Chapter 276 - Crowned Harpy (1/2)

After defeating the flock of Harpies, it was time for them to gather up the beast cores. It was an easy task once Lenny had told them the correct spot to extract it on a Harpy. In some ways, it felt like Lenny was better than a library, he had a huge amount of knowledge that seemed so useful in all types of situations.

After gathering all the crystals in their pouches, bags or even space bags. The group was overjoyed, that was when they had heard the sound of a large shriek in the sky.

Jack was the first to spot what it was.

Then the loud shriek was heard once more in the sky and this time it attracted the attention of all the other adventures. As they turned to look above, a Harpy three times the size of a regular one was in the sky.

Its skull was also shaped differently from the others, the structure on the top made it look like it had three small horns imitating that of a crown but that wasn't the only thing they had to worry about, for another flock of around a hundred basic tier Harpies flew behind their King.

”What do we do?” And adventurer turned and asked, looking for their commander Rick.

However, when they turned around to gather advice, Rick had already disappeared.

”Did he abandon us? What a coward!”

As soon as Rick had heard that shriek, he knew straight away what it was. It was the sound of a being too strong for their group. A king tier beast.

This level of beast was meant for a group of B class adventures, even A, not him, he was just a C class adventurer with a bunch of Ds.

Rick decided that the best chance of surviving this, was to leave with his guild members without informing anyone. This way, when the crown harpy had arrived, the other adventures fighting it would delay them just long enough for him to get away.

But while Rick and the other two were busy running through the forest, Rick started to notice something, he had run in a different direction then they had originally come from. This was because the Crowned harpy was coming towards them from where they had entered the base.

Rick's plan was to head in the opposite direction, then circle around to head back to the city. But when he entered the forest and started to circle around, he noticed more destroyed and uprooted trees.

”Did I make a wrong turn, have we circled back to the base again/” Rick thought.

They started to move slowly to check to see how the others were doing. Perhaps with the strength of the Red wing members, they stood a chance but when they finally arrived at the base there was a strange sight.

There was another flock of around a hundred harpies and in the centre stood another Crowned harpy.

”What the, is this another harpy base, the report said there was only one!”

Just then when the three of them were hiding in the forest, they could hear the sound of footsteps behind them. As they turned, they could see a single regular Harpy looking at them.