After agreeing with Nail on completing his ''quest'' I stood up, still slightly tired but not as much. Once up, I cleaned the sweat that was forming on my forehead, grabbing the flashlight which I threw to the ground to cling onto the knife better, seemed to have be almost intact if it weren't for a light cut on the lens, tough luckly it was still usable, and finally I cleaned the knife of the purple slimy sustance which the knife was covered.
Once donde I kept walking deeper into the cave, It was getting hotter and hotter the deeper I got into the cave, fianlly I reached an intersection, it was similar to the '' room'' where the spider was laying at first, but much bigger and the path divided into two possible ways to keep going, right and left, with this sudden but not surprising event, I took advantege to take a break, sitting on a corner of the room.
"Nail?" I asked to make sure he was still with me, or around me, whatever it is.
"Yes?" He answered almost instantly, "You said that you confirmed that theres still three, but do you know where they are?" He took a few seconds to answer, "Well, no, but I could technically find out" I was slightly amazed by his answer as if he was the most common thing, then another question on my head "Also, when we sold the corpses, you mentioned something about ''Luxo'' what's that?" Nail didn't answer again, I assumed that he didn't see me asking about it
"I'll tell you what is it when I confirm that you indeed have it." He said with a tone of voice seemingly tired. In any case, I took my hoodie off, thanks to the flashlight I could see that it got pretty dirty with the last encounter, plus with all the sweat that I was staining, it wouldn't feel very confortable with it. I slowly folded it and stuffed it in the haversack.
Standing up, I got ready to keep going, firstly I asked again "Nail, which way should I take?" Nail sighed and answered shortly "Really? I thought you would explore the cave on yoour own." I quickly hit back "You're kidding right? aside of you wanting me to kill 3 more of those things, you expect me fidning them? Give me a break" I could hear how he sighed "Alright alright" The voice dissapeared for half a minute, he answered. "As long as you head to the right path, you'll find them, the second one should be around 30 meters once you get inside, the other two are extremly close." I nodded, pretty satisfied as I procceded inside the right path. I kept walking trying to stay as quiet as possible, as with the last ''target'' I turned off the flashlight with hopes of hearing anything about the next torned.
Strangely, I didn't hear absolutely nothing, with this, even though I wasn't sure if I should, I turned back on the flashlight, there I saw it, something similar to a mole, but its tamage would be easily of a meter or even bigger. it didn't have eyes, just a pair of holes in its face which a dark mist was possible seeing coming out. but the strangest thing were it's claws. though it's back legs were seemingly normal, the front ones were nothing but strange, though it did keep the form of what a paw of a mole looked like, the size of them where enormous, easily being bigger than my own hands. It had claws, as big as the hands and as sharp to the point that when the fñashlight's light touched them the light reflected it. The most surprising thing was that the mole was already turned to the side I was coming from, as it could hear me, no, it definetly could.
Without giving much more thought, I had my knife ready from the start, but before doing anything risky i tried something, on the ground there was a small pebble, I grabbed it and threw it slightly infront of it, as a reaction the mole jumped over the same place the small pebble fell, it was clear it knew I was hear, but it didn't know where I was for sure. This gave me an advantage, somehow, grabbing another little pebble I had nearby I threw it closer to me, the not so small mole approached the sound and started snifing, before it could even react I jumped over it, trying to stab the knife directly onto it's skull. Somehow, the mole managed to avoid it, slightly bending its body to the right. The second after, the mole screeched, making an horrendous sound, even worse than the one of the rabbit and spider, I managed to avoid it making a step back, but it did manange to barely touch my chest with its middle claw, cutting my t-shirt as if it was just a thin paper and a cut on my chest which I started bleeding lightly, it's hand now was on the floor, I stepped over it and using the knife, I stabbed it on it's chin, it made an even louder screech, now afraid that the other two torneds would come, I pulled out the knife and slashed it's neck, the blood kept coming out, as it tried to shout, the only sound that came out were only undistinguable drowning sounds as it slowly lose strength and fell to the floor.
Once on the ground, I started to breath heavily, at the same time, that small cut was starting to get painful, I sat on the ground just a few meters away of the corpse of the mole, grabbing my haversack, I started searching for bandages, or any kind of medical help I had in the bag. A few seconds after, I indeed had a bandage. I took off my shirt and using a bottle of water that I also had, cleaned my chest slightly, and then covered it by the bandage, once done, i put my shirt back on. While I was distracted taking care of myself, Nail already got the corpse inside that mirror that he had.
"No positive remarks this time?" I asked to the void of the cave. A second after, Nail answered.
"They are coming" Nail said with the same tone of voice that he always has as if he didn't even worry. Suddenly I heard a loud screech coming from the darkness infront of me.