Chapter 859: What Have I Gotten Myself Into? (2/2)

”Charge!” The leader shouted the very moment everyone had mounted on its back, watching the Zenith Plugger snort and remain unmoving.

”Charge!” He soon kicked its head, watching it wail a bit before starting to run. It crashed and tumbled along the way, failing to heed his commands spontaneously. It then shook its head and continued to sprint, occasionally jumping over sections of the path that caved in.

”I see Trivar has noticed our approach,” the leader muttered, seeing the damaged path that spanned before him. Then again, he was unconcerned about it as he spent most of his attention on controlling the Zenith Plugger. ”Damn it, just run straight.”

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The moment he activated the Mind Splitting Technique, Krune felt that his task had become easier. A steady stream of Godly Energy gushed out of the Rank Two God Stones and entered his body, alleviating his expenditure.

The influx was a tad greater than his expenditure, so the Godly Energy in his body continued to increase at a steady pace. 'This mission is not profitable at all for the other mercenaries.'

Krune looked at the figures of Vardin and Diana, noticing that they were now exhausted, barely scrapping by somehow as they tumbled their way through the defense. They were close to running out of Godly Energy and didn't seem to possess any supplementary sources like his mental energy.

Krune stopped supplementing his attacks using Mental Energy, solely sticking to his Godly Energy and Divine Sense. Even though the situation was dangerous, he planned to keep his Mental Energy in reserve for when the situation called for it.

In his current condition, he was only able to recover his Godly Energy. Recovering his Mental Energy was a time-consuming process, especially since he was in the midst of battle. Mixing his Mental Energy into his Godly Energy would make his attacks stronger, so he was saving it up.

After all, the more he observed, the more peculiar the current situation felt. The caravan was speeding through the air right now, resisting house-sized boulders that were tremendously heavy. Every mercenary was struggling to keep up with the boulders. At the same time, all the caravan members also helped out to share the burden.

Unsurprisingly, they were steadily losing their ground. But despite everything, Trivar didn't take any action. Krune had inspected Trivar's cultivation base while meeting him at the inn before using his Divine Sense, slightly surprised when it was blocked.

But, when he used his Mental Energy, he was able to penetrate his defenses easily. Krune was shocked because Trivar wasn't anyone weak, despite being a merchant geared to earning money. Rather, it was not wrong to say that he was the strongest in the caravan.

First Stage Nascent God!

If he wished to, he could share the load of the entire caravan for an hour while all the mercenaries rested and recovered their Godly Energy. But Trivar didn't do anything of the sort.

”Kyah!” Diana shouted, watching the activation of her technique fail as she ran out of Godly Energy, failing to stop a boulder that crashed into the carriage under her.

”No!” The caravan members on the carriage roof shouted in alarm as the boulder crashed into them, forming a massive hole through the carriage. Diana barely avoided the impact as Vardin arrived beside her, helping her as they moved over to another carriage.

Krune noticed how the reins connecting the Zenith Plugger and the beams connecting them to the carriage remained intact while the remainder of the carriage fell off. With a quick glance, he determined that they were at least Nine Stars God Foundation in grade.

Such instances like this continued to occur as the mercenaries ran out of Godly Energy one after another. The boulders crashed into the carriages they were protecting and destroyed them, spilling out all the goods in them.

The mercenaries barely avoided dying and congregated around their team leaders, trying their best to recover their energy. The Zenith Pluggers were fine, since four caravan members were on the backs of each to protect them from harm.

Moreover, they were capable of defending themselves. Whenever a boulder flew towards them, the air would faintly fluctuate before the boulders would tilt a bit and avoid the Zenith Pluggers.

They were demon beasts that were experts at manipulating air. So, even though the carriages were destroyed, the respective Zenith Pluggers pulling them were unharmed. Moreover, the caravan members on its back immediately disconnected the harness and reconnected it to the nearest intact carriage.

'There's gonna be a lot of losses here.' Krune thought when he noticed how they changed the harness without any hesitation. The moment he saw the contents spill out of a broken carriage, Krune frowned as he noticed that they weren't the same items he saw at the beginning of the caravan. They were just normal decorative items that weren't worth anything.

Not only that, but Krune activated his Mental Energy scan as he was suspicious, extending it to the bottom of his carriage as he noticed numerous hooks in place. Surprisingly, hung upside down from the hooks were bird-type demon beasts.

Judging by their aura, they were the caravan members he thought were crushed by the boulders and were sent flying into the bottomless chasm below. As it turned out, they had taken flight immediately and were hiding underneath the carriages. It was as if they were waiting something.

”Just…what the hell have I gotten myself into?”