about your friend? He is still in there… don't tell me you are going to leave him to die inside the cave?" "It's none of your business what I choose to happen to him." Eric blurted out before reasoning what he had said. The orc was shocked to hear that come from Eric, it now saw those words as its chance. "Eric… I can't believe you are saying this… what would Zach think of you? He would have gone back into the cave to find you but here you are saying you don't care what happened to him." It said those words to make Eric feel guilty and also to propel him into doing what it wants him to do. "Stop it!!" Eric scolded it. He knew what the orc was doing by saying those words. "Your words would not make me do what I don't want to do. We are not going into the
“Quiet! Zach is a pathfinder; he is able to find his way out of the cave. In short, he is out here. He is no longer inside that god forsaken place.” Eric now said with a lot of boldness that the orc could now tell that it can not deceive him again. Telling Eric that Zach was inside the cave was the option it had to make him go into the cave and now that he had confirmed that Eric would not believe a word about Zach still being inside the cave. It was over. Continuing the journey was all it was left with. The orc was only moving its eyes from staring at Eric and the rock where it was tied to. It did know what to do again. It said within it, telling itself that it had failed completely in the mission which it took upon itself. At this juncture it had to sit down on the floor with a lot of thoughts going through its mind. While it sat on the ground thinking, Eric used that opportunity to look around the place, as he looked out for movement. Full of disappointment, it had to find somethin