193 Clash (3)

Lars looked around as he stepped through the holes made when he kicked the crawler and smashed apart the walls. One by one, he walked through the broken walls that he had caused, wincing as he realised how badly he had damaged the residents' homes – he counted13 broken walls, meaning 7 half destroyed houses…

However, though he searched and kept a keen eye out and despite sensing a dark aura watching him, there was still no sign of the crawler anywhere. And also no sign of life, no voices, no sounds of battle – which was impossible.

 'Something is strange. I should be able to hear Zera's fight with the goblin lord from miles away…' He stopped in the 7th house, standing still and extending his soul-sense to scan further and further, only to find that he could sense no living things at all in the entire homestead – again, impossible.