Chapter 337: Peculiarities in the Nation (1/2)
[A/n: I wasn't feeling well yesterday so I turned in early. So, Only one chapter for today. There will be a mass release on November 20 to make it up for these lapses. Thank you. Dont forget to vote by the way]
At Dawn, the trio started preparing for their journey. The first thing they did was cover Sam completely. They wrapped his body in clothes so that the black patches would be invisible.
After all, they are visiting a village where people might be less knowledgeable, if they mistook Sam's situation for a disease, it would be hard for them to stay there. They have to keep low-profile at that, so they shouldn't use force to stay there.
Two hours later, they reached the village. Watt carried Sam on his shoulders as they roamed the streets.
The village is small and there is nothing special about it. It is just like any other village they visited, except there are an awful lot of cultivators in this village compared to any other village.
But they didn't think much about it.
It is also normal for a village to have more cultivators.
They found an inn and checked-in. Watt and Philip went out to ask about the information on the nearest city.
Actually, they have a lot of information to learn. First, they have to find out which empire or territory they are in and if they are still in Beast faction-s territory, they have to be careful enough to hide from their search.
Apart from that they still have to find out a healer and show them Sam's condition.
If they are really in the Beast faction's territory, they couldn't even find a healer of a higher-level just in case the info will be leaked to the higher-ups and they would be in a goose chase.
They will be in a tough spot as it would difficult for them to even escape with Sam in this condition.
The two of them visited a lot of areas in the village where the people are gathered most.
They didn't go and straight-up asked these questions because they don't want people to get suspicious about them.
As they are getting as much information as they can get they noticed something weird in the village.
When people are gathered in a place, there seemed to be a scarcity of spiritual energy in the vicinity.
The bunch of people is hungrily absorbing the spiritual energy and it even seemed like a competition of absorption.
The second thing is, they have yet to meet a single thug. It might seem a little weird to think that the absence of thugs is a bad thing, but it is indeed peculiar that there are no thugs in the village.
In the inns, restaurants, streets even on the outskirts there is not a single thug.
That afternoon, they reunited in the inn and decided to leave the village.
They got their required minimum info and that is they are in the eastern continent at the moment and their nearest city is the Lock City. The only good news being, the eastern continent is under Usaine Sect's jurisdiction. Not under Beast faction
They have to move north to reach the city and it would take three days by walk. The three of them started immediately, they flew towards the city on their beasts. Watt sat on Falck along with Sam as they moved slowly.
They reached the Lock city in a day and checked in a luxurious inn.
This city is just on the same level as Star-wood city.
The City-lord is just a Novice stage expert, they have nothing to worry about, but they did notice a similarity with the village and that is something that made them uneasy.
The spiritual energy started becoming scarce within the city. At every place where people gathered, the spiritual energy is being absorbed by them, the atmosphere will generate spiritual energy continuously, but these people are absorbing it.
Particularly in the slums of the city, where the ordinary people live.
Generally, the spiritual energy variation in that place should be almost zero, because the non-cultivators live there, but they noticed that throughout the slums there is not a single non-cultivator.
Only the children below their awakening age and the elderly above fifty years of age are the non-cultivators left.