Chapter 68: Widow’s Crypt IV (1/2)

After what see knocked between various rocks that fell along with s, desperately trying to find anything to grab to stop round The speed at which I was dropping kept ht hand was able to latch onto a jutted tree root Unfortunately, that was also the aro so the sudden jolt sent a sharp pain up round instead

Dangling helplessly byto rip off at any moment, I desperately sent Sylvie a mental transmission

Sylv Are you there? I fell quite a bit aways but I'm still okay Do you sense where I am?

I waited for a minute but there was no response—I couldn't even sensehad happened to her, but with the queen snarler dead and the rest trapped inside the dungeon, it was unlikely It was more reasonable to conclude that I was either too far down, or that this area arded off and sealed from the outside, or more accurately, the surface

By the extent of my drop, I doubted I was on any of the i e to so back on the explosion caused by the mutated queen snarler, I couldn't help but think how odd it had been The blast was large, but I got the feeling that the explosion wasn't meant to kill whoever was near it If that were the case,with Professor Glory's, would be in a roaned as I continued hanging off rip I let out a couple quick breaths to ready ht arh for ritted teeth, I resisted the teo and leave it up to God or the Gods or any Gods, whatever they worshi+ped in this world, if any

After a quick assessood shape besides s, except all I could see was darkness It wasn't as si of when you shut your eyes so hard that it see around in your vision or that feeling where no matter how hard you squinted, your eyes couldn't adjust—that hat I was feeling right now

As I activatedmy body to only ather aswhat little , I was rewarded with only darkness

I'm not blind… aain

Just to comfort my needless worry, I break one of the most basic rules in situations like this I produced a ser

Looking at the warertip, I breathed in relief before extinguishi+ng the fla, the last thing I wanted to do in a dark place like this was draw attention to myself Now that the enemies here, if any, knew of my location, I needed to move

Since I couldn't see, I used wind to sense the type of space I was in right now I had no idea how narroide this hole that I was in was, but I assu the hile falling

Sending out short, soft bursts of wind, equidistant, around ure out that this ditch, for a lack of better words, had a diameter of about 10 meters The scary part, however, was that I couldn't even sense how far doas and how o down until I had a floor to walk on

What I had to decide nohether to try and climb back up or make my way down By howwithat the top would already be covered With Sylvie not answering fro if she could open up an exit fordown

I sighed

No matter how rational and level headed I was, I couldn't help but feel a bit anxious in this situation More so than the iers in front ofor even sense any life fory In the case where the army of snarlers was in front of us, I knehat I had to do and I could think of how to deal with it Right now, I could neither iht happen in the next couple of seconds,both my hands with earth attribute iant abyss-like hole, creating a handhold for ainst the side with both

In a steady mented hands out of the side of the wall and allow ain to stop The ae every time but this would be the fastest way to , letting go, gripping, letting go I had to keepaway frorip the wall again because it would be a lotup too much speed

I let out pulses of wind every now and then to try and see how ripping and letting go, according to my internal clock, I had yet to sense a floor anywhere close beneathhole? Without even the luxury to ventwords even the ar of adults would find inappropriate

I knew that everyone warned adventurers about the dangers and unpredictability of dungeons but both the Dire Toeon had proven to cause me more trouble than the tiic

I o to a D class dungeon supposedly filled with E classarmy decides to welcome us on the first floor?

The minion snarlers hadn't even been that bad, to be honest We were stupid for using so ic e had no ventilation but I had handledmana

That et so strong? Was it because she ate the other queen? Was it even possible to just get instant power-ups like that?

As I continued debriefing toand letting go of the stone wall, falling down further into who knohere I was now

I let go of the wall and fell down, tiain However, unlike before, o inside

"What the…"

I desperately tried clawing at the wall but even with the augmentation in my hand, I wasn't able to make even a scratch into the wall

The surface of the as different now It was s up speed as I persistently tried to bury ers into the wall, hopelessly

This isn't working

Careful to , I rhythmically let out pulses of wind aroundout faint pulses andit took before it hit a surface, I could locate, in my head, potential footholds and handholds to make my way down

Easier said than done The theory worked great init without practice proved harder than I i myself from but my makeshi+ft echolocation technique wasn't as accurate as I wished it would be

I ended up narrowlya lot of the potential supports and it just became harder as I picked up speed

Fortunately, I still didn't sense the floor anywhere close to me so I had tirab onto a support, I wasn't sure if my arms would be able to take the stress froainst the wall to search for anything that may slon or stop round

daood

I had about 200 round That left me with about… six seconds?

da around so that the as to athered all the mana I saved up 'til now It would take about 4 seconds to focus enoughe of fist-sized bullets of coiant hole I was in

If I could create enough force to push ainst the wall, I would be able to slon enough to survive the fall I no longer cared about keeping noise to a minimum

The air bullets boomed as they collided into the wall about 10 ainst the wall behindbesides gritoff due to the friction

I could feel e but I just desperately let out all of theainst the other side, pushi+ng me back harder and harder into the sround