Page 173 of Sumanika: Vol 2


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A crack ran through the wall as if thunder had struck, and the noise of the wall broke at the speed of light.

It was suffocating.

One more attack, and the game would be over.

I didn’t hesitate.

The river broke free through the crack, and I knew that one more hit, and it would be done.

“We will kill you, stop!”

“I said stop,” they yelled at me, but they didn’t step forward as they were equally terrified.

“Jai Mahakaal, Har Har Mahadev!!”I screamed with all my strength and hit one last time.

My heart stopped, standing frozen, as the crack widened in the wall.

It had grown to heights like a thundering current.

I closed my eyes, pacing back. With a rush, the river poured through the broken wall as the clouds burst, and the flood swallowed the villages.

The dry mud dampened. High-pressure water was divulged and echoed through the cave as I watched the soldiers step back.

“Run, run away from here,” they yelled.

Suddenly, the wall broke, and a flood hit me like a mountain.

I couldn’t believe it; a ten-metre-tall wall collapsed like a castle of sand. The rock hit my head, and I cried out. The water crashed into me, smashing me into the wall.

My breathing slowed, and I noticed the tunnel filling with water faster. It began flowing towards the low point, taking me with it effortlessly.

I had to reach the high end, to the well.

I lifted my axe and, at one point, hit it in the tunnel ceiling to stop myself from running into the water.

It missed.

I groaned and threw my hands and legs to swim through the monstrous flow.

I hit again. And I missed again.

“What the hell?” I yelled.

My shoulder hit the wall, cracking skin, drawing blood. The water rushed into my mouth, reaching my nose. I lifted my face, panting harder against the ceiling.

But it didn’t work.

I hit the axe again, trying to find a spot to hang.

Missed again, flowed along the water.

But amid all this, a smile appeared on my face, noticing the cannons drowning in water.

As I had decided, I ruined them with water because I couldn’t burn them.

The cries of soldiers dying, hitting against the cannons, and drowning reached my ears.

I hit the axe again and finally pinned it to the ceiling, waiting for the water flow to calm.