In the long dark cave four figures could be seen walking through the pitch darkness, a small bubble of light floating atop of their head illuminated the path in front of them.

It did not allow them to look very far ahead but still helped them see a little bit nonetheless, these were none other then Laura and her party. The party members seemed to loose their enthusiasm and energy as Allen barely kept his giant shield up his claymore long been put to rest at his back, his eyes were red as he seemed to struggle to keep them open.

Lana was no better as she had one hand over the shoulder of Collin, her eyes stays closed more then open as she dragged her feet on the ground, her bow rested on her back as well as she no longer had the strength to continue carrying it.

Collin who had bloodshot eyes looked at Laura and asked "I don't think I can hold on any much longer either, I been trying to isolate the Mana in my body but I can only slow it down not stop it completely." His voice carried a hint of urgency.

Laura looked at him with a serious expression, she was better off then the rest of them, and the credit to that was with the Angel blood, the Mana affected her but not at the same level as the rest, she could still manage, but not forever.

They had to find the exit, or none of them would make it out of here. She did not know what would happen if they fell asleep completely, but it was not something she'd like to. Allen next to her long lost his energy to even talk as he seemed to muster every bit of will power into making one step after the other as if afraid should loose concentration he wouldn't be able to continue.

Their situation looked grim, the cave didn't seem to have any end in sight. Laura started checking the walls for anything a sign perhaps but to no avail the walls were smooth with no cracks nor anything on them.

As they were walking Allen tripped and almost fell down before Laura ran to him and helped him, his giant shield fell on the ground with a loud clank.

He looked at Laura who held him from his hands his gaze dim and voice weak not carrying any hint of energy. "Thank you..."

Laura's expression turned grim, Allen has fallen asleep and would not open his eyes. She slowly set him down gently on the floor as she was moving his shield next to him a *thud* sound echoed from behind her, she turned her head only to see the collapsed figure of Collin and Lana on the floor.

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Lana was already sleeping on the ground, Collin on the other hand struggled to his feet and slapped his face trying to sober up, he looked at Laura with a hopeless gaze on his face and slowly made his way towards her before falling to his knees next to her.

He raised his head and stared at the sealing of the cave with a blank look "Haha—we are not even past the second part and already don't seem to be able to make it" Laura remained silent as she did not know what to say, she was never good with words but she felt her heart sink. It was hopeless, Collin had fallen asleep on his knees his staff still tightly clenched to his side, the small bubble of light that was on top of his head slowly blinked out returning the cave to it's original pitch darkness.

Laura's eyes started to glow as she found herself able to see through the darkness as if day, she turned towards her companions and started pulling them towards the cave wall and moved them away from the road.

As she finished setting Allen near the wall she stood up brushing a few strands of hair that fell over her face back and looked ahead.

"I can't carry them all, I will at least need to scout the area ahead first." She muttered under her breath as she looked back at her group one last time giving Ysion and all Gods a silent prayer to keep them safe.

Soon enough a lone figure made it's way through the dark cave looking ominous as the sound of it's boot on the floor was the only thing disturbing the silence.

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She did not know for how long she had been walking, it must have been hours she thought as it was hard to tell considering the the cave continued on without any sign of change.

She flinched as she could have sworn something passed was behind her as she drew her sword and turned her gaze behind her, nothing...

Her eyes started playing tricks on her as she started hallucinating, as she walked she kept seeing strange shadowy figures some humanoid some monsters, but they were not real it was all in her head.

She started hearing voices that whispered to her in her ears, she flinched the voices seemingly eerily close to her, her neck grew cold as the small hairs on her arms stood up.

"Who's there?!" She shouted as she kept looking behind her and back in front of her, the voices never went away however.

"WHO'S THERE?!!" She again shouted this time swinging her sword at a shadowy figure, the shadow turning to a mist that recovered behind her she slashed at it again as the cycle continued.

They laughed at her, mocked her for being weak she slashed kicked punched them but to no avail they wouldn't let her alone, more shadows gathered around her their voices increasingly louder.

She collapsed to the floor, her sword next to her as she covered both of her ears. "Leave me alone...please" she whispered as small tear made it's way out of her eye.