21. Petrified Aura, Colm Town(3)

As Zen and the others continued to walk cautiously along the ruined streets of Colm, Zen suddenly detected the presence of a living being from his <Magic Sense> radar.

"What's wrong, Sir Zen?" Farna asked curiously.

She didn't know why Zen stop walking.

Zen turned his head and signaled the two of them not to make a noise.

Farna and Jord nodded.

In a small voice, Zen whispered to them.

"I discovered the existence of Humans."

The expressions of the two quickly changed.

"In that case, let's save them!" Jord said.

He almost looked like he would run if he knew where he had to go.

However, Zen shook his head in response.

"They were in groups. With a total of more than 80 people."

Jord fell silent after hearing it.

He wasn't stupid, so he immediately understood what Zen was trying to say.

Farna muttered: "In that case, they must be other Pirate, or maybe the Expeditionary force belonging to the Moondown kingdom who is the ruler of the surrounding area here."

Zen nodded.

"Judging by their clothes, I think they are pirate. Let's go back immediately and retreat from this Town."

Jord and Farna agree with Zen's decision.

Not all pirates are as good as Red Trickerss, so Jord and Farna are well aware of how dangerous the situation is where they are found by another group of pirate.

Moreover, this group of pirate was clearly a group of pirate on a larger scale than the Red Trickerss.

Avoiding clashes is the most appropriate and safe decision.

***

As they ran back to the riverbank, Jord asked Zen and Farna.

"What should we do? Are we going to wait at river side, or go straight to the dam?"

Zen and Farna looked at each other, then nodded.

"Of course, we're heading to the dam!"

Jord immediately nodded.

"Alright!"

The three of them rushed back as fast as they could.

Of course, they slowed down a bit because Farna wouldn't be able to keep up with their speed if Zen and Jord were running at their maximum speed.

As they approached the bank of the river where their canoe was tied, Zen's expression immediately became gloomy.

He stopped walking.

He changed direction directly towards the riverbank.

"You keep going to the dam and warn Jonna and the others! There are some bastards crawling into our canoe!"

""Okay!""

A flash of nervousness flashed across Jord and Farna's faces, but they immediately answered firmly and ran towards the dam.

In order to avoid the worst possibility, they must immediately gather together and leave this town!

Zen kicked the ground accompanied by an explosion of fire.

He was moving at full speed!

It only took a moment before he reached the riverbank.

There, he saw 5 men laughing and examining their canoe as if they had just found a treasure.

There was no doubt that they were definitely intent on looting Zen and Team number 2's belongings.

Zen wasted absolutely no time.

He immediately created five stone needles with his earth magic.

Then, without even blinking his eyes, Zen shot out the stone needles to attack the vital areas of these five people.

***

"The river route is actually quite good as a shipping route. We just have to destroy this dam so that the river water in front of it is deep enough for the ship to float..."

Jonna and the others were checking the dam and the direction of the river when, suddenly, Jord and Farna came towards them with panicked expressions.

"Hurry, we must leave this town immediately...!"

The facial expressions of Jonna and the others instantly became serious when they heard what Farna and Jord were saying.

Forgetting all the idea of using this river path, Jonna and the others immediately returned to the riverbank with the intention of leaving the town immediately.

When they reached the riverbank, they found Zen piling up five bloody corpses.

After seeing these corpses, Jonna and the others' determination to leave the town became much greater than before.

"Let's go!"

With Zen's initial orders, they left the town.

They should avoid this river path!

Jonna firmly crossed this river route off the list of potential shipping routes.

After they returned to the cave that became the Stone Drake's nest to transport the Stone Drake's scales and other important parts, they would immediately return to the lake near Frincaal town.

Zen and Team number 2's next agenda has been decided!

***

Meanwhile.

2 days after Zen and the others resolutely left the town.

In the Colm town, the bodies of the five pirates have been found by the pirate group.

"They were all killed with a single attack. Maybe surprise attack."

A long-faced man with sly narrow eyes reported his analysis to a large 2.35-meter-tall man with a thick red beard and a bald head.

"Hoho, that's interesting. They really dared to kill my Iron Borgar Pirate crew..."

Even though their friends had just been killed, there were no sad faces found among this group.

They all put on a sadistic smile.

Then, their eyes turned to a skinny, hunched over old man holding a wooden stick.

Sighing, the hunched old man reported what he had found after using his magic.