38 Chimera lab

Confusion flashed across Wyatt's face, the sudden statement from Bel completely caught him off guard.

"What do you mean?" Wyatt questioned in his confusion.

Bellamy gestured for Wyatt to keep looking straight while answering in a lower tone "Don't look now, there's a group of about 5 people about 7 trees to our right"

Trying his best not to look over Wyatt followed up his question

"Do you know who they are?"

"No idea, but I have a fun way we can find out if you're down" Bel smirked while gesturing for Wyatt to keep following him.

As the two of them walked they suddenly made a sharp turn behind a large tree. As the tree covered them from their stalkers Bellamy's hand started glowing blue as he rubbed his palm against the tree.

Wyatt was puzzled by Bel's actions but decided not to ask, for now. Instead, he waited for Bellamys next action. Luckily he didn't have to wait long as Bel turned to him before declaring.

"Now we run!"

Without another word, Bel and Wyatt sprinted full speed deeper into the forest, much to the confusion of the group behind them.

"Huh? Why did they suddenly run away??" one of the hidden followers questioned in shock.

The group of followers then sprinted forward to the large tree Wyatt and Bellamy had passed. During this time a little deeper into the forest Bel stopped their run.

"Now, check this out" Bel declared with a chuckle

Once again his hand started glowing a faint blue, this time he wiped his palm across the ground in front of them.

The dirt seemed to distort for a couple of seconds before turning into a weird image for the two to few. The image was still very jumbled so Wyatt couldn't get a clear view.

As he was trying to figure out the distorted image a familiar voice echoed from inside.

"Do you think they noticed us?" one of the voices in the image asked.

"I doubt it, we kept hidden the whole time" the familiar voice replied in frustration.

Suddenly, the distortion on the ground lessened, finally giving Wyatt a clearer image of the familiar voice.

"LUKAS!" he declared in shock

Bel looked over at Wyatt in confusion "So you do recognize him?"

"mhm, I know him" Wyatt replied while he started explaining his interaction with Lukas so far, of course including the bet and fight.

"PFFT, hahaha so it turns out our little stalker couldn't accept his loss. He must be trying to get revenge against you!" Bel was clearly having a blast messing with Wyatt.

"Let's keep listening for now" Wyatt stated refocusing on the image

The group of 5 continued to talk in confusion for another minute until the frustrated Lukas finally changed the topic

"Enough! Who cares why they ran, Hector can you track them or not?" Lukas questioned while turning his face toward a silent player with his head covered in a hood.

The silent boy looked back at Lukas before replying "I marked one of them earlier, It will take a while for me to track their location but it should be possible within a couple of hours"

Away from the group, both Wyatt and Bel were shocked to hear that they could still be tracked.

"We should hurry up and reach the dungeon before they start tracking us" Bel stated.

Wyatt of course agreed and the pair quickly continued their journey forward. The mountainous region they were traveling toward was still almost an hour away.

Due to them being in a hurry now because of the tracker, they managed to arrive in the region only 45 minutes later.

"Okay, so far so good! Where to next?" Bel inquired

Following Bellamy's question, Wyatt pulled out the map Lachlan had given him so that they could get a clearer understanding of the area. Luckily, the marked area was not deep into the mountains so they only had to travel a few more minutes.

Only 2 minutes later Wyatt started seeing the familiar poison stains that the Myroc tower apprentice had described in his reports

"Ugh, it smells disgusting" Bel declared while pinching his nose closed.

The smell of poison didn't have as strong of an effect on Wyatt due to his affinity, but even he was caught off guard by the stench.

"I wonder who spread this poison" Wyatt mumbled to himself while the pair continued forward. Along the way, they killed a couple of lower level beasts and to Wyatt's surprise they were leaking the same substance Lachlan had shown him not long ago.

Wyatt would've liked to take a couple of samples of the poison for his own study but he didn't have any vials or equipment in his inventory for the task.

Finally reaching a small mountain near the edge of the forest, Wyatt quickly spotted the 2 trails leading away that the apprentice had mentioned. Of course, now the trails were completely dried up and just stains on the ground.

They followed the trails up the edge of the mountain until finally arriving at their destination

"Look over there! seems like some sort of crevice in the mountain" Bel declared, while jogging over to where he pointed.

[New Dungeon discovered]

[Abandoned Chimera Lab]

[Recommended level: 6] [Recommened party size: 5]

"Found it! but what the hell is a chimera?" Bellamy asked in confusion

Wyatt arrived at the entrance and started reading the dungeon details before replying.

"I believe they are monsters that have been experimented on, they combine multiple monsters together" He answered while examining the dungeon entrance.

"The recommended party is 5, you still want to enter?" Wyatt asked his companion.

"Why not, I don't have any plans for now anyways. If it gets too dangerous inside we can just escape" Bel replied.

"Agreed, let's try to take our time" Wyatt stated before stepping into the dungeon

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