Chapter 61: What a saint
Aric went into deep thought about what he needed to do to make himself look innocent. He couldn’t take the dead bodies of the new team to the other worlds because it would bring diseases and bacteria, which he had no idea about. After his initial scare, he had been careful about what he should bring along.
He had tried it with insects, and that too only from the magical world to Echorysia, and then promptly killed the insect and later small animals like frogs. Taking dead bodies was a no-go for him. So he did what he could do best.
His enhanced strength allowed him to easily put two bodies on his shoulders and take them a distance away from the cave. After coming a bit far, he started shoveling the ground with one of the instruments he had brought.
Soon he had dug a 3-foot-deep hole and then proceeded to throw the bodies into the hole. He repeated the task for the other two bodies and then filled the plot again with the soil. The drones helped him illuminate the whole place. Of course, the light could attract attention, so he sent the other drones to work for him and make sure he would be alerted if a beast was coming for the light.
The snow around would help him cover the tracks since it had started snowing again. Three feet deeply buried bodies weren’t that difficult to find and uncover, but the snow helped.
After dealing with the dead bodies of George and his group, he went back to the cave and decided to fish out the mana core of the Eclipsian Hyena. He decided to return to the city tomorrow while making a drama out of it.
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"Yawn... I want to go to sleep... It’s so cold. Why do I have this shift?" one guard grumbled as he sat at the side of the gate of Distant Wind City. This wasn’t the same gate that Aric had passed through.
"You have this shift because you puked after getting drunk on the leather shoes of the Captain," another guard said.
"Shut up... Don’t remind me of that. I will never drink again," the first guard promised.
"You just drank the day before yesterday, and your wife had to bring you back from the pub," the second guard said.