ushernet Chapter 261: 255
Chapter 261: 255
Chapter 261: Chapter 255
(Swamp Forest)
Stepping through the flickering dark green light of the portal, Lancelot felt a very slight dizziness before realising he was now in a gloomy, dense forest.
Beneath his feet lay a rotting swamp, odorous vapours drifted in the air, and the portal through which he came was nestled inside the trunk of a long-dead tree, visible from the outside only at a particular angle through the emitted Magic Aura.
Lancelot closed his eyes to sense his surroundings and detected some powerful presences in the distance, but within a hundred feet there were no threatening creatures, so he stepped back through the portal behind him and returned to his companions.
“How is it?”
Sitting on a stone, Bruto immediately jumped up. The impatient Dwarf didn’t like waiting, and the others also looked at Lancelot with expectant eyes.
“Over there...”
“Wait a minute!” the Dwarf interrupted him rudely, gripping his Warhammer tightly. “How do I know you’re still the same Lancelot? How can you prove you’re still you?”
“Huh?” Lancelot was somewhat puzzled by the interruption, but after a moment’s thought, he nodded, “Well, such caution is necessary... How about you ask a question that only the two of us know the answer to?”
“Heh, I am an experienced Adventurer, after all.” The Dwarf’s face showed a mischievous grin, “In your eyes, who is the most beautiful woman in the world?”
“...If my answer isn’t Tijana, are you going to throw your hammer at me?”
“Haha, it seems you really are the man!” The Dwarf laughed heartily as he stepped forward. “So, what is it like over there? Is it really like the legend says, with flowers blooming and green grass everywhere?”
He ignored these irrelevant noises, focusing his attention on the direction from which the unconventional sounds had come.
Lancelot heard faint crying, as if from a child even smaller than little Isha, accompanied by intermittent beating sounds. He also heard the crunching of footsteps on dry branches and the rustle of something heavy dragging on the ground and pushing through fallen leaves.
“The sounds are coming from that direction, about two hundred feet from us,” Lancelot pointed to a direction on the right, “It seems like a child has been captured and is being dragged by several creatures.”
“A child?” Bruto raised an eyebrow, “No matter what it is, we have to check it out.”
“Shall I go scout ahead?” Isha spoke up, then with a ‘thump’, she turned into a small bat and perched on Lancelot’s shoulder.
“Yes, we’ll take a while to get there, go ahead and scout the enemy’s situation,” Lancelot nodded, “Stay concealed. Your mission is to bring back intelligence on the enemy, do not expose yourself.”
“Squeak squeak!” The little bat called out twice in response, then flapped her wings and flew away from Lancelot’s shoulder.
In her flying state, Isha moved much faster, and her unique ultrasonic sensory ability allowed her to easily navigate through the dense tree canopy. In less than two minutes, she located the target.
Following the technique she learned from her teacher, she hung upside down from a branch, camouflaged in the shadows among the leaves, and looked down.
She saw five green-skinned creatures, over nine feet tall, passing below. The creatures had a humanoid shape, with arms so long they surpassed their knees. They wore no clothing except for a loincloth, with ugly heads that had a large nose, protruding lips, and a pair of small, sharp ears, as well as dark green hair that made her think of a moldy mop.
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