Life After Reaching The Pinnacle

Chapter 34: Rey is alive?

"Eh? How's he still alive?" Aurora asked in a surprised tone.

Aurora saw a young man hiding behind a small boulder of rock. Surprisingly, no red-horned rats were attacking him as if he wasn't there.

The sound of the wall collapsing had also gathered the attention of the red-horned rats. They were scattered all around. As soon as they saw who it was, they all began running towards the group.

Aurora thought for a moment and said, turning to Shihab and pointing towards the young man, "Hey, can you get that boy here?"

Shihab followed Aurora's hand and also saw Rey. He was surprised as he recognized the young man; he was Jev's disciple, Rey. He was really surprised to see him alive, as he thought he had died.

Shihab then answered Aurora, "Yes, don't worry, I can get him here. Can you stop those rats from getting here?"

Aurora nodded in response and signaled to hurry up as the rats were getting closer. Shihab understood the situation and ran towards Rey with his movement technique.

One red-horned rat came in front of him and attacked him. Shihab just shot a water bullet which hit the forehead of the rat, killing it.

He was an Eighth-grade Origin Profound Stage Artist, maneuvering among these rats was easy for him. He soon reached Rey, who was crouching down as if to hide his existence, after killing a bunch of red-horned rats.

Shihab knew they didn't have much time, so he just picked up Rey on his shoulders. Rey exclaimed in surprise, "No!!! Don't eat me! My meat doesn't taste good!!"

Shihab's eyes twitched after hearing Rey and he shouted in a low voice, "Shut up! Did you eat your own meat or what, idiot?"

Rey came back to his senses hearing the familiar voice and said, "Shihab? Why are you back? Did something happen?"

"I'll tell you later, but for now, just be quiet and fend off the rats which get in our way," Shihab responded and ran towards the group.

This time Rey also attacked the rats which were in the way, and they soon reached the group. Upon arriving, they witnessed that everyone was keeping the rats at bay by firing a multitude of attacks of various elements.

Since they had been freeloading until now, Aurora had ordered them to keep the red-horned rats away from the cave.

Since they just needed to defend with everyone, it was much easier for them.

Aurora stood up and gestured for everyone to back away a little. She then took out her Flamingo and gathered penetrating flames.

She relaxed her mind as she took a deep breath and tapped her foot as she whispered, "Flame wall."

Same as before, instantly, a big and wide wall of flames appeared in front of her; it almost reached the ceiling of the cave. The rats instinctively stayed away from the flames as they remembered the big Red Horned Rat.

Aurora then looked at Rey, who was standing beside Shihab, and said, "How did you conceal your presence from the rats?"

Everyone's eyes widened when they realized that they couldn't sense Rey; if they weren't seeing him standing there, they would have just ignored him.

Rey took a step back in fear hearing Aurora and replied with a low voice, "My master gave me an artifact that conceals the user's presence. As long as the opponent doesn't exceed the Earth Profound Stage and isn't focusing on me, I could erase my presence from them."

'Just as I expected,' Aurora thought as she smiled and said, pointing at the boy, "Then you can give that artifact to him; he's going to distract the rats so we could escape, so later he could use that artifact."

Rey hesitated a little but remembering Aurora's past actions and her strength, he took out a small cuboid-shaped gray-colored metal box with some small rune formations engraved on it. He gave it to the boy, who took it and imbued his Profound energy in it.

His presence instantly disappeared, and to everyone, he wasn't even there. He saw everyone's reaction and understood that the artifact was working. He then retracted his Profound energy as he didn't need the artifact now.

He then took a deep breath and activated his movement technique 'Heavenly Wind' and leaped across the diminishing flames.

He danced around the battlefield as he attracted the attention of the rats by attacking them and led them to the opposite side from the three caves.

The group, seeing the chance, ran at their full speed towards the second cave.

They encountered some rats, but they dealt with them easily and reached the second cave.

Aurora then fired a flame bullet at the ceiling, which was a signal for the boy. He understood that, and after going behind a big rock boulder, he activated the artifact, and his presence was concealed.

He then, in his concealed state, moved slowly along the walls and soon reached the second cave, while the whole group of angry red-horned rats was confused as to where their target had gone. In anger, they smashed the surroundings.

The boy turned his head, saw the destruction caused by the Red Horned Rats, and had a drop of sweat on his forehead. He thanked the heavens and met with everyone. He also gave the artifact back to Rey.

Shihab then gestured to the big man who had made a wall before to do the same to this one. The big man silently went and made an earth wall which covered the whole cave.

"We don't have much time, so hurry up," Aurora said and began walking towards the entrance of the tomb. The group also followed her.

It didn't take long for them to reach the entrance where Aurora again facepalmed.

'I'm really forgetting important things,' Aurora thought as she looked at the sealed entrance with an irritated expression.

When everyone arrived at the sealed entrance, they felt as if the temperature of the surroundings had dropped. They shuddered for some reason.

Aurora turned towards everyone with a terrifying expression on her face.

Everyone took a step back in fear.