Chapter 244: Searching For Nothing?
After a few hours of journey, Liam and Talon finally arrived at the easternmost parts of the kingdom.
Soon, they would be landing in the border regions, the rough location that the King had talked about.
"He couldn't have lied to me right?"
The image of the beautiful trap king of the Gresh kingdom floated across Liam's mind, as he pondered over this possibility.
His problem was that all the areas in this zone were filled with high-level beasts and dangerous entities. Not to mention everything roamed around in groups.The initial instance of this chapter being available happened at N0v3l.Bin.
If he accidentally aggroed one beast, then all the others would respond as well.
So Liam really hoped that the trap King had told him the correct information and not led him astray.
Otherwise, he would have to waste a considerable amount of time here, fighting beasts and monsters above his level.
Not that he couldn't win somehow and preserve his life, but it would simply take a lot of time to do so.
Normally, quests would be straightforward at least in terms of location. However, he was in this predicament only because this was actually not the location of his own kingdom quest.
Rather he had come here following the clues he had obtained about Kouske's kingdom quest.
During their conversation, because of Liam beating around the bush purposefully, the King had let slip this small nugget of information.
Somewhere on this vast stretch of borderlands between the Gresh Kingdom and the Thunderbolt Kingdom lay a cave, a hut, or a burrow that contained the necromancy inheritance or at least clues to it.
It wasn't much but it was enough to go on.
Liam whistled, signaling Talon to drop him off here and hide in the nearby area. Flying from here onwards was a bit dangerous. They would be shot down if they were sighted.
Liam had to admit. It was far easier to steal the fate of those who had stumbled upon lucky occurrences rather than others who had worked their way towards it.
Particularly this guy Kouske... He was like a leech, not letting go of what rightfully belonged to him.
Kouske had somehow managed to trigger the event, unlock the nether realm, and finally even got the kingdom quest.
The only thing that he lacked right now was overall strength and power which he would also inevitably obtain in a few days, sooner if he manages to capture a garrison as well.
He would then attempt this quest, probably with his team of super experts, and easily get the inheritance using which he will be able to command an army of undead.
He would once again stand at the top as he was destined to be.
Liam, however, had no plans to let him sail smoothly into the sunset to his destiny, becoming one of the great experts of their world.
He was determined to snatch away whatever belonged to Kouske. He had a perfect affinity to the nether, so if anyone was suited for this inheritance, it was him, not Kouske.
"I wonder what that guy's affinity is..." Liam quietly mumbled while his feet continued moving forward and his eyes searched the surroundings.
He had started at the far south of the borderlands and systemically moved towards the north.
Once he reached the other end of the border, then he would again be moving to the south, searching the entire border between the two countries systematically in a grid-like fashion.
This grid started away from the Thunderbolt kingdom, first searching the zones within the Gresh kingdom, and then he would have to slowly encroach and search the lands of the barbarians as well.
As far as he knew, the inheritance could lie on either side, so he couldn't take any chances.
Thus, Liam continued the slow painful grind, searching the border area between the two kingdoms.
At times, he felt as if he was searching for a needle in a haystack but there was nothing that could be done about it.
Powerful inheritances and priceless treasures were as rare as virgins after a frat party.
Thankfully, the frequent notifications continuously chiming in, announcing the steady increase of his experience bar helped him not lose his mind searching in this vast wilderness.