Dungeon Raider System

Chapter 201 Fear of heights

Once again, Sam's trait proved its usefulness as it kept him from losing sight of the girls, though as always it was as much a blessing as it was a curse. While knowing the whereabouts of his friends was great, he couldn't help but worry about their fate.@@@@

Uriel asked for constant updates about the condition of the girls, but once the birdmen landed on the highest crest he couldn't see them anymore.

"Dammit, if only I could see through objects." Sam clicked his tongue.

"You and I both know what you'd do if that was the case." Uriel said jokingly, but for Sam it felt as a well deserved, yet offensive, mockery of his character.

Now that they didn't count with Nika's help, leaping from platform to platform was much more difficult than before. Uriel would have liked to use a grappling hook, but without any experience it would only be more dangerous. Instead, they settled with tying a rope to their waists just in case they fell.

If it was a good safety measure or not, they didn't want to find out and they limited themselves to cross their fingers not to be forced into using it.

"Do you think they're being... you know..." Sam tried to ease his worries by asking Uriel.

"How would I know?" He shrugged his shoulders

"Does it really not bother you?" Sam's question seemingly fell into deaf ears, though that was far from the truth.

While Sam was bawling his eyes out, Uriel was falling from the insurmountable height for what seemed like an eternity. Fear gave way to panic once he realized something even more terrifying than meeting death at such young age, it was the fear of surviving the fall.

The concept of death is scary, but it was nothing compared to splattering into a thousand pieces and regenerating from that, only to be left alone forever in the forgotten depths of that place. He would never meet with his friends again, he would never speak to another human being ever again and the worst part, he wasn't sure whether or not he was even capable of dying anymore.

But now that he was already falling to his doom there was nothing he could do. In hindsight, he thought of a hundred different ways he could have prevented his current situation.

He could have summoned a grappling hook, a steel stake to bind himself to the rock, a pickaxe to hold on to the cliff, even a parachute would have given him enough time to think of a solution, but all that amounted to nothing now.

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Those were just the desperate thoughts of a young man that committed a simple mistake, one that on any other circumstances would have caused him to trip and maybe graze his knees, but now he was about to die, or worse.

The thought of his friends always crawled to his mind whenever he was facing against odds, but that brought him little comfort now that Nika and Luna were kidnapped by, presumably, horny cryptids, Sam was wounded and Medusa was with that jerk Jon Hunter.

Not even six months ago his life took a turn for the best and things were going better and better with time, if only he managed to survive, to come back home, he would have been the CEO of his own company, he would have been entitled to a share of the profits of the dungeon and more importantly, he would have been able to progress with his investigation.

This thoughts were occupying his mind when the sudden slap of the ground crushed him and Uriel Sage, the archaeology student, became a splatter on the ground.