Chapter 343 Volume V - 61: A Miraculaus Way to Survive

Chapter 343 Volume V - Chapter 61: A Miraculaus Way to Survive

?I just stared at the notification in front of me. I couldn't think of anything, I just stared at it.

After a while... my lips involuntarily curled upward. My eye twitched slightly and I tried hard not to laugh.

If this had happened before, I would have gotten angry and begged the stat to stop rising all the time. Now that I knew I would have even more problems, I would have hated it even more, isolated myself even more.

Not that I didn't feel them, of course. I would have preferred my other stats to go up. Charm was still the last thing I wanted to rise up.

But... it wasn't actually such a bad thing. Especially here, in this very dungeon.

Because the new way I found to get stronger didn't just raise the charm statistic, it also strengthened my body. And in doing so, it was benefiting from the effect of the charm in the first place. And a higher statistic meant I could do it more effectively.

In fact, now that I will have a stronger connection with mana, my efficiency and the purity of the mana I can use will also increase.

I took a deep breath in and out as I turned my eyes to the green sky. I took off my mask. Even if only for a short time, I wanted the wind to blow directly on my face, even though it didn't make much difference.

I smiled and stayed like that for a while.

This dungeon... is a first for me for many things. I never thought in my whole life that I would be happy that my charm stat had risen up. And that I would feel powerless, useless like this.

I kept smiling as I looked at the point where the mountain range met the green sky. Then... a single thought crossed my mind.

We... I hope we can survive. I want that now even more than before.

My eyes involuntarily shifted to Adrian, who was sleeping on the hard and cold ground. I saw that his eyebrows were slightly furrowed, his muscles were contracted, as if... in pain.

The smile on my face dropped slightly.

What am I going to do about it, then?

Should I really trust him, or should I just... watch, knowing that he's killing himself step by step?

Can't we just run away now that it's morning and look for a new hiding place? We spent the first night, all three of us, sleeping in the pit of that cave, and neither of the creatures did find us.

Wouldn't it be better if we could find something like that again and wait for Adrian to really recover?

I took a deep breath, closed my eyes, and thought about a lot of things. I went through every single thing that could be done in this situation.

But then I realized... there wasn't.

It was literally impossible to get out of this plain unless we found a place that could truly hide us from the wolves. That's why I chose to trust Adrian in the first place. I knew that was the case in the very beginning.

Adrian had so much confidence in himself that I believed his plan had the best chance of success. But now... nothing had changed. The moment we decided to leave, our chances of survival were lower than ever.

Because we had to 'find' a shelter. The three of us didn't have earth magic, which is a necessity in normal dungeon teams for this very reason. We couldn't create our own shelter, and on top of that, unless we got rid of the wolves or Adrian was fully recovered, it was absurd to even consider other possibilities.

And that means... I had to trust him again. I had to watch him walk to his death on purpose again. Again... I could do nothing but hide behind him while hoping that he won't die.

There is a way. Maybe it won't work out the way I thought it would, maybe I might even fail.

But there really is something that can work. It's just a possibility, but... I'm willing to cling to this tiny possibility when I have nothing else.

At least I'm going to try.

And so, the first thing I did was to call out to my mind.

'Lithoa, wake up. There's something I need to ask you.'

He just said 'don't awake me'. But when it's a matter of life and death... I don't think he'll say anything.

I have simply no choice.

'Lithoa, I know you're there, I know you told me not to call you, but I need your help, otherwise... I'll simply die.'

And after these words... Lithoa did indeed appear. With a voice in my mind, of course.

'So what, you can't even survive fo-'

He paused... as if he had seen something wrong.

'You idiot... What the fuck did you do when I was trying to find a way for you to get out of the dungeon?!'

His voice was really high, I could tell he was angry.

But I didn't care.

'I had no choice, I'm sorry. Let me tell you what happened first.'

Even though he was extremely angry, he didn't say anything. And so I told him what had happened from day one. It was short because I knew I didn't have much time.

And after I was done explaining the situation... he was even more angry than before.

'Well done, well done! What's the miraculous thing that could get you out of this situation 'with a small chance', huh?

I answered quickly, without waiting a second.

'Ordea.'

And after that answer... Lithoa fell silent as if he had forgotten all his anger in an instant.

Five seconds passed, then some more...

But eventually, he opened his mouth, which he had kept closed.

'So you can really make your brain work sometimes, huh?'

A wide smile appeared on my face that I couldn't hold back no matter how much it hurt. Because Lithoa's reaction... showed that there really was hope.

Maybe... Maybe we really could get out of this situation alive.