LRAB Chapter 70 Ever-present
Chapter 70 Ever-present
Victoria upon hearing the situation with the outpost made up her mind to give it a try. It was much better than going in head first into the forest and banking on god.
She met some opposition of course, though not from her cohort but from the cohort of the dual blade brothers. To which she responded quite simply.
"Let me at least see the place, then who knows? "
Of course, Guilliman and the rest knew, that once Victoria had her eyes set on something she would try to accomplish it no matter what.
That night, they climbed atop some trees and awaited for the fog as was usually practice. Even if it didn't come when they expected, it was best to stay up there as the fog tended to come at unexpectedly times.
Being asleep in the middle of the fog was a death wish.
Fortunately, it did not come that night and the next morning, Victoria pulled the cohort together and had Cyrus and his group lead them to the outpost.
Using Guilliman, Jemie and Quinn, they were able to
Maneuver through the forest without encountering a single beast. Soon after they reached a small depression in the middle of the forest.
"There it is" Cyrus pointed out
Inside the small depression surrounding by countless trees, a large compound stood firmly. It had cracked and aged walls, concrete floor that seemed to have all but caved in and rusted iron gates.
Most of all, it was surrounded and covered by a myriad of plants and flowers.
"Hm? I can't see any beasts.." Jemie frowned looking inside the compound from above.
Not seeing any beast in this thick forest of beasts was close to impossible, small creatures like rodents and insects would at least be around right?
No this place was strange, nothing moved inside and around the outpost, pin drop silence.
"You don't understand? The fog around the shelter doesn't seem to dissipate, it's always there, morning, afternoon, night. It's always there" guilliman doubled down.
The implications were wide, they were always planning to find an outpost because they knew it would be neigh impossible to pass through the fog and get to the gate.
Finding one so early on was no different from a miracle.
"That...can't be. Does that mean there's no way in?!!" One of the members of the dual blade cohort panicked, a look of confusion and madness on his face.
This was just too much, they had entered here with the hope that following the blackberry family would be smooth sailing till the shelter gates.
After that, they could rest behind the walls and hunt beasts appropriately and comfortably.
Instead, they had been forced to fight beasts way above them on several occasions, hide in trees in the night as they watched unstoppable ghost creatures parade the ground, he had even lost two friends.
This place was breaking his mind, he wanted to go home!!
'Aii, he's already breaking' Guilliman shook his head in pity.
They really were in a peculiar position, from the back, they were cut off by monsters, the same was the case at the front.
Going forward was dangerous with high yields, going backwards was dangerous with zero yields, it seemed like going forward was the only reasonable option but going forward also meant a high chance of death.
It could drive anyone mad.
"There only one option, at least for now, if we can get the correct layout of this place maybe....plus there a chance that a secret pathway exists inside the outpost" Victoria spoke.
She doubted the latter though since this outpost was too far inside the forest, but at the same time...hope was a strange thing. Maybe there was a pathway straight to the shelter...
Just maybe