Chapter 405: Eliminating the Sandstone Mother Spider’s nest part 2 (1/2)
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After sleeping for a few hours, Leo and the others finally recovered a lot of their lost energy and stamina.
Energy and stamina are very important for Mages since that is what they use every time they are casting any Magic spells, especially when combining together casting Magic spells and fighting.
They then left their tent as Leo called out for Mayor Jong to quickly begin forming a team to scout the situation ahead.
After a few minutes, the team was finally formed, specifically a total of 20 people, including Leo, Cassandra, Elizabeth, Angel, Veronica, Ash, and Charlotte.
The team was composed of 15 Mages, specifically five 1 Star Mages, five 2 Star Mages, one 3 Star Mage, two 4 Star Mages, two 5 Star Mages. While there were 5 Magical Knights, four of them were 3 Star Magical Knight while the last was a 9 Star Battle Mage.
”Let's go,” Leo said before leaving the 5th outpost.
All the outposts were just similar in layout. They only have 3 pathways to get in and out, and the one that Leo had to choose was the left path. This was in order to inconspicuously leave the outpost.
If they just simply go through the middle and walk straight, then they would surely be fighting against a hundred or so of Sandstone Spiders every now then.
It would have been alright if there are hundreds of them, but right now there are only 20 of them to scout the situation at the Sandstone Mother Spider's nest. They would certainly be easily exhausted if they keep on fighting.
That's why they choose to be inconspicuous and also careful. It would be alright to still attract Sandstone Spiders, but they should try their best to minimize them as much as possible while moving.
Because of that plan, along their way, Leo and the others only encountered a few tens or so of Sandstone Spiders.
They quickly and silently killed all of those Sandstone Spiders before swiftly leaving the place incase that it had attracted the nearby Sandstone Spiders' attention.
After more than an hour of traveling, they arrived at a place almost covered with webs. This place was clearly the last line of defense before finally arriving at the Sandstone Mother Spider's nest.
In order for Leo and the others to travel, they have to always cut the webs using their weapons as silent and careful as possible while at the same time prepared in any case of Sandstone Spiders attacking them.
This place was obviously where the Sandstone Spiders are best at when it comes to fighting, or even any other Magical Beast Spiders, so they can't afford to be careless.
Whish!
Charlotte cut a web with an earth dagger as she was the one leading their front, while in their right and their rear were the 4 to 5 Star Mages and 4 Star Magical Knights, and in the middle were those weaker ones.
”Most of the possible situation in this place will definitely have a high chance of turning for the worst, so everyone should be prepared to fight an extremely hard battle,” Leo reminded everyone. He then added, ”If such situation really comes, prepare to retreat while sticking closely in formation. I don't recommend you trying to leave alone as that would just be suicide and not to mention would cost everyone from Sandy Town to die. You know what I meant about that last part, right?”
He didn't forget to discourage everyone, in particular, the people from Sandy Town, from thinking of abandoning the others if ever the situation really turns out for the worst. Like for example, hundreds or even thousands of Sandstone Spiders had noticed them and hence right after attacked them. Or maybe a group of Sandstone Knight Spiders or worst a Sandstone Mother Spider had attacked them.
It's very obvious already that almost everyone would feel afraid for their lives once such a situation indeed happened, and it's not strange for someone to think of abandoning everyone for the sake of their very own life.
So, to counter that, he threw a threat right away that if they indeed do that their entire Sandy Town would be destroyed.