The Stargazing Witch & The Dungeon Planet
Chapter 130: The Sands Of Time

Chapter 130: The Sands Of Time

The cavern practically came alive as beings awoke from the sand, or maybe a better term was being built from the sand.

I watched as normal sand spun these beings into life from the sand and rock on the ground. 

Well, that explains the number; if they can be literally built from sand, then no wonder there were nearly an endless number during my day trips.

I had no prior doubts that the monster population was theoretically infinite; all dungeons kind of worked the same way in recreating monsters, but they all recreated them differently. However, I wasn’t a specialist on Dungeons, so I didn’t know if there was anything strange or special about this world’s approach. 

We made it past the tower and continued further in the cave. Light was practically nothing, but I could see in the dark perfectly fine. I wasn’t sure if my mining friend could.

I created a Starlight club with a ball of solar energy caged at the top. Starlight emitted some light, but the Sun emitted way more. 

“Grab this.” I handed him the torch club. 

“Huh…” He grabbed then gripped it tight 

“That’s your life source and weapon if you wish to use it that way. It could break some bones pretty easily… thought a slight design flaw. I guess I wouldn’t get too much of the gold sand on the orange light part; that could break it, but the shiny purple part should be fine.”

He groaned, “Be Careful… I get it.”

I cheerfully replied, “Perfect, because I might need to throw you at some point.”

“What…?” 

BOOM

I may have jinxed myself as the wall I was running besides collapsed, and a large tail-like object slammed into me. 

Crap!

I threw Darragh onto a high segment of the ruins. The MBones were coming out everywhere, but it appeared they needed at least a good amount of sand beneath them to be created.

I pushed myself off the wall I was slammed into. “Ouch, my holy arse, what the fuck was that?”

(“ An enemy ”)

No shit for that part. I’m just fucking complaining.

I looked towards my attacker, and it glared back. 

“Hissaaaa!” The beast screamed. It was similar to the Kelrara in the sense that it was a big reptilian shape thing, outside of that basic description was where the differences lay. 

While the Kelrara was basically a skeleton crocodile, this beast’s main body and tail were clearly alive. It was some sort of simple lizard, with some frills, but it didn’t look like a scary lizard besides its gigantic size. Its limbs were all made of bones covered in the bloody, annoying golden sand.

“What now?!” 

The beast’s head turned towards Darragh.

“Maybe don’t grab its attention!” I yelled back at the idiot.

Fuck sake…

I swallowed multiple mana crystals and washed them down with a mana potion. This was not how you were meant to intake the mana from the mana crystal, but I couldn’t exactly hold them in my hand right now. 

The beast examined Darragh for a moment, then looked away as if he were of no importance. It ran back to me and its eyes glowed gold.

Well, it knows who its target is.

It ran down the wall, and golden sand flew towards me in waves. 

Ranged attacks now? Fair enough.

Sprinting towards the tower pillar in the centre of the current area of the cave I was in, I screamed to Darragh. “Keep moving in the direction we were going.”

MBones were still popping up everywhere, and I jumped over them and slid out of the way of the waves of sand.

Specks of sand flew in every direction, and I quickly created a Starlight coating over my armour. I assumed it would only be a danger if the sand somehow got in my armour, but being covered in large quantities of the stuff likely wasn’t good either, and I was too far into the mission to risk it.

I barely evaded the waves of sand as they moved like snakes in their own right.

A [Starlight Lance] formed in my left hand, and [Starlight Arrows] formed around me. 

Here we go!

I ran up the side of the pillar as the beast quickly closed in. I shot a few arrows towards its eye, but barriers of sand blocked the attack. A few other arrows I let loose on the MBones emerging from the pillar I was trying to climb.

Launching a quick back-and-forth, I shot more Starlight and Fire arrows at the lizard while its sand increased its speed, creating mouths that opened to consume me.

It climbed up behind, and then I leapt off the pillar over it. Its head tried to turn towards me, but I began my next attack. 

First, I pinned its body to the wall with large Starlight arrows. 

“Argh!” It cried out.

I stabbed [Starlight Lance] into its body right through its stomach, but its movements didn’t slow, and the sand flew from below its body to grab me.

Whacking some of the sand away, I refocused for my next strike. I dispersed most of my arrows used to pin the beast beneath the bottom ones and created a spiked chain of Starlight, which I stabbed into the back of the beast while the sand still tried to grab me. Once I felt the spike was firmly stuck in the monster, I created a large blaze of fire behind me and faced towards the ground. 

In the explosion, my body was sent towards the ground, dragging my prey along for the ride.

The bones in the beast’s legs splintered as my final pins cracked them apart. 

The sand for a moment wasn’t in sync with the monster, and we both came crashing to the ground. I leapt out of the way, but the shockwave nearly sent me flying, and with the chain I held up, I flung myself on the beast’s belly. 

Its legs and arms rotated, and it immediately went to grab me. 

Undead are such freaky beasts; thankfully, this one isn’t fully one.”

CRACK!

I slammed my [Starlight Lance] through its bones, breaking its neck and sending a blaze of fire into its head through the hole. The fire exploded from the mouth and other holes, but the golden sand didn’t stop; if anything, it got more aggressive.

The sand lunged towards me with such force that it broke my Starlight coating, and sand covered my arm as it squeezed down. 

“Bastard.” I created a [Solar Bomb] below my feet and kicked it.

BOOM!

My body was sent flying, and the sand exploded in all directions, but it slowly gathered itself together. 

Living sand now? Well, the sand always did feel alive in its own way… But dammit.

(“ Escape, the sand will soon stop moving ”)

Thanks for the tip! 

I ran towards the original direction Espr directed me. 

The area shrank again as the cave walls and ceiling crept closer together, and I looked around for where to go next.

Finally, the sand slowed to a stop and merged back into the ground. 

Once that fight was over, I quickly went over the area and my mana reservoirs. 

Name: Ceella Stella (Celestira Luxpoir) | Race: [Human?]

Level 265 | Awakened

Mana: 104% Starlight: 88%

I used more Starlight and Mana than I would’ve liked. It was so easy to waste mana in my body’s current condition if I wasn’t careful.

The moment my eyes landed on a certain area of the wall.

(“ Through the wall is where you will find your best chance at what you want… ”)

Espr's voice sounded sombre, clearly not happy with something. It could be my discussion or something else; it wasn’t telling me, but I chose to accept the information gracefully. It sent its intent of what wall it was talking about, and it was just a large rock blocking some sort of tunnel. 

Thank you.

My [Starlight Lance] broke apart into shards of Starlight as I reformed them into two spears of Starlight with long, sharp blades at the tip.

I ran at full force towards the wall. 

“Darragh! You have two choices! Stay where you are and defend yourself, or follow me through the cave; I do not care which!” I yelled behind me to Darragh, who was still high up on the ruins; he had been jumping between the upper segments of the cavern. He was close enough now that I knew he could follow, but I didn’t want to waste any time grabbing him.

Summoning flames from behind me, I broke through the hardened sand walls, barrelling through the debris as my flames consumed the beasts that were waiting for me on the other side. Carving through their burning bodies with my spears, I eventually reached an area where the cave opened up. As the space got bigger and Darragh was ever so slowly catching up, the area lit up with light as the rocks on the ceiling began to glow bright. 

In this larger ceremonial area, I was near the bottom, and on the opposite side, a large ruin structure stood tall, damaged but less so compared to the other buildings I had seen. 

“Hello, traveller.” From the ruins that lay before me, a familiar lizard with his tall sandy yellow scale body and black markings patterning his chest. His body and face were covered in thick scars, but a golden cape of sand dripped down his back.

“Hey Al-Roo.” I waved back.

He had the decency to reply back. “I didn’t know you were expecting my arrival, Ceella.” He raised his arm, and sand formed into a mighty golden spear that matched his height. “I wonder if someone told you.”

Of course you fucking knew 

(“ You also did  ”)

Besides the point.

I replied back, “No, but the question is what to do now, isn’t that right, Al-Roo?”

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