BXBX NOVEL Chapter 106 Balton: The Schemer And Trickster - Part 2
*gulp*
"Sir Balton, you really sent him there?", Wendy asked after a while when Balton had stopped laughing and continued to take the treatment.
"I told him about his companion\'s fake location…"
"And I\'m sure, he definitely took the bait.", was what he said while grinning.
Wendy was starting to feel a weird form of chills, his legs were trembling a bit and so were his hands.
Lian Plains – A place where one of the strongest monsters in the world resides – The Earth-Dragon.
Why would a dragon be in some plain and not in the forest?
The reason was simple, the dragon had long lost the ability to fly. It had an enormous body and walking far would be quite bothersome.
That was why it settled there and had been there for quite a long time.
The only ones who can go there are the foolish beasts or foolish race because the Earth Dragon was quite violent in nature.
It wouldn\'t see if the one coming is friend or foe and wouldn\'t ask the reason for entering its territory.
It would first attack the moment it would sense the presence of a foreigner!
Will he attack the dragons who will come to visit him?
The answer is obviously yes. It would attack absolutely anything and everything, until and unless it actually identifies the being or the foreigner.
Now it made sense why Balton was so sure that Shin would be killed once he reached the plains.
Wendy nodded his head by thinking about it.
But if Aella didn\'t escape from that place, then where exactly did she run away from them?
That was a question to be wondered about. Well to be honest, did they even catch her in the first place?
Of course, they did have one of her legs, but that didn\'t necessarily mean that they had captured her initially!
They could have just injured her and after her running away, they just picked up the limb to sell, that might have been the case.
Whatever it may be, one could only guess. The truth will only be revealed if Balton or Wendy would actually speak or when Shin would find Aella.
( North edge of the great forest Thuren )
Shin arrived at the northern part of the great forest. The size of the forest was no exaggeration, Shin had encountered tons of monsters and beasts on his way.
The reason why the forest was one of the top ten dangerous forests was because of its large-sized and powerful monsters.
But they were only present in the inner or deeper parts of the forest. Once, Shin had visited the deeper parts of the forest only once, and ever since then, he never even thought about going towards those areas.
Probably he encountered something that instilled fear in him, or he just concluded that he wasn\'t ready to discover those areas.
\'huff huff\'
He was panting and it seemed so ridiculous that he asked himself, "Am I actually panting…?"
The shorter route that he had found on the map was quite a difficult route.
He had to actually climb some high areas and then cross a river. Even after that, he hadn\'t exited the forest yet, of course, he arrived near the edge but hadn\'t exited yet.
"The only good thing that happened in taking this route was that my skill and I leveled up.", he said in a low voice.
The panting was purely because he had exhausted half of his MP and had accumulated some amount of fatigue.
\'Ding\'
[ The skill Dash has leveled up ]
[ Lv.9 -> Lv.10 ]
[ Skill.exp: 0/100 ]
[ -> Your speed will be tripled ]
[ -> Dexterity of the limbs will be doubled ]
[ -> Fatigue will start to get accumulated by 0.05 per second. ]
[ -> Skill will get deactivated automatically the moment fatigue reaches 50 ]
As soon as the skill leveled up, some new stuff was shown.
It was called \'Skill.exp\', Shin somewhat understood what it meant, but he had no idea about its exact purpose.
Of course, the system didn\'t hesitate to explain what that was.
[ -> Ranges from 0 to 100 ]
[ -> The skill would evolve once the Skill.exp reaches 100 ]
"Huh?"
"The skill would evolve?", now this was something new for sure.
He did have the skill Dash and thought that after reaching level 10, it would max out because he had some skills displaying the maxed out stat. But to his surprise, the skill could evolve too.
"I wonder if the evolved skill would show the maxed out status or would start to level up from the scratch.", he wondered.
In addition to this skill, he himself had leveled up too.
\'Ding\'
[ You have leveled up ]
[ Lv.71 -> Lv.72 ]
[ Level: 72 || Max. level: 80 ]
[ HP: 820/820 || Max. HP: ??? ]
[ MP: 330/510|| Max. MP: ??? ]
[ Exp: 6000 || Max. Exp: 9999 ]
[ Atk: 285 || Max. Atk: ??? ]
[ Def: 253 || Max. Def: ??? ]
[ Speed: 548 || Max. Speed: ??? ]
This was irrelevant for the moment anyway. The main thing was that he had arrived at the edge and after getting out of the forest he would soon reach the Lian Plains.
[ 15 miles towards the north ]
The navigation system of the predator system also notified him.
Although he was tired and had quite the less amount of MP, he thought it was best to leave.
But little did he know that the place where he had decided to go was filled with great danger – a dragon!
Although he had the transformation skill with the help of which he could turn into a Half-Dragon form, but who knows, what awaited him. This could only be told as time passed, because his adventures seemed seamless!
The dragon didn\'t even like its own species, so would it just let Shin enter its territory and leave as he pleased?
A lot of questions, the answers for which would only be found when Shin would enter the Lian Plains.
"…"
To be continued…