Chapter 275 - Volume 3
Chapter 54 – King of the underground (5)
“What is it, my lord?” Scarlett asked from behind.
“There’s something in front of us,” Brendel’s voice was reduced to a whisper.
Scarlett’s eyesight was currently no different from an ordinary person, and it was difficult for her to see far ahead with the weak light provided by the crystal.
Brendel pulled out his sword and led the girl slowly ahead and realized that it was a person, seemingly a worker in this mine. He carefully studied him, but there was no visible injury.
“He’s still alive,” Scarlett took a glance and immediately judged so.
Brendel agreed. He had also seen the shallow rise and fall of the worker’s chest. The latter seemed to be merely unconscious. He tried shouting at him, but the middle-aged man did not wake up, so he took his waterskin bag and poured a little on his face.
Considering that they might be stuck in the underground and the water they had on them was limited, he refrained from pouring too much of it. He was about to slap the worker’s face, but it seemed like the worker’s eyelids twitched and opened soon enough.
The cat-like creature seemed like it was carved out of stone and had a pair of grey colored gems as eyes, but Brendel finally knew what it was.
[That’s not a stone creature but soil molded with Earth Element Mana into a creature. It can take on any form that the summoner wants. Does this mean there’s an Elementalist doing this, or some other defense mechanism activating and summoning these creatures?]
Brendel thought the second possibility was more likely, and it meant that the Legacy item or Sanctuary was possibly sentient. Either way, it meant there was a Fantasy-ranked item. Brendel’s heart soared and his eyes nearly teared up.
It was the first time where he could get his hands on a high-level equipment.
More creatures poured out from the dark tunnel, easily more than a dozen, and their eyes glinted dangerously in front of the Light Crystal. Eventually, twenty of them surrounded them in a semi-circle.
There was no sign of anxiety on Brendel’s face, and he took a step forward: “Stay back a little, Scarlett.”
“Understood.” The red-haired girl caught the worker who was trying to crawl away to flee the area and dragged him back to where they were.
It was safer for them to stay where Brendel was at. She did not move forward to help him because she would instead interfere with his movements, given her current state.
But she was not worried. Her judgment remained even though she lost her power, and she could see that the panthers were hardly a threat to Brendel.