Chapter 1027: Mobbed
Chapter 1027: Mobbed
Once we were out of the village, Shaka immediately demonstrated his abilities.
Based on what the children had said, we went to the place where Zaag, the giant child had snuck out of the village. It was a hole in the makeshift wall of the village, which was big enough for a child to sneak out of.
From that place, he was able to find all kinds of tracks that led that way for us.
Only we could only go as fast as Shaka could find these tracks.
Without the tracks, we wouldn't know which way to go after all, so we could only wait for him to find the tracks.
At least it was a bit faster than wandering around aimlessly.
As we headed deeper into the forest, Alidus slowly began to knit his brows as if something was wrong.
"What is it?" I asked him after seeing him reveal this expression for a while.
Alidus slowly turned to look at me and there was a look that appeared on his face as if he was hesitant to speak. But after looking at me for a bit, he said, "This isn't the way to the flower fields. It seems like he's gone off course since he's never been out of the village on his own before..."
His voice trailed off at the end and I knew that there was something else that he wasn't telling
me.
"What is it?" Without any hesitation, I asked this question.
Alidus looked at me with a bitter smile on his face before saying, "The place that he's gone off course to is a dangerous place even for us. It seems like this will be much more dangerous than we thought."
As he said this, the way that he looked at me was starting to change.
The way that he looked at me was completely different from the ways that he looked at me before.
It was as if he didn't want me to be here.
The way that he looked at me wasn't as if he didn't want me to be here because he didn't trust me or our group of humans, the reason that he didn't want me to be here was because he didn't want me to be in danger.
But since I had already come this far, it wasn't as if I would back down now.
So I calmly looked at him and said, "It'll be safer if we work together. Not to mention, we can't just go back now and abandon that child, can we?"
The way that I said this was very serious which showed the conviction that I had towards this matter.
Alidus looked at me with a surprised look at first, but then the look on his face became serious.
With that serious look on his face, he looked right at me as if he was trying to see through me. Perhaps there was still a part of him that was wondering how serious I was about all of this.
As such, I didn't back down as I looked right at Alidus with the same calm and serious look on my face.
After a long silence, he finally said with a sigh, "Alright, we'll keep going. But if there's danger, you should leave as soon as you can on your wyverns."
I gave a simple nod, but he quickly said, "Don't just give a nod, give me your word that you'll fly the child out of there with your wyverns if it gets dangerous."
I was surprised to hear this.
But after looking at him for a bit, I gave a slow nod this time.
It was different from us abandoning him, he was saying that if things became dangerous, he would sacrifice himself to save the child.
I just couldn't deny this kind of conviction.
While we had been talking, Shaka had been following the trail the entire time.
But all of a sudden, he stopped moving and turned back to say, "He's right in front."
As soon as we heard this, all of us immediately fell silent and looked in front of us to see if we could find a trace of the giant child. But with how thick the forest was in front of us, we weren't able to find a single thing.
However, since Shaka said that the giant child was in front, I trusted him.
In a soft voice, I asked, "Are there any other tracks in the surrounding area?"
The giants all paid close attention to how Shaka would answer this question.
After all, they were clearly afraid of something that seemed to be in this area, so they cared about this very much.
Shaka just shook his head before saying, "I've only found the tracks of the child, there aren't any other tracks in the surrounding area."
The giants let out sighs of relief, but they didn't let their guards down.
Alidus just said, "Go up in the air and provide air support if necessary. We'll go and comfort the child and bring him back with us."
This seemed like the best plan, so I just nodded and then flew into the air with Klein and Shaka.
As we flew there in the air, we watched as Alidus and the other giants moved forward.
Before they found the child, we saw him first.
He was curled up at the bottom of a tree with his head in between his legs.
It seemed that he was completely terrified with the way that he was just sitting there.
We watched as Alidus' group made their way over to the child sitting under the tree and it didn't seem like anything was going to happen.
That was until there was a loud rustling sound that came from the surrounding area.
It was loud because there were several different bushes that suddenly started to shake at the same time.
It was clear that it wasn't just one thing that was there.
It seemed that whatever was out there had been waiting the entire time, using the giant childNôv(el)B\\jnn
as bait.
In an instant, Alidus' group was completely surrounded.