407  406: A Dangerous Cave (Bonus Chapter)

    After Selene fully recovered her mana and health, she and Corey started walking in the direction of the infinity crystal.

    According to what Corey could sense, the infinity crystal was located inside the mountain, however, it was underneath the mountain.

    Corey could see countless caves on the mountain, and one of the caves was his destination. He knew that the caves were the homes of the beasts and that there was also a very high likelihood that the caves were teeming with monsters.

    Although with his Ears and Eyes of Omniscience, he could avoid caves that were teeming with monsters, he knew he could not fully depend on his Ears and Eyes of Omniscience.

    After using his senses to look for the closest cave that had the least monsters, Corey and Selene sneaked into the cave.

    Luckily for them, they were able to easily avoid the senses of the monsters since they were much weaker than them. They entered the cave with their senses on full alert, and to Corey''s relief, his senses were not wrong.

    The entrance of the cave was not filled with monsters, unlike some other caves. With his Eyes of Omniscience activated Corey walked with Selene by his side.

    At first, Corey and Selene were wary and cautious of their surroundings, however, as they kept on walking deeper and deeper into the cave, their wariness and cautiousness turned into greed and desire.

    If there was a third person with them, he or she would also experience the same thing.

    ''So many rare metals and ores!''

    Selene could no longer hold it in any longer as she gawked at the cave that was filled with multiple glowing metals.

    ''Adamantium, Mithril, Orichalum, Vibranium, Stygian Iron... What the fuck is this place?!''

    Fortunately for Corey, despite Selene''s shock at the sight of so many rare metals, she chose not to speak aloud and spoke telepathically instead.

    Corey stared at her, and when he saw her slow down almost to the point of stopping with her eyes fixed on the cave walls with visible greed, he stopped.

    ''Don''t take anything. You don''t know what changes might occur to the cave or entire mountain if you take something from it.''

    Selene who was about to lose all sense of decorum, paused with wide eyes. Although she knew that the possibility of what Corey said to occur was not high, it was also not low.

    Ever since she arrived in the shattered dimension, and especially ever since she started following Corey in his search for a particular object, she knew that the shattered dimension did not follow common sense.

    Just like Corey said, who knew if the monsters in the cave and outside the cave would be able to sense if unknown beings like them took a piece of the mountain?

    Who knew if the cave would suddenly collapse on them because of that?

    In fact, what if the entire mountain was alive?

    What if the entire mountain was just a body part of a beast or abomination?

    The mere thought of it sent shivers down her spine.

    Selene took several steps back while wiping away the non-existent sweat from her forehead.

    ''Thank you, Master. I almost made a mistake because of my greed.''

    Corey furrowed his brows slightly, and then he shrugged, ''Let''s go. Just be careful and alert.''

    Selene nodded, and then she hastily caught up with Corey who had started walking.

    After catching up, she subtly glanced at Corey, and a thought came to her mind.

    ''There are so many precious and rare metals and ores here, but Master still chose not to take any of it. In fact, I don''t think he sees them as something valuable and precious.''

    21:46

    Corey stared at the hole, and his instincts warned him that the hole contained something dangerous.

    ''I can''t keep on doing this.''

    Corey teleported once again, and then he turned around.

    ''I have to leave this cave. It''s too unpredictable.''

    Just as Corey had this thought, he teleported midair and landed on a hexagon barrier. When he did, his expression changed slightly.

    ''Manipulating the mana in the surroundings is even difficult for me. I''m using at least 300% more mana to produce my hexagon barriers.''

    ''This is even worse than the rain of that strange desert in terms of mana manipulation.''

    Barely a second passed as Corey had this thought, and in the next second, he teleported once again. However, this time around, he teleported in the direction of the entrance of the cave.

    Corey was about to land on a non-crumbled part of the ground, however, before his feet could even touch the ground, his eyes widened when his Eyes of Omniscience saw what had happened all around the cave.

    The entire ground of the cave had instantly crumbled apart.

    Unlike before where it was only where he touched that crumbled apart, this time around, the entire ground of the cave had crumbled apart.

    Not only did the entire cave crumble apart, but Corey felt a massive increase in the suction and gravitational force of the hole below him.

    ''Ah, crap.''

    Corey cursed inwardly, and he decided to make a last-ditch effort. He used everything he had to teleport to the entrance of the cave.

    He activated his Eyes and Ears of Omniscience to the limit.

    He circulated his mana to the limit of what his body could allow.

    He also pushed his stars of consciousness to increase his proficiency and knowledge of spatial skills.

    To Corey''s relief, his last-ditch effort worked, and he found himself a few meters away from the entrance of the cave.

    Blood poured down from his nose, eyes, and ears. His breathing was labored, and sweat poured down his forehead as he held onto a protruding sharp metal ore in the cave wall.

    Despite all of this, his gaze was cold and calm. Two seconds went by as he tried to catch his breath and reduce the strain on his body, and then he moved towards the cave entrance.

    Just as Corey was a meter from the cave entrance, his eyes widened, and his head snapped to the ceiling of the cave.

    ''You have got to be fucking kidding me!.''

    Corey cursed inwardly, and when he did, the ceiling of the cave crumbled and fell towards him.

    Corey tried to teleport out of the cave entrance, and although he knew the damages he would sustain would be extremely dangerous and could maybe leave him crippled, he knew he had no choice.

    With gritted teeth, Corey pushed his Celestial Mana Veins once again, and he circulated his mana to teleport.

    Fortunately and to his relief, it worked.

    Unfortunately, what he didn''t expect was for the entrance to also crumble apart and for a dense amount of earth elemental energy to stop his teleportation from taking him outside.

    Corey''s body slammed into the metal debris, and he instantly lost consciousness and fell into the hole with Selene who had also lost consciousness a long time ago.