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Path of Evolution - Chapter 46

Published at 17th of January 2019 11:05:48 AM


Chapter 46

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The sight that greeted me when I cut through the ground was one of devastation.

The whole village had been flattened to the ground.

All the houses and huts that remained standing so far had now been reduced to mere rubble.

I glanced around quickly in order to find any potential danger but there were none. 'Well, that's one good thing.'

It was currently dawn and the temperature was still a bit cold. It would have mattered to me if I was not wearing the Defensive Suit which had the additional function of keeping my body temperature stable.

I wondered how the people who had yet to learn all the functions of the Black Watch were doing. Were they in hiding? Were they trying to put up resistance. Were they still mourning their dead ones? Were they starving? Were they afraid?

On the right, I saw a large skeleton that once belonged to some kind of mutant beast which had been picked clean of any meat by now.

'I wonder if that would have been my fate if I was caught by those mutant birds. I don't think I would have like to die under the beaks of thousands of birds.'

'So much for mutant birds 'not being dangerous.'' Lily snorted and I chuckled.

I put the sword (which I had been using as a digging tool so far) inside the spatial ring and went on to stand on top of one of the rubble mounds to get a better look.

'Well. This village is completely destroyed.' I concluded after a single glance. 'If there was any hope of the old man being here then it's now gone.'

Lily remained silent and I looked at the remains of human civilization and suddenly started to feel a bit nostalgic.

'What are you thinking?' Lily asked in a gentle tone.

'Nothing.' I replied and shook head. But a few moments of her silence forced me to spill the beans anyway. 'It's just that the state of this village closely resembles of fate of us humans. We've fallen. And no one knows if we'll rise ever again.'

We both remained silent for a long moment before I finally jumped down from the rubble and took out the compass.

'So much for the mission.' I said as the compass needle come to a stop. I looked at the Western-South direction and after giving the village one last look, I left.

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'What the fuck does these cocksuckers want from me?' I grimaced as I felt something bite at my leg and swung my sword, cutting the beast in two halves.

Thankfully, the defensive suit protected my leg but I could still feel the damage in my muscles from the bite.

Then I looked at the seven remaining mutant beasts who resembled overgrown, deranged and perverted rabbits. With red eyes of course.

Some of the rabbits were rather small and I felt a tinge of pity when looking at them. But I shook my head threw that notion out of my head.

This was not a time for pity. If I took pity on my enemies then I would be hard pressed to survive. And if I didn't survive then who would take care of little Neha.

I steeled my heart and braced myself for the massacre that is to come next. No pity.

"Come on then you bastards." I shouted and charged at their group.

After five minutes.

I took a cloth and wiped the sword a few times to make it look decent before I went on to take out the cores from their bodies.

'This is the sixth group already since morning.' I said with a scowl and massaged the spot in my leg where I had been bitten. 'I hope the rest of the way back home is not filled with these beasts. Or that would be troublesome.'

'It may be.' Lily chimed in. 'But this way, you won't have to go out of your way to hunt for more wealth. Right?'

'Right. But I still don't like it.' I said and looked around cautiously.

Unlike before, whenever the beasts had attacked today they did so in silence. He knew that if they made more noise then other beasts would have known about his presence.

'Maybe they didn't want to share their prey with others.' I made a guess.

'Maybe.' Lily said.

'I hope there was some way to know about their positions. That would be very useful to me. Lily, do you think that there would be some kind of skill that would help me with scouting.' I asked.

'There should be. Do you want me to search for them now?' she asked.

I thought about it for a moment before I finally shook my head 'Big bro said that he would buy a skill book for me when I return. It would not be wise of me to buy another skill book now considering how long it'll for me to level up again.'

'So what's the plan next?' she asked.

'The plan's to keep doing what I've been doing so far.' I smiled and continued on my journey with a wary look on the surrounding for more danger.

In the last few days since I had been searching for the old man, things had once again changed in the kingdom of mutant beasts.

Unlike before, where they mostly stayed in a single place, now they were scattered throughout the whole forest in small groups.

'Maybe because of food shortage?' I thought.

'Well, whatever it was, I needed to stay more cautious from now on.' I thought and took another step when I heard the sound of howling from the right side.

I took up my sword and braced for the attack but then another howl came from an even different place.

'What are they up to this time?' I asked in annoyance. The fact that they were scattered was a problem, but if they started to use different strategies to attack their prey so early in the apocalypse then that would suck.

'I don't think they're after you.' Lily suddenly suggested.

'What makes you say that?' I asked.

'Their cries are getting further and further away.' Lily said 'I think they're after someone else.'

'Someone else? Is it possible that that 'someone else' would be that old man?' I asked.

'Most likely not. I don't think that so many of those beasts would have howled for a single man. But there's always that slight chance.' She said.

'Very well then. Let's see what those beasts are after. If it really was the old man, and he died in the hand of those beasts then that would be truly infuriating.' I said and changed the direction in which I was running.




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