Bab 20: NINETEEN
We walk and walk and walk and are now further deep inside the swamp. The main goal that all agreed on is to find the location of the base of the portal boss, if its only me, Ceres, Alice and Stephan, I can use levitation magic so that we won't get wet as we venture inside the swamp, but because we are with others, and I was labeled as an assassin type, I can't just cast spells, they will be too wary to me. A line of yellow light serves as our guide and casted by the mage hunter of the other mercenary team to take us to where the location of the portal boss.
"Uncle, who leaves in this kind of places?"-Ceres.
"There are called dragonewts because they are humanoid dragons, they are the most peace loving beings in the other world that I have met, and they live in the swamps to be away from the chaos of the outside"-Demetri.
"Are they weak, that's why they live in the swamps? Hiding themselves from others"-Ceres.
"They were not weak, they were actually one of the most powerful beings because of their unique magic which is puppeteer, they can control someone who falls under their casting, they're also have amazing combat skills and they were also known because of their necromancy"-Demetri.
"Oh they create zombie like those ones in the movie---"-Ceres.
Ceres didn't have time to even finish what he was about to say because he was alerted by something and look at every direction to find the attackers, I alerted the others to be wary of their surroundings because something is lurking and masking their presence, but before the others even got the chance to hold their ground, a series of darts flew in our direction. I catch the darts that are going in our direction and fire it back at them, not sure if I hit even one. It looks like the other mercenary team fail to do the same, because three of their members falls to the ground and was poisoned.
I cast shock wave secretly to make the attackers unmasked their presence by disturbing their casting, the moment they appear, Ceres and Stephan charges towards the location of the two dragonewt's and kill them. After they kill the two dragonewt's, we went to the other mercenary team to see how they are, and three of their members does not look so good.
"They are poisoned, those darts have poison on it"-leader of the mercenary team.
I am very familiar of those darts because I was a victim of those darts too once before when I encountered them the first time, and all I can say is that without the antidote, any minute now they will be dead. I saw the mercenary leader take out a vial of miracle potion in the pocket of one of his teammates and make them drink it.
"This miracle potion is so far the best invention of the HA, thanks to that light guy, I am still wondering why they sell this potion so affordable, if I were them, I'll sell this way more"- leader of the mercenary team.
When the leader of the other mercenary team notices that his members is okay now, they wanted us to continue in finding the location of the portal boss but Stephan suggested that we camp first and find for something to eat first because we've been here for almost past half a day already.
"We should be finding a place to camp and something to eat, were here for almost past a half a day now, and it looks like its getting dark, we don't know how far is the location of the portal boss, we need to energized ourselves, we will be in charge with the food because my friend here has an appraisal for it, while your team will be in charge with the camp"-Stephan.
The other mercenary team talk it out first before agreeing to what Stephan said. We camp out in the driest area we can find in the swamp. Alice and I were together picking out some fruits that I am familiar with.
"Does this taste good Demetri?"-Alice
"It taste like orange, you can try one if you want"-Demetri.
I use a knife and slice the fruit in half and give the other half to Alice to make her taste it. We went back to the camp after fishing out fishes in the fish pond that I know the tribe owns. After eating, we take turns taking a nap and guard for possible attacks. When its time for me to take a nap, I take that as an opportunity to look for the location of the dragonewt's tribe, it's been years since the last time I went to the dragonewts tribe, I can't remember it's exact location. Like the dragonewt's, I mask myself to hide my presence and observe them.
Their corruption looks like all the same after observing the beings I encountered from the other world. They move the same, act the same like before they were corrupted, but they can't have their own will when it comes to attacking the enemies. I saw Cydre, makes me realize that this is Calisto's tribe, Cydre, the familiar hydra I help Calisto to summon, I forgot something he said about me being able to do a summoning ritual. Calisto must have notice me even with the mask, that's why he looked at my direction and ordered the dragonewt guards to fire lightning spears at my direction, I quickly avoided it, but before I return to camp I did something first to Calisto.
I was so focused at observing the dragonewt's that I didn't notice that it was already morning. When I returned to camp, everybody was awake now and gearing up to continue finding the location of the portal boss. I join them and tell Ceres, Stephan and Alice, what we will do when we reach where the portal boss is and we join the others and continue on our way to the dragonewt's location.
Status Power Mingguan
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Power 
-- Power
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