Chapter 222: 221 Overconfidence is the most fatal Chapter 222: 221 Overconfidence is the most fatal While Shane muttered complaints under his breath, Luoqi truly seemed to trust the blessing upon her and began wandering around.
Sometimes she ventured into the forest.
Sometimes she climbed up the slopes.
Sometimes she jumped down into pits.
Sometimes she took shortcuts.
Luoqi wandered aimlessly, yet her pace was not slow at all, which tired Shane, who followed behind her.
Just as Shane was about to lose his patience, Luoqi arrived at the foot of a tall mountain.
Right before this tall mountain, both Shane and Luoqi paused abruptly in their steps.
Shane murmured, as if sensing something.
“It seems we’ve walked right into it.”
Luoqi stared intently at the mountain ahead, her eyes becoming incredibly sharp.
“Are we really pushing our luck?”
Shane was somewhat amused, yet he couldn’t take his eyes off the mountain before him.
With the feedback from his “Magic Perception” skill, Shane could clearly sense subtle surges of magic power within the mountain.
This magic power was incredibly faint; if not for Shane and Luoqi, it might not have been detected at all.
However, the magic power had a distinctly evil, dark, and fierce quality, suggesting to both of them that something formidable was inside.
This situation was, by all appearances, not normal.
So, perhaps, as Luoqi had said, they really had walked right into it.
Especially within that evil, dark, and fierce magic power, there was a considerable amount of extraordinary magic power lingering.
That power, Shane was certain, belonged to demons.
In other words, there was something inside this mountain, along with a large number of demons.
“Could it be that the demons around the Royal Capital have actually all gathered here?”
Shane recalled Luoqi mentioning that many demons had left their usual habitats, and their whereabouts were unknown.
Wasn’t it highly likely that they were congregating here?
“What should we do next?”
Shane looked towards Luoqi and asked.
Without hesitation, Luoqi responded,
“Let’s go in and take a look.”
The Princess said decisively, without a second thought.
“Do we have to be this reckless?” Shane protested slightly, “Now that we’ve found the place, why not go back, bring a large force, and simply level this area?”
“No,” Luoqi shook her head, “If we go back to mobilize the Knight Order, it could very likely alert certain individuals. By then, the issues here might be covered up. We can’t give those with intentions both time and opportunity.”
Luoqi was definitely referring to Lord Jiasinta.
“I understand your reasoning…” Shane still felt reluctant and said, “But do we really have to barge in there almost single-handedly?”
“What are you afraid of?” Luoqi glanced at Shane disdainfully and said irritably, “You are a hero, and I have inherited the Holy Sword of the hero. Together, we can even challenge beings of the level of the Three Great Goddesses and the Six Great Demons. What is there to worry about?”
Indeed, if Shane and Luoqi teamed up, they could probably take on anyone in the Human Realm.
Still, he knew all that, but venturing alone into the depths of the mountain to confront such anomalies, Shane couldn’t help but feel it was like an ominous flag fluttering against the wind…
“Overconfidence is the most lethal, Your Highness.”
At that moment, Shane began to earnestly advise her.
Unfortunately, Luoqi wouldn’t listen to a single word.
“You, sometimes you’re impulsive and reckless, yet at other times you’re inexplicably cautious and cowardly. I almost can’t figure you out,” Luoqi glared at Shane and said, “Stop talking and just come with me.”
Saying so, Luoqi didn’t give Shane a chance to object, grabbed him, and dragged him towards the mountain.
Shane struggled, but the Princess’s strength was no less than his, and she pulled him deep into the mountain.
So, Shane had decided.
Next time, he definitely had to add something to this girl’s desserts to give her a taste of sheer ecstasy.
Otherwise, she might really think she could turn the house upside down.
Deep in the mountains, the sounds of birds and beasts seemed to have vanished, letting a suffocating silence permeate the air.
Shane and Luoqi were walking on a mountain path, with only the sound of their footsteps surrounding them.
Luoqi’s expression, while holding onto Shane, had grown increasingly somber as they ventured deeper into the mountains.
There was nothing that could be done.
Luoqi asked Shane in a low voice.
“Ah,” Shane nodded, his face no longer showing laziness, his brows furrowed. He murmured, “At first, I thought something wasn’t right inside this mountain, but now it seems, the problem might just be the mountain itself.”
After entering the mountains, Shane felt that the mountain itself was extremely abnormal, allowing waves of magic to flow methodically from within, simultaneously absorbing the magic in the atmosphere and directing the magic towards some place—it was very abnormal.
Shane thought of a possibility.
And it seemed that Luoqi had thought of it too.
“I’ve always felt that this mountain seems to have been arranged for something, like it’s conducting a massive ritual.”
That was precisely what Shane had been thinking.
During these days, Shane hadn’t been idling away in the library—while continuously memorizing the spells of Celestial Magic and Grant Magic, his understanding of magic had also deepened.
Thus, Shane also felt that the situation here very much resembled some large-scale ritual.
“This situation, apart from being man-made, I can’t think of any other possibility.”
That’s what Shane believed.
“Could Lord Jiasinta and his group really be preparing to do something in the Human Realm, in the Royal Capital?”
Luoqi’s face looked somewhat displeased.
If that were true, then it was likely that conflict and confrontation between the Human Race and the Demon Clan were once again imminent.
“What exactly does this Demon Clan officer want?” Shane also expressed his confusion, “Knowing that their actions might cause resentment between the two races, and still doing such things, could they also be part of the Old Demon Clan Faction?”
Luoqi didn’t speak, but he obviously had some thoughts.
Luoqi was about to say something.
But in that moment, Shane’s expression changed.
Without any hesitation, Shane suddenly shouted and burst backward.
Luoqi’s expression also stiffened, and without a second thought, he leaped into the air, jumping away from the spot.
Almost at the same moment, the ground where Shane and Luoqi had been standing suddenly shattered and exploded, throwing up clouds of dust.
From it, a massive creature emerged.
A roaring cry erupted from the creature’s mouth.
Shane and Luoqi, one retreating far back and the other jumping onto a large tree, looked towards the massive creature.
Upon seeing it, both of their expressions changed again.
Because it was something they had never seen before.