Chapter 857 It paid off

857 It paid off

The forest that we arrived in was called the Wynshall Woods.

This was a forest that was in the north of the kingdom, a place that was considered quite remote, which was why this was the final location that we came to.

This was the furthest place from our starting position in the capital after all, so this was the last place that we arrived in.

Before this, we had already cleared out most of the places that had increased monster activity and stuck around to make sure that the monsters didn't swarm the surrounding villages.

The funny thing was that each of these places was also in a forest.

It seemed that it was just natural for monsters to gather in a forest, or was it because the ones that planted these dark crystals just chose to put them in a forest?

Maybe there was something special about forests that helped monsters gather more easily?

Perhaps it was because of the cover that the trees gave them that made it easier for them to gather? Because it made them feel safe?

Regardless of what the reason was, it was a fact that all of the dark crystals had been placed in forests and that was where we got rid of them all.

I sucked out all of the dark energy from the dark crystals and then took them away.

Now we had a collection of ten different crystals that didn't seem like they would be able to do anything.

Though there was one special thing that all of these crystals had in common.

Hard...they were incredibly hard.

No matter what we tried to do with these crystals, we just weren't able to find a single way to damage them. We weren't even able to find a way to leave a mark on these crystals.

That was how hard they were.

We had no choice but to leave these crystals alone in hopes that we would be able to find another way to use them in the future.

As for this Wynshall Woods, the monsters that were here were a pack of orcs.

The rest of us were actually hiding in the surrounding area and had been waiting for something to happen.

The moment that Shaka blocked the arrow, there were sounds of weapons clashing that came from the trees around us. It seemed like whoever had fired the arrow at me was being attacked by the ones that we had left in the forest.

Though there was a part of me that wanted to complain.

Couldn't they have stopped whoever it was that fired that arrow from shooting it in the first place?

I just buried that complaint and gave a nod to Shaka before heading into the forest with them.

We followed the sounds that were slowly disappearing and soon found where they had been fighting.

However, it seemed that the fight was already over.

There were marks on the ground and arrows scattered all over, but the sounds had completely disappeared. In the center of this place, the elite guards had completely surrounded a group of cloaked figures. There were broken weapons that were scattered on the ground around these cloaked figures, but it seemed that most of them used bows as their main weapons.

As for the weapons that the elite guards used...there wasn't a single scratch on them.

These were dwarven made mithril weapons that had been engraved in runes, they weren't things that were that easy to destroy.

Though...the crystals had been able to destroy them.

That was just because the crystals were especially hard.

When Scar saw us come over, he made sure that the cloaked figures were all watched by two elite guards each so that they wouldn't be able to do anything. It was only then that he came over to me and gave a salute, as if showing the cloaked figures that I was in charge here.

Looking at the cloaked figures on the ground, I thought to myself, "It really paid off to be prepared. It seemed that I wasn't just being paranoid."

When someone from a place doesn't even know the history of that place...

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