Chapter 492: Cavern and Bones
The pattering sound was flesh-and-blood sludge dripping from the entrance overhead.
Ruger and Mahama strolled onward, gradually leaving the sound far behind until they could no longer hear it at all.
They still had not caught sight of the old demon, but they could see footprints on the ground—traces inevitably left behind by feet stained with bloody water.
Neither of them cast Light Spell.
Ruger adjusted his breathing as he observed this wondrous place.
It looked like a natural cavern, yet many places exposed something resembling bone. For instance, along a stretch of cave they had just passed, bones protruded from the upper slope, as though in some distant age, a towering giant had fallen here. The cave had become natural only through the passage of enough time.
Ruger surmised that this giant had been a humanoid creature, though somewhat different, bearing certain traits unique to itself.
The cave's depth and breadth far exceeded what the two of them had expected, which also spoke to the immense size of this humanoid creature.
As Ruger walked, perhaps because they were beneath the demon flesh-and-blood battlefield, he occasionally found exceptionally high-quality blood crystals in corners or along the cave ceiling.
They gathered them as they went, each acquiring several—not small pieces, but entire clusters.
Gradually, the cave began to slope downward.
Ruger raised an eyebrow. This big fellow had either died lying head-down, feet-up, or fallen here at death and smashed out a pit.
The winding cave looked as though it had been carved away by flowing water, but Ruger felt it was the giant's gushing blood, which had continued to flow for a long time even after its death.
Faced with several branching paths, Ruger and Mahama remained rather casual. Having followed this far, the old