Chapter 125
"We need to move a little more west... then there should be a path to the north..." - Garami
We walked through the jungle with Iron as the vanguard. He’s both the most durable one and the one with Pathfinder after all. I’m the one with the map.
"This is quite the picturesque jungle. Just as I had hoped," said the fairy-turned-shipwrecked companion, Ciara.
"As you hoped?" - Garami
That note caught my attention. I sneakily Identified this girl before, and I saw she had some, okay, a lot of abilities related to the Water attribute and the Ocean attribute. The latter is a composition attribute of Water and Order, similar to how my Poison is one of Water and Death. The Ocean one has skills that improve your abilities by the sea, plus moves that are larger variants of the ones from the Water attribute. Obviously, I’m suspecting she may have something to do with that pillar of seawater from before...
"Matata Island is famous for its nature after all. The ship is supposed to stay at the harbor for a few days, so I planned to make some drafts before the ship set sail again." - Ciara
...I’ll believe you for now. As we had similar plans.
There are three things about this island: it’s the perfect "rest stop" that allows safe travels between Luxuria and Invidia, it has such a gorgeous expanse of nature that both continents decided to leave the island in the care of the locals, who also watch over the harbor that the ships docks. And finally, it also has... a Dungeon. It’s a weird kinda thing that consists of only traps. No monsters, no obvious treasure chests, only traps, and a few Safe Areas.
The Union has decided to let that Dungeon be and lets adventurers train their trap-detection and trap-disarming skills. That is also one of the reasons we wanna have a go at it while waiting for the sea currents to align... but nothing is preventing us from taking over the place either, is there? Just have to keep the trap-hell on the first floor, and nobody will care if its name suddenly changes. There’s even a name-concealing thing I can add to the different Territories, so no worries there.
Just then, Iron stopped in front of us... now I see. The rich flora made it a little difficult, but now I’m able to sense them as well.
Monsters... is taking it a little too far. This island’s wildlife is made mostly outta animals, and the few monsters around here are the normal animals that evolved into monsters. The classification of "monsters" is after all those that have gone too far away from their original species.