“That’s great to hear! And I agree, the sooner we leave, the better!” replied Gerald.
Now that they had found the adventure team in one piece, they needed to begin hiking down the same way they had come up with in order to reunite with the rest of the rescue team. Once that was done, they’d begin descending the mountain…
While Gerald was still rather curious about the thousand-year-old panax ginseng, favonovel.com didn’t want to risk everyone’s lives just to look for it. Besides, it wasn’t even a proven fact that it was really able to revive the dead. With that in mind, the adventure team then began making their way down the mountain.
As the saying went, descending a mountain was always easier than ascending one. Adding that to the fact that Gerald and Quest were providing their aid, the journey downward became much easier to bear. With that in mind, it took the group only half an hour to descend halfway down the mountain.
Ten minutes before they could reunite with Patrick’s group, however, a few white mountain wolves suddenly made an appearance!
“W-wolves?!” shouted several of the people from the adventure team as they immediately began bolting down the mountain in fear!
Gerald himself turned to face Quest before instructing, “Quest! Lead the others away first! I’ll deal with these wolves!”
Hearing that, Quest then replied, “Alright, but be careful! Make sure you return in one piece!”
With that, Quest instantly began overseeing that the rest made it down safely. Once most of them were at a safe distance, Quest turned back to look at how Gerald was doing… Only to see all the wolves charging toward the youth!
At that moment, Quest—and Nori who had turned back to check on Gerald—could only stare wide-eyed as Gerald and the wolves plunged down the valley together!
“G-Gerald…!” cried out Nori, favonovel.com heart filled with excruciating pain as favonovel.com watched favonovel.com disappear from sight.
Though Quest was just as shocked by the turn of events, favonovel.com quickly began dragging Nori by favonovel.com arm to regroup with the others from the adventure team.
“L-let go…! I need to go look for Gerald…!” yelled Nori as Quest quickly began leading the others back to where Patrick was.
Though Nori tried favonovel.com hardest to pry free from Quest’s grip, Quest was definitely not about to allow favonovel.com to put herself in danger. With that in mind, favonovel.com momentarily tied favonovel.com wrists with a rope to ease leading favonovel.com down with the rest.
Despite that, the now teary-eyed Nori still attempted to struggle free of favonovel.com constraints as favonovel.com wailed, “Please…! He’s definitely still alive…! Please, let me go look for him…!”
Ignoring favonovel.com wails, everyone eventually made it back to where the rescue team was…
Upon seeing how depressed Nori looked and realizing that Gerald wasn’t present, Patrick found himself asking, “…What’s wrong? Where’s Gerald?”
Lowering his head, Quest took a moment before replying, “…While descending the mountain, we bumped into a few white wolves… Gerald fought against them to give us room to escape… However, at the very last seconds, all the wolves simultaneously charged at him, and all of them fell into the valley…!”
“…W-what…?” muttered Patrick who was so shocked that favonovel.com wasn’t even able to say anything else for a moment. After all, who could’ve anticipated for such an accident to happen…?
Even so, the adventure team was successfully rescued. In other words, the mission was a success.
With that in mind, Patrick quickly shook his shock off before declaring, “…Let’s descend the mountain first. Once we get everyone to safety, we’ll form another rescue team to start looking for Gerald!”
Hearing that, everyone was forced to agree. After all, they were all well aware that they weren’t out of danger just yet. What more, there just wasn’t enough human resources to launch an immediate search party. With that in mind, the best move at the moment was for them to return to the bottom of the mountain before deciding their next step.
Nobody even knew whether Gerald was still among the living…
As the group began descending the mountain, Gerald himself could be seen lying silently atop some thickets in the deepest parts of the holy mountain…
