290 The Outbreak of War 2 (1/2)
Chapter 290: The Outbreak of War 2
The deep swamp croc swayed its tail gently, dragged it's heavy body across the floor quietly, and quickly crawled out from an open window. Garen was dumbfounded by the fact that it did not make any noise.
He grabbed his necessities, and some things that might be of use, stuffed them into the leather bag he brought, then hid it under the bed. Then, he made his way out of the house.
On the path outside, Angel crouched beside the corpse of a unihorn lizard, attentively examining the abomination.
The lizard, who wasn't there when Garen entered the house, was obviously destroyed by her.
”What's up? What's it's strength like?” Garen went over and crouched beside her.
”Troublesome.” Angel said with a solemn expression. ”I initially thought it's a common, mutated creature. But in fact, it had totem light. If I didn't use accelerate, I’m not that sure if my panther could handle it. It should be at the level of an elite first form totem.”
”Be careful.” Garen patted her shoulder. He valued this companion who worked well with him.
He glanced at the trembling horse carriage on the other side. The three girls seemed like they wanted to come closer, but it was evident that they were a little afraid.
”Sir.” The elderly carriageman carefully walked over and stood in front of Garen with some hesitation. ”I guess both of you should be completing some form of mission? I'm wondering whether we could temporarily hire you to send us into the city. We can pay you some wages!”
”Wage? How much can you pay?” Garen muttered. He didn't think they could offer much. When totem users speak about money, usually tens of thousands of Rumbs. To a normal human, it would already be their lifetime savings.
”A hundred thousand!” The elderly carriageman blurted out a figure. ”A hundred thousand Rumbs!”
”Barely acceptable.” Garen nodded. ”Angel, send them into the city. Then meet me at the war guild.” He looked at a silver pocket-watch that he had just retrieved from his pocket. ”It is 1.15pm now, let's meet after lunch at 4pm. Okay?”
Angel nodded and said: ”No problem. A hundred thousand just for a trip is not a bad deal. Let's go ladies.” She shouted at the three girls as she mounted her black stallion.
”I got to check on how my friend is doing.” Garen casually mentioned. ”There might be a possibility….” he suddenly grinned.
At the attribute pane at the bottom of his vision, there was a sudden jolt in potential points.
The potential points spiked from 1222% to 1287%, then quickly spiked again to 1356%. The two consecutive spikes surprised Garen.
It was the deep swap croc! It suddenly came to his realization. He had just released the newly evolved croc to hunt the unihorn lizards. He did not expect the effects to take place so soon. Even more out of his expectation was that killing the unihorn lizards could lead to an increase in potential points.
From the figures, it was evident that the deep swamp croc was single handedly battling and defeating two unihorn lizards. That should be the reason for the two spikes.
After sending off Angel’s party, Garen stood silently on the path, looking at his yard. Inside, the deep swamp croc was silently crawling past the fence into the yard. It was holding one of the lizards in his jaw, obviously as a snack and parasite for itself.
Garen noticed that there was a fresh, bleeding wound on the forelimbs of the deep swamp croc, seemingly sustained during the clash. Garen shuddered.
The deep swamp croc as a second form totem, could actually be harmed by two first form unihorn lizards.
”Now it's only a first form totem. There would certainly be stronger creatures in the nest that have not revealed themselves. No wonder the Obscuro Society dared to go against the whole world. With powerful bioweapons like that, they wouldn't have to worry about military strength.
He pondered for a moment, suddenly felt something and he turned to look at the yard across his own.
The yard of his blonde female neighbour was peaceful, except the window curtains which were swaying slightly. It was clear that someone was spying on him.
Garen was about to leave when the door from the yard opposite the street flung open.
”Sir Garen!” The blonde neighbour yelled. Her haggard and deeply trouble expression showed that she was struck with terror. A big, strong, young man followed behind her. As they had similar looks, it seemed that they could be twins.
”Sir Garen, can you help sending us into the city?” His neighbour looked frightened. She looked at Garen pitifully.
Gahhhh!!
An array of unihorn lizard cries could be heard in the distance.
Garen looked at his pocket watch and frowned. ”It’s easy to enter the city. But since we’re neighbours, I want to warn you that the situation is very different now. The city might be worse off. If you are willing, stay in your own home. My baby is currently cleaning up the creatures in the vicinity. As the population here is small and sparse, it won’t draw the creature’s line of sight. Should be safe.”
At that instance, she let out an expression of hopelessness and doubt.
”What do we now? When can the Royal Alliance drive away the creatures!” She was like most of the population, placing all their hope on the Royal Alliance. They viewed the current situation as a one off, incidental, regional turmoil.
Garen shook his head.
”I’m not sure. You decide yourself.”
”Then we still want to enter the city.” The girl muttered after hesitating.
”I’ll give you both ten minutes. We will leave immediately after that.” Garen directly responded.