Chapter 285: Plan: Part two (1)
Hex entered the first tunnel for the first time.
It would be funny if not for the prospect of facing two Transformed Knights.
This was his third night exploring the burrow. And since the first night, he suspected something amiss in the first tunnel. Yet, somehow, he only entered it on the night he faced the greatest danger.
’At least I am a bit prepared this time.’
A hundred percent certainty didn’t exist during battles. He knew that. Everything could go wrong. His opponents were on their home turf, their stages surpassed his, and they held more information about Hex and the Serpents than Hex did about them.
They walked through the maze of tunnels with ease. During the past two days, they managed to clear all the dangers. Dollaire and Rublena briefed them about the situation last night.
According to them, Bashar and his team focused on trapping and killing creatures up to the Fiend Stage. They either retreated or collapsed the tunnel when facing Disaster-stage creatures.
They didn’t meet Calamities. Not alive ones. They did retrieve crystals from one corpse and skinned the meat from its body. The meat of Dessert Serpents was a rare delicacy in these parts of the country.
"We are finally close," Hex heard Red Hare say, pulling him out of his pondering.
They stood before a large hole at the end of a tunnel. The tunnels in these parts were larger than the ones behind the other two. Hex never had to stoop while walking. Even Red Hare, who towered above everyone else, didn’t stoop anywhere.
The dense energy fluctuation he sensed through the walls reminded him of the time he saw the Frost Dragon’s crystal. To Hex it seemed this one was a bit weaker. There was no doubt the crystal inside belonged to a Devil. Even those weaker and worse senses, picked the energy waves coming through the wall. Hex noticed them shiver and some even grimace in pain.