Chapter 13 - The Hidden Threat
" Most probably I am in someone\'s secret garden, which has been meticulously placed in this dangerous environment, so that no one would find it.
I have already eaten the peaches from the trees that he had grown for a long time with care and love... Hah.. I wonder how he would react.
I can\'t take the chance that he would be some kind old immortal who would take me as his disciple after what I have done.... "
" This defense mechanism prevents intruders, but doesn\'t attack anything that is inside or prevents them from going out.
But if I go out, then I don\'t think I would be able to get back inside.
The only outcome would be me dying painfully in the corroding gas.
I don\'t know when the owner would return.
For someone who is able to set up such a defensive system, the person might have already detected me taking his stuff.
I should move forward keeping in mind the worst possible outcome that may arise.
Thinking this way the possibility of the person or entity arriving here in the next second with dangerous intention\'s is high.....
I have already used up more than 70 percent of the liquid essence and took both the golden sphere and the fruit..…
I have also done something to the sword....
Even if I can return the sphere, fruit and the sword...
Returning the liquid essence that has melded with my body is almost impossible...
The liquid essence which could transform a normal person like me to superhuman is definitely priceless.
I need to get out of here, but the black and red smoke seems to be an insurmountable mountain.
If I am in no position to retreat, then the only way is to push forward..."
While thinking about all these he had already reached the earth mountain.
He took out the sphere and fruit from his torn down shirt, which he was now using like a belt.
He had always carried the sphere because it was like an unlimited source of energy.
The energy from the sphere always kept him rejuvenated and filled with energy.
The fruit was too precious to be left somewhere else.
He had already created a cave on the lower part of the earth mountain using the earth control ability.
He treated the cave as his bedroom... Even though he didn\'t need to sleep. Sleep was something that both his body and mind was accustomed to.
Since there was no day and night in this place, he used a stone to cover the cave entrance and created night.
With a determined gaze, he entered the cave and closed it.
Sitting down cross legged he took a small bite of the magical fruit.
It was tasteless, but as it entered his throat he had the feeling that he was full and as it reached the stomach he was bloating out like a balloon that was going to explode.
" Shit.. This is one of the worst cases of scenarios I imagined, now I can only rely on luck and the statue which I saw in my dreams...
I know it\'s somewhere inside me, the snort that saved me from the fear paralysis when the huge king cobra was attacking me also came from it.... I have already placed my bet, there is no turning back.."
He was going to explode, but all of a sudden as if a black hole had appeared in his stomach, all that energy that was going to explode out where sucked in and disappeared.
The black statue that was sitting cross legged and motionless, was giving out a small grin.
It opened its mouth slowly once more, the same time Sam also opened his mouth automatically.
the fruit that he was holding flew away from his hand and got absorbed into his mouth in one gulp.
This time it didn\'t go into his stomach but got absorbed into a small black hole that has formed inside his mouth....