Chapter 9 Wishful Thinking (1/2)

Chapter 9 Wishful Thinking

There was a proble to follow the road up to theas far away froht came However, the road was nothe last months, or maybe even just yesterday, a terrible rockfall occurred, obliterating whole seg its other parts untraversable Sunny stood on the precipice of a vast chas doith no particular expression on his face

"What do we do now?"

Scholar's voice was ed fur cloak His follower, shi+fty, angrily looked around His gaze stopped at Sunny — a suitable victim to vent his frustration

"I'll tell you e need to do! Get rid of soht!"

He eyed Sunny's fine boots and turned to Hero:

"Listen, your lordshi+p The boy is too weak He is slowing us down! Plus, he's weird Doesn't he give you the creeps?"

The young soldier answered with a judgemental frown, but shi+fty wasn't done

ReadNovelFull at me! I swear to Gods, ever since he joined the caravan, nothing had gone right Maybe the old ht: the boy is cursed by the Shadow God!"

Sunny struggled to not roll his eyes It was true that he was unlucky: however, the whole truth was opposite to what shi+fty was trying to insinuate It was not that he had attracted misfortune to the slave caravan; on the contrary, it was because the caravan was dooin with that he had ended up here

Scholar cleared his throat:

"But I've never said that…"

"Whatever! Shouldn't we get rid of hier anyway!"

Scholar gave Sunny a strange look Perhaps Sunny was getting paranoid, but there see coldness in the older slave's eyes Finally, Scholar shook his head

"Don't be too hasty, ht prove useful later on"

"But…"

Hero finally spoke, putting an end to their quarrel

"We're not going to leave anyone behind As for how er he'll be able to endure — just worry about yourself"

shi+fty clenched his teeth, but then just waved a hand

"Fine So what do we do then?"

The four of them looked at the broken road, then down the slope of the mountain, and finally up, where a sheer cliff as broken apart by the falling rocks After a bit of silence, Scholar finally spoke:

"Actually, in the old days, there used to be a path leading to the peak of the rims Later, the Empire had widened parts of the path and built a proper road on top of it — now leading to the mountain pass instead of the peak, of course"

He looked up