Kyle ran towards the canyon and climbed down.
Luckily, no feathers assaulted him on his journey.
’In fact, where is that bird? I don’t see it anymore.’
’Did some beast kill it, or was it that guard that followed that Lornstein guy?’
’Oh well, who cares?’
As Kyle reached the bottom of the canyon, he looked around.
It was eerily quiet.
“Keep to the side of the canyon,” Theodor said. “If a flying beast sees you walking through the middle, it might attack.”
“Sure thing, Boss,” Kyle said as he approached one of the walls.
Then, he continued running towards the other end of the canyon.
Some seconds later, Kyle noticed a couple of stones moving on the other wall of the canyon, and his instincts warned him of danger.
Immediately, Kyle pulled out the iron ore wall he had made during his visit to the Abyss Eye.
Naturally, Kyle wouldn’t throw something as useful as this away.
He laid down near the wall and put the sheet of iron ore over him.
After some seconds, he peeked out from behind his sheet.
Two long eyes!
There were two eyes on the end of long organic sticks!
It looked like the eyes belonged to a huge snail, and right now, the two eyes were looking through the canyon.
Kyle hid behind his sheet again and waited.
Sometime later, he heard an explosion happening about 50 meters away from him.
He glanced out again.
’Ah fuck,’ he thought. ’I hoped this canyon would be empty.’
Just now, something that looked like a velociraptor ran towards the eyes.
Kyle’s instincts told him that this thing was dangerous as well.
It was not nearly as dangerous as the big bird or the Ore Fiend, but it was still dangerous.
“What’s that?” Kyle asked silently.
“I’m not a wildlife biologist,” Theodor said. “I know some beasts, but I don’t know all of them.”
Kyle watched the eyes retreating back into the wall of the canyon.
The next moment, the velociraptor-looking-ass thing released a high-pitched shout.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Kyle’s eyes widened when he saw three pieces of stone lifting off the walls.
The stones were not stones but grey scales!
The scales changed shape, revealing three more velociraptor things.
’These fuckers are camouflaging as stones!’
The velociraptor things attacked the wall where the snail eyes were.
’Gotta take this chance while they are distracted!’
Kyle went to his feet and charged forward, keeping his sheet of iron at his side.
If these things returned to their earlier position, he would need to get past them while the canyon was silent.
Kyle was not good at sneaking, and he was sure that they would find him.
So, he was forced to take a chance.
From time to time, Kyle glanced at the battle.
The velociraptor things were pulling out the eyes, revealing a big core with over 20 eyes growing out of it.
’What the fuck is this thing?!’ he thought.
The eyes stared at the velociraptor things, and some of them slowed down.
Nothing happened when only one eye focused on one of them, but when ten eyes focused on one, it completely stopped moving.
“I don’t know what that is, but it is definitely using some kind of mind Spell,” Theodor said. “Its eyes seem to be the medium through which it can use this Spell.”
’Fucking eye things that control minds. I hate fantasy land!’
Kyle continued running forward.
He saw one of the velociraptor things destroying a bunch of eyes while the other eyes were busy with its comrades.
’Yeah, I know who’s going to win that battle.’
Sure enough, as more and more eyes were destroyed, the other velociraptor things joined the first one.
Within a couple of seconds, all the eyes were destroyed, and the core was torn apart.
’It’s about time to slow down,’ Kyle thought.
That was when his instincts screamed at him.
BANG!
At that moment, two jaws shot out of the ground below Kyle and bit him in the leg.
Then, the surrounding ground became soft, and Kyle felt an irresistible tug pulling him down.
“Diffuser!” Theodor shouted with urgency.
Kyle immediately activated the Diffuser on his hammer.
He felt his Ether drain, but almost immediately, the surrounding sand turned back into stone.
“Liquifier!” Theodor shouted.
Kyle activated his Liquifier.
He knew what Theodor wanted him to do.
He was no longer the Kyle who didn’t know how mines worked.
The stones around him vanished and fused with the stones beneath him.
CRK!
The jaws tugged, but they lacked the strength to pull him through the hard stone.
Even more, whatever was attached to the jaws was probably also stuck in the hard stone.
Finally, Kyle got some good footing and rammed his pick into the jaws.
CRK!
The jaws broke, and Kyle tore them apart, freeing his leg.
Then, he jumped out of the hole he had made and looked back at the jaws, which were wriggling in the hard ground.
’That was close,’ Kyle thought.
At that moment, Kyle’s instincts warned him of more danger.
He looked around, and he saw two of the velociraptor things charging right at him.
The other two were busy consuming the weird eye corpse.
Most likely, Kyle wasn’t strong enough to elicit interest in all four of them.
Kyle glanced at the end of the canyon.
Running blindly was dangerous, as evidenced by the incident with the earth jaws just now.
’Can’t run while being chased. That will just attract even more beasts.’
So, Kyle readied his hammer.
He looked at the first charging enemy, which was around 20 meters ahead of the second one.
’These things look fast and agile. Hitting them won’t be easy.’
Kyle hated fast enemies the most.
He took a deep breath as his eyes widened with determination.
Then, he charged forward.
He ran towards the first enemy and held his hammer low.
The teeth and claws of the enemy were quite intimidating.
But Kyle knew…
His hammer was more intimidating!