Chapter 285 - The Forbidden Zone (1/2)

The quiet sounds of slow and heavy pants flowed through the cold chilly air, quickly leaving behind a small trail of moist snow in the process.

Footsteps resounded on the dense and thick snow which melted by the second from his presence.

A cold, spine-chilling howl could be heard as the full moon shone upon the snow-glazed trees. It was both dark and light at the same time.

And as the darkness illuminated his back, for the first time since they began walking, he stopped.

Confused, as to why and worried that she might have done something by accident, the girl nervously took a step back. And right after she did so, a loud growl could be heard coming from his stomach.

*Growl~*

Following that, he turned to the right with his dark wooden staff on his hand and stared at the dense trees beside them.

The girl let out a slow sign of relief before quickly stiffening up as a loud monstrous roar along with wolf howl's came from around them

The roar was so loud that it caused the surrounding trees to shake with haste as if fear was being forced into them.

The girl felt a chill go down her spine as she seemed to recognise the roar. Dread slowly began to build up as she hesitantly turned her head to the right. The direction where the roar came from.

Right as she did so, trembles could be felt in the ground as a cold sweat flowed down her face. Something was coming, and it was big.

Trees were being broken down as the howl of wolves resounded once more throughout the forest.

'I didn't see any warning so how...? How did we end up on the forbidden zone?'

The forest they were in was a rather vast forest, it was split into zones. The safe zone, the marked zone and the forbidden zone.

Adventurers along with carriages would usually pass through the forest, during their travels as it was much faster to go through it than around.

The forest was also situated quite closely to one of the major cities of the nearest kingdom, making it rather common travel point for merchants.

At least two hours had passed since they had started walking, yet during that time, not a single carriage could be seen.

”...We've stepped into their territory... We need to get out of..”

Completely ignoring her, without a single change in the young man's expression. He began heading in the direction where the trees were being taken down.

She didn't know what to think, after all, there's no way he couldn't feel it. Just how dangerous that thing was.