Chapter 124

It had only been 8 hours ago that I had found a sign of shelter in the distance giving me a glimpse of hope that I did not hold on for more than a second.
I knew how cruel this world could be now, and therefore holding any semblance of hope would only equip you to have them shatter before your very eyes. 
On the way there I met one reptile and got a weird pop-up from the system after killing it, but even though it had given me almost 90 EXP from killing it, it was nothing compared to the 6400 I had to collect to move up to level 8.
It took me about 6 more hours to find the shelter that I had seen before, yet from up close, it looked far different from what I had imagined it to look like.
Rather than being a random cave on the side of a mountain, I could see two holes in the upper middle of the structure as well as an enormous opening at the bottom.
It was all made of this grey-colored rock that seemed like it has been weathered into that color rather than being like that naturally.
I could tell that the material was supposed to be a milky white, yet here it was as a dark grey.
Before I could walk into it, I finally got a good look at the entire structure, and what I saw left me frozen and wide-eyed.
A shiver went down my spine while my breathing became erratic and quick.
I felt my heart drop while a distinct buzz resounded within my mind.
I could see a distinct hole in the middle of the entire structure... Well, I couldn't even call it a structure anymore.
It was a corpse.
A skeleton the size of an entire mountain.
I didn't even know if this highrise of a natural formation could even count as a mountain, but the thing in front of me certainly was a titan when it was alive.
I could imagine scenes of it walking and destroying everything within its path.
However, while I might have been temporarily scared and frozen, that did not last for very long.