Chapter 253 (2/2)

We had only taken a few more steps past the quarterout everything but the statues in front of me

“Well, I’ll be No stone statues cais chi what looked like a shotgun

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I looked forward at the exit still over two hundred feet away The aetheric runes carved on the door had changed and the handle that used to be there was gone

Thanking Sylvieable to see so far with such clarity, I whirled back around, bolting for the door we had come from

I had no idea if ould be allowed back into the sanctuary but it was either that or face whatever it was that was about to happen

I an cracking Large stone fragments broke off and fell to the floor…and as , the more I could make out as inside them

What was exposed from the coffin-like statues these…creatures were trapped in could be nothing short of unsettling Scabrous flesh covered patches of exposed muscles and bone in these sinewy humanoid creatures The weapons depicted in the statues were actually weapons in siated bones and muscle fibers

If I could describe it sie huether inside out Like some failed chimera experiment

The first chimera to fully ‘hatch’ out of its stone encase a bow and arrow It let out a guttural screech from its crookedshi+vers throughout my entire body

“W-Well…at least technically the statues aren’t trying to kill us,” Regis mumbled “Just as inside theh, less than a hundred feet away However, just after a few steps, I heard a faint whistle in the air

Without looking back, I dove to the side and rolled, narrowly ed to create a fissure on the ground from the force of its impact

I scra creature snapped off one of its long, spiked vertebrae and nocked the ‘arrow’ on the gut string of its bow

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“Axe is called out from above, just a few feet away

The split second I had taken to look over at the second chi chimera needed

A burst of pain erupted fro out a hoarse cough, I looked down to see a bone arrow protruding just below ot up tobut what I had to focus on I’ve had this feeling before in battle, but nothing as extreed through e the blurred swing of the axe chi down its other bladed aris stuck to the axe chi me the opportunity to limp away

Ipain bloo a screaetting pushed further into my stomach

“Arthur! I can only distract one of the!”

“I know!” I ritted teeth I snapped the shaft off of the bone arrow inside asp as I did the sa

My vision pulsed once an fading and what began surrounding the sinewyfree fro down at the bone and muscle-strewn shafts of the arrows inthat I couldn’t quite believe

I bit down on one arrow More specifically, I bit down on the aetheric aura surrounding the arrow, consu the aether as if it were the meat attached to a bone

“What in the unholy hell are you doing?” Regis cried out

I cho it off the bone arrow and sing it down beforeonto the other aether-coated arrow

My veins burned as the aetheric substance surrounding the arrows flowed throughup with this body

It had gone as quickly as it had co and side were gone and two bloody arrowheads were on the ground below ot back to round trembled as the third chimera fully freed itself fro one

The sword chialloped toward me at a breakneck pace while the first chimera loaded another one of its spiked vertebrae onto its bow

Controlling , I let my enhanced senses pick up on the details

The bow chimera released with a sharp whistle, but this time I was able to actually see the path of the bone arrow piercing through the air Dodging it with an exaggerated motion, I steadied myself in order to face the sword chi its pale white broadsword in a brilliant arch that left e it

My heartbeat quickened as various scenarios raced throughI could do: risk it all

If I wasn’t prepared to give up my life, I kneouldn’t survive in this place

Lunging forward as the sword chie blade skidded on the srabbed its ar it

The sword chi a mouthful of needle-pointed teeth The chi to hurt it in any way I could Kicks and punches hurtthe purple-tinged aura surrounding the chi

An explosion resounded this ti me off the chi, leathery leg and I sla up blood and a couple of teeth

“Arthur!” I heard in the distance as my consciousness faded in and out

Ahead ofa different weapon made of bone and muscle

Another explosion resounded, round in front of uttural scream tore out ofhad been It was the chiun, its hollowed bone pointed right atmy body across the floor as the chily slow, I reached for the door we had co , I pulled at the handle It wouldn’t budge

“Co at the is, who had floated back to h “My life sucked”

I heard a faint whistle before a piercing pain erupted oncethrough the pain, I kept rabbing ahold of the handle for support

That’s when I saw it Ast all of the aetheric runes and syle part that I recognized fro the teleportation gate in the ancient ainst the wall for support, I used ood hand to trace the aetheric runes

Nothing happened

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I screaerously close to ain, to keep , when I saw the sais

My eyes widened “Regis, quick, coht?” Regis said, uncertain

“Hurry!” I hissed “Get in ht hand, and I alht at what I saw My hand was tinted in a faint aura of purple

Quickly, I traced through the runes again, shi+fting it ever-so-slightly so that its function of opening was enabled

The hu was heavenly, butchiathered at the nozzle

Prying the door open just enough for ed back inside the sanctuary just in time to feel the door shudder froun shell