Monster Integration

A day had passed since I have come to the weir palace and now, it is time for me to leave.

I have found one open hall and several looted ones which still had some stuff in them. Especially the ones which had been locked with the formations.

One thing that happened to me most was attempts to loot me. There were five times robbers tried to rob me. I had to kill one team, as they were fully willing to kill me while breaking the bones and taking the stuff from the rest.

The looting here is a lot more common than I had faced in the world. I don't know the reason, but sometime, my luck might run dry, and I might get looted by someone powerful.

I decided not to think about it, but I am now more focused on finding the chances to grow more powerful than accumulate more fortune.

I had found three teleportation gates here and I am going to the one that is close to me. Even with my speed, it will take me one and a half hours to reach there.

Time passed, and on the way, I have come across many people. Thankfully, nobody tried to rob me. Two people looked at me like they might, but changed their decision for some reason.

Soon, I reached near the formation; there were already a couple of people waiting there.

This one led to 'Char Citadel' but I have no desire to go there. So, I took out the token that made all their eyes light up and placed it in the hole.

As I placed it, a list appeared in front of me. I scroll it down before selecting the place. As I did, the gate flashed, and I walked inside. While I did that, several people moved from their places and stepped into the gate with me.

I did not stop them. Since they want to ride on my token, they are most welcome.

One token, let ten people travel together, and only seven have. There is still space for the two and those who want it only have two seconds, as the gate will stay connected to the place for three seconds only.

Step!

I stepped into the other side and immediately felt the greater gravity and denser energy.

I looked around and saw myself on top of the hill. Everywhere I looked are the verdant hills, with many dilapidated buildings. There are more of them, hidden in the shadows of the trees.

I am banzar valley. It is a beautiful place, but also extremely dangerous.

"Little human, hand over the token you have." said the stone-horned man. "Ask me again and I will kill you," I warned, without turning.

"Hehe, I had to give you a chance, but it seemed like I have to take it from your dead body," said the man and came at me.

Puch!

A second later, the sound rang out, before I removed my spear from it's his heart

I don't know why these people have to be so idiots. They know looting is dangerous and they still do it. Even the Grimms weren't such idiots as these people are.

"Idiot," I said and took the artifacts and storage from his dead body before walking away.

I did not even burn the body. He did not deserve it with the level of killing intent he had shown me.

As I walked down the hill, I opened the man. Looking at the marked places I had gone, each one of them is at least one and a half days away, and that is when everything goes smoothly.

In these two days, I had been here, I know, hoping things go smoothly is akin to night not coming.

Still, I am prepared as I could and have the confidence to survive anything aside from Sovereign or a group of golems like that Arachne. It was too powerful. If a group of them had come at me, there was no way I could survive against that.

Hun!

I was halfway across the hill when I sensed the powerful monster. Immediately, I increased the power of my stealth method and hide.

Soon, I saw the monster. It is a black leopard with dark blue eyes, and it is slowly climbing up the hill. It is clear; the monster had sensed the people coming behind me and now going toward them.

I wanted to fight it, but I controlled my urge.

It is not wise for a to fight the monster. It will waste time and also tire me, giving chance to the other monsters and humans behind to take a swipe at me.

While I am confident about surviving that, I don't want to take the risk needlessly.

A few minutes passed, and I begin to hear the sounds of fighting. The monster had attacked them. Hearing that, I stepped out and walked down the hill.

As for those people, they are capable enough to handle a monster like that. It is only one monster, while they are four, all of them at Primary III.

Half an hour later, I had reached the base of the hill. I have to say, there are a lot of monsters here. The journey of ten minutes had taken me half an hour. It will take even more than description to reach my destination.

I had already expected it and would go directly for it. I will look around and if you find anything, I will explore it.

It is the reason why I had come to this place. Exploring the unexplored is where the chances are found.

Those places I had selected had been explored, but each of them still holds considerable fortune. I am going to use it as a benchmark. While moving toward this, I will try to discover new places.

'Come out, Nero,' I said and brought Nero out. As he came out, he smiled happily before shooting into the forest.

I would have brought Ashlyn out, but she is sleeping again. She had woken up earlier and had stayed awake for nearly seven hours before sleeping again.

With Nero coming out, my travel became faster. Though I would still stop every few minutes to collect the resources. There are a lot of them, some of which would be very helpful to me.

Soon an hour passed, and I have traveled to a large area. I would have not been able to travel even a quarter of it if I did not have Nero to guide me.

There are too many monsters here. I should have believed the information.

These monsters are good and bad for me; good because few people will be able to travel fast as I could in this area, and bad because like most people. I would be completely defenseless against a Sovereign monster.

There are Sovereign stage monsters here and I am no match against them.

The most damning thing is, I am not even able to hide if they come too close to me. So, I really wish they would not, because if they did.

Then it would be an end to me.