The hunt continued for 29 more days, just as I planned. With ti I got better at killing the boss, but there were few close calls because I overestimated my abilities. I was sent flying like four or maybe five tis. Nothing my body couldn't withstand, though.
I managed to hoard up 40572 more crystals.
smashing the boss crystal into the ground repeated itself few more tis, but I eventually let go of my resentnt. I also noticed that the floor was back to its original state each ti I returned to the dungeon.
Ki'rei started joining when I got confident enough that she is safe. She would hang out with the shadows at the back, sotis coming closer to see the battle. She wasn't reckless. Always kept her distance, and remained hidden.
At so point, while resting before going to the next floor, we had an interesting conversation.
We stopped close to so torches, so we would have a bit of light. She was sitting on a pile of crystals, hoarded up on the cart with a stripe of dried at in her hands. Wrestling with it for each bite. The dancing fla was reflecting in the stones. I was leaning over the side of the sa vehicle, slowly chewing on so dried persimmon
- What did you do before you t ? - I suddenly asked her.
-I spied on your people.
- And before that? What did you do before we ca to this world?
- I was collecting crystals in the forbidden lands.
- Forbidden lands?
- Yes. The lands under the floating city. Monsters fight there with each other, and they usually consu the crystals to grow stronger, but sotis they kill each other simultaneously, and then crystals just lie on the ground - she explained.
- That sounds dangerous, and what do you an by stronger?
- It is. You have to be very careful to avoid everything and snatch the crystals before monsters find them. And I an exactly what I said. They eat the stones and grow stronger. The worst are the ghosts.
- Ghosts? What do you an by that?
- That's how my masters call them. I've been told that they are the shells of Bahumdabar's who died under the control of the tree. They are mad and attack everything, but they stick to their territories.
- Territories?
- The old cities. They roam around the old cities, and there are only very few of them. I actually never seen any of them, because it's dangerous to go close, but my masters told about them.
- Ok... I have few questions now. First, how do your masters know about them, and second, how many cities are out there?
She shrugged her shoulders and didn't say a thing. I tried to ask her again, and again, but she remained silent.
This was an interesting piece of information and made think a lot about how safe we really were in the city. Maybe it was just sheer luck that sothing didn't co from that region, and killed us all. I needed to warn Hatta, but I really didn't know how without letting him know about Ki'rei and Xuvi.
Then finally ti to return ca, and we packed ourselves to head out, and travel to the other side of the canyon, getting few more crystals, as I had to cut the way through orcs. It took us two days to reach the cliff, and as we made it up the narrow path, she left saying that she has to go, and do sothing.
Things like that really made wonder if a can trust her. On one hand, she was like a young, cute kid, but on the other, she was a genetically designed creature that obeyed her creators. Creators that clearly had so plan, but I didn't know what it was.
There was a simple way to find out though, but I needed to be ready, and right now, I didn't feel ready at all.
I set up my camp out there, and spend the last night before reaching the city alone, with a head full of thoughts and worries. The mont I was gonna get so answers was approaching inevitably. I wanted to push it in ti a bit, because of few reasons, entangled with one another.
First of all the orc boss was supposed to die hundred tis. Yes, I know it's a silly reason, but the second one was that I needed an ace in the sleeve, and to get one, I needed more class points. I really wanted to get that Shadow knight class, and also the second tier of Shadow walker seed like a great idea because the skill it was giving was the best to escape. I needed to upgrade it asap.
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He was not the only one whose attention I grabbed, as there were many people around the city center looking at my carts filled with crystals, pulled by shadows. So people were even lurking around, barely visible in the dim light of the approaching dusk.
Hatta smiled widely upon seeing .
- You survived.
- Yep. I told you I will win.
- You really are incredible, Peter.
- Said a guy who is running the whole city.
- Speaking of which, I still need to finish few things today. I also bet that you are deadly tired, so how about we will talk tomorrow?
- Sure. I'll co by in the morning.
- Good. Good night, Peter.
- Good night.
I proceeded to sell all the crystals, but I was too tired to do any shopping besides just getting the fresh clothes. Then I went to take a bath, eat in the cafeteria, and finally got to my room, to have a proper rest.
The long period of hunting in the canyon finally ca to an end with 50 943 705 points remaining on my account, and seventy-two class points.
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