A few hours prior to Brune's solo fight.
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Wesley and the rest of the prisoners had not seen the dark mutant beast anywhere. This had given Wesley respite to meditate on his new sword moves. They entailed sending out waves of destruction containing the heavy feeling of the earth element but he realized that he was not get the hang of it yet.
Wesley could send out scattered ripples intermittently, what he wanted was to send out one ripple that contained all his strength, the good thing he had his patterned swords. The patterns would give him some small enlightenment about destruction waves whenever he meditated so this gave him hope that he would soon create his own technique.
'phew' he released a breathe he had been holding and stopped practicing. Wesley turned and looked at Grog. Grog's body had healed slightly but when he remembered the story Grog had told him, he snorted and rolled his eyes.
Grog had told him that the city lord had given him a task to search for a treasure and he had just gotten its whereabouts when he encountered an elemental storm.
At first when he heard about Grog's encounter with the storm, he had looked at him weirdly. 'is this karma, hehe' he had laughed inside but kept a poker face and listened to Grog.
'When we get out of here, I will introduce you to the city lord' Grog had promised but Wesley did not care whether the man was lying or telling the truth. Either way he would get his answers.
At this moment, a reverberating muffled sound came from one of the tunnels and they heard a breaking sound, a heavy feeling settled upon them.
'boooom, crack' breaking sounds and dust came through the tunnels and covered them but this just the beginning, the ground and the walls started moving like waves cresting and falling.it looked as if something had stirred the once firm ground and now it was rippling, Wesley felt something familiar about it but could not place his finger on it.
Rocks fell and tunnels got blocked but worse of all, a fifth level beast came towards them at a quick pace. It ran towards them with menace in its eyes, this was its chance to eat the delicious food while the other beasts were being occupied.
Wesley sensed this and and shouted to the other warriors, 'infuse you aura into the swords, the beast is coming'
The warriors stood up and held the swords he had given earlier and started to pour spiritual aura into the swords. The patterns lit up and with a hum, the swords levitated and joined together into one sword, a complicated pattern was then seen being formed on the sword.
And when it was complete, Wesley held the sword and pointed it at the oncoming beast, a soft brown beam of light shot out and impacted the beast.
Grog and the rest waited for the sound of destruction when the beam hit the beast but nothing was heard. The beast was destroyed down to its particles, nothing was left behind, not even a bead.
They looked at Wesley in shock and decided to stick close to him especially Grog, he felt he could gain more benefits if he stuck to the boy.
As Grog was thinking of his future plans, the sword ray continued unimpeded after it went through the beast like a hot knife through butter.
By an unlucky fortune, it met three people who were running for their lives. These three were Verina and Melina who were holding onto Vane. They had just come to this cavern and thought they had almost come out of the mines but instead felt death creeping upon them as they saw a sword beam shooting towards them.
'huh' Verina blocked the two behind her and brought her ring weapons in front of her to block the sword beam.
Due to their fight earlier, they had almost exhausted their spiritual aura so she underestimated the sword beam.
It hit her rings and she felt like she had been hit by a fifth level warrior.
'boom' the rings were pushed back and hit her chest. 'ummm' she groaned in pain and was pushed back knocking the two behind her down but she she had stopped the beam as it was left with little energy after it had impacted the beast.
Vane got more injured while Melina was better off. She just got some slight injuries from the knock.
Verina let out a sigh in relief when realized that she had blocked the sword beam. She felt stuffy in her chest, she spat out blood and felt her chest lighten somewhat and turned to check on her sister and Vane.
Wesley and the other warriors noticed the sound of the sword beam hitting the weapon rings and Verina's groan. They realized that there were people around, came out of the bone cage and ran towards the sound.
When Wesley saw them, he let out a sound of surprise, 'huh' he did not expect to see three disheveled beautiful women, two were lightly injured but the third one was severely injured and needed a healer pronto.
Verina turned around and saw them staring at her.
'Does anyone know how to leave these mines, we need to leave as fast as possible if we want to survive'
They just looked at her skeptically and turned to Wesley. She knew they would not believe her so she removed her seeker token which represented one of the leaders of the organization and showed it to them.
Wesley looked at it with a blank look but Grog recognized it easily and got scared. He tapped on Wesley and whispered to him, 'we need to listen to her, she is somehow connected to the leaders of the seeker organization
Verina looked at this interaction and realized that Wesley was the leader of this party so she turned to him.