A Fallen Calamity, as informed by the Status window, is a Calamity on the class right above Seed.
Gritting his teeth, Sirius looks at his friends before suddenly taking his hands off of John's shoulder and running beneath the Skull Wolf, the abomination of a spider.
Sirius looks up and see the jagged teeth and hollow mouth underneath its abdomen, he outstretch his right hand and summon [Red Horn] as it materialize in his hand. A red sword with the guard having the shape of two curved horns. Similar to that of a bull's horn.
"RUN! GO BACK!"
Sirius shouts as he dodges a leg that stabbed the ground where he was. Sirius quickly run towards the tents. Maneuvering through the tents as the spider screech and jumps onto Sirius.
But as planned, the spider crashes against the cloth of the tent instead. Sirius grabs the cloth and wrap it around two of its leg.
To his horror, the spider easily tear the cloth that was tied around its two legs and slam one of its leg towards Sirius.
Sirius quickly raises his sword and watch as the leg blurs towards him, crashing against the red sword. Sirius could only widen his eyes as he gets send away tumbling onto the ground. He crashes against a pile of rocks as he cough out saliva. His hands tremble from the impact of holding the sword to block the leg, they ache terribly.
His head spins as his body shivers, feeling goosebumps. He quickly jump and roll to the side, dodging the leg that stabbed the rocks.
Looking around, he quickly make a decision to run towards a narrow path, looking back, he could see his friends running on towards their way back.
"SEEK HELP!"
Sirius could only shout before dodging another leg by jumping towards the narrow path. Rolling on the ground, he breathe in a sigh of relief as the face of the Skull Wolf slam against the entrance of the narrow path. It screeches loudly for a minute, trying to get in. Seeing that it failed, it slowly moves back.
"Hah... hah... damnit..."
Sirius cursed as he look at where the spider was, he slowly stands up, forcing himself to move. But then, a tail flies towards the inside of the narrow path. Sirius could only widen his eyes before quickly jumping back, narrowly missing the tail as its stinger dig deep to where he was standing.
The stinger, despite stabbing the ground and sinking into it, drag itself across the ground. Shattering rocks as it flow towards Sirius. Sirius quickly raises his sword and blocks the sharp stinger.
A loud clang shatter the air, Sirius' sword slips out of his hand. Unable to hold the sword anymore because of the amount of force transferred.
The stinger quickly comes back charging as the blunt side of it slams towards Sirius' chest. Sirius crosses his arm in defense right before it comes into contact and a loud bang echoes in the narrow path.
Sirius flies further into the narrow path. Crashing and rolling against the rocks as he slams onto a side of the wall like a ragdoll. His eyes blurs, unfocused from the dizziness of getting thrown around and the force colliding against his arms and his chest. He gasp in pain, taking wheezes of air because of the sharp pain on his chest and arms.
The tail and stinger slams onto the ground near him, unable to reach him. Further on the entrance of the narrow path, Sirius could vaguely see the hollow eye sockets and teeth biting onto the entrance. Trying to get to its prey. But it couldn't due to its large size.
The eyes on the stinger stares onto Sirius, Sirius stare back at it with unfocused eyes. He groans and let out a shout, trying to keep himself from going unconscious each time he notice the darkness creeping in from the corner of his eyesight. He can't collapse now, not when there is danger right outside.
He couldn't move his left arm, it's probably fractured. But at least his right arm isn't, since he can move it to support his body as he stagger onto the side. Slowly walking like a limp deeper down the narrow path, he could hear screeches aimed at him, but he shrug it off and continue on walking.
However...
As the screeching stop, Sirius looks back to see what is going on, and to his horror, Skull Wolf push the top of its abdomen against the narrow path, the spiders that were staying on top of it jumps off its back. Rushing down the narrow path.
Widening his eyes, Sirius groans and starts on dragging his body further down the narrow path. Not long after, he arrives at the end of the narrow path. Looking around, he could see that at the end of the path, it leads to the sides of another ravine. On the base of the ravine, there seems to be a deep stream of water rushing somewhere.
"Gah... damnit! Another ravine?! How deep is this cave system?!"
Sirius shouts in frustration, a deep sense of regret for allowing himself to go here when he shouldn't have. But well, he heard that teenagers usually do these kind of things, exploring areas and getting trapped or losing their way. At least back in the modern days.
Looking back, he could see a swarm of spiders crawling towards his way, a silent gulp escapes his mouth as he looks back down the deep stream of water. Looking around the ravine, he clicks his tongue.
"Gh... damnit!"
Seeing that his arms are in no state to fight, he takes a deep breath and take a step back before running and jumping down from the walls of the ravine.
His legs crash against the stream of water as a dull aching pain shoots up from his legs. Groaning in the water, he opens his eyes and begin swimming. Kicking his legs and trying his best to guide his path using his one functioning arm.
Letting the stream of water help him move forward, he moves diagonally to a rocky landscape as he kicks his leg towards the landscape. Summoning [Shard of Night], he stab it onto a rock and fight against the strong current as he resurface up to the air.
Taking a deep breath, he drags his body up, even when his arm is screaming at him. While groaning, he pulls himself up to the ground after fighting against the current. Yanking his body to the ground, Sirius plops on his back as he wheezes. His eyes grows heavy, the light slowly escaping his eyes as his eyelid slowly close.
Groaning in a daze, Sirius grasp the dagger in his palm tightly before gliding it to his left palm and slash at it. Searing pain fills his head as his eyes slowly open, it's still not safe here. No guarantee that he will be okay if he falls asleep.
Slowly standing up, Sirius' blue and white hair covers his eyesight, the damp hair dripping water as he groan and slowly stand up. Looking around, he sees another entrance to a path. This time, it's a bigger path.
Looking at the dagger on his hand, he furrow his brows as he let out a heavy sigh. Taking off his jacket, he cut out the lower part of the cloth and the sleeves of the jacket. Using both part of the cloth, he makes a momentary makeshift splint to wrap it around his broken left arm. Making a makeshift splint as he leaves himself with only a sleeveless black jacket, a white plain t-shirt and black pants and a pair of black shoes.
After a while, he succeeds on tying the cloth, proud of himself for the makeshift splint, he silently walk down the narrow path.
Truthfully, he doesn't know where to go. The only thing he do know is that he have to get to the surface and get back to the Post.
Problem is...
"The South is still not cleared yet... it's roaming with Calamities."
The only area that House Storm have claimed is the whole North of the continent, so basically, he will have to traverse alone the unknown South since the only way forward is to the South.
"Ha... damnit."
Stopping on his track, Sirius finally unveil another part of this deep cavern. In front of him, three huge pillars of rock stood from the ground to the ceiling, there are many uneven ground and even natural stairs leading to another area it seems. The landscape of the ground is filled by shallow murky brown water, while sharp protruding spikes hang from above the ceiling.
But upon paying close attention, the surrounding area looks as though there had been a fight. At a huge scale at that. Sword marks, cracks, remnants of pillars and a few other things he couldn't explain.
But the most alarming thing is the fact that there are Calamities roaming the area, spiders, snakes, and salamanders. Those are the three Calamities that Sirius notice when he sneakily roam the area.
He had already seen them once when he was in the Post. But with it, comes another bad news.
"Some of them are Fallen..."
There are different levels to a class, it seems that the Skull Wolf from before was nearing the Usurper class. It was most likely about to breakthrough considering the speed and strength.
The strength and speed of both Blessed and Calamity Seed are quite the same. A Blessed Seed is as powerful as a normal human, but they can utilize Blessings and have what is called Runes. While Calamity Seed is also as powerful as either normal humans or animals.
But, not everyone in the Seed class is as powerful as each other, some are even stronger than the others. The same case applies to those of the Blessed Evoker and Fallen Calamity. Those of the Evoker and Fallen are said to be at the peak of human strength and animal strength respectively. The more they grow and absorb Souls, the more powerful they become.
Walking towards a boulder, Sirius monitors the movements of the Seed and Fallen Calamities for a few hours, it seems that there's a turf for each group of Calamity.
On the middle of the cavern, surrounded by the three pillars still left standing, there appears to be a hole that leads somewhere even further underneath.
From the center to the right, there's a natural staircase that leads downwards to what seems to be the base for the salamanders. While to the left, there appears to be a straight path to the base for snakes. Meanwhile, the one on the front leads to a path where the spiders seems to be residing.
'From what I gather, aside from the marks left by House Storm, presumably. After they left, the spiders are the one winning in this turf battle. The weakest in this turf battle are the snakes.'
Sirius thought to himself, since he's here anyway, why not try and absorb some Soul to ascend into an Evoker? Because frankly, if he stay as he is right now in the Seed class. He isn't sure he would stay alive for long. For that, he needed power.
'I'll have to plan things out... but first things first, I need to find some food and finish recovering my broken arm... At the very least until I can move it to fight.'
Leaning his back and head onto a boulder, he lets out a heavy sigh and close his eyes.
'This will be a long journey...'
Sirius thinks to himself, before slowly opening his eyes. His light blue eyes gleaming as he grit his teeth.
'Mom... dad... Julian. I must come back, come back to them.'