Chapter 237: Burned Rock
When they started out the next morning, nothing was said about the rocks that they'd encountered the next day. Even with Jonas having left to deal with the rocks, nothing was even mentioned about that.
While she was a little curious about it, she couldn't help but let the matter go. If no one else wanted to say anything about it, she didn't feel the need to do that either. She didn't doubt that Jonas had dealt with them, nor was she concerned that it might create problems later on.
She wasn't sure if Elmo or Elin were thinking much about them, but she couldn't figure out why she couldn't stop thinking about those rocks. All she could say was that there was something about them that caught her interest. Where she wouldn't have minded taking a few of those that looked more like gemstones. Although, she'd prefer them to not be interested in trying to eat her, she still would have liked to see what they might have looked if they could have been cut and made into various pieces of jewelry.
As they traveled along, the day seemed to promise to be much as it had been the past few days. Namely bright, sunny, and dull. Though, Kim hoped that whatever had caused the shadow from a couple days before wouldn't still be around. She still hadn't figured out what had cast the shadow, or even how they weren't able to see it. Or especially if it was hunting them or had merely been passing by at that particular moment.
While she had been thinking about those strange rocks, as the day continued on, Kim couldn't help but feel more relaxed. As with how the day was passing seemed to make all of the troubles and problems they'd encountered since this ridiculous competition started to melt away like they were small concerns that had passed and didn't need to be worried about anymore.
In a way it was a little liberating, but in other ways, Kim couldn't help but feeling a little concerned. As if they got too complacent here, then she was confident that they'd be courting disaster soon enough.
When the sun was reaching its zenith, they saw something ahead that immediately put them on guard, despite the fact that the area around them was still just as peaceful as at the start of the day.
The scene looked like scorch marks all across the stone. Aside from a large chunk that had broken away and had likely fallen into the river. They couldn't see anything as they approached the scorched rock, whatever had caused it was clearly nowhere nearby. Although, at the same time, it wasn't clear how long it had been since the stone had been burned in the first place.
"Think this might be the place Patrick and Patricia had fought the fire dragon?" Jonas asked as they looked at the burned stone.