All had been driven together, intentionally or not, by the mutated gerbils, and a brief head count revealed that half of the casualties had occurred, except for those at Cloud school and Lemoutain school.
Of the twenty-four men who had headed southwest, only fourteen remained.
The fact that half of them had been killed or wounded by a pack of first-order monsters was a horror to all who survived.
Because they all knew it was just the beginning.
There was no telling when that magic would be restored, and until then, anything more powerful in this desert would be enough to kill them.
"Take a break!"
"I'm so tired!"
The physical exertion was huge and the mental strain was extreme. These so-called proud people, who had no idea what image they had, sat down with the bloody bodies on the ground, gasping for breath.
"This is not a good place to stay. Stay another fifteen minutes and leave immediately." After More Elrent calmed down, he simply addressed the two students from Cloud school and the three from Lemoutain school.
As he glanced over Yenny, he paused for a moment, a flash of surprise, but soon regained his composure.
Because of this strange appearance, others unconsciously looked at Yenny's side, and for a moment they couldn't help but stare.
Only then did they realized that Yenny was surrounded by the bodies of mutated gerbils completely different from the ones they killed. Not only did she kill more than each of them did, but the bodies of mutated gerbils were intact, and there wasn't a trace of blood in the wounds. They knew at a glance that Yenny had never used a weapon, but had killed them with her fists simply and violently.
Most of them did not know Yenny, and they were actually secretly amazed. When did Cloud School have such a talented person?
"Hello, More! My name is Normu Soul, there are only fourteen of us left. I wonder if we can go with you? At least we can look after each other until our mana are restored." One of the men, who had been following, asked More Elrent politely.
"Yes, but in the meantime you will all be at my disposal, and at your own risk. You cannot entirely expect us to rescue you." More's response was realistic and straightforward.
Other people listened and had no problem with it.
Yenny's eyes widened when he heard "Normu Soul".
Then she looked aside at her cousin Tenny, quickly moved on to Yiner Coler, and finally back to Chen Fan, shocked.
Normu Soul?
Wasn't that the hero of the original book?
What a coincidence, she didn't expect the hero of the original book to show up so long in advance and meet the heroine Tenny and the first villain Yiner Coler in the Fallen River!
None of this happened in the original book, and Yenny was quietly embarrassed because of her presence, or for some other reason, but the plot was clearly broken.
Maybe it's her butterfly effect?
"Have you seen that man before?" Yenny sat down next to Yiner Coler and whispered in her ear.
By "that man," she meant the one who had led the way in advising More Elrent, the one who had made the first sound to calm the crowd when the mutant gerbils were in trouble.
"Look at the clothes should be from the Nine school, but should only be temporary students." "Yiner Coler said, following Yenny's gaze. She went on to explain, "The so-called temporary students are actually irregular cultivators who are temporarily hired to help the Nine school compete for god artifacts at a high price. I did not know his name, but he did not seem simple."
"What's the matter?" Yiner Coler, of course, did not ignore Yenny's eccentricity and unconsciously asked.
"Nothing, I think..." Yenny couldn't explain it. And so far, nothing had happened between the three of them. She also couldn't explain it was a book and she had read the original book.
Just as she was about to change the subject, she jerked the Yiner Coler up and straight off the sand.
"Gosh! It's all gone!" Before Yenny's mind could fully understand what was going on, her body jumped into action and went on full alert.
In a moment, Yiner Coler knew what was happening. There were piles and piles of dead mutant gerbils all over the place and in the blink of an eye they were gone!
All that was left was empty sand and fourteen of them alone, clean as if it never happened.
Even the ten pairs of human bones that had died in the mouths of the mutated gerbils and had been eaten clean disappeared with them.
They would have wondered if all those mutant gerbils had ever existed, but for had they not been covered with their blood.
The crowd got up quickly, not taking any more rest, and looked around cautiously but could not find out anything at all.
It was as if all the dead had been swallowed up by something, and the terror of the unknown hung in their hearts for a long time.
"Two companions, all at once, do not lag behind!" With a serious face, More Elrent immediately gave the order.
At the same time, he just grabbed Tenny next to him and walked off, with no intention of with his fiancee.
Folks did not say much, had their own two pairs of fast to follow, if slow, who knew what would happen next.
Yiner Coler watched as More Elrent ignored her, numbing her anger that she had intended to be with Yenny anyway.
But this way she really saw the nature of the so-called fiance, even the surface of respect were too lazy to give her, such a fiance she really couldn't afford!
She asked Seven to follow closely with another student, and then walked with Yenny side by side without delay. The party had not gone far, danger came again.