Nate was not scared of what was inside the cliff cave, since he was a zombie, the word fear has been deleted from his dictionary. However, the problem at this moment was how is he going to climb up the cliff. Not like he has long claws like the whitebonez that could stabilize him on the cliff wall avoiding gravity to act on him.
Regardless, there is still an alternative he could use and that was the gauntlet. With the claw-draining skill on, coupled with the axe being turned into what looks like a duplicate of the gauntlet, Nate was able to climb up the cliff with little problem on the way.
Currently following behind him were Zuni, Max and Cab. The three were mean enough to follow Nate up to the cliff. As for how they were able to climb the cliff along with Nate, a rope has been strapped on Nate's waist while it went down to connect with the three.
Although the three combined were heavy, Nate was not weak after all, with all the boost he was getting from the two king-level weapons, he could hardly feel the weight of the three.
Nate eventually reached a surface edge while climbing through the cliff and decided to let the other three two rest.
While they were all laying flat on the ground, Cab noticed that Nate was still gazing at the end top of the cliff. Although they have gone quite far from the ground, they were not close to the top of the cliff and it might take them a couple of days to reach the top.
"If you are worried about the whitebonez, I don't think they will be coming out by this time, they mostly come out in the night," Cab said.
After spending close to a week in the strange place he was not, Nate has figured something out. One is that one could hardly see the sun. Not like the sun does not exist in this area but because the atmosphere was mostly cloudy therefore one could barely see the sun because of this.
Another was the whitebonez, although it was a theory from the others, they stated that whitebonez were most times only seen at the night. This has brought them to think that either the whitebonez were like bats who rest during the day and moves around at the night or that the whitebonez were just afraid of the sun.
These were mainly the two theories they have but nate fought a whitebonez 8n the daytime, but the thing is that the day was actually one of those days the sun will hide behind the cloud. In the end, they all chose to believe that the whitebonez doesn't like the sunlight that's why they don't come out during the day.
However, at this time, Cab was wrong based on what was bothering nate. There was no time the whitebonez wasn't worried, he was only wondering who was the man behind their creation.
Regardless, something else was running through nates mind. 'Why am I feeling a connection to this place, none of my horde members is here right except from the three with me,' Nate wondered.
He quickly opened the map and could see that it is only Zuni, Cab and Max that were his horde member close to him.
'No, it does not feel like an initiated horde, it feels more like my direct zombie horde but from the map none of them was close,'
At this point, Nate was alerted and said to the others. "We must reach the top today," Nate said as he was ready to move.
"Wait! I know you as a zombie do not get tired but consider us, although we might be superhuman, in the end, we are still humans and yours does not have humans in its pronunciation," Zuni called Nate back.
Nate know Zuni was right, they were humans after all and he was a zombie. They are no way they could keep up with him in terms of stamina. Like just now Nate was using the gauntlet claw drain which feed on the wielder's stamina to climb the cliff and yet he could not feel anything, but the three that were being dragged were already too tired to move.
However, for some reason, Nate was now in a haste to reach the cliff. 'Was it even a good idea to bring them along,' Nate wondered to himself before laying out a suggestion.
"I'm sorry but I need to get up there fast whatever the case may be," Nate said as he unstrap the rope from the others.
"I will be continuing the hiking from here, when I reach the top, I will throw this down to you guys to climb up," Nate said and leapt up onto the cliff wall this time, he was a lot faster and soon he disappeared from the other's sight.
"Just wishing I have half of his guts," Max lamented as he kept laying on the floor while looking up into the sky. Just then, he saw something descending onto them. It was a rope and it soon fall in front of them.
"How did he reach so fast?" Max was shocked.
"Who knows, this only means our resting time has been shortened," Cab said as he went to test the stability of the rope.
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Meanwhile, Nate has just reached the top of the cliff and pulled out a sharp edge bone and pin down the rope on the ground before using the ice axe which was now in a hammer form and hammered on the bone.
'This will do,' he said to himself before turning to face the cave. The cave mouth has some ice spikes on it with a little snow on the ground. Just by standing outside, he could see how dark it was inside.
'I'm sure about it, something connected to me is inside that cave but what is it?' Nate wondered and walked into the cave.
When got inside, it was dark though, but Nate could see in the dark therefore it won't be his problem at all. As he moved in, his foot touched one of the pieces of ice on the ground and it lit up in azure colour. When the ice glow, the rest of the ice inside the cave starts glowing also.
Nate was not feeling any strange energy coming out from them therefore he wasn't that alert and decided to walk further into the cave. Eventually, Nate starts hearing a strange pounding sound coming from his front.
'What is happening there, is that what Leo wants me to see?' Nate wondered and started running in that direction. As he was reaching the location, the pounding sound was getting stronger and Nate quickly summoned his gauntlet and axe in both hands.
Soon, he could see an open in the distance. 'That must be it,' Nate headed to the direction of the open and when he got there, the scene before him left him shocked for some time.
He has just gone through the open to see a gigantic human being held on the ground by a redheaded man. The redhead man, Nate did not recognize him but the gigantic being was someone Nate recognized.
"Scarlett!"