Chapter 1614 - There Are Sprites Here Too! (1/2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
After hearing Hao Ren’s murmur, Nangong Wuyue who was healing Rollie’s bruised arm was shocked. “Aside from us? In this godforsaken den of monsters?”
“That monster tried to sound the alarm but an energy field had disrupted it.” Hao Ren nodded. “Our senses may get muddled, but the MDT’s sensors and storage system won’t, it had determined that the energy was different from the tainted monsters.”
“Wait up, silence…” Nangong Sanba gestured for everyone to pipe down as he looked around watchfully. “I can feel it… just when we entered this place… there’s something around us!”.
This unnatural feeling was very pronounced that even Rollie sensed it. The catgirl got on all fours and held her hip high. Her tail stood as straight as a pole while her fur bristled. “Meeeeoooowwww!”
Just right after they had killed the brain monster, and had escaped from the danger of being discovered, now they found themselves being watched by an unknown being. Everyone was extremely twitchy now, but Vivian was the first and the quickest to calm down as she said with a low voice while a lightning orb formed in her palm, “Come out, we can sense you already. If you insist on such unclear intentions, then we can only treat you as a hostile.”
A few seconds after Vivian spoke, the tunnel was still silent, as Lily was losing her patience and was just about to open her mouth, a little ball of lightning suddenly appeared in the air around the team.
The ball of lightning was blue and white in color, with a tinge of black and red, it bounced twice in the air as it appeared and quickly formed into a tiny humanoid form.
It was a sprite clad in a short blue skirt with very big eyes.
Hao Ren and the sprite were both lost for words.
“It’s… a sprite!” The first to break the silence was Lily after all, and the werehusky immediately bounced up as she pointed in shock at the glowing light. “Why are there sprites here! Where did she come from!”
The little sprite hissed back, “This is Amantir! The sprites live in Amantir! Of course, there will be sprites on Amantir!”
The sprites of Amantir?! They actually exist here, and had actually survived until today?!
Hao Ren was overwhelmed by the sudden revelation and a series of questions and guesses started appearing in his mind, and at the same time, he also noticed some special features on the sprite before him. While she may look like the sprites on Naqdal or the core planet, there was a particularly glaring difference.
There was an ahoge on the tiny sprite’s head and that tuft of hair had a very obvious black-red tint to it, much like the tainted lands of the corrupted monsters.
And if Hao Ren was not wrong, this black-red tint is a sign of the Mad Lord’s taint, and that means.. that the sprite before him is actually corrupted?
But after seeing the tiny being glaring back at Lily with her arms forked against her waist, angry but yet too scared to hit back, Hao Ren felt that if the Mad Lord minions included these sprites, their entire combat prowess average would’ve been dragged through the mud…
“Alright, alright, calm down you two,” Vivian too had noticed the black-red ahoge on the little sprite’s head, but she did not seem to react to it, and got in between the tiny tot and Lily, “A sprite.. right? Are you the survivors of Amantir? And did you help us just now?”
“What else can I be if I’m not a sprite?” The little one declared proudly, “You are all dum-dums, just a few of you and you actually dare to run about here. If I didn’t help you’d been attacked by maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaany (she purposely dragged it out) monsters and die! Hurry up and thank me!”
“So that was you?” Hao Ren was surprised, and his initial caution against that black-red ahoge was reduced, “So that means you are against the tainted army?”
“The sprites will of course fight against those monsters!” The tiny one said with her arms on her waist again, her cowlick sprung up as if provoked. “If not for this sprite, you would’ve been discovered a long time ago!”
Hao Ren and Vivian exchanged glances before the latter turned towards the tiny sprite, “How many sprites are there? There’re still surviving sprite sanctuaries on Amantir?”
The little sprite pondered for a bit, “This sprite still has many friends, our sanctuary… Wait up, why must I tell you these? You haven’t told me who you are! What if you are the baddies?”
This was not the first time Hao Ren encountered once of them and had by now gotten a grasp on how their thought process work and simply said, “Will a baddie fight tooth and nail against the monsters? We have been wreaking havoc all the way here so we must be the good guys.”
The little one nodded immediately, “Oh, you’re right. Those who fight the monsters must be good guys…”