Chapter 2

“Ah! I remember now. We are still on war and Pari’s army was trying to catch me. But how did I get into this cave?”

He still can’t recall how he ended up in the cave.

He then got an idea how to escape.

“Maybe I need to create a hole beneath me and follow the flow of the water.”

He slammed the floor with his right leg only once. The cave started shaking like an earthquake is happening. He jumps backward about 20 meter. What a strong leg.

“Api!”

He forms a small fire on his right hand to give him proper vision about the situation in the cave. The floor that slammed by him started to fall apart. A big hole with diameter about 10 meter created.

Unta puts his left hand on his head.

“Argh! All this shaking makes my head feel worse.”

The shaking in the cave stopped. Unta moving forward to the hole and looks into it.

He throws the flame on his right hand into the hole. The hole’s really deep. He sighed.

“How can I go into this hole without dying? It seems there’s no subterranean river too at that floor. Maybe I can find other ways to escape this cave on from this floor.”

He cast the same fire spell and leaves the hole he created and continue searching any safer way to escape from the cave.

As he walks, he’s talking to himself.

“Why bad things always happened to me when we’re in a bad situation. I hope they manage to defend the town from that damn Pari.”

He was talking about the current war that’s happening before he lost his conscious and woke up in the cave.

After walk for a long time, he decided to take a break.

“This is really frustrating!”

He can’t handle the situation anymore.

“I think there’s no one in this cave besides me. Maybe they won’t find me here.”

Unta drops his small fire on the floor and lie beside a stalagmite. Staring at the cave’s ceiling. Enjoying how beautiful the scenery around him.

“Maybe this is not bad. I can stay here but I need to find foods. Perhaps bats from back then can taste delicious too…”

His voice sounded like he has given up on finding escape route from the cave. Maybe he also given up on his life by imagining eating those bats.

Unta slowly closed his eyes and fall asleep.

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*Tap…tap…tap…*

Unta opened his eyes after he heard sound of footstep echoing in the cave. He put out the fire and hide behind a stalagmite.

“Enemy?”

He’s having dialog with himself.

He saw a light far away from his hiding place. The light’s not as orange as Unta’s fire. It’s white and in form of light beam. The light keeps moving up, down, right and left.

“Is that some kind of new magic? Never saw that before.”

The number of lights suddenly increased by four make it five altogether.

Unta started to worry about his safety.

“Is it safe for five versus one? I don’t think so…”

He asked and answer himself. He’s putting his guard on.

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