“Kyaaaah!” When she finally realized what was going on, Trisha commenced screaming for dear life. Milliseconds passed as her descent towards the infernal pit hastened. “I can’t believe that maniac slapped me over! When I become a ghost I am going to haunt his smelly ass for eternity!”
While crying out for help, Trisha along with her motor crashed into the fiery pit. To her surprise, she hadn’t become a burnt carcass yet.
“Huh? Why am I not burning? Hm? This is…?” Glancing around her motor for strange reasons, Trisha realized that she was hovering inches above the fiery pit. “What’s happening? Didn’t I fall in just now?” What kept Trisha afloat was the effects brought about by a gravity Soul Insignia. One that she had involuntarily activated during her unexpected fright.
“It was me who did it? I’m saved!” Identifying that she hadn’t bit death’s ass yet, Trisha operated the gravity Soul Insignia to carry herself back to the peak of the mountain.
“Hey, look down there! That girl didn’t fall into the fiery pit!” A concerned Tomb Rider shouted resoundingly.
“What!” Meliodas’s attention was brought to this matter. “That disrespectful wench is still alive.” Meliodas redirected his motor to face the fiery pit where Trisha was coming out of. “How persistent are you? Since you survived that, I’ll let you off.”
“What? You’ll let me off?” Trisha was dumbfounded by Meliodas’s arrogant remark. “I can’t believe the words that are coming out of your crazy mouth right now. Do you think that I’m some pushover who would forget what you just did? Huh? You could have killed me just now you asshole!”
Being unable to bear the strain of disrespect that Meliodas was producing, Trisha directed her anger towards him. She used the crushing force of her gravity Soul Insignia to pushed Meliodas’s motor down the slope.
“What do you think you’re doing you crazy bitch! It’s dangerous!” Meliodas felt threatened when he discovered how close he had fallen towards the climbing swamp of lava. A few smaller Magma Ghouls even managed to climb their way onto his motor’s frame. He horridly shook them off. Luckily, his motor was durable enough to handle the heat, so he only suffered minimal damage.
“So you want to start a fight with me, huh?” After climbing his way back to the melting mountain peak, Meliodas set his unruly gaze on Trisha. He was about to activate a similar type of Soul Insignia to teach her some manners. However, both involving parties were abruptly interrupted by someone’s valiant shout.
“Enough!” This defining voice penetrated the ear canals of all the surrounding Tomb Riders. Surprisingly, it wasn’t Armoured Hero who yelled but another.
“Huh? Who does that chick think she is to interrupt those two? Does she have a death wish?”
“Wait, isn’t she that lady who helped defeated that large octopus Ghoul?”
“Yes! I remember her now. She saved our asses back there.”
“Hm?” Both conflicting parties glanced at Angelina after she shouted at them, even Armoured Hero, Water Lilly and Ghost Rider took a gander at her.
“Enough is enough already!” Angelina’s agitated voice sounded again. “It seemed as if you fools don’t understand the seriousness of our situation since you have time to mess around like that!”
“Hm? What did that little girl just call me?” Meliodas felt insulted.
Angelina continued to address the masses. “Look around you! This entire Ghoul Graveyard is being consumed by liquefied fire! Moreover, overrun by those powerful Magma Ghouls!”
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“We are already aware of that, Ms Mystery. What are you trying to get at?”
“Shut up while I’m speaking!” Angelina yelled.
“What? Does this bitch have any manners?”
“All of you keep quiet.” Armoured Hero aided Angelina. “Speak.”
“Hm…” Angelina glanced at Armoured Hero then directed everyone’s gaze towards the Fire Lord Ghoul. “While you were busy fighting amongst yourselves, doesn’t it look like that creature has gotten closer?”
“Huh?” Everyone now directed their undivided attention afield. “She’s right! That monster is larger than before! It must have gotten closer.”
“When did it get this close?”
“Never mind that. Why is it coming over here in the first place, is it chasing after us?”
“There is no way that it is targeting us! We might even seem like little ants in its searing vision.”
“Then why do you think it is coming over here?”
“Don’t ask me! I’m not a Ghoul expert!” Right after speaking, this person looked at Trisha then at the rest of the members from the Research Division.
“Why are you all looking over here? We don’t know either.”
Angelina was the only one who came up with something plausible. “I believe it is searching for something.”
“Huh? Why did you say that, mysterious slut?” Unruly Ban drove his Press Roller closer to hear what Angelina had to say. “Well?”
“I’ve been observing that monster’s movements for a while now and I’ve come to understand a few things. One, it is searching for something in particular but is unaware of where to search precisely. That much is evident by how madly it is upheaving the ground. Also, if you take a closer look at those Magma Ghouls who are diving in the ground over there, you can clearly see by their bodily expression that they are searching for something.”
“Hmm?” The other Tomb Riders saw what Angelina was referring to. “She does have a point.”
“Secondly…” Angelina continued her analysis. “That Cloud Ghoul up there seem to be helping out the flame monster in its search. Aside from preventing that flying yellow Ghoul from attacking the flame monster, it is also sending chains into the ground to assist with the search. I don’t know what’s the basis of the conflict is between them, but from what I can gather, that yellowish Ghoul is the sole reason why this Ghoul Graveyard hasn’t been overrun entirely by broiling fire. The spread of the ocean of fire has also slowed.”
“So are you saying that due to their conflict with each other we managed to survive this long?”
“That’s the most likely scenario, yes.”
“Then if that Golden Ghoul is defeated does that mean we will meet our deaths that much quicker?”
“If we’re unable to escape this place then yes.”
“This is totally f*ck up! Armoured Hero when will the next gate be opening?”
“4 days from now.”
“4 days! Yep, we’re totally screwed! There is no way for us to survive that fricking long!”
“Don’t lose your cool man. Just like that mysterious lady said. If that Golden Ghoul can keep that flame monster at bay for the next couple of days then we might be able to get out of here alive when the gate opens again.”
“It might not be that simple.” Armoured Hero spoke up. “The gate can’t just appear anywhere.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“It is as I’ve said. There is already a set location for the next gate opening. The coordinates are shown here on our Automatic Guiding Cubes.”
Both Armoured Hero and Water Lilly enlarged their holographic displays for all to see. Set topographic information was being shown on the map.
“Wait a sec… let me take a good look at that map. Isn’t this area in the opposite direction from where we are?”
“That’s right. To be exact it is 1-kilometre west of the path that monster is coming from.”
“But that area has already been consumed by fire! Does that mean that we can't escape this place without diving into hell’s asshole? Why do you even bother telling us this information if you already know there is no way out?”
At that moment, Water Lilly spoke up. “The area where the gate is supposed to appear might have already been contaminated. However, with the help of our Automatic Guiding Cubes, we might be able to tweak the height of where the gate should appear. Meaning, escaping it isn’t entirely impossible if our motors could withstand the hot pressure of the air.”
“That plan is still so far-fetched. Who to tell that this entire Graveyard may not be entirely polluted by the time the opening of the gate comes around?”
“This we are unsure of. But we have to survive for as long as we’re able to.”
“I agree with Water Lilly. If we’re alive, some miracle might happen and rescue us all.”
“Tsk, keep dreaming. I’m not lingering here any longer. The rising fiery pit is picking up pace again.”
“I’m going also.”
“Time to move further away from that vicious monster. Let’s rendezvous with Cool Zephyr’s crew first.”
“Alright, let’s move people!” Everyone began riding further away from the incoming Fire Lord Ghoul. Angelina was the last person to take her eyes away from the presence of the powers that lurked ahead.
“Selain go!” Flurries of fine snow particles followed the retreating Tomb Riders’ trail.