Chapter 725: A Lake
For Max, though, leading them through this deadly labyrinth was almost effortless. His Three Dimensional Body was fully active, an unseen web of perception reaching out in every direction like invisible radar, painting a vivid map in his mind of every rock, every shifting storm cloud, every creature lurking behind jagged ridges of scorched stone or hidden beneath ash-choked foliage.
His eyes seemed distant, yet they glimmered with constant calculation as he steered the group away from hidden threats long before they could materialize into danger.
When his senses picked up monstrous auras—beasts whose power peaked at the very top of the Champion Rank or who radiated terrifying fluctuations in their cores—he simply veered their path without a word, guiding the team along alternate routes that might wind longer through the terrain but kept them safe from battles they couldn’t hope to win.
The group’s journey stretched out like a silent odyssey, hours melting away as Max moved unerringly through the twisted pathways of the Berserk Lightning Region.
Occasionally, smaller Champion Rank beasts would cross their path—some feline predator with pelts flickering like storm clouds, or serpents coiling from fissures in the earth spitting arcs of charged venom—but Max barely spared them a glance.
If he deemed them weak enough, he allowed them to remain on their course, giving the other five behind him a chance to act.
It was those five—Arlen, Lena, Varek, Sana, and Kael—who slaughtered those lesser creatures one by one, steel and elements flashing in coordinated bursts, yet even as they fought, their eyes kept flicking toward Max with growing awe and confusion.
They followed him deeper into the region, through black forests alive with sizzling vines, across canyons where lightning waterfalls poured from the sky in endless torrents, through fields where the very ground pulsed with electric life, yet they encountered no catastrophe, no deadly ambushes, no colossal beasts bursting from the shadows.
And the deeper they went, the more it dawned on them how extraordinary it was. They were all experienced fighters, seasoned warriors of the Champion Rank, yet not one of them could sense half of what Max seemed able to perceive.