Chapter 868: Multiple Reasons (1/2)
”Hurry up,” Trivar spoke with a sense of urgency, commanding all the demon beasts to return into the storage ring. He then looked at the Zenith Pluggers, watching them all enter the storage ring with their respective carriages.
At this point, only two Zenith Pluggers remained, pulling the carriage where Trivar, Tina, Yuric, and the mercenaries from Yuric's Mercenary Team rested. Two demon beasts in human form acted as the caravan members and sat on the backs of each Zenith Plugger, controlling it.
Trivar had destroyed the bodies of the bandits by throwing them on the swamp, spraying their blood everywhere to destroy the traces left by Tina's Spiritual Incarnation. He didn't want the Spirit Aberrations to get a clue from it.
That's why he acted that way, always commanding the demon beasts to do all the work. Even then, he wasn't assured since it wasn't easy to destroy the traces left behind by a Spiritual Incarnation. Only a stronger Spiritual Incarnation could completely remove all trace. Unfortunately, Yuric's Spiritual Incarnation didn't seem to be as strong as Tina's.
With that, Trivar was helpless. If there was more time, he would have spent time excavating the entire land that was affected by Tina's Spiritual Incarnation and store it in his storage ring. That would have been the optimal solution in his mind. Sadly, he couldn't do that as Trivar felt an intense sense of danger approaching them from afar.
He knew that if they fought against whoever the approaching foe might be, their losses would be disastrous.
'It would be unwise to engage at this point and become helpless by the time we reach the Four Sectors' Border Region. A lot of powerful cultivators would be arriving there to obtain 'that' this time.' Trivar thought to himself as he watched the Zenith Pluggers begin pulling their carriage.
They swiftly left the area and proceeded into a deeper route to throw off the trail of their chasers. The corpses of the bandits had been looted dry of their weapons. It might not have been much, but they were still equipment at the Godly Fusion Realm. Some of them were useful or even had expensive materials used in them. They could be reused later.
After all, he was getting them for free. As a merchant, Trivar had never failed to look away from such a profitable deal. All he had lost in this encounter were expendable demon beasts Tina had captured from somewhere else.
”Tina, are you able to control some more demon beasts?” Trivar asked after pondering in silence for a bit, looking at the figure of his daughter that seemed slightly tired.
”Eh?” Tina looked at him with slight confusion as she blinked her large eyes. Not long after, she replied, ”Don't worry about something like that. The entire environment within the storage ring is my Land Incarnation. In other words, I'm not spending much energy to control them in there. After all, I'm not actively controlling their actions. I'm just making them follow certain commands while having absolute loyalty towards me.”
”I can still subdue a lot more of them if need be,” Tina added as she waved her hands, patting her stomach as she looked at Trivar with a tear-struck expression. ”Dad, I'm feeling hungry again. Let's have lunch.”
”You'll become fatter at this rate,” Trivar sighed as he responded. ”Try to have some self-discipline on your eating habits, will you?”
”Nope.” Tina laughed in response, flexing her flabby muscles. ”I created a technique just for this. It can convert my fat into Godly Energy whenever I want. It'll be helpful in times of need. Sounds awesome, right?”
”Fine, fine. I can't argue with that.” Trivar sighed. ”Just, don't be careless.”
”The more I eat, the stronger I become, dad,” Tina said with a smile, beaming in joy when she saw Trivar take out some ingredients to cook.
Back at the swampy area that had been left behind from Yuric's Spiritual Incarnation, two figures popped out of the swamp, grunting as they gasped for air.
”I almost died!” Zuna groaned as she crawled towards a normal piece of earth. ”Yuric definitely didn't pull his punches.”
”If he acted any weaker than that, he would have surely looked suspicious. I must say, Yuric's acting was top-notch.” Whack laughed in response as he lay on the ground before looking at the sky.
He sniffed the bloody scent in the air, sighing as he said, ”We lost everyone from our bandit groups. This is quite the loss.”
”It's not like you were emotionally attached to them or anything. It's either use or be used in this region,” Zuna rolled her eyes as she responded.
”Well, you're not wrong about that,” Whack laughed as he glanced around, noticing that all the corpses had been stripped bare of their equipment. ”That Trivar bastard didn't even leave behind the damaged weapons.”
”Remember, we have to be thankful to Yuric that none of our accumulations have been stolen,” Zuna said, rubbing the storage ring on her left hand's ring finger. It was the ring that contained every item of importance she had stolen during her stay in the Immortal Suppression Zone.