Chapter 144: Purple spirit roots.
"What in the world is that?" Xiao Lian asked, more annoyed than anything else.
"Tundra or something?" Lee scratched his head, similarly lost.
It wasn’t cold enough for the place to be called tundra, but it certainly looked like one.
In front of them was vast barren land, void of trees, but covered in brown, almost dark red moss. There were batches of grass and a shrub near rocks here and there, but the surreal feeling Lee got was understandable.
After the picturesque beach and the green forest, they were about to step in a completely different world.
And the first inhabitants happily greeted them. A pack of brown colored dreadtalons attacked the moment both stepped over the treeline.
They were smaller, probably two and a half feet tall, but much quicker, and maybe even stronger compared to their forest relatives. The dozen beasts rushed over like ghosts, without making the slightest sound.
Only when both Lee and Xiao Lian cleaved the first ones that jumped at them in halves, they began to screech in loud chorus. It was almost as if they tried to affect the abilities of the two humans with a sound attack, and in a way it actually worked.
Purely instinctively Lee raised the left hand to his ear, at the same time slightly obstructing his vision to the left. Two of the beasts immediately used the chance and jumped at him, but while he did manage to behead one, the other sunk his teeth in his shoulder.
Ignoring the pain, Lee stabbed the dreadtalon biting him and rolled away, creating distance from few more that came at the same time, but it was too early to relax.
Xiao Lian saw him being in a tough spot, but couldn’t do anything about it. Four beasts kept pestering him while nimbly evading his slashes, and it was the first encounter they couldn’t clean up the beasts in one sweep.