Chapter 456 - 449. Ticket
"Aah...that was nice," Zhan moved his head to loosen his neck, shaking his hands to shed the black blood splattered on him.
"The battle?" Banner raised his brow.
"Nah, the guiding," Zhan stretched his back next before putting his spear away. "The battle is mid--it’s just a newly evolved Cerberus anyway."
"But why did it suddenly evolve?" Gus smirked as he walked toward the severed head a few meters away from the giant body. "Look for its core while I check the head. Heads."
The swordsman severed the spot just above the neck, so the heads were rolling in three directions. He tilted them away with his boots and slashed each of the jaws, looking for anything that might be out of place.
"Found anything?" Bassena asked the swordsman.
"Hmm..." Gus cracked the jaw open with his boots and his scabbard, showing Bassena leftover dark purple shards at the roof of the middle head’s mouth. "Seems like it did eat something, just as you said."
"Shin!" Bassena called the healer, who jumped over dead hound bodies like a child doing skipping rope. No one needed healing, so the healer had nothing to do and was as fresh as he could be. "We have something for you to do."
The healer tilted his body to see the head beneath Gus’s foot. He crouched and put on surgical gloves, taking out a kit from his storage ring to take the shards and put them inside a sample tube.
"Done! We can’t do anything until we establish a camp, though," he stood up and looked at the other two espers. "What do you think it is?"
"Whatever it is, it was accelerating the hound’s growth," Bassena rubbed his chin. "We can’t make any conclusion since it’s only the first commander-type we came across, so let’s just proceed for now."