Chapter 20: Whiteclaw Snake King
With the promise of money — a lot of it — now on the line, Nick was much more motivated to go through with this deal, even if he wasn’t exactly offered much of a choice at first.
Now that he had an idea of what he had to do, and how to do it, Nick crossed the line that separated the Whiteclaw Snake King’s territory with them.
Nothing happened.
It seemed the groups worry that all hell might be let loose as soon as Nick entered within the Whiteclaw Snake King’s range wasn’t a big deal after all.
But while Nick was happy to see this, the others were a little annoyed.
When Nick moved away from their view, they began to reconsider their deal with him — well, everyone but Dido at least.
After all, they only had an educated guess that he might be able finally break their unlucky streak and lure the Radiant beast out for them. It wasn’t set in stone that he could actually do so.
"No, I believe that he will open an opportunity up for us." Dido firmly put her foot down on everyone’s questioning, though, and they quietened down like obedient puppies.
After walking for a few more minutes, Nick still spotted nothing.
In fact, there was no sound to be heard at all except for the occasional breeze passing through the canopy above.
But this was a good indicator to Nick that he was in the right place, though.