Chapter 240: The Forest's Cleaner, Oinoin
240 – The Forest’s Cleaner, Oinoin
As planned, I go for a walk through the forest with Aro. While giving the Lithovar village a wide berth, my objective is to chase after the manticore. If I can locate food and raise Aro’s level on the way, then even better.
I’d thought it would be difficult to control the spiderlings if we brought them with us, so I left them in the care of the lesser treant. I asked it to look after them with a gesture, and it accepted with an expressionless nod. Soon enough, one of its branches became a nest for the spiderlings, but I’m sure it can handle them. That’s what I believe.
[Soul AppendmentFake Life] already gives them cursed condition, so Aro and the treant should be unaffected by [Dragon Scales]… I think. I can’t be certain, but it’s a bit hard to imagine a skeleton having a coughing fit. It’s only a supposition, so if I notice something strange I’ll rethink things, but for now it doesn’t look like there’s a problem.
However, none of that applies for the spiderlings. Before they even hatched, they were stuck to my partner’s head, so there’s a chance they’ll have developed some level of resistance to it like the ball rabbit did, but I wouldn’t like to take those odds. It’s unfortunate for my partner, but we should cut our interactions with them down to the bare minimum.
I’ll have to carefully determine if they get resistance skills upon evolving. That’s why I left them behind.
While searching for human presences with [Presence Detection] I walk through the forest. As she is now, I can’t let Aro be seen by people. If the dragon-god was seen walking around with a skeleton, I wouldn’t be able to prevent there being a panic.
I’ve been keeping a lot of distance between myself and the village, so the probability of encountering someone should be really low… Is what I thought, but I notice a human presence. I really can’t let my guard down, huh…
The Lithovars seem to be a tribe of hunters, so they’ll show up even far away from the village. It might have been two-vs-one, but they were fighting a C-rank abyss like it was nothing. I can’t feel any bloodlust or excitement this time, so I don’t think they’re in battle at the moment.