Chapter 69: Wolf den
Chapter 69: Wolf den
Shane felt excited, as he strolled through the forest, carefully searching for purple furred wolves, even though he wasn’t sure if there was a den nearby or not.
His gut feeling however told him that he should be careful which he listened to.
As such, his bow was already within one hand, while the other hand had already nocked a rare quality tier-1 arrow at the bowstring, which he was carefully holding, slightly pulled back, without straining his muscles.
Instead of purple furred wolves, Shane found many other groups, which he killed because he wouldn’t waste a source of income.
Hours passed and he was a one-hour trip from the shelter away when he found another small pack of purple furred wolves with two elite stage wolves leading them.
Immediately heightening his senses, Shane was ready to follow them, which would be quite hard, considering that their senses were most likely much stronger compared to the senses of Lizards.
Unfortunately, Shane hadn’t thought of purchasing a cultivation concealment potion nor an isolation potion to prevent his smell from leaking from his surrounding.
Fortunately, however, he found a small mud puddle, Shane jumped right in to cover his smell, even though it felt disgusting.
As such, Shane could follow the wolves rather easily with a distance of more than 100 meters to ensure his and Umbra’s safety.
Right now, Umbra was exceptionally useless and Shane asked his tamed beast if he wanted to stay within an Inn in order to progress further on the evolution bar.
This proposal was immediately rejected by Umbra, who wanted to stay with him, even though he was aware of his feeble combat prowess as time went on.
With Shane’s capabilities, Umbra could already reach much higher ranks, as his taming skill allowed Umbra to reach the mid-elite stage, which was a complete stage above his current strength.
But there was nothing for Shane to do about Umbra’s stubbornness, as long because Umbra cultivated when he did.
Furthermore, Umbra would get his second quality upgrade soon, which would unlock the last evolution path for him.
Shane was already extremely expectant to see this, as he continued to follow the small pack of wolves.
Hours passed and the sun was about to set when Shane noticed the purple furred wolves entering a small but innocent-looking cavern entrance.
Somehow Shane wanted to follow them, but thinking about this for a second, he decided to disregard this stupid thought.
Estimating the distance between the cavern entrance and the shelter, Shane came to the decision that it would at most take 90 minutes to walk back, without any detour.
This did not include him sprinting with all his might or a wolf running towards the shelter.
As such, the distance could be crossed a quarter of his estimated time if wanted which could be considered nothing compared to the vastness of each Primordial Dimension.
Mankind was unsure how vast each dimension was and how many races a dimension could inhabit.
A few adventurous humans even tried to figure out if the Primordial Dimension were just a large disc-like plane or a planet, only for them to notice that there was neither an endless cliff somewhere dividing the Primordial Dimension with each other nor something similar like that.
These adventurers ventured through certain Primordial DImensions for months, only to see new unknown races, without finding a single clue to the vastness of the dimension.
With this in mind, Shane was sure that mankind would have some problems with the Wolf den nearby their shelter if there were multiple awakened purple furred wolves, which he wasn’t exactly sure of.
Shane wanted to find the Wolf den in order to see if there was even a gathered wolf’s pack and how many awakened purple furred wolves were within their pack, or if there was only one, leading them.
As such, he had to figure out the current situation with all kinds of information, but he wasn’t sure what exactly he should do right now.
Venturing inside would kill him, due to his mana fluctuations he couldn’t conceal without a skill or potion, which was too expensive with his current funds.
Other than that, Shane could only wait outside and hide somewhere far away from the Wolf den, hoping that some awakened wolf would enter or leave the den without discovering him in order to figure out the roughest information he would provide the Shelter’s captain.
Shane wasn’t responsible for anyone, but he would feel guilty to not tell anyone about his information if he could save others’ lives with them.
He was selfish but there was a thick line he didn’t want to cross. Otherwise, he wouldn’t sit within a treetop ten meters above the ground, waiting for some wolf to leave or enter the Wolf den.
Time passed and Umbra was already sleeping, when he noticed some movements within the darkness.
However, what he saw shocked him more than expected as multiple six meters long and more than two-meter-tall purple furred wolves entered the cave with dozens of elite and hundreds of wild staged purple furred wolves following them silently.
Shane could only see them thanks to the moonlight shining through the trees right on the cavern entrance.
What was even more shocking to him were not the multiple tall and mighty looking purple furred wolves which were most likely at the awakened stage, but rather that he saw that most wolves sustained mild to serious injuries.
This indicated a large-scale fight and Shane immediately remembered the incident within the elemental crystal cave that happened less than two days ago.
Shane’s thoughts were running wild and he couldn’t comprehend everything he imagined right now, as his bad premonition worsened even more, with his gut feeling telling him that he was infinitely close to figuring out the devastating truth.
There weren’t many clues provided to figure out something for sure, but Shane knew that the wolf’s den that was only a cat’s jump away from the shelter, inhabited several awakened purple furred wolves at the bare minimum, probably many more.
He saw six to eight individuals in one group, but there could have been many more outside and inside the wolf’s den, that Shane didn’t know about.
What Shane also knew for sure, was the fact that a large-scale battle took place with many casualties, according to the injuries he could see.
It should have been a rather close victory, if not even a tie, which Shane could only speculate.
‘Which beast race did they fight? Scaled lizards once again or are they in a war with multiple beast-races? Will they attack us? How many of them are really within the wolf’s den?’
Too many questions filled his mind and Shane couldn’t really answer a single one and he was glad that he waited for a few hours in order to figure out the information needed to tell RadianRing’s shelter captain what exactly was going on.
To prove his words, he took a few photos with the system’s help, but Shane wasn’t sure if one could see something as it was pitch-black where he saw without any lighting, except the moonlight.
Waiting for a good time to climb down the tree, Shane wanted to enter the shelter as soon as possible in order to report his gathered information about the Wolf den.
A certain saying from earth suddenly appeared in his mind and he had to smile melancholic
[The early bird catches the worm]