Chapter 566 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

In the early afternoon, continuous whinnies of exhausted horses suddenly came from the running caravan group. Then, at least a dozen horses slowed down, and those people were left behind by the large group.

They were relatively poor in that group. They were not riding special horses with bloodlines of demon beasts which could run thousands of miles. They were riding fine-quality horses like ordinary adventurers.

Fine horses were of course good. Common inferior horses couldn’t compete with them. However, since the night, they had been running. Although they were fine horses, they were still exhausted.

The knights’ horses were equally exhausted. Looking at the caravan group that was running further, they stayed silent for a long time. Then, they stopped and sighed.

“No Solution,” a powerful person in this team said. “We probably can only escape here.”

“What should we do next?” another person asked. “Where are we going?”

“Is there a big difference?” the person who had previously spoken said with anger. “In the face of a true god, it is the same wherever you flee to.”

“Maybe it would be better to escape to a temple,” another person said. “Let’s find a temple.”

“Even the priests of temples are running with us. Do you think they are more stupid than you?” the powerful guy said. He found a relatively flat grassland and laid down. “I figured it out. I’ll just lie here. If His Majesty wants to kill me, I’ll die no matter where I am. At least let me rest before I die.”

Seeing him, most of them also found a place to sit or lay down.

After running for half a night and half a day, they understood that such an escape was meaningless. When they were originally running away, they had a kind of herd mentality. In other words, they had the selfish idea that “I can’t be faster than a tiger, so I’ll just run faster than my companions.” Now they calmed down and naturally figured it all out.

Such an idea was nothing more than an illusion. Recalling the scene when the Void Mask caught people today, they found there were no rules at all. He didn’t catch people according to their speed, personal status, and strength. No one knew what the jellyfish god was thinking.

Maybe, he just caught people at random.

After figuring it out, the power that had supported them to escape naturally disappeared.

Since it was the same whether they escaped or not, why should they bother to escape?

“I am stupid, really!” a relatively old person said, sighing. “It is at least a little more comfortable to lie at home peacefully and wait to die. In that case, I would still be lying in a soft bed, full of food. Well, I was not willing to drink the bottle of good wine stored in the cupboard. I should have drunk it.”

His words resonated with those people. For a time, they were angry about their stupidity. Anger was useless, but they were still angry.

At this moment, one of the people was suddenly entangled in tentacles that appeared out of thin air. That guy cried out in alarm and then disappeared without a trace. After a while, the tentacles reappeared and threw his dead body back. His head was separated from his body with blood squirting.

Those people looked at each other. Someone shouted, “Run.”

So they immediately stood up, climbed on the horses and ran wildly again.

This time, they only ran for a short time. Those fine horses didn’t rest well, so their temperatures were almost as high as having a fever. They foamed at the mouth and couldn’t run anymore.

During this time, the tentacles appeared again and took away another person. No one saw his body, but they knew that he was definitely dead.

“My horse can’t run. What should I do?”

“The horses can’t run, but we can still run!”

“But is it meaningful to run like this?”

There was no answer to this question. No one could answer it.

In fact, it was still meaningful. Even if they could be a little farther away from the horrible jellyfish god, they could make themselves feel a little better.

Although it was just an illusion and although the short distance was useless, people would also firmly grasp the last straw when they were going to drown.

After running hard for a while, someone finally couldn’t help but shout, “I don’t want to be killed by a jellyfish!”

After shouting, he pulled out a knife and cut his neck. Suddenly, blood spewed, and his body fell down softly.