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Chapter 12 - Apex Monster Emerges

Chapter 12 - Apex Monster Emerges

Rumble! Crack!

A resounding scream came from the 4 corners of the decrepit edifice; making eardrums bleed with intensifying echoes. The 2 Rollerbladers couldn’t do anything to mitigate the sound because they were pressed up against an invisible wall without any way of freeing themselves. Unlike those 2 dullards, the Mysterious Mistress covered her 2 orifices which sound passes through.

“ROAR!”

The deafening sound intensified with a ferocious sonic vibration that caused the ground of the edifice to crumble and gave way for a massive crater to form.

“That’s so deep! I don’t want to find out what would happen if I were to fall in there.” The Mysterious Mistress revved her Jaguar motorbike towards the invisible wall which was blocking the exit. When she reached there, she began slamming her Motor’s jaguar paws at it.

“Why isn’t this working?” The Mysterious Mistress thought with a trace of irritation on her taste buds. She wanted to escape so badly that even though she knew it wasn’t working, she kept on pouncing on the invisible wall with her Motor. Eventually, the repetitious force produced by her tiresome impact caused the 2 Rollerbladers to come undone from their adherence to the invisible wall. They both fell to the ground.

“Awe! That was too gruesome.” Standing up, Resotnero glared over at the Mysterious Mistress; thinking that she might attack them, but came at ease when he saw that she was still pouncing on the invisible wall and not them.

“Resotnero can I get some help please?” Kira stretched her only arm out for Resotnero to lift her up from the ground but Resotnero ignored her outstretched arm and walked towards the Mysterious Mistress who was panting for air.

“Hey, lady thanks for getting us down from there. We really appreciated the help” Resotnero cracks a deceptive smile at the Mysterious Tomb Rider but she caught on quickly and said:

“Don’t push your luck, pretty boy or I just might gobble up your Ghoul Soul right here.”

“Ah, sorry! Sorry!. There’s no need to be so violent. We already accepted our losses.” Resotnero dropped his fake smile and asked, “So what do you think is going on here? What is this invisible wall that is cutting off our escape?”

The Mysterious Mistress glared at him with malcontent. “How am I supposed to know that?”

“Nah, I just thought that you would know because you seem so knowledgeable about that desert whatever snake thing that attacked you earlier.”

Hearing Resotnero mentioned the Rank-B Field Monster made the Mysterious Mistress more upset with him. “It’s not whatever desert thingy. That creature I fought was a Desert Mummy Python. Now can you stop talking, please? I’m trying to break my way out of here.” Once again she started pouncing on the invisible wall. She even spitefully kicked up some dust to drive away Resotnero from her side.

Kira finally found her footing. “Hey what gives Resotnero? Couldn’t you offer me some help or is that chick more important to you?” Kira was clearly displeased with Resotnero. If it weren’t for his bullshit idea of coming into the eerie catacomb, she would have crossed the finish line by now, and probably make it in the top 3.

While Kira was fussing over Resotnero, the Mysterious Mistress was tirelessly mashing at the invisible wall until she came to a sudden halt when she glimpsed the large statue which was at the opposite end of the edifice crumbling away. “Is that…?” She turned her head to get a closer look. When she saw what was going on she let out a loud gasp which alerted the Rollerbladers to look there as well.

The structure where the cherubim statue was, started crumbling at a drastic rate. The gigantic statue even began showing signs of leakage, not only this but it was also twitching in certain areas. While all of this anomaly was taking place, the area where the massive black hole was started shooting out multiple dark streaks of light that continued their travels towards the crown of the cherub's statue. I don’t know about you but to me, it seems like something diabolical was waking from its prolonged slumber.

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“Don’t tell me that, that statue is what I think it is.” The frightened eyes of the Mysterious Mistress could be seen shivering through the dark shade of her helmet; also the shakiness in her voice was quite apparent.

Resotnero couldn’t stand the suspense so he made up his mind and asked her: “What do you think it is? Do you know what’s going on?” Before he could receive an answer, Kira interrupted him.

“Hey, Resotnero use your Soul Insignia teleportation skill again to get us out of here! I don’t care if I end up in pieces. Just as long as I rid my presence from this scary place.”

“I can’t Kira. I already tried that. My Soul Insignia can no longer teleport us out of here. It’s probably because of that invisible wall.”

“You can’t be serious! Am I going to lose all of my stats in this shithole?”

“Calm your ass, Kira. We’re not done yet.”

“That’s easy for you to say. Your body is intact and I’ve lost an arm. As I am now I am useless. You can thank your mysterious girlfriend for that. Why are you kissing up to her ass anyway?”

“Hey, cut that out, Kira!”

“Both of you shut up! This is not the time nor place for your bickering.” After scolding the Rollerbladers the Mysterious Mistress gestured to the area where the cherub statue was crumbling. “Are you seeing that? If my guess is correct that thing is concealing a Rank-A Field Monster.”

“A Rank-A Field Monster???” The Rollerbladers gasped in unison.

“Yes, a Rank-A Field Monster. Do you even know what that means?”

“No, we’re not as smart as you remember?” Replied Kira condescendingly.

Resotnero stepped forward; saying, “Don’t tell me that this invisible wall has something to do with that monster revealing itself?”

“It does.” Answered the Mysterious Mistress who was sweating between her loins. “I read in my father’s journal that when a Rank-A Field Monster revealed itself, no one is permitted to leave its presence alive until it has been defeated. Hence the reason for this invisible barrier that is preventing us from leaving.”

This revelation almost forced Kira to spit out her rabbit tooth. “So there’s no escaping until we take down that bleeding statue thing? How are we supposed to accomplish that? I don’t know about you guys but I’m not in a fighting mode right now.” She touched her shoulder where her arm got cut off as she said this.

“Stop complaining Kira. You still have one arm remaining. With your Soul Insignia, it shouldn’t be a problem for you. If you don’t want to fight, no one is forcing you. You can always activate the Bail-out function on your T.R.I (Tomb Rider’s Interface) It will transport you out of the race safe and sound but you will have to leave your Ghoul Souls behind. It’s your choice.”

“What? There’s no way that I’m leaving my Ghoul Souls behind so that you and that mysterious chick can profit off of me! I rather stay and dance with the devil.”

The multiple dark streaks of light which seeped out of the ground, penetrated the inner layers of the cherub statue; forcing whatever was inside to awaken with dread. The stony arms that were holding up the baby statue fell apart and crashed into the dark hole below. This little part was only 10 meters long so one could only imagine the terrifying size of the cherub statue. After the cherub statue’s outer shell had crumbled away the splendiferous being inside was exposed at full focus.

“Oh—My—God!”

These words were definitely correct. What stood before the 3 unnerved Tomb Riders were nothing short of a godly existence with a large green halo oscillating over its head. This was undoubtedly a Rank-A Field Monster with full-fledged similarity to that of God's subordinates. 4 bright wings which contained heavenly quality spawned from the posterior of the malevolent being. They dripped with the radiance of the cloud and the rain; soaking all things around them with glorious splendour. The malevolent being who possessed these 4 magnificent embodiments of feathers was a beauty beyond monsters that could even make Lucifer yield. Its lower half was as dark as midnight while its upper half was bright as the sun. 6 lanky arms from the lateral region of its torso were formed into a gracious clasp. A thin veil was covering up half of its face but 3 burning eyes could clearly be seen beaming through it. On both sides of its head was a bulgy protrusion which hosted 14 consecutive eyes all around. With this many optical viewpoints could it possess any blind spots?

The godly beast made its presence known across the Ghoul Stadium by letting out a chilling sound that made every Field Monster freeze for at least ten seconds. The 3 Tomb Riders who were closed off with it in its quarters almost got their ears blown off. A small amount of blood trickled from their auditory apertures.