Chapter 192 : CHAPTER 192 – A Cave.
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(After Misty diagnosed the guy to have been poisoned.)
"So, we have to find a place for us to stop at huh…"
Argon muttered with a thoughtful expression.
"You guys wait here and protect each other's back, I will be back in a minute."
Argon spoke and then dashed forward.
"I will come…. with.... you...." Misty quickly turned around to speak but her voice turned inaudible after she saw Argon's back getting smaller and smaller before vanishing in the dark forest.
Everyone looked at Misty with pity before they sighed.
All of them here knew that Misty had feelings for Argon, it couldn't be clearer, but for some reason Argon never noticed it, or he noticed it but ignored it.
However, all of them knew better than to speak about it, especially when it was something related to their Emperor's love life.
"Everyone, gather around, we need to protect the weak, just as his majesty always says!"
One of the S-ranked raiders commanded, and the others quickly formed a circle surrounding the potters and the weaker raiders.
None of them objected as they just smiled and sat together.
They were smiling because they saw their Emperor getting his act together.
They felt like Argon was getting better, he was returning to be the emperor he was supposed to be, and this made all of them happy.
As for the reason for them not trying to follow Argon, they knew that if there was something strong enough to cause trouble for Argon, out there, then they were just going to be pieces of baggage for Argon during the fight.
..............
"Where are we looking for?"
Aurora asked as she floated next to Argon, who was running in a straight line while looking for something in the surroundings.
"A cave."
Argon replied simply as he continued to observe the surroundings.
Aurora nodded her head before she looked at the surroundings as well.
She didn't ask what kind of cave as there were no caves in the forest, so the cave they would find would probably be the only one in the forest.
But then she asked….
"What is this cave for anyway?"
She couldn't recall seeing any information about this cave or gate in Argon's memories, or at least the memories he shared with her.
Argon stopped for a second and looked at Aurora.
He knew why she was asking this question.
It was a way of her indirectly asking why she didn't know about this.
"I know that you already know it, but I didn't share everything about my past with you."
Aurora didn't say anything, she just looked at Argon with the usual poker face she had.
It was always hard to guess what she was thinking.
"You can't expect me to share all of my knowledge with you, after all, you never told me anything about yourself as well."
Argon spoke and Aurora finally nodded her head.
She never told Argon anything about herself, other than the fact that they shared a common enemy.
An enemy so great that his pressure alone can kill the Argon right now.
"So, what is this cave for?"
Aurora asked again and this time her words didn't contain any other meanings.
"Well…"
As Argon heard the question, his mind drifted back into the memories of the past timeline.
He saw it all on the news or heard it all on the news as he was just a weak raider in that life, but he did get to know about this gate.
In the past timeline, it was the Crimson Lotus guild that raided this gate and they were the strongest at that time.
With one SSS-ranked and one SS-ranked, and 10 S-ranked raiders, they were considered the strongest.
However, it took them 2 years to reach that point, even with Alex in their guild.
It was not without a reason that Argon was shocked by their progress in this timeline.
Anyway, the main point was that Alex and his group were the ones that cleared the gate, but it was not that simple, and Alex himself told the world what had happened.
'He liked how people treated him as a god or messiah, unlike the Alex now…'
He muttered as he remembered how Alex from the previous timeline would tell the public about everything thing he does for them, and the public would cheer for him.
They would treat him like a hero even for things as small as donating some pennies to the orphanage he used to live.
'All he did was donate 0.001% of his total savings and they treated him like a hero….'
Argon muttered as he gritted his teeth.
"... the Boss monster from the gate grew to EX-rank at the last moment and he got a new body as well, it was a hard fight, but in the end, he was slain by your truly…."
This was a line from Alex's interview, and that line caused many people to investigate this matter.
After the investigation, and Alex's help in guessing what could've happened, they all came to a very shocking conclusion.
"That cave is what will help me get you a new body and pills to get you and me to EX-rank."
This cave they were searching for was very unique and its existence was here to turn the gate into a special gate, but no monster was ever able to reach that cave alive until the boss.
The boss monster, Makrum, along with his top 10 subordinates ran away from Alex and the group to hide here.
Yes, they ran away.
They were not going to come to the cursed forest but with nowhere else to go, they decided to enter it, and they found the cave as well.
Alex and the group were too strong for them, and the last Alex liked to play with his prey, so he didn't stop them as well.
But by the time they reached the cave, everything was over, and Makrum came out of the gate alone, with a new and stronger body.
None of his subordinates ever came out.
"How will it do that?"
Aurora asked again.
"You will know that soon enough…"
Argon spoke mysteriously.
'Tch.'
Aurora just clicked her tongue inwardly as she didn't like Argon being all mysterious about something that was important to her as well.
But she couldn't just force him to tell her everything, not until she felt like he was trying to do something bad to her.
Above all, she had already tried looking into today's future for herself, all she saw was gain from today's endeavor, so she was fine for now.
Just then Argon exclaimed.
"There it is!"
Aurora turned where Argon was looking and she found a dark cave with a 5-meter-wide entrance that led deeper into the ground.
The cave looked creepy to the extreme but then she saw Argon grinning like a madman, and she knew that whatever Argon had planned was anything but good.
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