Chapter 324: Monster Attack

"Weren't you always curious about why I insisted on exploring the ruins of Valyria?"

"Emon."

The red-haired girl looked at the sky outside the tent, then abruptly spoke.

"I can tell you, my parents died on this land, so I had to come here no matter what."

"Whether it's to find their remains or to avenge them, or even... just to take a look."

"Hmm?"

Viserys, who had already settled down, looked at Mira upon hearing her words.

"What about you?"

"Why are you here, Emon?"

Mira emphasized the name 'Emon' heavily.

It seemed she had known for a long time that 'Emon' was just an alias.

Viserys didn't tell her the truth.

"Me?"

Viserys was slightly taken aback, but he wasn't surprised that Mira knew he was disguising his identity.

They had been close for some time, and he must have slipped up somewhere.

"I guess I'm curious, wanting to unravel this buried history."

Viserys shook his head and spoke.

He didn't lie to Mira, he was indeed here to decipher.

"Is that so?"

Mira clearly didn't expect Viserys's reason to be deciphering. She blinked, but this time she chose to believe 'Emon's' answer.

Most of the lights in the camp's tents had been extinguished.

Except for the mercenaries on night watch holding torches, there was only faint moonlight outside, with everything else shrouded in darkness.

Viserys and Mira chatted briefly in the tent, then each lay down to rest.

Under the moonlight shrouded in mist, time quietly passed. Apart from the sound of breathing from the tents and the sound of waves hitting the ships, the world was silent.

However, perhaps it was destined to be restless on this mysterious continent.

After an unknown amount of time, a short, sharp scream broke the silence.

"Who's there?"

Then there were shouts.

It seemed someone had been attacked, and other mercenaries on night watch had noticed. Then the sound of arrows being fired rang out, one thing leading to another.

Thud, thud, thud—

The sound of bowstrings seemed to hit something.

The mercenaries chased after it, fortunately, this large-scale operation also brought about a hundred warhorses.

The monster that attacked the mercenary was hit by an arrow and seemed to be in pain, or it thought it couldn't escape while dragging its prey, so it let go.

It moved extremely fast on all fours, and its figure quickly disappeared into the darkness, leaving no trace.

"Don't run!"

Some brave mercenaries rode after it, wanting to kill it, but they didn't catch anything and returned dejectedly after a while.

Mira was a light sleeper, her dagger under her pillow, so she naturally woke up during this brief interlude.

"What happened?"

However, when the red-haired girl opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was an empty sleeping bag.

Emon's figure had disappeared at some point.

"Hmm?"

"Where did Emon go?"

In the darkness, Mira's gaze slightly hardened.

She was a light sleeper, always alert, but when did Emon go out in the middle of the night?

She didn't feel it at all.

It seemed that Emon was more mysterious than she thought.

Then Mira reached out and touched Emon's sleeping bag, finding it already cold.

It seemed he didn't just leave, but had been gone for a long time.

What was Emon doing?

Mira was slightly puzzled.

He had been gone for a long time, definitely not because he left just

before the recent incident, but had left a long time ago.

And outside, it was already chaotic.

They were all mercenaries, used to dancing on the edge of a blade, so each of them was alert. The slightest rustle would wake them up.

The commander of this expedition, Wilder Megaya, naturally woke up too, sitting on the edge of his bed.

There was some anger on his face. Anyone who was woken up from a good sleep wouldn't be in a good mood.

"What the hell happened?!"

But Wilder didn't need to investigate himself. Soon enough, information was brought to him.

It turned out that a night watchman had been attacked by an unknown creature.

Some witnesses claimed it was a wolf, while others said it was much larger than a wolf, with black and white fur, sharp teeth, and it could walk upright.

However, those who chased after it reported that the creature ran on all fours, its figure indeed a bit larger than a wolf, somewhat like a shadow cat.

"So someone was attacked by a monster."

Inside Wilder's tent.

Viserys, dressed in black, his eyes flickering slightly.

At this moment, he was hiding in the shadows, silently listening to the guards reporting to their commander under everyone's noses.

"I remember Gillian's diary also described a monster surviving in the ruins of Valyria."

"But the monster Gillian encountered seemed to be a creature with fish fins, not a werewolf-like monster."

Viserys, hiding in the shadows, couldn't help but ponder this matter.

"Could these things be the mutations of the survivors left on the continent of Valyria after the Wrath of the Gods?"

Since there are sea monsters in the Smoking Sea, it wouldn't be strange for there to be other monsters on this land.

Even in the depths of the ruins of Valyria, there might be monsters that can injure the Grim Reaper.

These are likely the descendants of the survivors, mutated. They could be human mutations or animal mutations.

Just like the stone people in the Sorrows, no one knows what they've become.

Viserys's guess was bold.

And why he wasn't sleeping in his tent in the middle of the night, but was here, was to secretly go through some of the information about this operation.

Viserys's identity was special, he wasn't a real adventurer.

Although he had mixed in with these people, it didn't mean he would continue to follow them.

Viserys and Balerion had a mysterious connection.

The silver-haired young man provided Balerion with a coordinate as soon as he successfully landed on the continent of Valyria, and now all he had to do was wait for Balerion to fly over.

This route should be considered a 'safe passage' in a strict sense, at least they walked in alive.

Even the cost was less than Gillian's expedition, out of twenty ships, only two were lost in the Smoking Sea.

Volantis, being so close to the Smoking Sea and powerful, had naturally explored a relatively safer route over the years.

That's why Viserys took advantage of Volantis's power to sneak in.

And now that the outside world was in chaos, if he dragged it out, he might be discovered, it was time for Viserys to leave.

Whoosh~

Then the silver-haired young man hiding in the dark corner of the tent turned into a cloud of black mist and disappeared without a trace.