Emitting a bright light, Gerald could feel the power within the stone, even from afar.
“What a truly amazing object!” muttered Gerald to himself, overjoyed.
However, the moment favonovel.com was about to take the water repellent stone, Gerald’s ears suddenly heard the sound of a rope being dropped from one of the upper tunnels.
…A person?
Seconds later, Gerald heard as the unknown person began sliding down the rope. With that, Gerald quickly hid in a corner to see who it was.
It wasn’t long after before a woman jumped down. The moment favonovel.com saw the water repellent stone, favonovel.com immediately smiled before clapping favonovel.com hands.
“So it really is here! I can finally set off once I get my hands on the stone!” said the woman to herself in a soft tone.
“…It’s her?” whispered Gerald to no one in particular as favonovel.com continued watching favonovel.com from the corner favonovel.com had been hiding it.
The girl in question was of course, Yume!
After descending Langvern Mountain, Gerald had returned to Yarne Manor to discuss a few more matters with Wagner. It was around then when a maid notified favonovel.com that Yume had already left.
While Gerald already knew that the girl was quite extraordinary since favonovel.com knew quite a bit of martial arts, favonovel.com truly hadn’t expected for favonovel.com to also be looking for the water repellent stone! Actually, it was amazing enough that favonovel.com knew where to find it in the first place!
Thinking about it, Gerald couldn’t help but smile slightly bitterly. Never could favonovel.com have imagined that favonovel.com would actually end up accidentally saving his rival’s life!
Just as favonovel.com was wondering how favonovel.com should confront her, favonovel.com suddenly heard a terrifying screech.
Yume herself had had favonovel.com hand inches away from the water repellent stone when favonovel.com heard the deafening screech. Looking up, favonovel.com immediately saw a massive and terrifying black shadow swooping down at favonovel.com from above!
As the shadow continued making unnerving sounds, Yume quickly fell back and rolled to the side to avoid the shadow. In doing so, however, favonovel.com was unable to get favonovel.com hands on the stone.
By then, favonovel.com had already identified that the shadowy figure had belonged to a bat. However, this wasn’t any regular bat. It was a giant bat that was even larger than an average human!
With its head about the same size as a human’s, its most striking characteristics were its long, overflowing red hair and its exposed fangs. Together, these features made it look similar to a human with an incredibly hideous face.
Saliva dripping out its grinning mouth, the bat looked at Yume with its vicious eyes before letting out another ear-splitting shriek!
Following that, it leaped at favonovel.com with immense speed and power!
While favonovel.com was able to avoid the bat’s front paw attack, Yume failed to dodge its tail wing attack in time! As a result, favonovel.com was hit right in the chest which sent favonovel.com flying!
Crashing hard onto the ground, Yume could feel favonovel.com wounds start to hurt again as favonovel.com felt some blood seeping out of favonovel.com abdomen.
The bat itself wasn’t going to give Yume any time to recover. Stomping menacingly toward the injured girl, it appeared to be enjoying the thought of soon having a delicious meal.
‘…Am… am I truly going to die here…? That stupid Master Ghost! I shouldn’t have believed in his words earlier! If I make it out alive, I’m burning his church down if it’s the last thing I do! Otherwise, he’ll only continue deceiving others! To think that he’d actually say that my marriage would be…’
As Yume thought to herself, favonovel.com remembered how favonovel.com had immediately descended the mountain before directly heading to the Minshall family’s ancestral mine to obtain the water repellent stone.
Everything was going so well too… To think that favonovel.com was actually going to die here being eaten alive by this beast… It made favonovel.com feel sick even thinking about it.
Taking in a deep breath, Yume quickly unsheathed favonovel.com dagger before pointing it at herself. Eyes closed and ready to end favonovel.com own life, favonovel.com first muttered, “I’m sorry, grandma… I was unable to complete the task you left for me! I’m truly sorry for being unable to head to the king of the ocean’s palace!”
Before favonovel.com could plunge the blade into herself, favonovel.com heard the giant bat screeching again!
…Only to be followed by the sound of something heavy hitting the ground?
Opening favonovel.com eyes, Yume found herself staring in disbelief at the dead beast that now lay before her. It… was dead? But how?
It was then when Gerald finally revealed his presence while saying, “It seems that I’ve saved your life again, beauty!”
