Chapter 713: West (1/2)

”...so this is the Western Continent.” Vendrick muttered upon landing.

Vendrick is now visiting the Western Continent to complete his mission. He only stayed at the tribe for four months just like he said and set off once more. He left Arthur and Rosa with some suggestions since he told them that it'll take him quite sometime before he returns.

After leaving the tribe, Vendrick travelled consistently by flying for two months before reaching this place. He arrived just now at the edge of the continent.

The continents are separated by large bodies of water, he landed on the shore was welcomed by the completely different atmosphere.

There is a savage and ferocious feel in the air. It's pricking and comes in waves as if it was being released by someone or something. Nature claimed the land, much like how it is in the southern continent. This is because there are no humans here who will desecrate the sanctity of the land so that they could live off comfortably.

”The Demonic Qi here thicker compared to the Southern Continent...there's also the smell of blood permeating everywhere.” Vendrick discovered this shortly after his initial inspection of the land.

He's still currently walking at the shore, he's in no hurry to dive deep into the depths of the Western Continent's land and greet its locals. He took it easy since he within an undiscovered land.

Vendrick spent some more time inspecting the land and to his surprise, he discovered something quite incredible.

”Interesting...every Demonic Beast in here has Vampiric qualities.” He muttered, ”The bloodlust they carry is far from their average ones so it should be from an outside interference. The Vampiric Serpent maybe? Either way...that should explain why things are quite chaotic here.”

From the very moment that Vendrick landed, he already felt the tremors of the ground. His ocular technique had been active since landing and he had been sweeping his gaze all over his surroundings.

He discovered Demonic Beasts in conflict, but after discovering the strangeness of the atmosphere around him, Vendrick somewhat understood what's happening.

The Demonic Beasts are driven mad by something. Even the beasts who are known to flee at the first sign of conflict was bravely picking a fight with something, anything that it could lay its eyes on. The battles never stopped, every beast he saw was mad and craved to see blood. These are already considered as major red flags.

Still, its not like Vendrick would just retreat from this. He has a mission, and he's here to see it done. Things like this aren't enough to stop him.

”...but it'd be troublesome to face a ceaseless wave of demonic beasts trying to kill me. I think I should set up a base for now. I'll need to observe more and as I make more discoveries, I'll slowly go deeper into this land.”

This was the plan that Vendrick came up with. He activated one of the formations he inscribed at the Spear of Wisdom to set up a temporary camp here. Thanks to the uniqueness of the formation, Vendrick wouldn't be discovered her even if he were to be reckless.

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”...no, it's not this one either.”

Vendrick sighed and threw another corpse on the ground. He looked around and found the mess he was in. He's surrounded with corpses of Demonic Beast emanating a foul stench. Flesh and blood were splattered everywhere, painting a disgusting scene of carnage and madness, nevertheless, Vendrick didn't look to affected by this.

As he stood there, Vendrick scoured the scattered corpses in search for something. He had been searching for traces of this thing for quite sometime now but the creature was unexpectedly sneaky and cautious.

He initially thought that maybe he killed it, so he's searching for its corpse. However, it didn't take him long to realize that there's also the possibility that it managed to escape.

*Thud*

”Oh.” Vendrick looked down and to his surprise, he bumped into the thing he was looking for. ”Well yeah, it looks like I was the one who killed it. Sorry, I guess. I used too much force, I wasn't planning on doing that. I just wanted to restrain you, but I ended up killing you.”