Chapter 31

I still did not know what it was, but that only made the experience more terrifying.

My fingers were growing numb by the second, but that did not stop me from exerting all my strength to pull myself up.

*Thump*

It was getting closer.

I could feel the power behind every single step.

*Thump*

Exerting the last bit of power within me, I made a final pull that threw me up and towards the crack in the upper walls of the cave.

*Thump*

The reverberating sounds of its footsteps had only sent more and more shivers down my spine.

I could feel death getting closer and closer with every one of its steps.

My arms from the elbow down were now practically numb, after all, I was not a mountain climber or anything.

I was, and still am just a normal man, with a normal goal that had been thrown into something beyond the scope of my imagination.

I had told myself that the pull was the last thing I had to do, but once again I had found myself telling myself the same lie.

'One more push'

Lunging myself toward the crack, I found myself barely fitting inside it, but it seemed like I had done enough to survive.

The keyword in this sentence being 'seemed'.

*Crunch*