Battle of Ascension

Chapter 293: Unknown Enemy

Randy, Zhen Yi, Long Xinya, Akihiro, and Asuka gathered in one place. On the ground, there were three shields, five swords, two bows, two spears, and one ax.

These weapons were the weapon of the person who went missing in investigating the forest. The scene was a bit weird, except the weapons, there was no trace of battle.

This was indicating the unknown enemy knocked the ten people with easy, no resistance from the ten people. There were two possibilities for this. The first one was the unknown enemy far stronger than the ten people. The second, the unknown enemy was good at stealth or those kinds of abilities and ambushed the ten people.

No matter how the unknown enemy knocked the ten people, the most important for now was to save those ten people. But no matter how they looked at the surrounding, there was no clue at all except the weapon.

But what made Randy felt weird was why the unknown enemy left the weapon here.

'Is it a warning for us?'

After fifteen minutes, the others also shook their head. The scene was clean, they could trace nothing at here.

"It seems the unknown enemy is strong, at least it's strong enough to knock our member in one strike," Akihiro said in a solemn tone,

Randy took one sword, the sword was Epic Grade Weapon. As he held the sword, Randy had an idea and turned his head toward Rocky who was lying down before a tree. Rocky was sleeping.

"Does the lion have a sharp sense of smell?" Randy asked himself, but most likely not. Randy shook his head.

Griffin was a mythology creature, at least it was before the Battle of Ascension started. Griffin, a mythology creature with a lion's body, hawk's wings, and a hawk's head. However, there was a reason why Rocky was more like a lion than Griffin.

It because the lion's gene in Rocky was more dominant, resulting in a Griffin like Rocky born. At least, it was what Shana told him.

Rocky sensed Randy's gaze, he opened his crimson eyes, looking at his master with a puzzled look. Randy showed the swords to Rocky. However, Rocky rolled his eyes at his master and back to sleep.

"You think I'm a dog? Stupid Master!"

There was a melodious voice rang in Randy's mind, it was Shana's voice. She was translating the discontent of Rocky experienced.

Randy ignored Shana but looking for a clue.

They stayed for thirty minutes. However, there was really nothing they could get from here. They decided to get back and just as Randy walked for a few steps. He felt two eyes were watching him.

It was right on his back. Randy stayed calm, trying to detect where the gaze came from.

The others also the same, but they didn't know it was a feeling being watched. They only felt uncomfortable. But soon, they noticed Randy's body flickered before it vanished thoroughly and they heard a "boom" sound afterward.

The other four immediately looked back and saw Randy was on the branch of Ulinae Tree. They saw Randy's sword stuck on the tree, but there was nothing on the tree.

They puzzled why Randy suddenly attacked the tree. They looked each other, but none of them knew why.

Randy, however, frowned as he looked the tree. He was not attacking the tree for no reason, but the thing who watched him earlier was here. Right, he felt there was someone watching from here, but there was no one here.

Randy scanned the surrounding, but there was really nothing here. He checked the surrounding once more and left the tree after finding nothing here.

Just as Randy leaped down, the trunk which received Randy's sword was bleeding profusely.

Temporary camp

After ten Garuda's members went missing, Randy stopped their investigation of the forest. They were discussing the ten people and the unknown enemy.

If they continued to investigate the forest, there would be more casualties for sure as they didn't know the unknown enemy. The scariest thing was unknown.

Randy stopped the investigation, but he was still venturing the forest with his Shadow Drive. However, it was futile.

The next day, Randy also found nothing. Not even a beast or monster could be found inside the forest

The third day, there was an uproar in the camp as one Garuda member found five hands. The five hands were cut not a long time ago as the blood had not dried yet.

The five hands place on the top of a square wood and there was a message on the square wood.

"You are trespassing Our territory and disturbing Us. Leave the island immediately!!!"

It was what written on the wood, threatening them to leave.

Randy frowned as he looked at the hands which were freshly cut. He guessed right, the ten people were still alive. He thought the unknown enemy would use the ten people to negotiate something with them.

However, he didn't expect the unknown enemy would cut his guild member's hand. Why did he think the unknown thing would use his guild member to negotiate with them?

It was because the unknown thing was catching his guild members alive. There was no trace of battle which indicated the unknown thing knocked the ten people. Instead of killing his guild members, the unknown enemy caught his members alive.

That was why he thought the unknown thing would use the ten people to negotiate with them. But he never thought they would use the ten people to threaten him.

After that, Randy gathered the seven people in the main camp and discussed what they should do for the next. It took them an hour before the seven people came out from the camp.

Afterward, Long Xinya called 50 Garuda's members. Long Xinya would lead one group, Zhen Yi led one group, Akihiro and Asuka led one group, Udin would lead one group and the last group was just a normal group like before.

After that, the five groups ventured inside the forest again.

Iman Saputra was one people in the highest level among Garuda's member after Udin, Gusti, and Erwin. Because of his level, Long Xinya chose him instead to lead the last group for looking the unknown creature who had kidnapped their friend.

Iman Saputra had known the detail about his friend who had gone missing. Not it was not missing but kidnapped. Udin told them, the unknown creature was kidnapping their friend, and their friend could not even resist the unknown creature.

Indicating the monster was strong. However, their group received an important task for today investigation and for their friends who kidnapped and got their hand cut, Iman Saputra mustered his courage to take this important task.

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Iman Saputra became nervous as he walked deeper to the forest. Since he entered the forest with his group, uneasy feeling creeped out. He felt there was someone watching him.

Not only Iman, but his other friends in the group also became nervous as they tightened their grip on their weapon.

Their mission was to investigate the forest for 6 hours. After 6 hours, they had to go back no matter what. It was the instruction for their group, so they ventured deeper into the forest for six hours, and fortunately, nothing happened to them in six hours.

Iman Saputra let out a sigh of relief as they had not encountered anything. They hoped their journey back would go smooth sailing like they ventured deeper into the forest.

However, the reality was not like what they expected. On the way back, Iman Saputra encountered trouble.

There were seven monkeys. No rather than a monkey, it was a creature with a humanoid body. It stood straight like a human, but dark brown fur covered their body from the toe to the head, and it had four arms.

When the unknown creature set its eyes on them. Iman Saputra's back hair stood up and he felt cold inside.

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