Book 4: Chapter 128: Treating Your Teammates Right

Book 4: Chapter 128: Treating Your Teammates Right

Time was ticking away, but the dust in the forest never settled due to the absence of wind.

“Damn it, Lucas, were you not watching where you were going?” a voice complained in annoyance.

A breeze came out of nowhere and dispersed the dust, revealing Diana’s filthy but still pretty face. She was glaring daggers at Lucas, who looked like he got accused for something he didn’t do.

“I swear in the name of goddess, this is not my fault! Who would have known that the Golden Demon would be so despicable as to resort to using such a trap.”

Lucas put on a bitter face, feeling so wronged. He already warned this group that he was extremely unlucky, yet they insisted on having him join, and now they were blaming him.

On his travels, aside from the time he traveled with the saintess, he was always the one setting off traps. Needlessly to say, if the saintess tagged along... The traps would find them without them looking for one.

One of the massive ones that he experienced on his travels with the saintess in particular left a very deep impression on him.

“Your carelessness is to be blamed!”ViiSiit novelbi/n(.)c/(o)m for latest novels

Shooting Lucas one last angry glance, Diana put her magic wand away and the magic barrier around everyone disappeared too.

The others were looking at Diana thankfully. If she hadn’t reacted quickly and put up a magical barrier, someone would have inevitably gotten injured even if there were no deaths.

“Looks like we have to proceed even more cautiously. Golden Demon Htilil was more cunning than we imagined.”

Durance checked their surroundings with a frown.

The breeze that Diana summoned had cleared away the dust from the forest and rustled the leaves. The explosion’s shockwave had blown over trees within a radius tens of meters from it.

The immediate area they were in had been razed to the ground. The explosion wasn’t powerful, but it was extremely precise. It was almost like it wasn’t set up to kill a large crowd, but for a fixed point on a large-sized enemy.

And the pit from before was commonly used by hunters, save for the spikes at the bottom of it were a lot closer. Fortunately, Rosdell was slightly bigger than an average person. Otherwise, he would have been done for.

Given the thickness of those spikes, they didn’t seem like they were intended for some large creature rather than human.

Did that mean... Golden Htilil had set them up to guard against other enemies? For some reason, it made Durance think of the giant skeleton they had encountered before...

Shaking his head, he quickly denied his conjecture.

Hm, impossible. What could the spikes at the bottom of those pits do to those skeletons? If ten fell in, probably not even one would be killed. At most, it would just break a few of their bones.

The Golden Demon wouldn’t use this kind of useless trap against those skeletons unless she had a few screws loose. The effort was simply far greater than the gain. She would have gotten better results if she replaced those spikes with a few explosion scrolls.

“Let’s go... The Golden Demon may be on her way after all this commotion. We should be prepared to fight at any time...”

“Right.”

Everyone nodded, then took out their weapons and stayed vigilant. Choobchoob also took out a longsword from her storage ring. After triggering such a huge explosion, there was no longer any use in hiding their presence. She might as well switch her stance and be ready to clash with the enemy.

“Hm? Strange, my back is really itchy.”

Rosdell suddenly felt an unbearable itch on his back and wanted to relieve it so badly. Unfortunately due to his physical build, he had difficulty reaching a section of his back. This made him feel so restless that he could hardly stand right on his feet.

“Probably the bugs here... You’re a martial warrior trained in battle qi, and you can’t even stand something like this? I’m starting to wonder if all those muscles on you are just for show.”

Durance shot him a look and commented indifferently. For once, Rosdell didn’t retaliate after being ridiculed. He was simply too bothered by the itch on his back.

And it wasn’t an ordinary itch. He could almost feel something squirming on his skin on his back. It was itchy but at the same time, it also made his hair stand on its end.

Rosdell jumped away reflexively and looked at Durance in alarm. He could feel his hair standing on its end from being touched by another man. The feeling was no different than having some sort of stick placed at the entrance of his a̲s̲s̲.

Ignoring Rosdell, Durance showed his finger to Diana.

“You should know what this is, President Diana.”

“Yes, this is a spell aiming powder. A very common magic ingredient... Since it contains the toxin of colorful caterpillars, it can cause skin itching symptoms.”

“But what is it for?” Lucas asked like a curious baby.

“Idiot. You should already know from its name. To aim a magic spell, of course.”

“Oh... Which kind of magic spell then?”

“Those that are powerful but with very low accuracy. Since it is hard to have both of the best worlds when it comes to magic spells, some mages came up with a solution and that is to rely on external help to increase accuracy. But in actual combat, hitting enemies with these spell aiming powder is a lot harder than using the spell directly. After all, no enemies would be stupid enough to just stand there and let you sprinkle this on their face. So, this thing ended up becoming one of the top ten worst magical inventions.”

Diana stroked her chin and continued, “But... I’ve heard of hunters who use it in traps to hunt beasts and it works quite well.”

Hmm? Trap?

Diana scratched her head. Come to think of it... How did this spell aiming powder get on Rosdells’ back...?

“.....”

The atmosphere turned strangely quiet all of a sudden.

After a few seconds of silence, everyone tacitly pulled at least ten meters away from Rosdell.

“Hey, hey, what are you all doing?” Rosdell’s face twitched.

“Rosdell, I will remember you as an old enemy of mine...” Durance suddenly bowed deeply to him.

“Huh?”

“Senior Rosdell, you will always live in my heart. So don’t be afraid when you are on the road...” Diana covered her mouth. Although there were no tears, she was overflowing with sadness. My fifty percent... That’s a goodbye to my three-piece magic wands set...

“What?”

“Umm... I don’t even know what to say... So I’ll just keep smiling...” Choobchoob smiled shyly.

“......”

“Oh, my dear brother Rosdell, rest in peace, you will surely be missed...”

Only Lucas was really crying. At least Diana made a fortune before Rosdell departed, he didn’t even make a single coin...

Lucas could only feel sorry for himself that he risked his life for that candid photo.

“YOU!”

Rosdell wasn’t stupid so he knew what exactly was going on. He trembled with anger, but couldn’t do anything about it.

All of a sudden, he seemed to have recalled something and sneered at Lucas.

“My brother, do not forget... I wasn’t the only one who got caught by a trap!”

“Haha, it seems like you are blinded by your anger. I merely tripped a thread. Would that Golden Demon Htilil go through the trouble of smearing such a thin thread with spell aiming powder?”