Chapter 262 – Unforgiven (III)

Chapter 262

Unforgiven (III)

It was dark.

Like, dark dark.

We were now using five lanterns to just barely light a foot of space around us, while I only had five more left in the spatial ring. Though I’d usually resort to childish whining and a bit of good-natured panicking, I forced myself to stay calm. Ordinarily, the kids were an unmoving boulder, with seemingly nothing capable of shaking him, but now…

They look scared.

The further in we went, the more corpses there were. At some point, there were no more branches or leaves hanging loosely off of the trunks; it was just creepy, mummified bodies with the exact same serene expression across the board.

Furthermore, the attacks were relentless; we’d just rebuffed another wave, but it was hardly with the same ease as before. Perhaps the best proof of that was that the kids didn’t try to push me back to the center when I stepped out to fight.

The reason was simple–they were tired. We haven’t rested in almost two days, as the howls were extremely frequent, but mostly because the moment we sat down to rest, the army of beasts would attack. Honestly, if it weren’t for my unique title helping with their Qi regeneration massively, I think we would have been spent a whole day ago.

Nobody talked, not beyond simply warning that another attack was coming.

“Here they come!”

The weight of Lao Shun’s words pressed against everyone as their expressions distorted. There was no time to mull over it, however, as we all got into a battle position. Rayce remained at the center of the circle, using what few Words he had left to support us, alongside Light, who only really contributed once every three battles, as her Qi reserves simply weren’t large enough.

When she did help, the fights would go much smoother, but this time, she was out.

I drew out the sword and waited–a breath later, a gnarly maw spawned from the darkness, and I cut almost instinctively, severing it. Sounds of the battle whimpered out all around me, as the forest seems to have also had some depressingly silencing quantities–just not with the howl.

“Ugh!”

“Help her! I’ll take over!”

I whipped my head back and saw Dai Xiu being pulled into the circle by Rayce while he stepped forward, a shabby sword in hand, taking her place. She tried to stand up and struggle, but Light firmly held her down and started rather awkwardly dressing up an awful-looking wound on her left shoulder.

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I couldn’t afford to look away for any longer, as there were a good six or seven of them coming.

By now, they were all at least at the peak of Foundation Establishment, with a few being in the Spirit Manifestation Realm. And they were almost enough to break our knees.

Which begged the question…

Where was the thing that caused all the other expeditions that were far stronger than us to fail?