I had finally left Alte city after escaping from Princess Lei who was holding on to my foot and didn't let me leave I decided to head south west
In the very south West corner of the Lin Empire I had remembered reading about strange sightings of what looked like giant metal statues that belonged to the old ones
The old ones was an ancient civilization that lived before the Cerulean age, not much is known about them except that they were a giant prosperous civilization that had built houses as tall as mountains
Very little is known about them, especially for the humans as they had been trapped in the Lin Empire for hundreds of years, the Elari had a few records of the Ancient ruins in Altitia and a few on the surface world, but even they knew nothing of what they were for
For some reason I felt that they were somehow connected to the earthquake or at least would give me some clues on what happened
I changed to human form and put on my black robes and tied my long black hair into a ponytail, I then spread my Elari wings and took off to the south west, since I could transform partially I felt like I should be in human form as I had grown tired of my other body
In human form my physical strength was much better and since I was traveling to a Red Zone I needed all the strength I could get
The Lin empire was divided into three zones, green, yellow, and red
Green Zones were usually safe and were near cities where beasts had been cleared away, Yellow Zones were further out of the city in wild places like the Thousand Mile mountain or Black Marsh, and the Red Zones was the area near the Barrier Mountains that protected the Lin Empire from the outside Beasts
Red Zones had powerful beasts near the Adept and Expert rank martial artist so I had to be extremely careful to not bite off more than I can chew, although I was stronger than most Adept martial artists I wouldn't dare carelessly fight an Expert beast especially since the fighting could attract more beasts
After several weeks of flying and camping out in the jungle I finally got closer to the area, I opened the map that I had recorded into my AI that had a spot marked on it
I had successfully avoided many dangerous beasts this entire time with my stealth and was only a few more days away from my target, i had stopped flying after entering the Red Zone so I had slowed down considerably as I always had stealth on
*bzuu*
I heard a strange sound as I felt the Li like a wave rush past me into the distance, I knew at this moment that I had been discovered by a beast who is capable of detection and dashed towards where the wave came from
When the Resoundeer had first noticed me it was about to call out when my sword struck it's neck before it got the chance
Blood gushed out as I quickly jumped back to prevent any from getting on me, the beasts here could smell blood from miles away so I didn't dare stay any longer and ran towards the ruins