Chapter 025 Welcome to the Underworld

Seeing the giant approaching, Gawain quickly dropped his short bow, injected magic power into the magic runes in the spiritual world, pressed forward with one hand, and then an invisible big hand hit the stairs hard.

Three times in succession.

"Boom~~"

With the third blow, the stairs, which had been in disrepair for a long time, finally became overwhelmed and collapsed.

The giant roared and fell down the arrow tower, turning it into a puddle of well water.

Gawain just breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the well water gathered again and turned into a giant again. This time it simply abandoned the stairs and climbed along the wall towards the arrow tower.

Gawain controlled the [Mage's Hand], grabbed a stone next to him and threw it at the giant, constantly obstructing the opponent and delaying time.

After a long time, the stone was completely consumed and Gawain stepped back.

The giant jumped up and finally climbed up the arrow tower. Just as he was about to kill the living person in front of him, he suddenly felt something. He suddenly looked back at the storm well in the back garden and let out an angry roar.

He turned around hurriedly and wanted to jump off the arrow tower.

"Don't leave in a hurry."

Gawain suddenly laughed, raised his left hand, and activated the [Psychic Shock] that was ready to go. Before the giant jumped up, an invisible shock wave swept away.

The giant staggered and fell to his knees, the well water rolling off him like mud.

"Ho~~"

It struggled painfully and finally stabilized its shape after shrinking by less than half.

However, Gawain had already used his own magic power to charge the ring of the mind. Without saying a word, he raised his hand to activate [Psychic Shock] again.

"Ho~~"

The giant could no longer hold on and completely collapsed into a puddle of well water, but the well water was clearly divided into clumps, bouncing and trying to roll down the arrow tower. Gawain controlled the [Mage's Hand] to continuously slap the water clumps until the water clumps were completely scattered. Just stopped.

He stood on the arrow tower, looked towards the storm well, and muttered:

"I hope you don't disappoint me."

Then he quickly descended from the arrow tower along the rope and ran towards the well. As soon as he entered the back garden, he saw a skeleton climbing out of the storm well carrying a skeleton.

The storm well boiled completely, and the well water splashed several meters high, accompanied by angry roars.

"Done!"

Gawain was so happy that he pulled the skeleton and ran out. As soon as he ran out of the back garden, he turned around and saw the water giant transformed into the "demon spirit in the well" climbing out of the storm well and chasing after him with a roar.

With every step he took, the water from the surrounding wells converged on it, and its size also expanded.

"Hurry up!"

Gawain didn't dare to be careless and ran out of the Salted Fish Fort. When he looked back, he found that the water giant was also chasing after him. His body had expanded to more than ten meters tall, making him a giant.

Every step he took felt like the earth was shaking.

Gawain stopped, took out the flint, quickly lit the dry firewood piled up in advance, took the bones carried by the skeleton, threw them into the flames, clapped his hands, and breathed a sigh of relief:

"it's over!"

"Ho~~"

The giant strode over and stepped on Gawain. Before his big feet could fall, his body completely collapsed into well water, leaving only a desperate and unwilling roar that echoed in all directions in the night.

"it's over!"

Gawain muttered, completely relieved.

"Crackling~~"

"Crackling~~"

The flames burned blazingly, and the bones inside were gradually burned to coke, until the flames were completely extinguished, and the demon spirit in the well never appeared again. Gawain understood that the demon spirit in the well was completely dead.

He sat down on the side and began to meditate to restore the consumed magic power, while the skeleton was on guard.

After Gawain fully recovered his magic power, he led the skeleton back into the Salted Fish Castle and arrived in front of the storm well. At this time, the storm well had already returned to its original state.

Gawain let the skeleton enter the well twice more, but found nothing.

After hesitating for a while, he finally gave up the plan of entering the well in person. After all, the storm well was engraved with an unknown magic circle, and a priest died in the well. It was unpredictable for him to enter rashly.

Instead of taking risks.

It is better to seek stability.

Gawain made up his mind and spent the night at Salted Fish Castle. The storm well was quiet that night, and no water from the well spilled out. After daybreak, he used [Summon Crow].

Not long after, Crow Seven, which left last night, flew back again and landed lazily on Gawain's shoulder.

"Why did you escape last night?"

“Qua~~”

Crow No. 7 flapped one of its wings, opened its mouth and spat on the ground several times, looking uncomfortable as it was vomiting.

"Aren't crows scavengers? Why do they still find it smelly?"

“Qua~~”

"Don't fly around in the future and follow my command."

Gawain scolded the other party a few words, fished out a few sea fish from the storm well, fed the fish eyes to Crow Seven, and roasted half of them to fill his stomach. After that, he left the Salted Fish Castle and rushed to Beacon Town. .

Just halfway there, they met Baron Holdman who came to investigate.

The next morning.

Gawain came out of the baron's manor in Beacon Town. Although the process was a bit twisty, he got the [Rune Stone] he wanted so much, which is a stone as big as a baby's fist.

All pure white.

Sharp edges and corners.

There are some strange symbols and stripes carved on the surface, which is a bit mysterious.

Gawain calmed down and tried to channel a bit of magic power in. The rune stone flashed, and an illusory arrow appeared in his spiritual world, pointing exactly in one direction.

Gawain let out a breath and smiled on his face:

"I was not disappointed."

This rune stone is not a demonized item, but a simpler rune creation. One of its functions is to guide the way. The final destination is either a wizard academy or a wizard organization.

He can use this rune stone as a token to join the place, and then get the [firm will] that he is determined to win.

Only in this way.

He can be sure to survive the upcoming [mysterious disaster].

After a simple lunch, Gawain left the Lighthouse Town directly, taking the skeleton and Crow No. 7, following the direction of the rune stone.

Crossing the forest and the river, turning seven or eight.

Two days later, Gawain entered the Dina Mountains at the junction of the Kingdom of Nobia and the Kingdom of Sekes, and came to an abandoned mine.

"Is it here?"

Gawain confirmed that the rune stone was correct, took the suitcase, and ordered the skeleton to enter the mine to explore.

A quarter of an hour later, the skeleton reappeared at the entrance of the mine.

Gawain was relieved, took Crow No. 7 into the mine, and went deep into the abandoned mine all the way. Not long after, he came to the forked mine. He used the rune stone to sense the direction, made a simple mark at the fork, and walked towards the mine on the far right.

It was pitch black.

Gawain snapped his fingers, and a soft white light appeared above his head.

"It should be an abandoned iron mine."

Gawain carefully checked the mine tunnel, but soon lost interest. He let the skeleton explore the way ahead, and he followed with Crow No. 7. After passing through seven forks in a row, the space of the mine tunnel became smaller and smaller.

"Tap~~"

"Tap~~"

There was a dead silence all around, with only the footsteps of Gawain and the skeleton. Crow No. 7 on his shoulder couldn't stand the oppressive atmosphere, and opened his mouth to chirp a few times. Gawain was also nervous.

Fortunately, after passing through another fork, the space gradually widened.

"Wind, there is wind!"

I don't know how long I walked, Gawain suddenly cheered up, felt a few breezes, he quickened his pace, felt water vapor blowing on his face, and when he walked out of the mine tunnel, an amazing scene appeared in front of him.

I saw a wide space in front of me.

Giant pillars like a forest.

Standing tall.

There was also a small river flowing in front of him, with fish and shrimps frolicking in the river. The banks of the stream were covered with mosses and glowing mushrooms. There were many green eyes swaying on the other side of the river, as if they were wild animals drinking water.

"Where is this?"

Gawain's eyes widened, and he suddenly found a stone tablet standing beside him. He looked carefully and saw a sentence written on it in Pandora's common language:

"Welcome to the underground world!"