Chapter 116: Springwater Source Bonsai part 2
Very early in the morning on the next day, Kayn and the rest of the party began scouting around the Springwater Canyon.
They've wasted a lot of time yesterday, so they're trying to double their effort today to cover up more progress in their schedule.
Honestly, Kayn doesn't have a clue about Jude's party schedule and what they intend to achieve for the whole span of the entire week. He is simply doing whatever he is told to do.
Fortunately, the scouting is done individually. It might he is assigned to a specific area on the Springwater Canyon and he has to gather all information he could find in that area only and report it to their camp. Afterward, he'd be given another area to scout.
Unlike the others who are still in their first area, he had already finished scouting four different areas on the map. After all, he is an assassin before.
Other than what was already recorded about Springwater Canyon in the past, he has found nothing else noteworthy yet.
"No one should get suspicious if we suddenly leave our area," Natas appeared beside Kayn after he observed what the other members of the party are currently doing.
"What were the others up to?"
"Being greenhorns, as you expected,"
Along the way, he noticed that there was actually no assassin in the party. Hence, no one could teach anyone about scouting and their knowledge about it mainly comes from books. Truthfully, Charles might have been assigned yesterday to scout, but he is actually a Knight, and his knowledge about that topic barely scratch the surface.
As for the rest, Jude is a Mage, and the other three are respectively a Priest, a Guardian, and another Knight.
It's a three-to-two formation, a standard and most common formation that the majority of the established parties would adopt.
The reason for adopting such a strategy is that it focuses more on assault and defense, which is what's necessary for most missions.
Having an assassin in a party is rather optional, to be honest. That's why it's a subclass that mostly works alone since from the moment an individual chose it, barely any party would bother accepting them, and if they do accept them, most of the time they are only meant for certain tasks, like scouting and disabling traps. Over time, working solo became carved deep within their bones, thus the reason why they are the class that's most suitable for any sort of reconnaissance mission.
"Let's leave here for an hour," Kayn muttered as he set up a timer on his watch.
With that being said, Kayn and Natas went deeper into the Springwater Canyon.
As he was scouting around the different areas he was assigned before, he noticed that the deeper he is in the center of the Springwater Canyon, the fiercer, wilder, and more aggressive the monsters seem to behave.
It was as if they are trying to protect a very precious object deep within the Springwater Canyon and they don't want others to approach it.
Luckily, the monsters weren't very strong, at least not yet.
Using the dense greeneries as cover, Kayn slowly and carefully made his way to the center of the Springwater Canyon.
The distance to the center wasn't very far from where they have set up camp. It was around ten kilometers away.
After twenty-five minutes of traveling, Kayn finally reaches a huge lake right at the very center of the forest and is surrounded by tall walls of the canyon over the distance.
It was like the canyon was hugging the lake, protecting it from harm.
"No wonder Jude picked such a very difficult path to traverse," Kayn finally understood. There's only one single path to reach the center of the Springwater Canyon, and that was the path they took yesterday.
Although it's very possible to jump from one of those walls. But the question is, is there anyone in 'The Bridge' capable of executing such a feat?
As far as his concern, only Heroes level 100 and above could handle such height, unless they are Guardians. But even the latter would still receive a lot of injuries unless they are high-level. And those injuries would more or less become fatal factors that will affect their survival.
Kayn immediately positioned himself on a small hill to get a good view of the entire lake.
He is trying to look for something — something that serves as a marking for where the Springwater Source Bonsai could be.
"There should be some sort of clue around here,"
"We could probably more or less guess already that the Springwater Source Bonsai is at the very center of the Springwater Canyon," Natas started uttering.
"The question is where? You're a God, so you should definitely know about it," Kayn turns to look at Natas.
"Even Gods have to gather information before they can find something. The only difference we have we you Heroes is that we have established a very strong connection to function as our network for gathering information all over the 'Tower'. That's why we can access a lot of information, and very easily on top of that,"
"Inside 'The Bridge', however, we got no one in here to provide us with any useful information. Haven't you noticed, there are no inhabitants of the 'Tower' in this place,"
"Couldn't you look at any place in the same way as you watch a video?"
"We can, but this wasn't my jurisdiction,"
"Who's jurisdiction was it?"
"The God of Mischief, Ikol,"
"Can we ask for his help?"
"You're seriously considering asking that God for help?"
"Oh…" Kayn almost forgot his experience when fighting against Ikol.
Ikol wasn't just the God of Mischief for nothing. Even back then, he had a lot of trouble trying to defeat him with all of his tricks and schemes. If he was given a chance to pick who he wants to face between Ikol and the four Gods of War, he would rather choose the latter despite how strong they are, especially when working together. At least with the latter, he wouldn't have to constantly worry about his back and whether it's safe to rest or not.
There was a phrase he heard back then that said, "It's better to offend a strong person rather than an intelligent person because the former would fight you alone, while the latter would bring an army just to make sure that you are defeated,"
"Let's forget about Ikol for now," Natas is very much against such an idea. Even though he is the God of all Gods in the 'Tower', he still has to remain cautious whenever it comes to Ikol as he can't understand what's going on within the latter's mind.
"For now, how about we spend this week leveling you up?" Natas suggested. At this moment, Kayn has only added one single level to his stats, making him level 11. He is feeling very worried and the thought that even if they could indeed find the Springwater Source Bonsai in one of these coming days, Kayn would be too weak to take it, and even if he lets someone else take it for him, he'd might still not be capable enough to steal from whoever that person would be if he turns out to be just as powerful as Chief Kylo.
"I've taken note of some monsters in this place. If we allocate half of the day to monster hunting, we should be able to get you to level 20 before we leave this place,"
"Wait for a moment," Kayn jumped down near the lake as he had thought of something. "I don't have any problem leveling up to 20 if that's what you want. But we aren't sure yet if that's the level that I needed to achieve in order to increase the chance of us getting the Springwater Source Bonsai,"
Picking up a stone of considerable size on the ground, he started infusing a lot of mana in it.
The moment the stone started cracking, which is a sign that it can no longer contain the total amount of mana being infused into it, he pulled his right arm to the side, and right after he threw the stone to the center of the lake.
Whoosh!
The throw was so strong and fast that the water underneath the stone would split.
In the next moment, a giant turtle head suddenly appeared in between the center of the lake to block the incoming stone.
Bang!
A muffled sound of a stone hitting a metal sharply echoed to the surrounding.
With the appearance of the huge turtle, huge waves were being sent to the shore, causing the nearby trees to sway in the other direction.
The turtle stared in the direction of where the stone had come from and started observing. But it failed to notice anyone as the person who threw the stone had long already hidden his whereabouts.
Kayn hid behind the small hill while Natas remained at the lakeside to observe the turtle.
After a few minutes, the turtle finally decided to dive back to return deep into the lake since it didn't find the perpetrator.
As the turtle slowly submerges its body back into the lake, Natas soon found the material they have been looking for on top of the turtle's shell.
A small tree with blue-colored leaves where water constantly flows out of its roots.
"It seems like we'll have to defeat that turtle if we want to get the Springwater Source Bonsai,"
Unfortunately, the Springwater Source Bonsai seems to have deeply rooted itself onto the shell of the enormous turtle.
As soon as the turtle returned back somewhere deep in the lake, the water slowly returned to tranquility as if there is no dangerous giant secretly hiding deep within.
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