Chapter 346 - Sensory Trick
Grey joined up with Reynolds just before the group set off.
"Wait, you trained all through the night?" The lady asked when she saw Grey coming back.
"Hmm," Grey nodded.
"Wow, such diligence. No wonder you're powerful," The lady said with stars in her eyes.
She hadn't seen anyone like Grey for a long time now, so seeing how trained during the night, she couldn't help but praise him.
"Yeah, that's how he usually is. He trains all through, never having time for anything else, even going out with friends," Reynolds said while scratching his head with a smile.
The group continued talking as they headed into the forest. This forest was not as dangerous as the one they walked through the previous day. Although they occasionally encountered magical beasts at the Peak of the Origin Plane, they didn't engage them since the beasts retreated as soon as they sensed them.
Their journey was relatively smooth for that day, and day soon turned to night. After the group set up camp, Grey headed into the forest around them like he had been doing for the past nights.
The next morning.
"We'll be going through two terrains, a swamp, and a rocky mountain. We'll be depending mainly on the Lightning Elementalists when we get to the swamp, while Fire and Water Elementalists will handle the rocky mountains," The leader said to them.
He didn't say much to them, since all the mercenaries were familiar with the area, except for Grey and Reynolds.
These were the two places he said would be as dangerous as the forest that was occupied by the plants.
"Ah, finally, I place where my attacks would be effective," Reynolds said with a sigh of relief.
Grey casually looked around, having seven different elements made him the most versatile Elementalist alive. No matter the condition, he would have the element that could counter it.
He would be complete once he comprehends the light element, that would make him have all eight elements he knew of. There was also the possibility of the wood element that wood fanatic spoke about, but he wasn't thinking about that, for now.This essence is securely nested within the heart of Nøv€lß¡n★
Two hours later.
The group stopped, looking ahead of them. In front of them was a large swamp.
"The horses will be safe here, we'll complete the rest of the journey on foot," The leader of the expedition said as he highlighted his horse.
The rest followed suit, tying down the horses by the trees.
"Are they safe here?" Reynolds asked the couple while he was tying his horse to a tree.
"Yeah, this isn't our first time coming here. As long as the horses stay put, they'll be fine," The lady said.
Splash!
Boom!
Something jumped out from the swamp, dragging one of the men in the group in.
Before the attack of the man standing close could reach the beast, it dragged the man inside.
"What was that?" A man exclaimed.
The beast acted very fast, giving no one the time to see it's features.
'Heh! The lower the number of people who reach the place, the better,' Grey thought.
He could sense there was a reason the leader decided to pass through this route, and if his guess was correct, it was to reduce the number of people who would reach where the lightning tree was located.
Reynolds and the couple tensed up when they saw this. Reynolds tensed up because he hated sneak attacks, the couple tensed up because the person who was dragged down was someone who was at the Peak of the Origin Plane, just like them.
"How did the beast hide its presence that well?" The lady asked, looking in Grey's direction.
"I have no idea, but with my technique, I have no issues with locating them," Grey said.
Grey continued walking ahead of the group, guiding them through the swamp, unhindered.
Some of the individuals in the main group tensed up when they saw the man who was grabbed into the water.
Ten minutes later.
Three more people had been dragged into the swamp, the speed of the beasts' attack was something they couldn't keep up with. But this wasn't the first time some of them had come here, so they were prepared.
In the past ten minutes, two magical beasts had been killed by the group. The beasts were fishes which seemed to have things like arms below their fins. They had sharp rows of teeth which could easily bite through a human.
"This place is around one kilometer or so, so we'll be exiting soon," The lady explained.
Grey estimated they had walked around eight hundred meters in ten minutes. If they were alone, then they would've exited the swamp by now, but since they didn't want to attract attention from the others, they walked at a slower pace.
Another five minutes went by before the group exited the swamp. One more person died before they left the swamp.
While six more magical beasts were killed in the space of five minutes.
After exiting the swamp, the group didn't delay and immediately headed towards the rocky mountain. The leader of the expedition wanted them to get to the Chimera forest before nightfall.
They walked for another hour before the visage of the rocky mountain showed up before them.
"Which magical beasts occupy this mountain?" Grey asked the couple as they headed towards the mountain.
"Apes," The couple replied simultaneously.