Chapter 504 - Here (1/2)
The 2.5 meters wide eye on the spider's abdomen shrunk and widened continuously, each time focusing on a different thread. It was so engrossed, in fact, that it didn't realize when a new thread had appeared on the Scorpion King's body, and this thread was connecting the spider and the scorpion king.
The longer the spider stared at Hao Xuan's threads, the thicker the thread connecting it and the scorpion king became until it looked like a small rope.
Finally having chosen its target from the countless threads coming out of Hao Xuan, the spider's eye focused on a special one.
This thread was one of the flimsiest looking ones, like it had been corroded after a long period of neglect. Yet it still shined with a bright red light, much brighter than 95% of the other threads, even the ones that were much thicker.
Two of the spider's sixteen legs reached out in Hao Xuan's direction and as if passing through a curtain of water, disappeared completely.
A few meters away Hao Xuan was looking at the hunter with a raised eyebrow.
”So it is not guarding the word of power, but it IS it?” he repeated in the native language, prompting the hunter to vigorously bob his head up and down showering the ground around him in beads of sweat.
”Yes, I wouldn't lie to you, alien sir! The words of power appear on wild beasts in the form of different patterns and tattoos somewhere on their bodies. That's how you can differentiate them from normal beasts!” the hunter patted his chest proudly.
”Hmm,” Hao Xuan nodded before meeting the hunter's gaze skeptically, ”And how do you, a mere nobody, knows all this?”
The hunter wasn't expecting Hao Xuan to be so...straightforward with his words and accidentally choked on his own saliva.
*Cough*Cough*
”W-Well, it is not just me that knows,” he cleared his throat while trying to look away in embarrassment.
”The resistance is giving away this information to anyone and everyone that will listen. We heard about it from them directly, others that already have their own words of power.”
”Ooh,” Hao Xuan leaned in with a look of interest, ”The resistance eh? What else did the say then?”
The hunter became elated seeing Hao Xuan so keen on learning more and he quickly reached out into his pocket and took out a rough paper that had both its side covered in the local language.
”Everything is mentioned here. It is not that detailed since they said this is just to help us get our first word of power. They told us to reach out to them again when we have gotten at least one word of power and only after that will they would explain more.”