Raised in Dungeon
Chapter 73 Fear

The first time Allen felt fear was when he was too young, either 5 or 6. When he first went outside his house and met a wolf-type monster. Then he got scared again when he fought the goblins for the first time. After that, many things happened until finally his mother died, and he wanted to take revenge; Allen became a person who would not be afraid of anything; that's what he thought.

He fell into the dungeon and saw that face at the bottom of the deep water.

A fish without eyes smiled at him while showing off its sharp teeth. Then, when the mouth opened, the pointy teeth filled the entire mouth. Its tongue was tiny, located at the end of the oral cavity; if not for Allen's good eyes, humans might not be able to see the tongue.

Allen, who thought he had thrown away all his fear for revenge, turned out to be naive. And realize fear may have no limit; something more frightening can always appear. If he is not mistaken, this is maybe just 6 or 7 floors of the dungeon. There was a scarier and more powerful monster out there.

His heart was beating so fast. Even though it wasn't visible, Allen's body was probably breaking out in a cold sweat.

The fish slowly approached, about to put the unconscious Felicia in its mouth, but when it did that, a few seconds later, Allen snapped out of his trance.

"REIG! HELP ME!" shouted Allen.

The light slowly disappeared as soon as Reig turned back into a normal scarf. Reig immediately tied Felicia up and pulled her and Allen up, then reached out as far as he could, feeling for all the places to hang.

Fortunately, the land was close, and there were rocks that Reig could tie to pull Allen, but because he couldn't see well, Reig didn't know what he was actually tying. He didn't care and dragged Allen and Felicia to the land.

"GAH!"

Allen immediately gasped for air. He felt like he had been underwater for a long time because of his fear, and he was relieved now to be able to take a deep breath. He tried to quicken his breath, but he ended up coughing.

"Reig, one more time, please..."

The texture of Allen's scarf turned back into crystal. And the crystal instantly illuminated some distance around them, allowing Allen to see a little more clearly.

Allen then looked at Felicia, who was also lying next to him. Felicia's chest was up and down, which meant she was still breathing, although her eyebrows showed that she didn't look okay.

They were at the edge of water and land, a kind of beach, except there were only rocks there.

When Allen tried to keep himself calm, he suddenly felt his nape hair rise, and he felt many monsters looking at him with murderous lust. The atmosphere became scary because Allen couldn't see a few meters around him, which meant the monsters were still watching them.

'I don't know why they don't attack us immediately, but for now, I should move slowly and carefully to make them not suddenly attack us,' Allen thought.

"Reig, let's get out of here first."

Allen lifted Felicia's drooping body and walked slowly and to nowhere.

It was so dark, he didn't even know if there was a ceiling or not; the hole they fell into was nowhere to be seen.

"Thank goodness I asked you to eat those crystals," Allen said.

When they reached the Boldenville dungeon, Allen asked Reig to eat almost everything they passed, such as rocks, crystals, and even the corpses of orcs and goblins.

"Unfortunately, you can only transform into one thing."

Reig could shape-shift into what he ate but couldn't use them all at once.

"If you could become a scarf and a crystal at once, it might be helpful."

They continued wandering; Allen wanted to get away from the water anyway. He had just gotten a new trauma there. He didn't want to see that fish again.

But the truth was that it was no different outside. Allen was still afraid of anything he could encounter here. Darkness is a natural fear of humans because they can't predict what will appear in front of them. Allen was still in a cold sweat, and his body was trembling.

"I'm definitely going to kill that guy!" he muttered. His hatred for Wulfgeat increased to the point that he wanted to kill him. He promised himself to kill Wulfgeat if he survived.

After a long walk, she finally saw a little light. The light was like hope for him. He ran straight to the light.

Allen, who ran to the light, immediately got goosebumps once again. He felt the monster that had been watching him earlier getting closer, and the first thing that appeared was a swarm of spiders almost twice his size.

The spiders looked more like the bodies of many-legged bats; when he saw them, Allen jumped up and stepped on them without hesitation. But the moment he started stomping, the other spiders started shooting webs at him.

"Wha-what is this?!"

Sticky webs enveloped his body. And he couldn't shake it off, so he jumped and ran even faster toward the light, but they kept shooting webs and covering Allen and Felicia's bodies with that. There were tons of spiders around him, shooting webs continuously, while the spider he stepped on was crushed, leaking green blood; the blood was also a little sticky and slippery, so Allen had to spend extra effort so as not to make himself slip.

The webs bound him more and more until Allen finally couldn't even move anymore.

"ABARE! REIG!"

As Allen shouted that, the webs binding Allen and Felicia were instantly destroyed. He knew he didn't need any more light, so he activated Reig's rampage and ran toward the light as fast as possible. Along the way, Allen just swung his arms randomly to open a path forward while walking in a zigzag manner to avoid the spider webs.

Finally, they reached the place where the light was. The light turned out to be located inside a small cave that looked like a room. And inside, there were light crystals that sometimes shone, sometimes didn't. After Allen put Felicia's body down, it turned out that the two of them were not alone there; there were five black rabbits inside who were looking at him with red eyes. The rabbit was a little bigger than an ordinary rabbit, and the difference with normal rabbits was that it stood like a cat, had a long tail, and had silver horns on its forehead.

The rabbit immediately jumped towards Allen to chase him away, but Allen immediately split the rabbit.

Since the spider outside was still shooting its web, Allen hit the top of the cave door. Just as Allen turned his body to hit the top of the door. The rabbits jumped towards Allen and pierced his thighs and back with its horns.

"Akh!" Allen endured the rabbits' stabs and continued to hit the top of the cave entrance.

As a result, the cave door was blocked with rocks, making it impossible for the monsters to enter and also making it impossible for him to get out.

Allen immediately turned around and killed all the rabbits in the cave. After that, he immediately took off his shirt and checked his wounds.

"They stabbed pretty deep..." said Allen as he used his shirt to press on his wounds.

"My head is getting dizzy. Is it because my mana gets sucked by Reig when we fused?"

Allen realized that he always felt tired whenever he used Reig...

'That means the fusion requires a lot of mana and stamina. I won't be able to use it so often,' Allen thought.

Although they were now confined, Allen finally felt safe from the monsters. That cramped place was many times better than having to meet the monsters that were out there.

Then, because he already felt safe, the cold wind of the dungeon immediately pierced his bones, which made him shiver a lot.

So Allen not only took off his shirt but also took off his pants, leaving only his shorts. Reig then wrapped his body around to keep Allen warm.

"Haaah! Haaah! I'm sorry!" Felicia was suddenly delirious, and when Allen saw her, Felicia's body looked very pale, and cold steam came out of her breath. Reig immediately held Allen's cheek as if he wanted to tell him something about Felicia.

"I won't do it," said Allen, who seemed to understand what Reig meant.

But after that, Reig immediately separated from Allen's body.

"Wait! What are you doing?! I'm cold!"

Even though Allen said that, Reig didn't go back to covering him. He turned into a small shadow and went back into his shadow.

"Oh my! Why did you suddenly become annoying like this? Why do I have to save her?!" shouted Allen.

Still, Reig did not come out of his shadow.

"OKAY OKAY! I'll do it!"

Allen then approached Felicia and began to undress her.