Chapter 558 - 552. Looking For Coal to Find Diamond
After building their camp and using it for just an hour, they abandoned it right away.
Leaving only the purification device and a marker behind, the group immediately followed Ashur in the direction he came from before. The warrior didn’t even have the time to sit down before he had to go again while explaining on the way.
"I saw a group of lizardmen on my way and pursued them. They stay on a riverbank, and after taking care of them, I looked around for a dungeon, because they didn’t look like the mutated horde," Ashur told the group about his finding. "Well, I couldn’t find the dungeon, but I found a strange place."
"Strange how?"
"Hmm...I can’t describe it well, just..." the warrior frowned. "It was covered in vines--the entrance, I mean--and the vines felt...younger? Less grotesque?"
Ashur scratched his neck and shrugged. "Anyway, I felt off when I saw it, so I tried to probe around. You’ll know what I mean when you see it later."
"About the lizardmen," Jock looked around the path they took. "They could come from the dungeon we came from, don’t you think?"
"Ah, it was a swamp!" Han Shin clapped his hand. "Maybe they got away because they lost in the hierarchy?"
"Who knows--ah, we’re almost there," Ashur slowed down his run, and pointed into a pile of grilled lizardmen on the side, still with smoke rising from it.
As expected from Ashur Iddina; even the clean-up was thorough.
"This way," the warrior steered from the path and led them to the riverside.