Chapter 470: I Cant Even Feel Your Body Temperature
“No matter if the main city of the Garden Area is taken down by the Spider Tower and the Oasis, the Garden legion, which is already on high alert, is definitely concentrating its forces and wouldn’t dispatch a commander to retrieve resources. This is our opportunity…”
Ashe’s analysis was spot on. He followed the Garden map to scavenge resource points, which were filled with social creatures that hadn’t retreated and abundant resources.
Moreover, he noticed that the resource volume in the Garden Area was nearly two to three times that of other areas. There are two possibilities for this: either the resource harvesting cycle in the Garden is two to three times longer than other factions, causing a massive pile-up of resources, or the social creatures in the Garden Area are two to three times more efficient in gathering resources, allowing them to collect multiple times the resources within the same cycle.
After looting several resource points, the Truth balance gradually tilted towards the second possibility.
Compared to social creatures in other areas, those in the Garden Area may not have a significant increase in combat power, but their tactical insight and teamwork capability were far superior. When Ashe’s group tried to lure the social creatures into a narrow passageway to block and kill them, the creatures hid inside the mine cave and didn’t come out. They even gave Ashe a disdainful look, as if to say, “How naive are your deceptive tactics?”
Furthermore, Ashe discovered that the mine caves in the Garden Area were much more complex than those in other areas. The interiors had numerous interconnected tunnels, and a moment of carelessness could lead to ambushes from all directions.
Although they eventually emerged victorious, the danger level of these fights was several times higher than that of ordinary resource points. And keep in mind that they were three sorcerers, capable of defending all directions by standing back-to-back. For a lone sorcerer attempting to challenge such resource points, it would be an overwhelming task, likely resulting in being surrounded and killed, or worse, torn apart and consumed by the social creatures, with no hope of recovering their soul for at least half a year.
In the most dangerous encounter, after Ashe’s group scattered the monsters at the entrance and ventured into the mine cave’s passages, the other social creatures actually tried to collapse the mine cave to bury them alive. If it weren’t for the sword Princess unleashing a deadly “Blood Moon Shattered Lake” attack to blast through the rubble, they might indeed have met their demise inside.
These complex passageways were definitely not naturally formed. Upon closer inspection, Ashe and his team could see clear claw marks dug into the walls.