It was late into the night when the three of them finally decided to return to their tents to sleep.
Due to the wild boar incident, all three of them shared a tent. That way, they could increase the odds of them sensing danger and allow them to assist each other if they were attacked.
Thankfully, all was quiet that night, and the trio woke up early the next morning.
Leaving the tent as soon as favonovel.com got up, Gerald realized that there were already a number of birds feasting on the wild boar’s carcass, with most of them being eagles and vultures. Gerald paid them no notice, and instead began packing up.
It was around nine when all three of them were up and ready to continue on their journey into the depths of the forest…
According to Old Flint’s map, walking past the phosphorite mountain area would allow them to accomplish their second step. Of course, that was easier said than done.
After all, not only was the phosphorite mountain extremely vast, but the trio had no idea what kinds of dangers awaited them there as well. With that in mind, they could only hope that they were prepared enough to face whatever obstacles they came across.
Up till this point, they already had to deal with the massive boar and the Soul Hunters… What a dangerous place…
Regardless, it was about two hours later when the trio finally came across a stream. With that, they then decided to replenish their water supply and take a short rest while they were at it.
Now sitting atop a flat stone, Juno found herself asking, “Say… Do you have any idea how much longer we’ll need to walk, Gerald…?”
Shaking his head, Gerald then replied, “Not at all… Based on Old Flint’s map, all I know is that we’ll need to walk past the phosphorite mountain area… Sadly, the map doesn’t really specify how huge the area is…”
Just as they were wondering how large the area really was, an arrow suddenly flew past all three of them!
Immediately turning to face the direction the arrow shot out from, the trio was greeted by the sight of a few men—donning black clothes—with crossbows in hand!
“Soul Hunters!” yelled Gerald as favonovel.com instantly held onto Juno and Rey’s arms before bolting away with them.
The Soul Hunters themselves instantly began shooting volley after volley of crossbow bolts. It almost felt like it was raining arrows!
Thankfully, the trio managed to take cover in the forest.
“Dmn it! How do we keep bumping into those bstards! How unlucky!” grumbled Rey.
“Please don’t forget that the entire Soul Hunter organization is here. Since they’ve been divided into several small groups, it’s pretty much inevitable that we’ll constantly bump into them while we’re here!” explained Gerald.
Regardless, once they were sure that the Soul Hunters had lost track of them, all three of them couldn’t help but sigh in relief before resuming their journey…
After what had just happened, the trio found that it was safer to simply use the forest path instead of walking by the side of the stream.
Compared to walking in an open area—which would allow them to be easily found and attacked—, traveling within the forest would make them harder to spot. What more, there was also plenty of cover in the forest, making escape much more plausible there.
Whatever the case was, it was about half an hour later when they finally found a home in the middle of the forest.
“…Say, do you see that, master? To think that people would actually live out here in the middle of nowhere!” exclaimed Rey.
