Cheat Awakening

"Hahaha, did you see the power of my babies? Nothing can beat them, now stop being a pussy, and follow me! Idiots, what are you waiting for? Hurry up, and move things! We are going to enter the cave!"

After the entrance opened, the fatty brought his gang inside without further nonsense. Since Waffle and the others had no way to hide themselves from them and didn't want to cause trouble, they decided to wait for them to go deep into the cave before secretly following them. Anyway, the cave was dark, and after getting in, they had many ways to hide from them.

The fatty and his gang looked at the big, dark cave and couldn't help but frown. Although none of them had much experience with cave exploration, even so, they could tell that this cave was not naturally formed but had been made by someone for a special purpose.

However, what was even more surprising was that although all of them had time to care about the cave structure, no one paid attention to the black fog on the ground as if it didn't exist at all. After all, no matter how you looked at it, black fog in a completely sealed cave didn't seem normal from any angle.

As they walked deep in a straight direction, suddenly a bone-chilling cold hit them, making them tremble. Every cell of their bodies was screaming at them to run away from the cave, but the fatty, noticing their expressions, hurriedly started spouting motivational nonsense in high spirits, distracting them from the creepy feeling they were having.

Then he started telling all kinds of fake stories about the treasure while leading the way. And as greed took over their brains, although they felt they shouldn't go deeper into the cave, none of them went back. They gritted their teeth and, while daydreaming about the imaginary treasure, continued moving forward. The old saying was right: "Birds die for food, men die for wealth."

Anyway, while listening to the fatty's nonstop speech, time soon passed, and after walking for ten minutes, they reached the endpoint, which, to all of their shock and surprise, wasn't a treasure trove but a dark wall made from unknown metal with dense runic symbols engraved on it, and it looked very old.

But what attracted all of their attention was a small hole in the centre of the wall with unknown depth. It was only big enough for a child around 5 years old to crawl through.

"Boss, according to your map, there shouldn't be any wall here, right? We haven't even reached the first turn in the map," Mumba, the right-hand man of the fatty, who had spent almost all of his time fighting and killing, without thinking could say that this cave was everything but a place with treasure. Now, after seeing the mysterious metal wall of unknown origin blocking their path, he already started regretting being greedy and coming here to seek death.

"Maybe it was made by the owner of the treasure to stop robbers... cough, I mean, explorers like us from reaching his treasure. It is a common trick. Mumba, if you have a lot of money in your house, would you leave it open in the living room? Not right, you should read more books, except fighting your knowledge in other areas is seriously lacking!"

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"Hey, Boux, Zoux, prepare the cannons. We need to clear the path! Everyone else, stay back!"

Hearing the fatty's command, two random guys who seemed to be operators of magic cannons quickly took two C-level monster cores from him and put them into the powerful supply box of the cannon. After adjusting the direction and looking at the carriage wheels, they nervously pressed the trigger button and jumped aside in fright.

As for the reason for their extreme vigilance, that was, of course, the powerful recoil of the magic cannons. In the past, during training and testing, quite a few times the carriage under the cannon couldn't hold its power and broke apart, sending the cannon fly away in any random direction with great power, along with the cannon's own weight, many poor souls had already gone to meet their ancestors.

BOOM!

Two adult hand-sized iron balls flew out from the cannon with astonishing power and hit the mysterious iron wall hard, literally shaking the entire cave to an extreme level. Small rocks and dust already started falling from the cave ceiling, scaring the shit out of everyone.

"F*ck! Did you want to bury us all alive, you damn fatty!? Who in their right mind uses cannons in a cave?" Mumba, who had lost his mind under the fear of imminent death, seeing the cave not collapse, swiftly turned his anger on the fatty. He even stopped short of addressing him as 'boss,' directly grabbing the other party's neck and shaking him violently while yelling at the top of his lungs.

"Bastard, who are you calling fatty? I'm just extra fit! And why the f*ck are you saying that to me now? You should have said that before I ordered the cannon fire! Whose job it was to warn me from doing anything bad?"

The fatty who almost peed their pants, realizing that he was about to be buried alive at such a young age, with countless unfulfilled wishes? After calming down, he came back to his senses, also grabbed Mumba's neck, and started yelling at him even louder, spitting saliva all over Mumba's face.

"Ahm... BOSS!"

Just as the fatty and Mumba were brawling like children, a random guy who seemed to have some status in the gang came beside them and interrupted them in an extremely fearful voice.

"What! × 2"

"Is that normal?" The random guy pointed a trembling finger in the direction where they had fired the cannons.

With puzzled looks on their faces, the fatty and Mumba looked in the direction the guy indicated. They saw that the iron wall, which was supposed to be blasted apart after taking solid hits from two magical cannons, stood unharmed, without even a scratch on it, as if what had hit it wasn't iron but cotton balls.

However, this wasn't the source of everyone's fear. Instead, the runes engraved on the wall, which had previously given a sense of mystery, now came alive with a dim red light shining on them. All those runes, like worms crawling on the wall, moved strangely, and a large amount of black fog began flowing out of the hole in the middle.

"I'm leaving!"

Mumba didn't hesitate for a second. Without looking back, he turned around, ready to flee—only to find that, except for himself, the fatty, and the guy who had interrupted their fight, the rest of their gang had already taken off, putting hundreds of meters between them.

With Mumba and the cannon fodder leaving, the fatty, no matter how unwilling he was, had no other choice but to flee as well. In his hurry, he didn't even care about the two magical cannons, which he cared about more than his children.

However, to his utter shock, as soon as he turned around, the black fog, which had previously been flowing out from the hole gently, realised their plan to mess around and run after things went wrong, as if the door of a dam had opened, started gushing out from the hole crazily in large quantities, rushing towards the fatty like a mad beast.

"AHHHH!"

The people who were running ahead, hearing the fatty's soul-wrenching scream, turned around but only found that their dear boss had surprisingly vanished. Instead, the dense black fog was catching them crazily, and it by no means looked normal.

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"Shall we go in now? It's already been half an hour," Ocea, who was dying to explore the mysterious cave and could hardly hold back her excitement, asked impatiently while flying around Waffle and Ted, who were sitting under a tree and making backup plans.

"Well, I think it' should be okay now. Since none of them have come out until now, they might have already gone deep inside the cave. But remember, Ocea, inside you will be the last and follow all my orders with utmost seriousness."

"Don't do anything without my permission, otherwise, I will instantly call Aunty Cetus for help... And I'm not joking," Waffle put on an extremely serious expression as he said that, pouring cold water on Ocea's excitement, who had already made many plans for seeking death.

"Fine... You're the boss. Now stop wasting time and let's go..."

After that, the trio didn't speak and slowly floated towards the cave vigilantly, making sure there were no traps set by the humans who had gone ahead of them.

"Sigh, I hope I won't regret my decision of not stopping them at this point... It's all Aisha's fault this time. Just because of her suggestion, I'm letting them enter this dangerous cave," Myne hypnotized himself as he followed the trio with an excited grin on his face. Clearly, his mental state was very similar to Ocea's; he was also quite curious about this mysterious cave.