Chapter 28 – Explain

Mason carved a smile on his face watching Carl explode.

As he'd expected, the captain immediately turned around. Too fast for even him to react, and before anyone knew, the tip of a sword was at the fat boy's neck.

"…"

The captain furrowed his brows.

Unfazed, Carl then spoke, ignoring the killing intent in the captain's gaze.

"Do you think those direwolves are attacking us? You're wrong, there are no more waves. All wolves in these parts probably went down during that commotion."

"What are you trying to say?" the captain asked cutting him off.

"They are running from something, something powerful enough to scare them all."

Carl's words hang ominously in the air, causing some to snort and some to take him seriously.

"So please put your sword so I could explain." Carl said.

Mason was quick to bark; "Don't listen to him Captain, how could he know that in the first place? It's not like he could see what is going on up there. He's not a monster expert too."

The captain wasn't entirely convinced, but he ordered Carl to speak with a head gesture, displeasing Mason greatly.

Carl began to explain;

"Do you think I wasn't doing anything during that wave? I swear to you that wave was abnormal, an irregularity. They weren't directly attacking us, it looks like instead of attacking, they were rushing down the mountain, passing through and if that's a wave, that number was abnormal for a first wave."

Slowing his last statement, Carl shook his head to emphasize his words.

Seeing the seriousness in Carl's eyes, the Captain then returned his sword to his back, and he decided to look at one veteran. The veteran was a little stunned at first, but he was one of the oldest in the group, and his opinion was needed.

"Certainly," the veteran then answered after a long pause, "That seems plausible, I thought that too at first, but their numbers seems normal to me."

This was a veteran talking, so everyone was listening, and with his last statement, they couldn't help but turn to Carl.

Carl of course knew the flaw in the veteran's reasoning, which should been true if he hadn't seen and heard that.

It was already dark by the time the direwolves rushed down so they could not see very well, but he can thanks to bloody boar's improved sensing skills.

And during that time, the wolves was not only specifically going to their direction, they were simply going down in a rush and the position they were in was only a little portion of the area they passed through!

For the regular human, it was so dark it was easy to miss.

"Don't you think the sound was especially loud?" Carl stated.

As soon as the veteran hunters heard this, a flash of understanding swept their face, including the Captain. The sound indeed was loud, louder than what a wave would usually sound like. Even prior to the attack, it sounded like the whole mountain was coming down.

Carl of course could not simply know this detail by the sound.

During that time, it was hard to conclude by only sound. But it was enough for him to feel that something was off.

So he used bloody boar.

Most breathing techniques in the world upped the user's senses and their physical attributes, but Carl was using an advanced version of the boar breathing technique from his former world which not only improved all of his five senses but actually brought them to a level that no ordinary breathing technique could ever do.

Truth be told, if he sold his knowledge of the bloody boar in the market, he would gain thousands of cash and so was the case with the other irregular breathing techniques and rare spells he still remembered from his former world.

Hearing and seeing a little from the dark was no problem.

The moment of realization struck the captain's mind and the veterans.

They could still hear the thundering noise from the wolves below, and such noise could not come from only a wave of wolves.

That earlier was most likely the whole wolf population in the area!

Even in high altitude area, wolf attacks were very common in the Seventh Mountains, and mostly it would come wave after wave, but if the entire population decided to come down, something was wrong, definitely wrong.

"What do we do? If the entire population is rushing down that hurriedly, this isn't a simple migration, as the boy says," the veteran hunter asked the Captain.

"But the green chasm is still a little far from here, don't tell me another leader class monster awoken?" another veteran said.

A man who was also on the front then spoke to the group for the first time, making everyone listen. He was man in his thirties, had dark skin, a braided beard, and almond-shaped eyes.

He was the guide for this raid. It was the first time he actually talked to the group, instead of only speaking to the captain and the veterans, so everyone paid attention.

"Nah, let's not jump to conclusions gentlemen, the leader class monster in the green chasm appeared a week ago, and according to the report, it is more aggressive than usual, the most likely scenario is that it might have tried extending its territory. Although another leader class isn't totally impossible."

Pushing Mason away, the Captain made up his mind. He looked at Carl and apologized.

"I apologize. As your captain and as a martial artist, I have failed you."

Then he nodded at the guide for speaking his honest thoughts. He then slightly bowed his head to Carl and was about to say more, but his intention was cut by the sudden shout of one of the least-experienced hunters.

"Don't mess with me!" a hunter shouted, startling the group.

Pointing his fingers at the captain, he shouted again;

"You never told me this! Sam is gone, and you're telling us you don't know what's happening all this time?"