135 Endless trouble. (1/2)

In the meantime, the vines did not stop their attack. Ozul had yet to see their endpoint as well. He wondered just how long were they, or were they growing? He was clueless, but he didn't care about that at this time.

He was more curious about what the Mana was used for. He had already figured out that those monster plants absorbed the Mana from the victims while the vines brought them here. However, what about the compressed Mana?

To find the answer, he had to walk even more. At this time, Ozul was honestly getting quite bored of this. So he sped his pace to get over with it and return to the group quickly.

Without wasting any more time, he cut away all the vines that approached him and ran forward. It didn't take him long to arrive at a dead end.

He stood before a wall made up of trees and bushes, and it did not seem natural because of how straight it was. The giant roots also passed through it.

But the most significant change was of the vines. They did not attack Ozul anymore! All of a sudden, they just retracted and stopped attacking him, seemingly losing interest in him.

He could finally give rest to his divided attention to keep the blades spinning around him. He stood still and tried to sense everything on the other side before rashly rushing in.

Although there were many strange things on the other side, he sensed something very familiar. The mercenary group, including Raven and Blaze, were all on the other side!

And the situation did not look any favorable either since it seemed that Magical Beasts surrounded them on the other side.

*Sigh*

”How long has it even been?! And here we are again...” Ozul sighed. Although he was not sure how much time had passed because before he started forcing his way here, he had been sleeping.

Unknown to him, it had already been two days before he had separated from the group. Just that most of this time was spent while he slept. If it weren't for the teeth of the plant monster trying to stab him, he wouldn't have noticed anything!

As mentioned before, Ozul did not really sleep when he closed his eyes. He was just too lost in the nothingness that he did not bother to wake up until something different happened around him.

He did not notice anything that could potentially harm him if he cut straight through the wall. And there weren't any specific areas where he could go from either, so Ozul advanced by butchering his way through.

The wall made out of vines turned out to be a meter thick! However, Ozul had no difficulty in creating his path to the other side.

*whish*

Some twigs and branches fell down from the wall as the metallic hand pushed them away.

As Ozul appeared from behind the bushes, everyone looked gaping at the scene. They had yet to make a complete understanding of their own situation, and things kept piling up.

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A few hours earlier, they were on their daily routine, advancing without anything to worry about other than the fog.

Some of the mercenaries were also not as tense as before because it had been a while since anything dangerous happened to them. But most of all, Ozul had suddenly left the group, which also made some of them sigh in relief.

All of them weren't exactly comfortable traveling with him after they had seen his strangeness.

While this was the thoughts of the majority in the group, some of them had different opinions.

Those who had other opinions included Clive and Clara. In contrast, Raven and Blaze need to be mentioned. Both of them already looked like some wooden dolls that only had a little life in them. Their interaction almost looked robotic by the others.

However, it was just that they did not have anything to talk with anybody. Their only purpose was to keep doing what they were, so it couldn't be helped that they seemed like some robotic golems who were assigned a specific task.

After Raven had killed Brud, their relation with the other mercenaries had only worsened. Barry tried his best to avoid the duo. Although he had said those things to Brud, he was still like a brother to him, so he was raging inside. Barry tried to keep this to himself since he knew it was not the right place or time to get revenge.

He was afraid that he would lose control if he had any confrontation with the duo. It wasn't that Raven and Blaze hadn't noticed this. They just ignored it since this was the attitude they had learned from Ozul.

Anyway, they were going about their usual routine together with the other mercenaries in the fog. It was then when suddenly a man shouted, ”Everyone stop!”