Flash!


    Akira and the others were spat out into a medium-sized underground cave which was lit up by the white portal for a few seconds before disappearing.


    Akira quickly counted everyone to make sure that no one was missing and found that the old man from the dungeon had indeed not come out with them...


    “We should rest here so that we can...”


    “Who are they?” asked a voice near the entrance of the cave a good distance away from the group.


    Akira and the rest of the group became fully alert as they looked toward the man who spoke.


    At the entrance of the tunnel to the cavern there were a handful of sharply dressed Melee and ranged warriors who all wore armor with similar symbols on them.


    “There''s no need to care about who they are. We can''t waste our time killing them individually right now. The target was rumored to be around here. If we miss our chance now, the guild master will be mad at us and fine us again taking all our loot...” said a man in heavy armor.


    “Then let''s just do this!” said a robed female holding a thick book. She started chanting and pointed at the ceiling.


    The others understood what she was doing and followed her lead and began casting and activating skills sending them flying at the walls and ceiling of the cave.


    “They''re trying to trap us in here!” growled Akira.


    “Rush them!” roared Zundar.


    “Roar!” growled Fluffball as he followed right beside Zundar.


    Even though they were in poor condition after just defeating the Dungeon guardian, everyone was able to dig deep into their body''s reserves and rush forward with a second wind of energy.


    Several of the demigods'' skills were now aimed at them trying to hinder their charge as they had to block or dodge the exploding skills.


    Crack! CaPuuu!


    Akira glanced up and saw the ceiling started to crumble as a large crack started to spiderweb out quicker than anyone could run. ''Crap we''re too late...''


    “It''s coming down!” shouted Beater.


    “Defensive formation... Cover yourself!” shouted Akira as large rocks and boulders began to fall from the ceiling crashing around them sent up a large cloud of silvery dust that blocked their view.


    Both the walls and ceilings of the cave were now collapsing in on them. It was pointless trying to regroup as they were too far apart now from their desperate rush towards the entrance. They could only rely on themselves and those closest to them to weather the storm of falling rubble.


    Fluffball gave up rushing to the entrance and started to run back towards Akira dodging what ruble he could and letting the rest hit his armored body.


    For good measure, the demigods sent several more skills towards everyone before escaping. Several of the attacks scored a few lucky hits on the full moon members that were closest to the entrance and gravely wounded them to the point a large falling boulder landing on their raised shield was enough to cause bright light fragments to bust out where they had stood only seconds before.


    Everyone was forced to crouch down and huddle under what little protection they had whether it was their shield or someone else''s.


    They held out as long as they could but even the strongest of them were eventually knocked unconscious by the falling rubble.


    ***


    “Uh...” Akira groaned as he regained consciousness.


    He felt a great weight pushing down on him from all the rubble on top of him.


    As he opened his eyes he was unable to see anything around him as everything was pitch black.


    He tried to move his legs and arms but they were pinned under the large amount of rubble that was piled on top of him all around him. What was even worse was there was some type of sand that was packed in between all of the rubble which had also seeped into his armor and into his wounds causing him more trouble and pain.


    ''I need to rest for a few seconds... then I can try freeing one of my arms to see what I can do.'' thought Akira as he let out pained gasps.


    His body was aching all over and he felt a headache coming on after receiving so many hits to his armored head. His ears were still ringing from all the hits.


    After deciding to rest he grit his teeth through the throbbing pain of his body and noticed a few new system notifications blinking for him to read.


    Ding!


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    <td>


    Your limbs have received massive blunt damage.


    This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience.Your right arm is unable to move and your actions will be constrained until you have been properly healed.


    </td>


    </tr>


    </tbody>


    </table>


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    <tbody>


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    <td>


    Blood loss from your wounds will become fatal if you do not seek medical help soon!


    Your health is slowly dropping.


    </td>


    </tr>


    </tbody>


    </table>


    “Is that all...what else could go wrong,” muttered Akira.


    Ding!


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    <tbody>


    <tr>


    <td>


    You are in the early stages of silver poisoning.


    If you do not cure the problem or get away from the source of the poison, your symptoms will slowly grow more severe!


    </td>


    </tr>


    </tbody>


    </table>


    Akira groaned out loud when he realized what was surrounding him and why his body ached even more every second that passed. He stopped groaning when he heard what sounded like metal scratching against the silvery rocks.


    “OVER HERE!” shouted Akira in a rough raspy voice as he coughed on the dust and gritty silver sand that had entered his helmet.


    For a few seconds, he was unsure if whoever was digging had heard him as the sound had stopped.


    But when it started again the sound started to grow closer and he could hear the sound of shattering stones and an intense cold coming from the digging direction.


    A few long minutes later a small glittering icy tunnel next to his left arm opened up.


    “Yap!” said a small Fluffball whose head popped through the small hole that was opened allowing rubble and the granny silver sand to fall off Akira''s upper left side.


    “I''m glad to see you as well... I''m not in that great of a shape...” said Akira in between pained gasps as he reached his armored hand over to pat Fluffball''s head before reaching into his bag and pulling out a red potion.


    As he drank down several gulps of the red potion he felt the aches lesson but they were not fully cured.


    Ding!


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    <td>


    The severity of your wounds has been lessened.


    </td>


    </tr>


    </tbody>


    </table>


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    <tbody>


    <tr>


    <td>


    Your silver poisoning has worsened!


    Due to silver poisoning your healing has been reduced. Seek treatment quickly or your symptoms will become severe.


    </td>


    </tr>


    </tbody>


    </table>


    “Did you find him?” asked Zundar''s voice echoing off the icy walls coming from deep within the small tunnel that was far too small for Zundar''s large muscled body to fit in.


    “Yap!” said Fluffball.


    “Why did I even ask? Only Akira and some of the other werewolves can understand you,” said Zundar.


    “He found me. I am alive... for now,” said Akira in a loud scratchy voice.


    “Fluffball help him out, I''ll keep looking for others back here.”


    “Yap!” said Fluffball before he started to dig and freeze the rubble and silver sand that was hindering Akira''s movement.


    After several more tedious minutes, Akira was able to safely pull himself, with the help of Fluffball pulling his other arm, out of the semi-frozen pile into the small frozen tunnel that Fluffball had dug out.


    Akira was still unable to use his right arm and it just hung at his side limp as the potion slowly worked on healing his internal wounds.


    With how low and compact the tunnel was Akira could only lay on his stomach and pull himself forward with his left arm while he used his feet to push forward.


    It was slow going as they had to inch their way forward to not damage the ice walls and cause a collapse of the hastily made tunnel. One wrong move could cause even more rubble and boulders to collapse on top of Akira and Fluffball which could be fatal.


    When they were reaching the last part of the small tunnel Fluffball darted out and two large muscled arms reached into the tunnel and pulled Akira out into a small enclosure that had several tunnels of different sizes which had been used to gather the few people that were now sitting inside the enclosure that had been dug out and secured by Fluffball''s ice.


    Zundar raised Akira onto his feet causing all the silver sand and dust that was in his armor to fall down and pile up in his armored boots and grieves some of it seeping out onto the floor.


    “You look like you''ll live...” said Zundar as he looked over Akira. “Those dwarves sure know how to build armor. A few dents but nothing serious.”


    Akira saw that Zundar had several large bruises and cuts all over his body which had all scabbed over. He, like everyone else, was covered in silver dust but unlike Akira and the rest of the werewolves he and Fluffball were not hindered or affected by the silver sand.


    “Here take this,” said Akira, handing him the rest of the red potion he had drank from.


    Zundar took a few sips and passed it to some of the more severely wounded members that had been rescued.


    “Did you find Klyn or Sister Teresa yet?” asked Akira.


    “Not yet. We''re looking but it''s hard with all this rubble and silver sand covering everything. Luckily we have our special weapon, Fluffball,” said Zundar.


    “You''re doing great work Fluffball!” said Akira as he took out a few blue candies and tossed them over to Fluffball who caught them in his mouth and crunched them into nothing before swallowing.


    “Yap!” said a happy Fluffball as he felt his exhaustion slowly melt away.


    Akira sat down and used his left hand to pull off his armored boots to let out the trapped silver sand inside his armor.


    “Do you need help? I can''t have you dying on me,” said Zundar as he saw Akira''s armored hand shaking severely as if he had a bad cold.


    “I''m fine. Find Klyn and Sister Teresa first. They will be more helpful for everyone instead of worrying about me,” said Akira as he ate one of the blue candies to try and soothe his mental exhaustion.


    With the silver poisoning, he felt extremely weak. He could feel his stamina and strength being slowly sapped away.


    “If you''re strong enough then you should use that tunnel to get out of here. I know you werewolves are allergic to silver. Just be careful, the demigods collapsed much of the exit tunnel as well. A few others have already exited out before you,” said Zundar.


    “Yap!” said Fluffball, agreeing with Zundar''s suggestion.


    “Will do,” said Akira as he put his armored boots back on and hobbled over to the larger tunnel which was big enough for him to crawl in.


    He made faster time getting to the end of this tunnel than the last but his true challenge only started when he exited the tunnel that led into the cavern''s exit tunnel.


    The exit tunnel was now half filled with silver sand dune which caused those that wanted out of the cave to have to push through the silver sand.


    Climbing up the silver sand dune was going to be a real pain.


    With a large sigh, he started the long troublesome climb out of the collapsed cave.