Rui recalled jokingly thinking that the reason he was urgently summoned was because the town of Hajin was under attack.
Now, after what Helga had told him, it didn't seem as funny as before.
"I don't understand." He replied, shaking his head. "How could this be true? The earthen basilisk had been consuming deer and gazelles voraciously for nearly a month now. If it had been reproducing every time it went on a hunting spree, then the Shaia Plains would noticeably be flooded with many earthen basilisks."
How could this revelation possibly be true. Rui would absolutely have noticed if there were hundreds of earthen basilisks running around beneath the ground.
