Chapter 339: The Mysterious Strong Person

Chapter 339: The Mysterious Strong Person

The golem carriage continued to move North, past the abandoned monster corpses left behind by the Asura. Along the way, we encountered three more magic beast massacres. However, the situation in these massacres was different from the previous ones.

“This place looks terrible as well.”

Mia muttered, and no wonder. The whole area was a sea of blood. The earth is covered in dark red blood, and the stench fills the battlefield. For the beastkin who possesses good senses of smell, this must be terrible. Along with Mia, Fran and Guendalfa were also frowning.

Here the appearance of the corpses is different from before. Rather than being crushed by a mysterious power like earlier, these magic beasts were clearly slaughtered by something sharp; this likely scattered large amounts of the evil beings’ blood around, polluting the surrounding area.

“Asura?” Fran.

“I’m not sure. The Godblade Gaia he wields certainly is shaped like a greatsword, however... I don’t think he would go through the trouble of killing like this.” Kiara.

Kiara tilted her head in thought at Fran’s murmur. The Earth Sword Gaia seems to be a greatsword. However, why change fighting styles all of a sudden? It’s possible he wanted to move his body, see blood, or some other reason to suddenly fight directly.

More realistically, it’s possible something besides the Asura slaughtered the evil beings. Well, that just leaves us the question of what other things could imitate the Asura like this.

“I think weapons were used here...”

“If it was a magic beast, they might be able to do this with their claws instead of weapons.”

“Ah, that’s right. Also, look at this corpse. I can’t see a human doing this.”

In addition to the butchered corpses, there were beheaded corpses and corpses which looked like something forcibly tore them apart from crotch to chest.

The way they were defeated really is different from the magic beasts thought to have been killed by the Asura, just as I thought.

“These aren’t mere small fry.”

“Nn. There’s a Goblin General. That’s a Goblin Sorcerer.”

Apparently, whether it was a human or beast, whatever created this terrible scene wasn’t interested in anything after killing. As such, valuable materials were left untouched without being dismantled and harvested or eaten.

Not just that, the magic stones were also left behind. I had Fran pick up the Goblin General’s magic stone, and then secretly absorbed it. Though, I was only able to obtain one point from it.

“Everyone, over there.” Quina.

Quina stopped the carriage again, and called to us from the driver’s seat.

“Mn? Did you find something?”

“That, isn’t that the large boulder landmark that we heard about from the prisoner?”

Quina pointed at a strange rock that seemed to pierce the heavens. It was a pointed boulder that looked like a twisted dragon horn.

“In other words, that means that there must be a cave leading to the dungeon up ahead.”

“Yes. I believe it is beyond that forest.”

Certainly, it looks just like the landmark to find the entrance to the dungeon that we heard from Johan. According to Johan’s information, there should be a dungeon beyond the forest at the end of the rock.

“Let’s walk from here on.” Quina.

“Right. Kiara-shishou, could you please lead?” Guendalfa.

“Leave it to me.” Kiara.

“Quina will be the rearguard.”

“Understood.”

It makes sense to have the two experienced and battle tested people at the front and back. It’s a good decision.

We walked through the forest sprawling at the foot of the Border Mountains while erasing our tracks. We advanced without becoming lost. Although there is no road, the path left by traces of many traveling monsters kept us on track. By following it, we could advance without hesitation.

However, by this point, I should have been able to sense the magic energy from the Dungeon, but there was no sign of it.

It seems to differ depending on the dungeon, but if the dungeon master is intelligent, it seems that it is more common to hide the magic energy. It seems that dungeons have various facilities and functions, and there are ways to prevent magic power from leaking out. Whether to conceal the dungeon or not depends on the purpose of the dungeon master, but this time it is definitely the purpose of hiding.

After a while, Kiara suddenly stopped and hid in the nearby bushes. As expected, Fran and the others followed suit.

“Kiara-shishou, could this be...?”

“Yeah, we found it.”