The sun shines on the mountains of the plateau...

The feeling of being able to stand on this high ground is different from any other flat area.

You may be walking on one hill and then immediately see another hill, but except for the really best hills, all the others are right under your nose.

The saying that there is always someone higher than you is just a metaphor.

There is the highest peak in this world, and it is unique!

The smell in her nose became stronger and stronger, and Lucille couldn't help but cover her nose and walk forward.

At this time, the footprints of the brothers Thor and Sauron were almost invisible...

Before the snow melted, there were dead branches and leaves hidden underneath that had been there for who knows how many years, as well as the bodies of unknown animals that were about to turn into water.

I guess that’s how the smell that permeates the surroundings comes from!

It's unbearable, but one can only move forward.

However, under the cover of these plants, the footprints of the two brothers could no longer be found. They could only determine their approximate location based on each other's possible direction and the surrounding areas where they could walk.

It takes about one or two hours to go up and down the hill.

The two brothers left at night and could not have gone far.

"Look ahead, mentor!"

Lucille suddenly pointed into the distance, and the road in front of the two of them suddenly disappeared.

Specifically speaking, it's not that there is no path, but it should be downwards... It's like a position down the hill, where the road that the two people have been walking along suddenly "breaks" in their sight.

There is a col.

The valleys on the plateau are not like cliffs that make people afraid to approach, but rather continuous hills going down. In fact, they are not steep at all, and you can even walk directly down them.

Just as Sean was taking Lucille to the top of the hill, he was stunned by the scene before him!

There is indeed a valley not far away.

Just like the stretch of water they had come from before, a slightly flatter area...

But what he saw before him were not the scattered bounty hunter tents, but the corpses of fallen wild animals, many of which were human corpses.

Dozens or even hundreds of them...all fell in the center of the valley.

"This..." Lucille was so surprised that she was speechless.

"Go down and take a look first!"

For Sean, who had seen many similar scenes of mass tragic deaths, this was still a minor matter. He hurriedly pulled Lucille's hand and asked her to follow him down. At the same time, he activated his [Explore~] ability and vigilantly searched for targets around him.

Who killed these people? And the animals?

Could it be that dragon?

Sean has controlled the range of his magic perception to the maximum, but he did not find anything else except the fallen people in front of him.

Lucille, who was following closely, was also alert to the possible dangers around her...

Suddenly, she noticed something.

"Teacher, look at that person! Over there..." He said hurriedly, pointing at a person lying on the ground not far from the two of them.

The bald head on the ground was very conspicuous, including the dead ghost leopard next to him!

It's him.

Sean was shocked. Isn't this the animal trainer they met at the water source on the first day they came out?

The two men hurried over to check each other's injuries.

"Lucille, do you have any more potions?"

"some."

After checking the patient's breathing and finding that he still seemed to be breathing, Sean hurriedly asked Lucille to take out the potion and feed it to him.

The potions that can be bought at the market are actually not of very good quality, but they are somewhat useful. I spilled out most of the bottle and drank most of it.

A blush began to appear on the bald man's face.

"Hey, wake up. Wake up..."

Sean shook the other person hard, and he finally regained consciousness after coughing.

"you……"

"What happened to you? What happened here?" he asked the other party hurriedly.

The status above his head had already shown [Chaos!] and [Dying!], and the health of his body, representing the level 6 Orderer, had also been reduced to a low level.

According to Sean's previous experience, a person like this with only a few hundred points of health left cannot be saved, unless some high priests gather around him to rescue him, or he is given a blood transfusion using the alchemist's blood exchange method, only then is it possible to bring him back.

Otherwise it doesn't make sense.

"What on earth did you see? Where's the dragon?"

The bald man's eyes had begun to turn white, and this breath was his last.

"Go away, go away!" The only words he could say were to ask the two to leave quickly.

"What on earth is it?"

Sean still insisted on asking, shaking the other person's body wildly. He couldn't let the other person's will be lost, otherwise he would really be unable to speak.

"The dragon... the dragon was eaten. Over there!"

The bald man pointed somewhere with his trembling hand.

When Sean and Lucille looked in that direction, they found nothing. The only difference was that the land in that area was a different color from the rest of the land, and there seemed to be a black part.

Sean tried to focus his eyes.

As long as you look carefully at a certain place, all the attributes and names will appear in your field of vision...

The words "Lurking!" appeared at the top of the black ground, and below them was a long string of numbers [ ].

That's it!

One hundred thousand...

There actually exists something with a value of 100,000.

"Hurry up, many people have been pulled down by it!" The bald man had difficulty speaking at the last moment, using up his last bit of strength.

After that, the whole body begins to relax and the blood volume in the head decreases rapidly.

It has entered the state of death countdown.

Sean put the other person's body down and glanced at the ghost leopard next to him, the same ghost leopard that had quietly approached him to investigate the night before.

There is a crack on its neck that is visible to the naked eye...

Open it slightly with your hands.

It turned out to be a fault. The entire body of the leopard was broken.

"What kind of damage is this!" Lucille exclaimed in amazement.

Sean finally reacted and hurriedly grabbed Lucille's hand and ran back...

"Walk."

"ah?"

"Follow me!" It was too late to explain.

That thing.

The thing lurking under the soil had a blood volume that Wang Shuo had never seen before, one hundred thousand! What a terrifying existence!

Just as the two took a few steps, the ground beneath their feet began to tremble, and the dragon-like roaring sound came to their ears again.

Sean glanced back.

From underground, it is where the black soil was just now.

A giant arthropod that looked like a centipede and a caterpillar poked its head out.

There's no way to describe what that look was like...

The entire skin is black, and in front of it is a huge mouth covered with barbs, like the mouth of the abyss.