Chapter 528 Following a Trail of Blood (1/2)

Chapter 528 Following a Trail of Blood

Exhausted and injured, Daniel rested on the stone floor in order to allow his body to recover his strength, and heal from his internal and external injuries as fast as possible Unfortunately, the natural healing he was left with only allowed his body to recover from tiredness if he rested, as contrary to cultivators, who only needed essence to restore their physical strength, a -if not for that obstacle, Daniel would have already left to check up on Dawn and the others

Nevertheless, while thehad limitations, Daniel's syste the blood that had been flowing out of his wounds o to clot, and almost turn into scabs in just a couple ofand heartbeat had stabilized, almost as if he had rested for several hours

Daniel knew that, if healed without the use of healing essence, these wounds would leave permanent scars on his body which would reained his powers but unfortunately, he had no alternatives He needed to recover as quickly as possible, as he and his coer dangers than a few large animals, and he was unsure whether they were fine

After about ten minutes of rest Daniel rose to his feet, still sore but overall healthy, and began to rus of the six warriors he had just defeated A search that turned out to be as disturbing as it was unprofitable

What Daniel discovered about these monsters was that their armor was not siht chainit impossible to re tio, and the skin had cicatrized around the entry and exit holes He also noticed that the black and smelly blood that ca been in contact with the warm and dry air of this desert for several minutes, had maintained its near liquid state it had when it had been spilled

Unable to asses the origin of these beings fros, Daniel recalled the room filled with thousands of skulls and severed heads similar to the ones of the monstrous warriors he had killed, and realized that this party had likely followed the painted warrior back into his hideout, where, if not for his intervention, they would have either killed him, or more likely, he would have killed them just like he had the thousands that came before them

It was possible that the painted warrior had mistaken Daniel for one of these monsters' allies, and that when he found hiht as the party ofhand when Daniel and the ed in battle Or at least, that hat Daniel was thinking If his guess was right, the painted warrior's perception of Daniel should have changed from ene the fight, or during the time Daniel had taken to rest afterwards

If Daniel had to pick whom to question about the place he and his companions had found themselves in, he would have picked the painted warrior ninety-nine times out of a hundred But, alas, since he was still unsure about the status of his companions, and could not afford to wait for the painted warrior to grow corabbed the steel sword of the tea thes of his leather belt, he left the room from the door that led to the staircase

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Once out of the tower, Daniel immediately noticed a few traces of battle With a few drops of huround, hundreds of footprints of different shapes, and the sword that Daniel had created for Dawn froe animal, broken near the entrance, he was able to paint a clearer picture of what had happened

The painted warrior lived in this tohich he would use as either a base, or a trap for hunting the ht with When out for one of his hunting trips, Daniel and the others discovered the first sign of civilization ever since arriving on this planet And that was his tohich Daniel decided to explore to look for clues

When the painted warrior returned, followed by a team of enemies, he had likely spotted Dawn and the others near his base However, just from the traces he had seen, Daniel could not ht with the painted warrior and soht with the painted warrior, and despite being able to is, he knew that he wouldn't have had a probleroup at once

The only alternative was that either one of the ters had a hidden entrance that the painted warrior had used to sneak into the tohich would explain the presence of a trap at the main entrance

To reassure Daniel, was the fact that the six ht, while not friendly in any way, before being provoked by the painted warrior into attacking Daniel, were still able toDaniel, the leader of the six warriors had co attacked right away, and that meant that maybe, if Dawn and the others had encountered these ht have been taken alive somewhere

This theory was far fetched, as there was a possibility Daniel's was a special case, and yet, it was proven to be so a little s, Daniel noticed several sets of footprints that dug deeper into the sandy ground, as if those who had created theht These sets of footprints headed far west from the tower, and deeper into the stone forest

Hidden in between footprints, was the occasional drop of human blood, left by the same person that had been injured in front of the tower