Chapter 89: CHAPTER 89 – The 3rd Territory.

[Hidden quest complete!

Quest: Defeat a group of enemies stronger than you in stats.

Reward: Venomebane pill (Mid) X 20.]

'What's this?' Alex asked inwardly.

[This is a hidden quest, but this is one of those that need you to do some specific tasks to complete them, hard tasks.

You fighting against a group of A-rank beasts while limiting your stats to B-rank was one of them, and even though it didn't look hard to you, for others it was almost impossible.]

Sophia explained the answer to Alex.

'I see....' Alex didn't need Sophia to tell him that the thing he did right now was not something anyone could do, he could already see James standing like a statue.

'Master!!!!!' Noctura came running and directly jumped on Alex who was still lying on the beast's corpse.

Alex just smiled and patted her head as she started licking his face.

'Finally!!!' Noctura screamed inwardly as she got the chance to lick her master's face after a long time, and she really liked licking his face.

"Calm down, pup. I'm not going anywhere....." Alex spoke helplessly, but Noctura didn't stop.

'What's the highest-ranked poison that pill can heal?' Alex questioned Sophia as stopped trying to stop Noctura and closed his eyes.

[Ex-ranked Poison is the maximum that pill can heal, though it would be a different case if it was a high-grade Venombane pill.]

'I see,' Alex nodded inwardly.

He then kept laying there for a while, letting Noctura lick his face all she wanted, and after a while, she stopped licking on her own.

Noctura liked licking, but that didn't mean she wanted to be annoying so she knew when to stop.

"Let's go, we need to be there to keep an eye out for the camp. Although I can see that there's nothing in the surroundings right now, we can never be sure....."

Alex spoke as he got up and patted Noctura's head.

"It is a special gate, and we don't even know how strong the boss is going to be....." Alice spoke with a sigh.

She wasn't worried about the boss, it's just that it is always good to have some information about these things beforehand.

"Is it only me or have you guys noticed that we have yet to see a single beast today?" Maggies suddenly asked.

Her words caused everyone to stop on their track as they just realized that as well.

They had been walking for an hour, but they had yet to find a single beast, they didn't notice it as they were all tensed by the thought that a beast would suddenly jump out from behind those rocks.

Alice and Ann on the other hand had noticed it a while ago but they kept quiet even if they found it strange.

"If my guess is correct then we are probably close to the boss area," Suddenly Alex spoke up and everyone's eyes turned to him.

"Maybe, just maybe, the beasts are gathered in the boss area, waiting for us to arrive there," Alex continued, and he could see the worry and tension appearing on every raider's face.

"Or maybe, the boss is a territorial beast, and it doesn't like intruders in its area which means there were no beasts here in the first place," Alex added, and although he said that the raider somehow felt that the former situation was more likely.

After all, if the boss was as territorial as Alex was depicting it to be then the boss would've been here, fighting them the moment they stepped into its territory.

There was a long silence as everyone was in deep thought.

"Well, let's just move forward, we will know what it is when we see it, and as I said, we won't be taking unnecessary risks," Alice finally spoke after a while.

Although she had been saying the same line about retreating if they found something dangerous again and again, she had no intention of doing that, she was saying that just to keep the raiders calm.

Alice knew that with Alex here, they wouldn't have a problem clearing an S-rank gate, and this fact wouldn't change, whether it was a special S-rank gate or a normal one.

The raiders nodded their heads, and they continued walking.

After another hour or two of walking, they could finally see a place that had 'I might be the boss's lair' written all over it (Not literally).....

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