Without disturbing the Bloodthirsty Claw Beasts, still sprawled in their hallucinatory bliss, and without entering the depths-unknown cave of the Human-Raising Beast Papu, Gelman headed straight away.
The "junkies" were still sprawled on the ground, fast asleep. They hadn't noticed what had happened just now.
Gelman had made his decision hours ago. His top priority was to reunite with Shizuku and the others, not satisfy his curiosity.
He could deal with the Human-Raising Beast Papu later.
Gelman had never regarded Shizuku and the others as expendable.
They were living people, just like him, who shared his resolve and dared to challenge the Dark Continent.
Gelman would never explore the Human-Raising Beast Papu's lair beneath these Treacherous Mountains while the others' whereabouts remained unknown.
As he crossed mountain after mountain, the sun gradually sank in the west. The orange-red fireball burned with the last light of dusk between the towering peaks.
Whenever hunger gnawed at Gelman or his throat grew dry, he took out a special Greed Island card binder and released a small portion of food and water, eating and drinking as he walked.
With Gourmet Hunter Menchi nowhere around, Gelman wouldn't touch anything he came across in these Treacherous Mountains that looked edible.
Even though his Greed Island card binder still held the All-Curing Herb Injection, antidote injections, and other things Shubika had prepared.
He didn't want to waste them here.
The Contempt Armor still clung tightly to his flesh, not to mention the Dark Crown, which sent jolts of pain through him.
Under these conditions, maintaining over an hour out of combat was simply too difficult for Gelman, who was traveling alone.
At last, utterly exhausted in body and mind, he stopped. In a hollow in the terrain, he built a campfire with nearby firewood.
He planned to