Chapter 85: Jiraxa.
Lee was right. It was impossible to keep fighting endlessly in such heat. The several treasure hunter squads they met were already trying to find shelter in the shadows after killing only a few lizards.
The two devils, pretending to ignore their weaker colleagues, proudly walked by, loudly making plans on how many beasts are they going to kill this time. Lee, of course, did his best to pretend the heat wasn't bothering him as well, although it took even greater effort to not show embarrassment he felt because of his companions.
On the way they did find few lizards, but Arax's sword cut them in halves with no effort – that if he managed to get them before Thorax smashed them dead with his club. Unfortunately, none of the beasts had managed to ignite a spark, thus killing them was basically a useless endeavor.
The devils didn't think so, in fact, they probably didn't think at all, at least nothing noteworthy. They continuously discussed their chances on getting valuable sparks when after walking around two or three miles from the rift, they stumbled across a massacre.
A larger treasure hunter squad, somewhere between thirty to forty people, lie dead and there were a bunch of large dogs feasting on them. The four feet tall and seven feet long beasts looked something in between a dog, a wolf and a small bear, but no matter what, the sight was a bloody mess.
The squad managed to kill around ten beasts, but either they were too weak or inexperienced, everyone died in the end.
Except for one person, currently standing on a taller rock, desperately trying to fight several dogs away.
By the way she held the spear was an obvious sign she was a complete rookie, at least in Lee's eyes, who had been training solely with spears for over half a year.
She wasn't weak, though. The few times she managed to poke the beasts, they whimpered away in pain, although came back right after. But if her whole squad was at this level, there was no question why they got annihilated.
"Let's go help her!" Lee said purely on impulse, and dashed forward, on the way grabbing a spear that one of the treasure hunters left behind.
"Help? Let's get all the sparks! Hahaha!" Thorax roared, and the two brothers overtook Lee in an instant.