Sarah Garcia
Stories
12
Chapters
4,514
Words
1.1 M
Comments
0
Reading
3 d, 15 h
-
Bob woke up to find himself in magic restraining shackles in a cage. Jermine was in a similar shackle beside him, unconscious. The dragon immediately panicked and tried to break the shackles using his pure strength but he couldn’t even transform. There was some sort of substance in his body that made him weak and the dragon growled. His first thought was to reach out to his master but after two attempts, he paled. Zero wasn’t answering and he couldn’t reach Truen in the party call. What happened…-
89 •
-
-
Two days later, Zero and his group finally arrived in the area that the young djinn said the gnomes settled in. Mii didn’t know the exact location because her map was outdated but they were a lot closer than they were before. "This is it," Zero told the team. "We need to start digging holes into the ground blindly to know where their hideout is. Be careful not to go too close," Zero warned. "They have defence mechanisms in place. Bob, you go with Jermine. Don’t go too deep. Truen and I will act…
-
89 •
-
-
The discovery of their first desert poppy made Zero and his group overjoyed. Indeed, the desert poppy was a dangerous flower as it almost turned Jermine into a seedbed. The party quickly gathered all the flowers in sight, thanked the village, taught them how to grow mushrooms and left quickly. It has been two weeks since they left the cacti-folks and Zero would always make it rain in a five-mile radius whenever they stopped to set up camp. Truen didn’t say anything about it. In fact, it was probably a…
-
89 •
-
-
The rain tasted weird but nobody was complaining. After all, it was not an easy task bringing down rain for five minutes. As the cacti-folk watched with awe and respect, the village elder thought that Zero was truly a child blessed by Gaia and Tanya. To celebrate the rare sight of rain, dinner was made more luxurious than the cacti-folk had eaten in years. Nobody disliked mushrooms and Zero thought that they made a good decision introducing this to them. He wanted to stay up the whole night to wait…
-
89 •
-
-
Simple. Too simple! The method that the cacti elder told him how they could get desert poppies and a whole bunch of other mythical desert plants was too simple! Now that he knew, it was almost unbelievable. Yet, it was still going to be a lot easier than locating caves and dungeons with mana crystals to hunt for it. Also, the desert poppy that people usually found in caves were nothing more than monster parts. There was one type of desert worm that grows a red flower on its head and pretends to be a…
-
89 •
-
-
The elder of the village looked at Zero with resignation. After eating their delicious vegetable stew, he had to keep his word. While these adventurers may act kind, he was not a fool to believe it entirely. Every adventurer had a cruel side. They didn’t want to get on that bad side. "The gnomes who travelled west passed by some of our kind," he admitted. "However, they did not meet kind ones. We cacti-folk are split between those who eat cultivated plants for supplement and those who eat others for…
-
89 •
-
-
Zero was extremely interested and didn’t care if the cacti-folks were odd. He simply accepted their way of living and dubbed it "The Way of Desert Dwellers". "Let’s talk to them," he grinned and looked at three very unenthusiastic faces over dinner. "What?" Bob was the first to break the silence. "Do you really think that this is safe? We don’t know anything about cacti-folks. They could be cannibals." Zero blinked. "But they plant vegetables. Besides, we don’t really have a clue about…
-
89 •
-
-
Zero groaned. They have been travelling for a week now without any interesting happening. After looting Gnaway and trying to track the whereabouts of the hideouts, Truen and Zero found only one note saying that gnomes have travelled further to the West to settle down after Gnaway had fallen. While they had a lead now, it wasn’t much good for them. Thinking back about how the entire city started to collapse after Zero retrieved the Phoenix’s Pearl, Zero couldn’t help but feel slightly remorseful.…
-
89 •
-
-
The first place that Truen and Jermine went to was the palace dungeons. They left Zero alone to drive Raju insane with questions and explored the ruined castle. Most things were still intact and Truen noticed that these gnomes were even more advanced than the dwarves when it involved crafting. No wonder Dorgon needed the help of a gnome. Gnaway wasn’t a very big kingdom but they had a very good armoury and research lab. Lined against the cracked walls were rows of broken golems and weird machinery.…
-
89 •
-
-
King Gregory’s Tomb was humble but also awe-inspiring. Hua Tuo once told Zero that the masters of great ancient China had magnificent tombs where their concubines and wives were buried with them upon death to signify the end of an era. The grander a tomb, the greater a ruler’s life accomplishments. The gnome king might have died a miserly death and all that remained on him were bones, literally. Adorned by the armour he wore while he was still alive, his skeleton was sitting upon his throne in an…
-
89 •
-
- Previous 1 … 18 19 20 … 452 Next
