Chapter 85
Walking through the forest, Michelle pulled her shifting weapon from her spatial ring, and with it being in the shape of a dagger, she used it to cut her way through the vines and branches blocking her path. After a good half an hour, she found a cave entrance, but it wasn’t the one she and Ivona stayed in overnight. So Michelle just marked it with the string she made using her dark element spirit energy and proceeded with searching through the jungle. From the start of her searching, she didn’t move more than a few hundred meters from the crack in the cave, as the path between the crack and the cave entrance wasn’t that long.
Ivona remained in the cave the whole time, and, with her boredom, she walked to the cave entrance and started playing with her light element spirit energy. But after a while, she got tired of that and sent a beam of her spirit energy out into the sky.
Seeing the beam of light in the distance, Michelle frowned and started quickly cutting through the greenery to get there. She could guess that Ivona was the one who caused the beam of light, so she knew that danger would soon come to the cave.
After sending out the beam of light, Ivona realized what a mistake she had made and instantly started climbing one of the trees around the cave, using the vines as a ladder of sorts. And soon, just as she got there, a bunch of nasty monsters came crawling into the cave. The smallest of them were the size of a small dog, and the biggest ones were the size of an adult lion. The area around the cave and lower in the mountains was densely filled with plants, so the ugly, lion-sized monsters could easily walk around.
Ivona frowned a bit, seeing the monsters. Though her cultivation was at a temporary peak, she had never fought monsters, except when with the rats in the cave, that were able to poison her. And that was why she didn’t have enough skills to fight against such monsters just yet. But it actually made sense. Even if she was neglected by her family, she grew up in the Capital City, sheltered from any monsters or serious threats, so it was quite natural that she had no real fighting skills. And she was aware of it.
Quickly, Michelle reached the cave, but didn’t go near it, so the monsters wouldn’t notice her. Instead, she climbed a tree. There, she used her ice element to form a small bridge between the trees so she could easily walk over to the tree where Ivona was. "Why did you light the beam?" she asked. "Did something happen?"
Ivona was surprised to hear Michelle behind her so suddenly, but she quickly calmed down. "Nothing happened," she shook her head a bit.
"Then why did you light it?" Michelle continued asking.
But Ivona’s answer was strange: "I was just bored."