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

Left with no other choice, Daniel could only follow this trail into the stone forest Alone, and with only his clothes and three swords to weigh him down, he was hopeful to reach his companions before they could be used for whatever purpose they had been taken away for

As Daniel left the area, with the shade of the ters pointing ards, he noticed a shadow leap from the top of a tower's shade, to that of the stone that he had just passed by

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Meanwhile, around two roup of twenty monstrous warriors, identical to those Daniel had killed, were ht line ard This path, which they seemed to know by heart, led them deeper into the core of the stone forest, which they were trying to reach as fast as possible while carrying the tied up bodies of Dawn and the others

The ani of theseof their feet and the clanking of their arh to show that they were not prey If Daniel had been here, he would have i a leader, whom he had already killed in the watchtower, and that they had likely been ordered to bring the captors back, while him and the party of five followed the painted warrior into the tower

On top of the fourth warrior fro an unidentified aher while she was unconscious, had finally woken up

When she had seen these monsters approach the tower, she had told the others to hide into the stone forest as Cassie and her tried to stop thethe tower, and catch Daniel by surprise Unfortunately, even though she possessed a strength slightly above that of a e in numbers of these monsters was too es, she had been disarer and better equipped one of these monsters, she and the others would have been killed without a doubt

The last thing she reht offrom the stone forest where Saha, Lilith and Rose had run off to, while carrying their unconscious bodies on their shoulders

Now that she ake, Dawn had no intention of having theseto escape, she decided to pretend to still be out while quietly , as well as round inconspicuously Her blood When she touched her arht wound that one of these monstrous warriors had left on her, however, she noticed that the wound had already stopped bleeding

Confused, Dawn started to wonder how long it had been since she had lost consciousness, but instead of letting herself be distracted, she slaes of the ar her in a failed atteive up, Dawn kept trying until, a fewher ht, she saw a pointy part of his arht bloas enough to catch the attention of the monstrous warrior, who turned his lucid and beady eyes to the right to check whether Dawn had woken up However, after seeing no sign for several seconds, he turned to look back at the warrior he was following, and focused back onwas dripping flesh blood onto the back of his legs, and into the sandy ground he walked on

The large party ofminutes, until they reached a part of the stone forest where the towering rocks were all interconnected with one another, and while not too tall, they were close enough to turn the path more and more similar to a cave syste to look unconscious, while also trying to keep the cut open enough to keep bleeding She did so until finally, around half an hour later, the light that her eyes could perceive through her closed eyelids, went out completely When she opened them, she realized that they had entered a cave

Once inside the cave, the group of warriors suddenly stopped , and dropped Dawn and the others near one of the cave's walls, causing those ere still unconscious aroup, to wake up violently

”Wh-Ow! What is going on?” asked Lilith while rubbing the back of her head, where she felt a big and painful bump She was followed by Rose, Saha, and finally, Cassie, who just like Dawn, had woken up a fewto be unconscious

After noticing that these monsters did not appear to be bothered by the fact that her friends were awake and talking, Dawn opened her eyes and looked around She and the others were currently at the side of a relatively s with the party ofin a straight line while looking down on theht that this was the place where they would be killed, but as ti for soht when, from an entrance to this cave opposite to the one they had entered fro was just asbut a tattered loincloth, a mouth piece made out of the jaw of a predator animal, and carried his scrawny build on what appeared to be a staff decorated with a human skull on top

The other monsters seemed to revere this sort of shaman, and stepped back the moment he had appeared

The shaman, on the other hand, did not care for their existence, as shown by hoalked in front of thein with

Once in between the monsters and Daniel's coan to analyze the party's prize, finding great interest in them He smelled them, touched their pale skin with the end of his staff, and looked at thean to dance with joy A few seconds later he stopped, and walked back into the inner part of the cave while grunting some orders to the party of warriors, who iirls, and dragging them into the darkness of the inner cave