Shota's Isekai NTR Adventure - Chapter 1843: Something’s wrong (4)
Chapter 1843: Something’s wrong (4)
“Why is this same thing happening?” I asked when we didn’t find anything.
Though I asked this, it wasn’t as if there was anyone that could answer this question.
After all, everyone else was just as confused as I was.
All of us had prepared for a fight and now that there wasn’t a fight, we were just confused.
It really didn’t make any sense at all.
Since there was nothing here, I tried the same thing as before where I dug under the ground and it didn’t take long for us to find the same thing as before. It was just that this time, the situation with the prisoners was much worse than before.
It seemed like they had abandoned this place much sooner than the other outpost since there were people that had starved to death.
Though looking closely, it was better to say that they had died of thirst.
Humans would die of thirst in just three days whereas they would be able to survive on water for up to two months depending on how much fat they had stored up.
For them to die here, it meant that they had died of thirst.
Though there were a few that had managed to hold on and had survived in the end.
Looking closely, we could see that these were the younger prisoners that had survived. It was mostly the older prisoners that had willingly chosen to go without water so that they could save the younger ones.
Shaking my head, I said, “Help them.”
Even if I didn’t say anything, the others were already moving forward to help the people that had been kept captive in this place.
When they slowly recovered, the first thing that they did was look up at us and say, “Why didn’t you come sooner.”
There was nothing that we could say in response to this.
It wasn’t as if there wasn’t anything that we could say, it was just that it wasn’t right to say these things.
These people had been through a traumatic experience and it wasn’t our place to say anything about the trauma that they suffered. The best thing to do was to let them say what they wanted to say so that they could get all of this off their chest.
There was no reason for us to antagonize them when they were suffering like this.
Once it was over, I asked them, “Do you know when your captives abandoned this place?”
This time I didn’t get an answer.
The last time there was someone special that had been keeping track.
But this time, they had been too weakened to even think about this.
I didn’t blame them since they were victims.
Since there was no information that we could get from this place, I stabbed the Staff of Earth into the ground and created the tendrils that stabbed the ball of corruption energy.
Once that ball was destroyed, the same thing happened where the sky collapsed and we were released from this place.
I didn’t go with the others to take care of prisoners, instead I went to find Sylph to see if there was any information.
This time, there had been contact from the other groups that had been sent to take care of the outposts. However, the reports that came in were the same as what I had experienced in my time attacking the outposts.
“There’s nothing at all?”
It wasn’t just one or two outposts that had been abandoned, all of the outposts that had been attacked so far had been abandoned by the forces of Destruction.
It was as if all of them ran without a single trace of hesitation.
It was as if they were willing to abandon everything just because we had found them.
No matter how one looked at it, it didn’t seem to make any sense at all.
These outposts were no doubt outposts that had taken a lot of effort for them to create, so how could they be willing to abandon them this easily?
It really felt like all of this was one big trap…
“I’m still waiting to go in.” The Fenrir said through Sylph.
When I heard this, I came to a decision.
“Joan, come and take me there!”
Joan had been on standby the entire time since she was too big to fit inside of the portal arrays that led into the outposts. But I knew that when the time came, I would have to move quickly between the different places that the portal arrays were.
When the time came, it would be Joan’s turn.
Once I called for her, she didn’t waste any time coming over and letting me on her back.
Then with a single flap of her wings, she soared into the sky.
Even though she was just taking off, the speed that she did this with was incomparable to the speed that she had before.
Joan had also been training during this time with Old Man Lancelot and the others.
Though she didn’t use a divine relic like them, there was something that was on her that she was able to draw divine energy from. It was a bit different since the Mark of God was something that directly provided her with divine energy.
However, the way of controlling it wasn’t different from how divine energy from divine relics was controlled. That meant that once the Mark of God released the divine energy, she would be able to control it.
Joan did something quite blasphemous with this divine energy.
She used to only use it to power up her flames, but now she was using it to power up her entire body.
Adding in the fact that she was already stronger than most other wyverns in the first place, she had reached a point where she was on the same level as the legendary beasts.
Someone had once told me that Joan had the potential to become a demigod.
Seeing the way that Joan used this Mark of God, I believed them.
