Chapter 86
Walking around, she found stones aligned into a circle. Michelle thought about it for a while before stabbing an ice spear next to each stone. Then, she climbed a tree and looked at the ice spires from above, seeing that they looked as if they were assembled into a man-made formation, which was quite surprising because it was in the Sairin Forest Mountain Range, also called "Monster Mountain," because it was well known for swarming with powerful monsters. That made it absurd for people to move around there, and the few brave ones who dared go there either returned traumatized or did not return at all. So who was it that created the formation?
Michelle stared at the formation for a while, and when she was about to come back down, she felt the presence of the monsters in the cave moving closer, so she stayed on one of her ice bridges and waited for the monsters to reappear.
When she arrived where Ivona was when the monsters were entering the cave, she was busy checking on Ivona, so she didn’t have the chance to take a good look at the monsters, but at the moment they were coming out, she could see their ugliness in its full glory.
The monsters were a mix of all kinds of animals. They had eight legs, like spiders, but the legs were in the shape of lizard legs. The tails of the monsters were those of horses. Bodies of tigers, heads of owls, but instead of beaks, they had mouths filled with rows and rows of sharp fangs, similar to sharks’ jaws.
"How can something so ugly exist?" Michelle frowned in disgust as she used the ice bridges to get back to Ivona. "These ugly shits came here after you lit the beam of light?" she asked, pointing toward the monsters on the ground. They were just starting to inspect the spears stabbed next to the flat stones of the formation. It was clear the monsters had some intelligence, as they stayed together all the time so other monsters, or Michelle, couldn’t ambush them.
Ivona stared at the monsters for a moment before adding, "They came quickly after I lit the beam," she confirmed.
Hearing that, an impossible idea rose in Michelle’s mind. What if monsters could set up formations? But if that was the case, how come she had never heard of it? Was it something humans didn’t know about? Or did only the people in the Land of Exile not know? Or were the monsters deliberately hiding it?
Even in the memories she had received from the ancient monster Rivenaar, she didn’t find anything about monsters being able to create formations, so was that a skill only the ugly monster down beneath the trees possessed?
Looking at Ivona, Michelle smiled a bit. "Do you think you stand a chance against them?" she asked with a smirk.