Chapter 304: The Druids Fear (1/2)

From the mountains to the forests, and from the forests he followed Jinx into the swamps.

In the end, he was brought to a gorge that looked like a giant crack on the surface of the planet.

Ozul looked from the edge but he just could not find the end to this seemingly never-ending crack. He had slowly followed behind Jinx for a couple of months already and arrived at this mysterious canyon.

It almost came as a surprise when he arrived here since this gorge was exactly a part of the four great canyons which separated the continent into four parts. These enormous fissures were a mystery on their own.

They were not any less or even more dangerous than the Old Whispering Woods since even the Rank-8 Mages would choose to fly above them instead of venturing through them.

No one wanted to take the risk of stepping into these canyons.

There was just this eerie feeling that seeped out from their depths and shook everyone's hearts.

Only Rank-9 Mages dared to enter the depths, but there were even rumors of a few Rank-9 Mages not making it out alive from these canyons in the past.

However, Ozul didn't have any of that in his mind. All he wanted was to see the Druid once more and be done with it.

He had never been so bored in his life since he had to obediently walk behind Jinx for so many months continuously! The worst part was that Jinx chose to walk at her own pace! Sometimes she was slow, but other times she would run so fast that on the continent, maybe only he would have been able to match her speed. But only if he didn't count Old Gu.

Now that he was here, Jinx stopped at the edge and didn't have any intentions to continue on leading Ozul.

He directly jumped into the gorge without caring about what he would meet at the bottom.

It only took a split second for his eyes to adjust to the dark as he landed on the ground.

*Splash!*

”Hm?”

It turned out the bottom of the gorge was not as dry as he had assumed. There was actually a shallow stream of water in the middle that only came as high as a human's lower thighs.

The gorge was surprisingly open at the bottom, so the land at the edges was still relatively dried out.

Ozul walked out of the stream and followed the gorge against the flow of the water. It was because the area visibly turned darker in that direction that he decided to move in the direction.

Turning around, he noticed that Jinx was still following behind.

”You better not disappear,” Ozul spoke softly and continued to walk in that direction.

He didn't sense any powerful Beasts but that didn't last long as he suddenly began to hear the crawlings of hundreds of them at the same time.

It was as if they were all resting and the sound of him landing on the ground from that height had woken up, the tide of Beasts came rushing in his direction from all sides.

Hundreds of Beasts were all screeching and madly rushing towards a single man.

Though Ozul only shook his head since even the strongest of them were only Rank-8 Beasts. And even those were very few.

.. .

A few hours later, a man could be seen slowly walking by a stream with many splashes of red stains on his clothes followed by a cat.

If one looked behind him, they would be utterly speechless at the gory scene that would meet them. Uncountable mutilated corpses of different types of Beasts lay there either writhing in pain or already dead because of the carnage they had to face just now.

All of these Beasts had attacked Ozul without a single thought and were crushed within split seconds.

They would only notice the massacre of many other Beasts like them after it was too late.

The Rank-8 Mages were almost as smart as humans, but in fear of getting their prey snatched by others, they didn't have the time to think twice about their actions. Now all of them lay beside the stream, dyeing the water red with their blood.

With a better grasp over the properties of the Ball of Purity, Ozul barely put an effort into performing this feat. If it was him before getting his arm back, maybe he would have at least expended a bit of his energy for shredding the Beasts into such tiny pieces.

Just at this moment, Ozul felt a familiar feeling pass through him.

He immediately dashed forward recognizing the chillness in the air with just the Druid's presence.

”...S-so...”