Chapter 361 - Beyond the Dunes(Part-1) (1/2)

Ryuu stretched himself while letting out a loud yawn as he looked around, he found himself to what seemed to be a tent of some sorts, as he stepped outside he was greeted with the sight of his group chatting around to what seemed to be a camp fire, he noticed that the faux campfire was the byproduct of some sort of array that was placed on the ground as they sat surrounding it, as he approached them he could here True-Spear laughing loudly, 'Since when did they join us.'

”Ah Daoist Ryuu, I see you are awake how are you.”

Ryuu smiled at True-Spear as he spoke, ”I am fine, as good as new, and so how many did make it?”

At his questions many of them frowned as Amon spoke with a tired sigh, ”From what we have found may be around 800 managed to reach this place and those who have not I hope they had managed to survive.”

Ryuu shook his head as he spoke, ”I doubt it they are the most vicious creatures, not to mention there were two of them, but you are right we can hope that more escaped and hid in the 2nd level.”

True-Spear frowned at that as he spoke, ”I want to thank you for that if you did not recognize the beast we would be dead, but to speak the truth I have never heard of any such creature.”

Zywia frowned at that as she spoke, ”I also wanted to ask you the same Brother as I have never seen nor heard of such a creature.”

Ryuu tilted his head as he mulled over what Zywia had just said, 'So it seems that her parents did not share such information with her good to know.'

Ryuu simply smiled as he replied, ”I recognize it as simply a fluke.”

Frost Flames looked intently at him as she spoke, ”Explain.”

Ryuu sighed as he looked up to see the star lit sky as he began speaking mixing half truths and lies, ”In my family the youngest member was my mother was the youngest member prior to my birth, as such by time I was born I had no one of age to play with, so I turned towards books. My mother has a hobby of collecting books, manuscripts and over the years she had managed to gain a rather impressive collection of literary jewels including some extremely rare ones. Since I was young my family had instilled in me the habit of reading, and when I learned to read I became frequent visitor to her library, at first it was simply children books with pictures and what not.”, he stopped for a small breath as he accepted a glass of wine with a smile before he began again, ”One day I came across a rather worn out book with pictures and I learned from that.”

Frozen Ocean looked at him incredulously as she spoke, ”You mean that you learned about that creature from a children book.”

Ryuu scrunched his face as he spoke well I will not signify it as mere children book it was more like a book on mythical creatures that I had found, that creature was mentioned there, so horrifying was its poison that its breath tainted in the presence of the poison stored in its glands were strong enough to kill let alone the poison itself.”

Daniella's jaw dropped at that as she spoke, ”I thought that the creature was spraying the poison in some gaseous form, not simply breathing around and killing others with it.”

Ryuu shrugged at that as he spoke, ”May be you are right may be you are wrong who knows, I just shared that information that I had learned from the book.”

Amnon sighed at that as he spoke, ”Now we know why that expedition of our seniors fell apart all those years ago.”

Zywia bit her lips as she spoke, ”I also hope that was the reason who knows what might have happened after all we are told how Eden is unpredictable and how no one knows what might have caused that incident.”