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Joanne and Smith arrived safely above. Both landed on the wooden floor.
"Finally we got away from him" Smith murmured softly.
"That squirrel is so strange, he can last so long when we have attacked him repeatedly. I don't know why every creature we meet has skin so hard." Joanne said slowly.
"Yes, you're right." Smith took out the spider crystal from within his body. The state of the room was bright enough to make the two of them not need to use light deer horn crystals to see.
In the corner of the room there is a large hole that leads to a large branch that is located so high and far from the surface.
Joanne and Smith walked up to the hole and stood there, both looking out of the hole and seeing an unusual sight up there.
"The view is really beautiful, but it's creepy to imagine what it would be like if I fell from this high." Joanne shudder.
"Here you go, now let's focus on our goal. There is no time to enjoy the view. We also have to figure out a way to find Jackson now somewhere." Smith switched the conversation.
"Oh yeah, you're right. We need to find Jackson. How's it going?"
"I don't know either, but I'm sure he's fine and alive. We just have to find a way to find it." Smith walked away from there.
"How can you be so sure?" Joanne made Smith stop, the man turned to her.
"Because of what you believe, that's what's going to happen."
Jackson reached out his hand, grabbing the bottle containing the glowing potion he saw. The bottle was shining, floating on top of his palm.
He watched the bottle for a moment before turning on the system screen and double-checking the mission.
"Here we go! ‘Among small holes, inside a labyrinth. Hiding in the dark, and being kept among the precious. To find what you're looking for, you have to find the door.’" Jackson reread the clue written there.
His focus shifted to the bottle hovering within his grasp. "Are these not-don't..this is the potion we're looking for? Is this a potion capable of making the black giant snake lose?" Jackson grabbed and gripped the bottle directly.
"If this is indeed the potion we are looking for, then it means that me, Joanne and Smith just need to find an existence in the black giant snake and defeat it." Jackson smiled wryly.
"But now, how am I supposed to meet Joanne and Smith while I'm down here?" Jackson remained silent.
He turned his head towards where he had come, a dark street decorated by various glittering items adorned along the entrance.
"Maybe there's another way, I'll have to find her and then go see Joanne and Smith." Jackson went from there; stepping in the other direction, hoping to find a way that would take him out of there.
Jackson stepped in the darkness that enveloped the room, along the way; what he found was the same amount of gold, silver and jewels as he had found at the entrance.
The further he went, the more Jackson felt that he had found no way out at all. The one he encountered was just another darker path.
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