yasinovel Chapter 917: Arrival
Chapter 917: Arrival
Chapter 917: Arrival
Erik placed the brain crystal into a padded cloth and wrapped it before putting it into his backpack along with the vial of blood.
He stood up, shouldered his bag, and looked once more at the metalfur bear's corpse.
Erik turned and began walking back the way he had come, leaving the bear's body behind. He got what he needed. He then walked back to where the others were waiting. When he reached them, Mira approached him.
"Did you kill it?" she asked, eying his bloodstained clothes.
Erik nodded. "We need to move, we can't waste more time than we already did."
Mira, Amber, and Emily climbed onto the backs of the clones. June handed Erik the brain crystal and vial of blood he had collected from the Luminaclaw bear.
Erik took them and thanked June. His clone then shapeshifted into an Erendu, crouching low so that his master could climb onto his back easily.
Once Erik was seated, June stood up, and the group began moving again, setting off at a fast pace along the forest path.
The women held onto the Erendus clones tightly as they picked up speed, jostling with each stride of the massive beasts. But they understood the urgency of reaching New Alexandria as soon as possible.
Erik leaned forward, giving June directions as they traveled. There was still a long way to go, and time was short.
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Erik rode on June's back as they made their way through the forest. Two weeks had passed since they set out from Liberty Watch City. Much had happened during that time.
The only man in the group woke up early each day and focused on increasing the neural links for his self-healing brain crystal power.
Years of practice and experience, combined with the technique the biological supercomputer developed, allowed him to progress quickly.
Though frustrated by their lack of quantifiable progress, the three refused to be disheartened.
They took hope in the minor improvements they made and the fact that they were going to learn a better technique soon.
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"We are here."
The group arrived. New Alexandria was in front of them.
Erik looked out at the city. The thick walls and shimmering mana barriers were still there.
However, the dangers had only increased since Erik's and the others' last visit, as many additional defenses now covered the area.
Mercenaries from Etrium lined the stone battlements, soldiers from the New Alexandria barracks patrolled along the parapets, and even small groups of blackguards watched from guard towers.
A line of turrets stood ready to fire beyond the city gates, where cobbled streets normally bustled with people.
Those were different from the usual; it looked like they had been enhanced with brain crystals. Erik shuddered at the thought of how much destruction they could cause.
Erik glanced at Mira, Amber, and Emily. He could tell from their faces that they shared his unease at the sight of so many blackguards within the city and the new defenses they had to get past to enter their home.
Amber turned to look at Erik. She looked worried.
"What do we do?"
The woman had trouble seeing themselves entering the city with that much surveillance.
"Don't worry about the entering. There's a passage no one knows. We take that, if we can get there unseen, we can slip past the defenses."
Amber nodded. "Lead the way," she said.
Erik turned to Mira and Emily. "Follow close behind me and try to remain hidden," he said.Yôur favorite stories at novelhall.com