Chapter 1278 - : Monsters (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Monsters?

Lily had not forgotten that monster, which she caught just a few days after she entered the Black Forest. The monster could leech the victim’s spiritual world, relying on the manipulation of dreams and illusions to confuse the victim. It looked like a smoky lump of black meat. Calaxus named it the Shadow of Nightmares, but Lily liked to call it a piece of smoked meat. Anyway, it was still a nasty and stubborn thing. If Lily had not wanted to show it off to her landlord, she would have torn it into pieces and fed it to the wolves.

The monster had a dangerous and robust ability; its parasitic ability was almost insuperable to those who were weak-willed. Lily had placed it under heavy monitoring. Bear monsters, who did not dream, were guarding the smoke monster to ensure the monster was locked up with the Jailor’s Stones 24/7, and prohibit ordinary soldiers from coming near the cage especially when they were unwell. Three teams must be present if they were to check the monster. The first team would approach the pen, the second team would keep an eye on the first team from a distance, while the third team, armed, would monitor the first and the second teams from even farther away. If the situation went wrong, a shoot-to-kill policy would be activated. This rigorous monitoring process had rendered the monster powerless and caged up safely.

But it looks like there was a situation this time.

Lily got to her feet. “What’s wrong?”

Duke Ulysses became nervous. He had already known the origin of the Beast Tide, the Sanctum investigation team among the beasts, and the captured Shadows of Nightmares from the storm of Chaos. Like an ordinary people of Collow, Ulysses was cautious of anything from the Chaos. If he could beat the alpha, he would not have agreed to hold that thing in the dungeon below his castle.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

‘Don’t worry. It did not escape,” Calaxus said with a confused face. “It looks a little weak.”

“Weak?” Lily was stunned. “It was full of beans all this while. How did it become weak suddenly?”

“Probably it was because of the light,” the high-ranking monk replied. “The light has powerful energy. It seems to be a divine power of Order. I have no idea what has caused the miracle, but it has affected the Chaos.”

Lily blinked when she felt that what the adviser said made sense. So she banged the table with her hand and said, “Let’s go and check it out.”

Duke Ulysses quickly dug out his 157-year silver glass from under Lily’s hand, only to find that it had become a biscuit.

Calaxus nodded. But before the alpha left, he said, “Alpha, there is something else that I want to tell you.”

Lily turned to look at him. “I’m listening.”

“My men and I would leave after some time,” the high-ranking monk said calmly.

“Leave?” Lily was startled. “Is this food here no good?”

The high-ranking monk choked. The alpha was fine except that her quirky reply always caught him off guard. “No, it’s not about the food. We have a mission in Ansu to carry out a job the pope has entrusted us. And when we joined the team, we have agreed that when we arrive in the Kingdoms of Order, the investigation team would have to act freely.”

While speaking, the high-ranking monk looked a little wacky. “We paid money when we entered the team,” Calaxus reminded.

In other words, the monk meant that the Sanctum investigation team had paid for their meals in the Beast Tide; they were not slaves.

Lily then came to her realization. She scratched her chin and said, “Oh, ya. Well, you can’t stop you from leaving. I will start to look for my landlord here in Taros soon. I wouldn’t be able to take care of you guys by then. So, when are you going to leave?”

“No hurry,” Calaxus replied, waving his hand. “I am just informing you beforehand. Our investigation team still need to travel halfway across the kingdom before reaching our destination. We will stick together for a while.”

For now, the Shadows of Nightmares was held up in the dungeon of Fort Raven.

This border fortress was a bridgehead against Chaos’ invasion. During peacetime, Fort Raven and its surrounding wilderness and forests were the territories of the kingdom. Villages and towns of various sizes were scattered around the fortress. At that time, the Fort Raven was the de facto capital for the territory it controlled. Its dungeons were mostly used to detain criminals in the area, but after the outbreak of the war, the population of the territory had moved inward to the kingdom, and the role of the political and economic center had shifted from Fort Raven to another city inland. The dungeons of the fortress became empty, and would only house soldiers who violated the military discipline. But the Blackblade Legion and the Raven Guards were highly disciplined and well trained, there were rarely any disciplinary misconducts. So during a decade of the tide of Chaos, the entire dungeon was empty.