With the escalator activated successfully Grendale quickly crossed the river and reached the other side. The rest of the journey went fine without much problems, except the part where he almost got eaten by a carnivore plant and had to break all its teeth.
Grendale reached the outside of the ancient cave of ruins. It was said that this cave was built by an ancient king as a dungeon for keeping life sentenced criminals underground. And also he had made a secret chamber for keeping one of his secret prized possession.
Before he could enter the cave, he came across an old statue on a stone platform which looked very weird. This statue was built like a circle and had a huge gap in between. As soon as Grendale stepped on the platform, two lamps kept on either side of the statue burst into flames and a blue veil type of a thing appeared covering the hole in the statue.
Thinking it might be dangerous as soon as Grendale stepped away from the statue the blue veil disappeared. Grendale paused for a moment before moving on towards the cave.
Once inside he lit a torch and went further. While moving Grendale could see many bones and Skeletons of many people and animals. While he was still wondering what could have happened to them he suddenly hit a dead end. " Oh great. Now what shall I do?". He looked around searching for a way (if there was any) to move further.
!! THUMP !! And a loud slithering of what sounded like 8 feet. GRACIOUS..... Grendale immediately drew the sword turned around flashing the torch to find the source of the sound. And in a distance he saw a small mould of what looked like the broken piece of the extreme peak of a mountain moving towards him.
' Right now in place of Grendale if there was anyone else, he or she would have screamed their lungs out and would have fainted on spot. But this is our brave Hero we are taking about.. ha.. what do y'all think? what could he have done? '
Grendale 'SMILED' at the incoming danger and did a few swinging the sword trick before pointing it towards the big red body designed cave lurker. Cave lurkers are just like a cross between a spider and an octopus. They have huge peak-of-the-mountain shaped body With weird red body tattoos and the only thing they do is cling on to the ceiling of any dark place and wait for their prey to come inside. Once inside they jump down and block their exit and then they devour them.
The cave lurker came slithering towards Grendale and seeing he had a weapon, it swung one of its legs to smash him towards the wall.
Wanna know what happened next?..
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