บท 175: Horse Gavarel

We reached the Pacific Ocean within minutes.

I lowered our speed to a mere few hundred kilometers per hour and sliced into the ocean with a big splash that disturbed its calm surface for a few seconds before all traces of our entry disappeared completely.

My hare-brained scheme to escape from Secretary Wang actually turned out into a real and exciting mission to collect monster cores!

It was pretty cool, actually, even by any wildly imaginative measure a ten year old could come up with.

"So, what monsters are we hunting?" I asked them both excitedly as soon as we dived. "Please don't tell me we are hunting monsters on the level of the Wyrm King though, I am fatigued, and won't be able to fight at full strength for at least a couple of hours!"

"Don't worry. The monsters we are hunting for aren't carnivores. Catching them will be as easy as turning your palm around. The only problem is…" The Ancestor hesitated slightly at this point.