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Aiden heard this and smiled, happy that his friend understood his thinking. But before he could talk, Oliver cut him off.

"The fire is fine for now, but when we approach the nest of the Weeping Soul Serpents, the light must be out, or there is no point in taking another step forward."

Aiden heard this and casually waved his hand.

"There's no need to worry about that. When it gets to that time, I won't be a liability for the mission."

Seeing this, Oliver nodded and brought out the map to begin leading the group again.

With the light emanating from the orb in Aiden's hand, the group seemed to gain some added confidence and moved forward at a faster speed.

Despite moving much faster than before, the journey wasn't easy. They were traversing underground tunnels that were teeming with potential monsters.

Oliver didn't want to take any chances and would often pause at certain times to make markings and double-check his path at crossroads.

Oliver looked around again when suddenly there was a low, guttural hissing emanating from the shadows. A deep black serpent leapt out towards Oliver's leading figure.

Aiden, who had been paying attention to his surroundings, had his eyes flash with a strange golden light as his figure flickered forward.

Bang!

His fist glowed bright golden-red like hot molten steel and came crashing down from the sky!

"Screech!"

The attacked serpent let out an ear-piercing screech that made Aiden pause for a few moments as it writhed on the ground, but Aiden soon overcame the discomfort and stepped forward, crushing the injured snake beneath his feet.

Bang!

The bottom half of the serpent's body exploded, causing the creature to writhe for only a few more seconds before coming to a complete standstill.

Oliver came over to Aiden's side and frowned.

"Thanks for helping me back there, Aiden. I didn't even realize that it had gotten this close."

Aiden just waved Oliver off, not taking what he did as any sort of big deal, and crouched down next to the corpse of the crushed creature and asked,

"This is…?"

"Yeah, it's a Weeping Soul Serpent," replied Oliver.

"And that screech from earlier?" asked Aiden.

"It's the unique ability of the Weeping Soul Serpent. [Soul Weep]. It's an attack that targets the mind and soul directly of the attacked creature. For regular mortals, it would prove lethal, but for divine descendants like us, even the leader of the group could only incapacitate us for a few seconds at most."

Aiden heard this and frowned.

"Is there any way to guard against such abilities?"

"I'm afraid not. We can only overpower it with sheer will for now. That's why the Weeping Soul Serpent is such a terrifying creature at early ranks. It's one that can't be guarded against, only endured."

Aiden and Oliver kept talking for a while longer when their conversation was suddenly interrupted.

Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!

Low, eerie hissing came from every direction in the darkness, just outside the range of Aiden's light source.

The group paused as they could clearly feel the gaze of countless green eyes watching them from the shadows.

They were surrounded!

Raelia looked around and snorted. In contrast to Aiden and the others, who were blind under the glow, her blue wolf eyes could see as clearly as day.

Before Aiden and Oliver could even realize what was happening, the bow on Raelia's back had been fully drawn.

Phew! Phew! Phew!

A storm of arrows flew out as the small tunnel was flooded with silver light.

Raelia's arrows flew like a storm of silver bullets, piercing through the bodies of the serpents and pinning them to the walls of the underground cave passage.

Raelia looked around and saw that the serpents had been cleanly killed off. She wanted to inspect the bodies for any magic cores when Oliver quickly pulled her back.

"We have to leave now. Our fight has already started to attract the nearby Weeping Soul Serpents to our location. Remember, our mission is a beheading tactic. If we get bogged down by a swarm of serpents, we're going to be in deep trouble!"

Oliver didn't need to explain any more to Aiden and Raelia before they got the gist of what was happening. They didn't say another word and followed closely behind Oliver as the three figures flew through the cave passageways.

Before, when they first entered, the group traversed rather slowly, making sure not to get lost and taking as much time as needed to ensure they took the correct path.

Now, under the threat of encirclement by the Weeping Soul Serpents, the group didn't dare stop and continued moving.

They kept moving through the maze-like cave system at blinding speeds.

Oliver's eyes were glowing with a blinding golden light as they constantly darted about, processing all information and comparing it with their surroundings in the blink of an eye, readjusting their direction.

Of course, since they were nearing the nest of the Weeping Soul Serpents, no matter how cautious or careful they had been, they would inevitably run into a few serpents along the way. But that was a complete non-issue.

Any serpent unlucky enough to run into their path would find itself completely suppressed and annihilated under Aiden's ruthless golden fist or mercilessly eviscerated by Raelia's silver claws.

With the team working at such an efficient pace, it didn't take long for them to reach the end of the tunnel and near their destination.

Suddenly, the caves, which had been pitch black before, began to light up gradually as the tunnels became more spacious.

The group's rapid movement eventually slowed to a crawl as they traded speed for stealth.

Over the past few days, since they had entered into the mountain cliff trial, Aiden and Oliver had learned a few things from Raelia. One important part of hunting they had learned was stealth.
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The stealth that they had learnt wasn't any grandiose divine technique or anything like that instead was something much more basic. But basic didn't mean it was ineffective