Chapter 1246 - Shadows In the Forest (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Before the alpha raked them in, the imps were a subtype of the abhumans living in the swamp. Roughly the same size as a human child, they were covered in dark-red rumpled skin and had a lizard face. The imps were notorious for their cruelty and violence. Scholars believed that the demon subtype was not actually a demon, but rather a distorted image formed by the infested beasts during the previous tide of Chaos. Others thought that imps were goblins that spun into a separate branch after they got infected by dark magic. But in either case, the world had a common understanding of the imps: those terrible little things were brutal and fearless. They would only submit to absolute power, and many of the imps were funny, but they could not hide their dark nature.

Imps were fearless.

However, such fearless little demons were now screaming and running out of the woods. The two imps were covered in blood as they stumbled back to the camp as if a terrifying enemy was chasing them from behind.

When Lily heard the noise, she immediately rushed over. The two imps were part of a ten-member team of scouts that she had sent to scout out the forest. Judging from the situation, the other eight had probably died.

“What happened?” Lily stood before the two imps.

The two imps shivered, probably feeling the energy of the alpha, or shocked by the Light of Order in Lily’s body and calmed down. They shrilled, using a harsh language that sounded like the tearing of metal. “The other guys are all dead! They are all dead!”

“There was a black thing coming out of the woods!”

“It was not afraid of fire, not afraid of smoke!”

“It went straight through us and drilled into our brains!”

“And they all died!”

“We still saw many other terrible things!”

Imps were a higher-intellect race among the abhumans, which was why Lily had sent them to explore the route ahead. These guys could at least describe what they saw clearer than the bear monsters could. But after hearing the reports of two imps, Lily could not help but blink. “What the hell are you talking about?”

At this time, Calaxus had come up from behind. The high-ranking monk had a pretty good knowledge of the abhumans, and therefore he could understand some of the words of the imps. “Was it the Servants of Chaos?” he frowned.

Lily’s ears flickered. “What is that? The Chaos? It’s that powerful?”

Calaxus rolled his eyes. Had he not been a cultured person with 40 years of experience as a bishop, his eyes would have rolled to the top of his skull. The high-ranking monk sighed, “You are born not to be afraid of the Chaos, but that thing is an absolute disaster for us the mortals. Then again, Alpha, do you know what is going on the mainland?”

“I have no idea,” Lily said with her arms akimbo and a happy face. She did not know why she was happy, but she just felt happy. “I woke up and found myself on the island. How the hell am I supposed to know that has happened?”

Calaxus kept sighing but did not know what to say more.

He revered the Light of Order in the alpha, but he could not see eye to eye with the alpha on her worldview and attitude towards the Chaos, especially the latter. Probably the alpha was born with the powerful energy of the Order; the Chaos, which seemed to refrain from attacking her, could not even come close within a few hundred meters of her. But this ability had led to an interesting side effect:

The dreaded Chaos that the people of Collow were so afraid of became something that the alpha was not able to even touch with her hand—because it had never come close to her.

After the debriefing, Lily had determined that the two hapless imps had run into the monsters in the Chaos.

“As expected, the Chaos was after us,” said Calaxus. “I am surprised that a new wave of chaos comes in the seventh year of the tide of Chaos. The dark side of the Sea of Carnos is swelling from below the world, a new round of storms is landing in southern Ansu. We must have bumped into this early wave. I think the main storm has not yet arrived but will in about three days. But even then, the prelude is dangerous.”