Chapter 323 - Skill UP (1/2)

During the last few days that Michael wasn't playing the game.

A couple of huge changes happened in the game, one of the notable ones is that Edyrem Alliance had successfully arrived in the capital after days of escaping and fighting from their pursuing enemies.

But the problem didn't end there, after all, their decision of escaping to the capital is practically walking inside the lion's den voluntarily, and now, they'd need to be on guard on two fronts, one is inside the city and the other is the uprising army led by the alliance of Blackskull, Illusionaire and Kunlun Guild.

While on the other hand, an undercut seems to have swept through throughout the continent as players had noticed that every kingdom and empire of every race seems to be preparing for war as they had started amassing weapons, food, and conscripting people into their army.

Being players that they are, they immediately smelled the scent of a huge quest, but until now no one had figured it out yet, even the famous information brokers from the black markets don't have a single to what is happening.

But even with that, the players' anticipation grew as no one is dumb enough not to realize that a war that involves the entire continent will happen soon.

Meanwhile.

”Surprisingly, the grey orcs actually stopped pursuing us the moment Shadow finally came back,” said Storm Moonlight while picking up some kindling to start a fire while looking at Shadow who's currently preparing for a meal before they start their journey, and in the background are their pets who are playing with each other.

”I wouldn't be surprised as this forest is truly perilous, and I've been following those Grey Orcs ever since and they suffered a lot of casualties because they always move in large numbers, making them an alluring preys to those large monsters,” Chakram said as he snapped his fingers, and a small fire appeared on his fingertip and used it to start the fire.

Of course, starting a fire inside this dangerous forest is practically asking for predators to come and eat them, but...the most unusual thing that happened so far ever since they stepped inside this forest called Snowy Forest is that they had never suffered any monster attacks, except from common monsters like goblins, kobolds, slimes, and whatnot, but those large monsters like trolls, werebears, golems, and the likes would instead just ignore them unless they were attacked first.

And instead, the ones who suffered the most are those Grey Orcs who would always happen to locate their location would be the ones who had suffered a lot instead.

And this unusual phenomenon made the members feel weird and warier at the same time as they don't know what is wrong with the forest.

But on the other hand, the only ones who probably don't have anything to do are Cereal Killer, Moniker, and Black Sparrow as all of them are just dozing off or doing their own thing, while Solitary Tempest and Storm Moonlight are helping Michael with the cooking preparation.

”Old man, what do you think about this forest? It's really unusual, isn't it?” said Cereal Killer towards the old looking man in assassin attires who is sitting just beside him while leaning on the same tree.

Black Sparrow looked at him with one eye with the other eye closed, and then he gave their surroundings a glance before replying to him.

”Well, the forest is very lush, the grasses are nice and it has a lot of good wild food even when there's a pile of snow around unlike in the real world”

Cereal Killer felt irked with his answer as a vein bulged out on his temple. After all, he wasn't asking if the forest has a lot of good wild food or whatnot.

”I'm not asking for that, I'm talking about the weirdness of this place. Every monster whose levels are way behind us doesn't seem to want to attack us and always avoids us except for those weak asses common monsters that we see every day like the group of goblins earlier, and we've been playing this game for a few months now, and I've never heard of this kind of phenomenon from any players, and since when have monsters been so kind not to attack humans, right?”

Chakram who is sitting on a branch above them suddenly opened his mouth.

”Of course it's weird, especially the weather. Back in the surroundings of the village, there's a blizzard once or twice every day, but here, the weather is like the last days of winter combined with spring, and you're not an assassin or a hunter, but ever since we entered this forest. I've always had this feeling that we're being watched. So my hunch is that a more powerful monster than those we have seen so far is either protecting us or…”

”Or what?” said Cereal Killer quickly as he really can't understand why this old man always makes his words sound like its a suspense or something even when it's not.

Chakram grinned with his eyes closed and said, ”Or...that monster already had dibs on us”

Cereal Killer shivered when he heard that, ”You make it sound like we're some kind of a menu in a restaurant”

”Aren't we? Take out those goblins, kobolds, slime, black wolves and the other monsters weaker than us, that makes us the weakest race in this forest full of bloodthirsty monsters who's eager for human flesh”