Few hours after meditating to regenerate his mana, Angus feels a movement from Jayna. Right now, Jayna's face is already regaining vitality as she rested before.
"Umm.." groaned Jayna while hugging Angus as a body pillow.
"Morning, Jayna." said Angus.
"Emm.. Morning, Angus. Ehh.. KYAA!!" screamed Jayna as she moved away from Angus.
"D-Did we do…" muttered Jayna blushingly.
"Huhh.. What are you talking about?" asked Angus.
"Uhh.. Nothing.. Nothing." answered Jayna quickly.
During this time, Draven suddenly appears from Angus's shadow.
"Master, I found something inside the cave." said Draven.
'Huh.. Inside the cave. There was nothing inside them last time I checked them.' thought Angus.
Before entering the cave and choosing it as the resting place, Angus already checked it with [Mana Echolocation] and found nothing but a dead-end cave.
"Alright, lead the way, Jayna wait here." said Angus.
"No, I will also come along." said Jayna.
"It's okay. I will be back after checking it a little bit. Besides, you still have not fully recovered and need to regenerate your own mana." said Angus.
"B-But.." said Jayna.
"Don't worry, I am good at running away." said Angus.
"Alright, if you said so." replied Jayna reluctantly.
Then, Angus goes into the deeper area inside the cave along with Draven. As they are going deeper, the interior becomes darker. Then, he takes out a magical lamp to brighten the way. After a while, he found a dead-end inside the cave.
"I see nothing here besides a wall of rock." said Angus.
"Turn off the light and use your [Mana Eye]." said Draven.
Angus did as Draven said and used [Mana Eye]. He immediately sees a swirl pattern that is darker than the rock wall. The swirl pattern color is almost identical to the rock wall color, which is not easy to distinguish using ordinary means.
Moreover, it didn't contain any mana-like runes diagrams. The black swirl pattern is very random and doesn't connect one with the others.
After looking carefully, the stroke of the swirl pattern is similar to the wooden bracelet he has. Taking out the wooden bracelet in his left hand, the wooden bracelet shone a little bit before diminishing.
After a while, the swirl pattern moves like a tentacle and creates a picture of a gigantic bird. Looking at the picture, Angus immediately recognized it.
'This is a phoenix. Is there any connection with the phoenix inside there? What is this swirl pattern exactly?' thought Angus confusedly.
The end of the stroke of the swirl is pointed to the center of the phoenix chest. After waiting for a few more minutes, nothing happened.
Looking at this, Angus became suspicious, "Draven, is there something behind this wall?" asked Angus.
"I don't know. There is something that blocks my perception." replied Draven
"As expected, there is something behind this rock wall. Otherwise, Draven will notice what is behind the wall. Maybe this is also the reason why my [Mana Echolocation] can't detect it." said Angus.
After observing it for a few more minutes, Angus decides to come back to Jayna. He will observe it further with Jayna.
As Angus walked back to the entrance, the swirl pattern moved back to its original position. Arriving at the entrance cave, he found Jayna already meditating to regenerate her mana.
Unlike Angus, with a unique breathing technique and superb mana core, Jayna needs a little effort to regenerate her mana. Despite her mana capacity being lower than Angus's, she still has some time to restore hers.
She could use a mana potion. However, there is a limit for one person to drink a mana potion. So, it is best to use it only in life and death situations such as battles or other emergencies.
Furthermore, her mana capacity is also not small among her peers. If Angus mana almost reaches the three hundred mark, her mana is around half of it.
However, this is already an outstanding achievement since grade one is usually only around a hundred points or below. This shows that Angus mana is absurd among the others. After waiting for a few hours, Jayna opened her eyes as she finally fully recovered her mana.
She found Angus looking at the map of the Endless Battlefield dimension. Unlike the one Axel has, this one is only a replica of the real magical map.
Despite its only replica, it still could be zoomed in and out to see more detailed information. However, it couldn't update the landscape as Axel had.
Feeling Jayna done with her meditation, "Jayna, are you already fully recovered?" asked Angus.
"Yep, so what should we do next?" asked Jayna back.
"I found a sort of door in the deeper cave area. However, I don't know anything behind the door. It could be a deadly trap or contain something dangerous." explained Angus.
"Really?? That could be a hidden treasure." said Jayna enthusiastically.
"Or something dangerous. Even Draven's perception is blocked. Anyway, we could explore the cave in the meantime, or do you want to go back to search for the others." said Angus.
Hearing this, Jayna begins to feel sad as she remembers her dorm mate. Angus and Jayna barely made out alive from the [Meteorite Shower]. It will be a true miracle for others to stay alive through that disaster.
Although Jayna pursued power and adventure in this dimension, she still didn't want to abandon her dorm mate. However, she also knows that it may be a futile action and may endanger themself.
The first rule when they train together that is told by teacher Roy is to be ready to abandon their teammate and move forward. It is pretty cruel, but if they want to survive in this dimension, they need to be prepared to do this.
While contemplating their next decision, an unconscious young man floats on the calm river on the other side of their location.
There are a lot of burning marks and blood on the body of the young man. This young man is none other than Axel Pomel, one of the Angus dorm mates that comes into the Endless Battlefield dimension.
Unlike Angus and Jayna, who could escape the [Meteorite Shower] range with their movement skill, Axel needed to hide behind the tree and use a rune magic card to create a barrier to protect himself.
However, the spell barrier level is too low and weak to defend against the incoming flaming rock. He got pushed off into a faraway location by the blazing rock after his defensive barrier broke.
By sort of coincidence, he fell into the cliff nearby and entered into the river. After a few hours, he finally arrived at the calm river.
As Axel keeps floating on the water unconscious, A shadow approaches Axel from the nearby forest and looks at Axel's floating body.
On the other hand, Millie and Mia found their current condition is somewhat less fortunate than the others.
After Angus told everyone to scatter, the two girls immediately went away together and employed a barrier to protect them using a rune magic card.
Like Axel, the two girls' barriers are broken from the flaming rock, and Mia decides to protect Millie with her body.
Then both of them get hit by another flaming rock before receiving another shockwave that leads them to another area like a ragdoll. Although they are getting out from the [Meteorite shower] area, their body is riddled with various serious injuries.
First, Mia's hand is completely gone, along with various fractures and inner wounds on her body. The reason she still survives is that Millie keeps supporting her with healing magic.
On the other hand, Millie herself is not unscathed. Few of her rib bones are fractured and with various internal wounds. Moreover, she is showing signs of mana deficiency as she tries to keep healing Mia.
"I am sorry.. Mia. Please stay alive.." said Millie while keeping her healing spell without stopping.
Many empty mana potions could be seen beside Millie. Few monsters detect their blood smell not far away from the two girls and approach them.
At the same time, far away from their location, Ian runs desperately while various ferocious beasts follow him.
"Gyaa… Stop coming after me!! My meat is not delicious!!" shouted Ian while running.
His condition is by far the best of the others besides Angus and Jayna. After Angus tells them to scatter, he is the only quick-witted one and immediately uses all his mana to dig a hole in the ground using [Thunder Punch] until he exhausted all his mana.
However, he underestimated the scale of the [Meteorite Shower]. Despite digging quite deep on the ground, he still received a shockwave from it and was buried deep into the underground.
He could also feel his body being roasted alive as the temperature of the ground increased from the [Meteorite Shower]. At this moment, he took out the rune magic card and barrier himself inside the ground.
Soon, the [Meteorite Shower] ends, and he uses a little bit of his strength to dig his way to the upper ground.
As soon as he arrived on the upper ground, he found that he was in the middle of the ferocious beast, which led him to be pursued by them.