Chapter 529 The Stuff That Nightmares Are Made Of (1/2)

Chapter 529 The Stuff That Nightmares Are Made Of

About a mile and a half from the cave entrance, was Daniel

He had been following the traces left by the retreating group of monstrous warriors for several minutes now, and yet, he had only been able to cover about half a mile of the way To cause this delay were the various animals he encountered, which, contrary to how they had reacted to the , saw him as a prey they would not hesitate to attack

Even more problematic, were the several patrols that Daniel had encountered while following the trail, which he had no choice but to avoid by leaving the trail to hide in the shade of the standing stones At first Daniel had thought that these s for prey, so he would avoid confrontation by keeping to the shadows, and waiting for them to walk past him but as soon as these patrols would disappear behind the stones he had left behind, he would inevitably hear the faency Daniel was feeling prevented hi the tiainst But even if he wasn't sure, he could still uess In his mind no one but the painted warrior would have the skills to keep up with hiroups of warriors without rest, and the reason why he had thought of him and not of another person, was because of what he had seen in the man's hideout

The remains that Daniel had found in the second toere proof that the painted warrior hated these roup of them had taken the time to follow him all the way to his hideout, it was clear that the sentiment was mutual

Unfortunately, while Daniel would have liked to verify this theory either by checking the injuries of the members of the patrol, ti the trail which, after another half mile, turned from one of footprints, into one of blood ”It's still hu a lu sure that there were no bodies in his is, he hastened his pace

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After around ten round tunnels, Daniel finally found hiuarded by no less than a dozen monstrous warriors All armed to the teeth and ready to storuards was a small entrance, inside which the trail of blood left by one of his companions continued into the darkness

Daniel was not too confident about challenging such a large nu hiht in the toould have been wiser Unfortunately, the lack of a leader uards would calmly take him in and not kill him on the spot so he chose a different approach He climbed onto the connected rocks that covered the entrance of the cave, and whilesure not to project his shadohere these monsters could see it, he tried to find a second entrance

Whilelow, Daniel kept looking for a hidden entrance, but with no success It was only when the sky began to darken, two hours later, that Daniel saw a red light shi+ne through the crevice that separated two large rocks Through it, he could see shadoalk back and forth, and hear grunts alternated with the noises of choh flesh and bone in a barbaric manner The smell that came from this crevice was one of death and decay, one which Daniel had gotten used to a long tie was sealed off with relatively suess that this was once a natural entrance connected with the rest of the underground tunnels, and that had now been blocked off A path that hopefully, he could open once again

With a good enough entrance, Daniel began to pick these rocks, and place them where they wouldn't roll down the side of the cave One at a ti more than once to have the newly formed pile of rock fall from the side of the cave like the loudest avalanche ever, but after a few h for hih

The s enough tohis luck with theIt was the very source of this ser his coe, Daniel focused on breathing through his h the entrance he had just created legs first, landing a few ular and equally soft and solid surface

The way the ground moved under his feet sent a shi+ver down Daniel's spine,him wish that he could simply dash at full speed out of this rooht ca on outside hisbeyond his capabilities, as the moment he moved away froht shone through it, and illuminated the area around him

What appeared underneath hihtether into a puddle of semi-liquid substances, which reached froround al out fro out like dozens of little spears pointed at the ceiling Withon what hadn't been eaten

This sight, paired with the feeling of his feet slowly caving into what ree of a recently killed woman, made him want to puke It was only thanks to the effects of 'Time is Precious' that Daniel was able to stop his senses of touch, s his mortal mind, and allow hie of this mound of corpses