Black Online-Chapter 130: Chase At Quarry
Swoosh!
Through the dark mist, three figures were thrown out, and they crashed onto the hard ground.
"...Huh?"
At that moment, Rickard looked around himself and looked extremely puzzled, as he was very confused right now.
Ice walls. Ice ceiling. Iced ground.
They were in some kind of ice cave, but Rickard recognized this place as the Winter Ore Quarry.
It was currently empty because they emptied it of workers during the wartime.
"You caused this..."
Rickard said coldly, grabbed his sword tightly, and turned around, but he then noticed that Fang Raon was already running away.
He was carrying Della on his back.
Swoosh!
Rickard lunged at him and swung his sword towards the back of his neck.
"Dodge Roll!"
Fang Raon rolled to the side, and he shielded Della within his arms as they rolled down a small hill.
He crashed against a rock, but because of the pain nullification of the game, he didn’t feel a thing.
"I also have Escape Marbles..."
With a whisper, Fang Raon said, and pulled out an Escape Marble from his inventory, but to his surprise, it was already cracked!
’It’s broken, why?’
He then checked out the other Escape Marbles, and they were also broken!
Even when he tried using them, they simply didn’t work for some odd reason, as he hadn’t even used these yet.
"...You must’ve malfunctioned the system. The game’s code doesn’t like if three people use Escape Marble at the same time.
"The game code must’ve also activated your Escape Marbles at the same time, and we were sent to a random location."
Della said as her head pressed against Fang Raon’s warm chest, and she couldn’t do anything except let Fang Raon hold her.
"I’ll send a message to Rock then."
Fang Raon pulled out his chat window and tried sending a message to Rock, but a surprise notification appeared in front of him.
[Message delivery failed]
[Error 9845...]
"Error 9845? The game is now completely broken for us..."
Fang Raon said.
"Tch!"
Atop the hill, Rickard also tried sending a message but failed, so he couldn’t expect anyone to come help him.
’I don’t need help dealing with this weakling.’
He thought with a scoff and looked down at Fang Raon, and he then slid down the hill towards them.
"...Run."
Della weakly said.
In a straightforward fight, Fang Raon stood no chance against Rickard, so the only thing he could do was to run.
Fang Raon took Della into a carry and started running deeper into the quarry while Rickard chased after him.
He looked behind, expecting Rickard to have already caught up to him, but to his surprise, he was still a good distance away.
"...He isn’t catching?"
Fang Raon said in surprise.
"He is a Tank... Tanks usually don’t prioritize Speed. They don’t really need it... Rickard is no different, so maybe there is a chance for us to... survive."
Della said.
The biggest problem just was whether Fang Raon could outrun Rickard while still carrying her as well.
"...Unequip."
Della whispered.
In that moment, her armor outfit got sent back to her inventory, and she was now only in her undergarments.
She was wearing a black sleeveless shirt and sports briefs. That’s all. She didn’t have boots or anything else.
"...Am I lighter now?"
Della whispered while feeling quite shy.
It was very cold already, and she was very much freezing, but Fang Raon pressed her closer to his chest to keep her warm.
"Yeah..."
Fang Raon cleared his throat.
He felt tempted, but he didn’t dare to look down, and he was currently busy looking for the exit out of this place.
"...Where is the exit?"
"I don’t even know... It looks like we got teleported deep into the quarries. I’ve never been this deep. I am not sure if anyone has."
Della said.
"TANK CHARGE!"
At that moment, Rickard started charging at them, like a raging bull, his eyes filled with rage. He caught up to them quite a bit.
"He is using his skill—Tank Charge—to run faster. It has about a one-minute cooldown before he can use it again. You need to get away from him before that!"
Della shouted in a hurry.
"...Damn!"
With his mind running, Fang Raon quickly decided what to do, and he pulled out his Refined Sword from his inventory.
"You can’t fight him, Raon..."
Della said, but then she saw his smile, and her heart started racing, and she thought, ’What is he thinking about?’
In that moment, Fang Raon threw his sword down the quarry, and it stabbed into one of the icy walls a distance away.
It seemed to be lodged tightly in the wall.
"RETURN!"
Fang Raon shouted.
However, since the sword was so deeply lodged into the wall, it couldn’t return back to him.
During his many hours of training, he realized another usage for the Return Weapon Ring, and it was about the Return.
When the sword couldn’t return back to the owner, it would do the opposite instead. It would bring the owner of the weapon back to the sword.
And thus.
Fang Raon was suddenly yanked through the air, and they flew through the air towards the sword.
They stopped flying near the sword, and once Fang Raon touched the hilt of the sword, he sent it back to his inventory.
"Now we have some distance!"
Fang Raon said with a smile.
When he looked behind him, Rickard was quite a distance away, and he was gritting his teeth in anger.
’I am sure he is thinking about, "I should’ve put more points to the Speed attribute...," but it is too late for those regrets now.’
Fang Raon thought with a smile, and then he kept running.
"Whoah..."
Della exclaimed.
She never thought that such a thing was possible, and for Fang Raon to think of such a method only told volumes about his genius-level creativity.
"...There..."
Fang Raon whispered as in the distance, there was a small gap in-between two ice walls. It led to somewhere in the quarries.
But the most important part was that it was a tight gap!
Fang Raon went straight towards it and squeezed Della through it, which was easy since she was very slender.
He then followed behind her and caught her before she fell down to the ground.
"...Where are we?"
Della asked as she looked around the icy cave, and she thought that they must be close to the heart of the mountain.
The quarry was inside a mountain, and none of them really knew just how deep and far it really went.
"Don’t know, but the good thing is that he cannot follow us." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶
Fang Raon looked back towards the tight gap and saw Rickard trying to squeeze his way through.
However, he failed.
"Shit!"
Rickard smashed his hand against the ice wall in anger.
He was simply too big to fit through.
"Goodbye."
Fang Raon waved at him, and then he flipped his hand into a middle finger, and Rickard fumed with frustration.
He turned around and stormed off.
"...He isn’t going to give up... He will try to find another way in here..."
Della said with a wry smile.
"I know, but..."
Fang Raon put one arm under Della’s legs and another one around her back and lifted her back up.
"Eek!"
Della shouted in surprise and looked into his face with wide eyes, her heart pounding in her chest.
"I have a way to get us out of here."
Fang Raon said.
