Chapter 397: Reaching Nogart

Jahi PoV

Kolia was very intrigued by the two dead human women off in the middle of the forest, taking Leone out there to investigate the two corpses before retuning a few minutes later, a small frown on her face.

"It... would have made for an interesting story, but that is all... Body examination shows that the creatures skin or persons barriers that she hit were incredibly hard, even for a human with a Core... I mean, she completely shattered her wrist bones and fractured her fingers... as for their death, it seems that it was a creature, considering the way their top halves were bitten off..."

She continued on a little longer as she boarded the carriage with the rest of us, still theorizing about what we might be up against as we journeyed to the next city, a trading center called Emor.

Like Huran and the villages, the city was a crumbling, burnt mess, littered with decaying corpses and burnt bodies.