Chapter 337 - Akeso
Chapter 337: Akeso
The arrival of rainbow dragonflies turned the entire Pocratee upside-down just like what happened to Twilight Well.
Caught by surprise, almost all villagers were possessed overnight. The village was home to countless healers who saved many lives in the outside world, yet they couldn’t save themselves.
The parasites could survive by absorbing nightmare energy and didn’t need to kill their hosts, yet mortal bodies couldn’t live long in such a condition. One after one, the residents of Pocratee died off in the following years.
Angor reached the conclusion above by his own assumptions and with the help of body language, or in this case, the “head language” of the giant serpent. There were many details that he couldn’t figure out, such as why there were so many corpses that lay along the path that led here. He took many guesses, but none of them were approved by the serpent.
Also, the serpent didn’t know why the individual in the coffin could live through the thousand years, and neither could it tell Angor about the man’s identity or name. It only knew that the man was a villager from Pocratee.
Angor assumed that the serpent took the pain to keep someone like this alive for so long because it wanted to keep the last bloodline and hope of Pocratee. As the serpent told him, there were no survivors. The man in the coffin was the only one “alive”.
When Angor asked information about the outside world, the serpent only shook its giant head. It had spent centuries in the waters nearby without knowing anything beyond the bounds.
He didn’t intend to ask the man in the coffin for now. Wizards and wizard-level monsters alike could all observe something hundreds of kilometers away as if it were right in front of their eyes. Perhaps Akeso was still looking at him by using some supernatural powers.
He lied to the serpent that only Sunders could restore the health for possessed beings because he feared that Akeso might change its attitude once he actually saved the man in the coffin down there.
For this reason, he planned to take the man farther, just in case.
Every once in a while, Angor would ask Toby to check the surroundings, which was mostly meaningless at their current condition. But it was still better than having nothing.
Even with the help of the “Haste” spell, he still couldn’t travel very far. It was already two days, but he was nowhere near the edge of the forest.
Angor watched as Toby flew around, and he suddenly felt jealous of those wings.
“Can you give me a lift, Toby?” he asked the bird with an eager look.
Without much of a thought, Toby grabbed Angor’s collar and tried its best to fly upward. However, Angor’s body remained completely still.
Until Toby unleashed his power of gravity, which… hurled Angor into the air like launching a rocket.
Angor would certainly scatter into several parts if it wasn’t for his “tornado” which helped him to break his fall. It seemed like Toby couldn’t do anything to speed up their trip now. Maybe it was something about lower gravity that allowed Toby to carry him in the plane passageway, and once they were back in the wizarding world, everything returned to normal.
He thought and quickly gave up on the idea of crafting a vehicle item on the spot. He didn’t have many basic materials in his bracelet, and it was not like he knew how to make one.
Another two days later, he ran across a river.
A river meant potential colonies. Angor chose to change his route and travel along the river. This way, he could satisfy Toby’s need for fish as well.
In the coming days, he saw several random beasts from the forest including a ferocious tiger.
They all ended up in his belly.
It was already the 16th day of Month of Looming Frost when he finally found the presence of a human.
While still inside the forest, he discovered a hunter hut beside the riverbank.
It was built with several simple wooden planks and by using dry hay as the roof. It would provide an acceptable shelter from rain and snow, but it would not shelter anyone from extreme temperature or anything else.
Angor entered the hut and saw a simple bed and desk inside. There was a bow hung on the wall as well as several patches of tanned animal hide. The collected dust suggested that no one had been here for several years.
Maybe the hut was abandoned long ago.
Still, it told him that someone used to hunt here, and it shouldn’t be hard to find a way out now.