Chapter 554: A Desperate King (1/2)

It took Bob a while to reach Lycantopia. Thankfully, it was wee morning when he arrived and the sun was still not up. He quickly transformed into a small animal and snuck into the poorly defended city.

Lycantopia was nothing like the Eternal Dragon imagined it to be. If the U.N.U. was a picture of the dystopia, Lycantopia was a land infested with poverty. The people looked unhappy, sickly and positively starved. He never thought that he'd see another country with so many starving citizens after the incident with Rocket Mountains but here he was, looking at grim faces and bony were beasts lying everywhere.

Locating Jermine was difficult. There were simply so many people around and Bob couldn't use his sense of smell to find the girl. He couldn't transform into his human hybrid body because the beast folks didn't look welcoming to outsiders. In fact, there was a strange lack of cohesiveness as a community.

”Master, I've finally reached Lycantopia. It's a strange place.”

Zero who had been meditating all night jolted when he received Bob's message.

”How are Jermine and Monoman? Are they safe? What's the situation like?”

Bob apologised. He hasn't managed to locate them and was having difficulty doing so. When Zero learned about the strange situation in Lycantopia, he asked Wii and Mii to assist Bob so that he could reduce the search time. King Sharo had yet to reply and give Zero permission to see the womanising spriggan and Zero was waiting for news on either side to make his next move.

Within an hour after the mindscape sisters' help, Bob found where Monoman and Jermine were. They weren't living near the city of Lycantopia. Instead, they were hidden in a more derelict land by the city borders. The land was dead and barren, nothing grew there and Bob panicked for a while when he didn't see anyone at the location Mii told him Jermine would be at.

The Eternal Dragon was busy reporting his findings to Mii when two large hands crept up from behind his tiny lizard form and captured him. Bob struggled to free himself and was about to blast the kidnapper with magic when he heard the familiar voice.

”I caught some food!”

Bob ceased his struggling and decided to turn back into his more familiar human hybrid form.

”Who are you calling food?! Zero sent me here to check on you after receiving your message and this is how you repay me?”

Monoman was startled when what he thought was a crummy lizard turned into a familiar brat. ”That was fast,” the warrior admitted. ”I thought we'd have to put up with being stuck here for at least a few weeks before someone arrived.”

Bob had to admit, given the current conditions, he didn't know if they could survive a few more weeks, much less one.