Chapter 526: Black Region (2/2)
”If you are so slow, I am leaving you behind, Silver,” Leon stated before he took off into the distance with the Tier 4 Bone Spear in his hand, sweeping away rats after rats in his path.
He flew low while his divine sense expanded to its maximum range to sweep the area.
”Awrooo!” The three-tailed silver wolf howled in response like it was accepting a challenge before chasing after Leon, stepping on numerous rats, and crushing them underneath its feet to death with its weight.
The plains were littered with Wingrats everywhere.
The living rats feasted on the flesh and blood of their dead brethren, but after picking up Leon and Silver's scent, they immediately joined the other rats, who already made their move ahead of them.
Nevertheless, these rats posed no problem.
Leon and Silver bulldozed their way through the rat tide and continued on their journey through the plains.
From time to time, Leon would increase his altitude to observed the surroundings from a high vintage for any peculiar sightings that might give him clues towards Duna's location.
The deeper he headed into the Wildlands, the further he realized the land was not flat but continued to rise on a gradual slope.
Considering the enormity of the Wildlands, it would not be strange if the ground level of the middle and central regions of the Wildlands was well within the supposed sky's suppression zone.
The twelve rising pillars of Demonic Energy appearing at different vertical positions in the far reaches of the horizon further confirmed his guess.
Perhaps this was the secret to the powerful strengths of the beasts and humans living on the Wildlands.
Their bodies were consistently tempered by strong gravity as their bodies adapted to live in such harsh environments.
Sometime later, Leon spotted a peculiar black region in the southern direction while he was on routinely high altitude search.
”Silver, we are heading this way!”
”Arf, arf!”
Shortly after, Leon and Silve made their way over and arrived at the black region on the grassy plains.
Rat carcasses could be seen everywhere, inside and outside of the black region.
What came as a surprise to Leon was that they had reached the end of the rat tide. There were no rats in the surroundings except for the ones they attracted over on their journey.
After finishing off the remaining rats attacking themselves, Leon entered the black region with Silver.
The region had fewer clouds in the sky and allowed for more sunlight to shine clearly in the area, revealing the mountains of blackened rat carcasses.
”These rats weren't charred black… they were corroded by Darkness and Death Energy!” Leon quickly determined.
His heart surged with worry due to the amount of sunlight in the region.
”Duna! Where are you?!” Leon shouted.
Silver also wanted to help, so it mimicked Leon's method of searching for Duna and howled loudly, ”Awrooo—!”