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Chapitre 35: Chapter 35 : Separation

The sare shuttle sped through the air within the Astranian Forest, but it didn't fly above the canopy of trees. The reason for this was clear; the Astranian Forest was a very dangerous location filled with tons of deadly desolate beasts.

Standing out would turn one into a target for the countless bloodthirsty creatures around. Under the assault of tens or even hundreds of such monsters, even a tenth level Apertures Opening stage stellar practitioner would die. As such, even if the defence of the sare was staunch and unbreakable, most would still not want to test it against the vicious wave of monsters.

Inside the vehicle, the other vice captain of the squad and also vice guild leader, glanced at the screens displayed in, only taking a break away after he failed to spot any desolate beasts nearby.

He then glanced at Lucas and noticed how the latter was calmly sitting in silence. At that moment, the vice guild leader couldn't help but frown.

Truth be told, he was against Crimson Fang leading Lisa to hold back the pursuers. His justification was the unofficial rule as well as another important point; there was no reason to risk offending an unknown party all because of an 'expired' deal.

From his senses, the vice guild leader estimated that there were four pursuers with two of them being at the third level, one at the fourth and another at the fifth. One should know that individuals at the fifth level could be squad leaders or high-ranking members of a strong guild, just like himself. As for fourth level freelancers, they would be elites and still valued to some extent no matter where they were. This was because the average power level of a freelancer was between the first and third levels.

Someone who could afford to hire these figures would definitely not be an ordinary individual or faction. Intercepting the pursuers would no doubt offend the party behind them, and this might attract unnecessary trouble for guild in the future.

When the shuttle had reached a safe distance, they slowed down and Lucas exited the vehicle right away. The shuttle then zoomed off in a different direction. From here onwards, the deal with the Autumn's Gate guild had ended and Lucas was on his own.

Lucas didn't look worried, even after this reality had dawned on him. On the contrary, he made his move, heading towards a different direction that led to the Cicalien Mountains. As was mentioned before, the Astranian Forest could be considered a 'state'' within the 'country' called the Wastelands. As for the Cicalien Mountains, it was a 'city' within this 'state'.

Compared to the broad green area, the Cicalien Mountains was fraught with more danger. This was how the Astranian Forest was; every distinct region would be crawling with dangerous and powerful desolate beasts, making them more perilous than the shrub-filled zone.

Lucas opened up his communicator and located the mountainous region to be a couple kilometres away; less than ten kilometres to be precise. This distance wasn't much; Lucas could cover it in twenty five to thirty minutes. But with a group of pursuers right behind him, it was a risky journey. He may not even have up to thirty minutes.

'Looks like I'll have to use them.' Lucas thought as he kept on running.

Astranian Forest was a well known danger zone, and even a simple browsing action would reveal this. Since he was aiming for here from the start, Lucas had naturally done his research previously and made proper arrangements. The arrangements were specifically for desolate beasts, but there were also some preparations he made against hyumans.

It might come as a surprise that Lucas was looking out for any unfriendly hyuman, but if one were to recall that his first encounter upon transmigrating into this world was to almost get kidnapped, and that he was assaulted on his store within just two weeks of transmigration, then everything would make sense. So far, Lucas has been in this world for three weeks, but these three weeks have been filled with a handful of 'interesting' experiences, which in turn made him more cautious.

As Lucas was travelling through the air, he occasionally plastered a piece of paper marked with red ink, on the trunk of a tree. He did this for roughly every three hundred metres until he had plastered seven paper slips over a 2.1 kilometres distance. Each time he was nine hundred metres away from a paper slip, Lucas would change an incantation and form some hand seals. But the time he was nine hundred metres away from the seventh paper slip, he chanted the same incantations and former the same hand seals.

By this time, if one were to look at the area around the first paper from an aerial point of view, they would notice that a few desolate beasts of different shapes and sizes were conglomerating towards that direction. The same held true for the other five paper slips, with only the seventh one not showing any effects yet.

Beast attracting talisman.

This was a special talisman made by the witches in his past life. It was the direct opposite of the 'Beast warding talisman', a product of deserters who cultivated in True energy. The Beast attracting talisman was a weapon of war hated by many factions, and its manufacturing process was bizarre.

It required the caster or scribe, as they were called, to use their blood and draw a rune onto a special piece of paper known as a talisman paper. The blood would be infused with mana during the inscribing process, forcefully infusing a spell into the paper, to create a talisman. Once the talisman was activated, the scent of the blood on the paper would be reignited and strengthened, while being forced to diffuse around the area alongside an attractive aura produced by the mana.

However, the scent of blood as well as the attractive aura of the mana would be noticeable only to beasts and man-eating monsters.

In summary, the beast attracting talisman was a bait for monsters. However, if done well, it could be used to create a trap. In Lucas' case, he intended to have the beasts cover up his tracks and force the pursuers to slow down if they somehow found out the direction he moved in.

With that done, Lucas was confident that he would have enough time to make it to the Cicalien Mountains. As for when he would have to return, Lucas would naturally use a different route.


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Chapitre 36: Chapter 36: Encountering A Desolate Beast

The Cicalien Mountains was a vast chain of mountains connected to form a mountain range. Towering peaks of different heights spread all over the area, forming 'waves' in the region. Home to many desolate beasts, the mountain range was a dangerous place even for a high-ranking freelancer. However, despite being dangerous, it was also home to many mineral deposits and lodes.

A couple decades back, the Baylands city-state government had launched an exploration campaign, aimed at understanding the Wastelands more in preparation for a future beast wave that could potentially pose a significant threat to the city-state. This campaign wasn't meant to eliminate the monsters in the outer region, but to understand and record the various species of desolate beasts in the Wastelands as well as to map down the entire region. If there was also any important resource stock in the Wastelands, they would think of a way to retrieve and control it. Although this campaign ended in failure, a lot of progress was made.

At that time, the city-state government had discovered the Astranian Forest and located the Cicalien Mountains deep inside. As the campaign was an exploratory study, they had special equipment for discovering valuable minerals. Under the investigation of their scientists, the team found out that the Cicalien Mountains had a special ore, Keton, deposit on one of the mountains.

Keton was a metallic material which wasn't expensive and could be said to be common. However, it was very vital to various industries. It was an important component for manufacturing certain hover vehicles and furniture.

Logically, the city-state government should have built a mine on the deposit and began operations. But after considering the expenses for the project: which not only included construction of the mine, but transportation of both construction materials, ores and workers, protection of the cargo and workers, the setting up of a base, as well the payment of workers which would have to be high as they would be working in a perilous area, which they then compared to the value of the metal ore, the city-state government came to the conclusion that the excavation was not worth it and abandoned the idea.

Some powerful industries and companies came to find out about the mine, but for the same reason, they also gave up on it.

As for individuals, any one of them who could make it to the Cicalien Mountains was definitely a strong character, and someone like that wouldn't stress themselves with a tiring task such as mining. Also, they would be able to make more off killing desolate beasts than mining for the ore and having to travel into the city to sell it, an endeavour which was clearly time-consuming and expensive.

This led to the special situation where everyone knew that the Cicalien Mountains had ore deposits, but no one could retrieve it. It was like a pie in the sky.

The metal Lucas was looking for wasn't some cheap metal like Keton or something similar. In fact, it wasn't even among the discovered ore deposits. On the contrary, it was a mineral deposit hidden inside the mountain. Unlike the discovered mine, this one was filled to the brim with a valuable metal called Violent Sun ores.

Due to the presence of a special element around the Violent Sun ore deposit, a natural electromagnetic field was formed, invisible to the eyes. This EM field had jammed the equipment used by the exploration team and other groups, and this led to the deposit remaining untouched for decades. Luckily for Lucas, this wasn't a problem as he had the system to aid him. The system had verified its existence, but the task of finding it was left to him.

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Once he was in front of the Cicalien Mountains, Lucas was greeted by the impressive sight of a marvelous mountain range. After admiring it for a bit, Lucas made his way into the Cicalien Mountains, making sure that he proceeded towards the northwest direction.

According to the instructions from the system, there was an average-looking mountain amongst the rest but located deep in. Hidden within this mountain was the target for his mission.

Just five minutes after Lucas had appeared within the Cicalien Mountains, he noticed a strange silhouette less than one hundred metres ahead.

Without any hesitation, Lucas immediately concealed his aura and breathing, and came to a stop as he studied the silhouette in front of him.

It was a creature that looked like a mole yet was much larger than that. It was four metres tall when standing on its hind legs and had a pair of special hands equipped with claws on them which aided it in digging through the mountain floor. It had a long snout and its huge body was covered in intense brown-green fur that was as thin and sharp as needles. Its long snout was coloured green, but of a darker hue.

At the moment, the monster was nibbling on some gnawed out rocks, seemingly having a look of bliss on its face.

'The Green-Snout Metal mole ' Lucas thought as he stared at the monster. He then began to revisit the knowledge regarding the monster in his head.

The Green-Snout Metal mole was a special kind of desolate beast limited to the Cicalien Mountains and any other zones with metal ore deposits. It had fur as tough as metal, which was threatening to attackers and predators. Its terrifying arms also packed a punch so powerful that it could crush a boulder with one hit. Above of all, the claws of the Green-Snout Metal mole was its most dangerous weapon, capable of cutting through refined steel with ease. It was thanks to this that it could dig deep into the ground and excavate metals.

The Green-Snout Metal mole was a monster with a capable defense, offense and stamina. Its only known weakness was its speed and vision, which were nothing impressive. However, it seemed to compensate in that department by possessing a long range attack option; it could fire some of its sharp needle fur at the target.

Generally, a Green-Snout Metal mole was at the very least a third level beast, but most times, the majority would be on the fourth level. If one were unlucky, they would stumble upon a fifth level Green-Snout Metal mole.

Luckily, Lucas didn't encounter such a special situation. Even more so, this Green-Snout Metal mole was at the third level, the weakest of its kind.


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