Chapter 19: The Girl with Amethyst Eyes
The choice was made. Rhys ran.
He ran with a desperation he hadn’t felt since the moment the shockwave from the fight between those god-like cultivators had thrown him against a wall.
His heart hammered against his ribs in a frantic, wild rhythm. He had made a mistake by choosing a path with an almost zero percent chance of survival.
’Is running away still a choice?’ Rhys knew the answer.
[The scale of the upcoming beast tide, as far as I have analysed, will completely swallow the province. Your only possible escape will be to leave the province.]
’Leave?’ he sighed.
How could he leave when the only way to the next province was by crossing the Whisperwood? No one, not even the province’s first Tier 4 cultivator, had dared to do this.
The deepest parts of the Whisperwood were where even Feral’s were hunted. A Body Tempering weakling like him would die the moment he stepped in there.
Unless he got a profession core for Navigation, Rhys dared not go into the inner rings of the Whisperwood, let alone cross it.
So his two choices were either to defend a city against the upcoming monsters or to enter the labyrinth.
The choice was clear. He chose the latter.
At least in the labyrinth, there was a level cap. He wouldn’t need to worry about fighting monsters far higher in cultivation than him.