Chapter 546: Hang in there, Chief
"Clop-clop-clop-clop-clop..."
Packhorses ran considerably slower than the horses native to Earth. Their hoofbeats were less crisp, and their builds were hardly elegant, but they had excellent endurance.
Sword Saint Degoni's party, bound for the Holy Mountain, had grown several times larger after leaving Asiya Ze City.
Besides several Divine Officials and one genuine demon hunter from Asiya Ze City, several of the city's knight officers and a number of cavalrymen had joined them, bringing their total to seventy-six.
For now, they had no idea what changes Asiya Ze City would face. After what had happened there, the party felt a new sense of urgency. Apart from sleeping, eating, and relieving themselves, they traveled whenever they could.
Perhaps terrifying monsters had appeared elsewhere in the world during this time. They had no idea whether the people there could hold them off, let alone withstand the most terrifying threat of all, the Yellow-Gray Demons.
In fact, almost everyone who knew about the Yellow-Gray Demons, with Qin Xiaoxia as the exception, ranked them as the greatest danger.
Although the two-headed monster they had encountered looked terrifying, killing it was not impossible, and the damage it could do was limited. Wherever the Yellow-Gray Demons passed, however, not a blade of grass remained. They were monsters that extinguished life at its very roots.
Moreover, while the Yellow-Gray Demons preferred eating plants, that did not mean they ate nothing else. More and more examples proved that sometimes they devoured every edible thing among the plants, leaving nothing behind.
The mutated locusts even seemed capable of holding grudges. Provoking just a small group often brought down a locust swarm that blotted out the sky.
Earth, deep within Antarctica's layered glaciers.
"Plink-plonk, plink-plonk, plink-plonk-plonk-plonk-plonk... plonk-plonk-plonk, plink-plonk, plink-plonk..."
Beethoven's piano piece Für