Chapter 135: The Chase (1/2)

”Wait what!? What are you talking about, calm down.”

Having finally realized what was going on, Dohel promptly tried to understand what Kylyra was talking about. Noticing her panicked expression he hastily tried to calm her down so she could explain better what she meant.

”Green... Green... Glowing green eyes... There's a Green-eyed devil, we need to run...”

”A devil... Here? How come? is it some kind of spirit?”

Tyler stood in place in utter confusion as he could not follow the current events that unfolded before his eyes. The baffling turn of events had made his struggle with negative corruption seem like it hadn't even happened. Still, while he could not fully comprehend what was going on, there was one word in Kylyra's broken sentences that stumped him.

'Devil? What the hell is that.'

While he could vaguely recall the word being spoken to him sometime in the past, he could not remember what it was no matter how hard he tried. To be honest, he had originally thought of devil's to mean lesser demons, having fought against creatures that would perfectly fit the description in the past.

Based on his memories of that time, those red-skinned horned creatures were the minions of either one of the demon generals or the demon king himself. However, those purely evil creatures were incredibly weak creatures ranging from the Tier 1 standard to the Basic level of Tier 2 although at the time even the weakest of them could probably kill him if he were to be foolish enough to fight them by himself.

With Kylyra's level of strength, however, Tyler could not understand why she would be so shaken from encountering a single devil.

”Kylyra calm down and explain what happened. Did you really see a green-eyed devil? Anne, please use Brave Heart on her for now.”

”Okay.”

While Tyler had already used the spell Placate on her, it didn't seem as effective in this aspect as the root of her emotional fluctuations hadn't been addressed.

”Alright, now calmly tell us what happened, we should be fine here for now.”

Having found her wits thanks to Anne's spell, Kylyra took a deep breath and slowly surveyed her surroundings. They were currently in an empty expanse of the tunnel that connected to various other sections of the labyrinth that was the Grade 3 Gold mine with no signs of the monsters that had been chasing after them earlier on.

It took the group until this moment to also realize that they were still alive even after coming face to face against more than a hundred Intermediate class flying monsters. Turning their heads around, they were unable to even locate a single body of the monster and the stale air in the mine made it impossible to pick up on any scent.

”Wait, what happened here.”

”Mr. Lix, please what happened to the monsters, did you kill them?”

The one to address Tyler was Aine and the others also turned an expectant gaze towards the still hooded figure of Tyler knowing full well that he was the most likely person to have saved them from the hundreds of Night Terrors.

However, while Aine and Anne's gazes only shone with expectation and awe, Tyler could see something else in the eyes of both Larut and Dohel. Hell, even the shaken Kylyra had something similar in her eyes.

'What was it? Ahh yes...' It was something similar to apprehension, almost bordering on the verge of fear and even a hint of confusion. Tyler first didn't understand why this was the case but as he thought about it a little, he soon realize their reasoning when he related what he had done to the common knowledge of this world, or at least the ones he was aware of.

There had been almost two hundred Night Terrors at the time and although they were only Intermediate class monsters, no one person could deal with them alone, including the so-called Quantium ranked Hunters that were supposedly amongst the strongest being in the world, making his feet something that they couldn't understand.

Someone capable of that would not settle for just being a VIP merchant which would make him very suspicious. Tyler didn't want any negative attention towards his new identity and felt like his anger had once again put him in trouble. However, he was sure none of these five had actually witnessed him fight the beasts so perhaps there was still a way out of this.

Tyler then cocked his head and answered Aine in as casual a tone as he could muster. ”Right, I suppose you all can't remember what happened after being influenced by the monster's fear inducement ability.”

All five of them nodded their heads at his question that sounded more like a statement at their lack of resistance to the abilities of monsters although they comforted themselves in the fact that there had been too many monsters using the skill at once and it was impossible for anyone at their level to out up any resistance at the time.

”Right, There had been too many monsters to fight off even with magic but It seems the monsters had a weakness to white noise. Basically, they were unable to tolerate multiple frequency sound-based attacks and fled.”

”Really.”

”Although I don't fully understand what you mean. I've read about something like that in the information we bought, I just never thought there was a spell that could do that, much less affect so many of them at the same time. That's impressive.”

Tyler secretly breathes a sigh of relief at Larut's words. With his acknowledgment, the group easily bought into his bullshit explanation. He wasn't even sure there would be a spell that could create enough white noise to drive away so many Night Terrors. He wasn't even sure something like that would work on those monsters and had only said that because they were bat-based creatures.

Without giving the group anytime to think further into it, he quickly brought their attention back to what Kylyra had been talking about.

”, So, where did you see this green-eyed devil. Were you guys ambushed?”

His question brought their attention back to Kylyra who had finally settled down after realizing they had not been chased by the devil and it had only been the horde of Night Terrors who had also already been chased away by Lix.

She then took a breath and opened her mouth to explain what she had seen as Tyler gently lowered his voice as he spoke to Nadine— who was standing beside him— what she had seen as she didn't seem to be shaken by the so-called green-eyed devil that Kylyra was going on about.

Even if she did not know what a devil was, she had magic sense and should be able to approximately tell the strength of her opponent.

”Did you also see this green-eyed devil?”