Savage Forest - Chapter 111.1
Piache muttered worriedly.
“Enya wasn’t even born in the forest. How could she be recognized as the Daughter of the Forest?”
Kiyan, who was also concerned, murmured.
“It’s not like there’s no way, but…”
It was not impossible for a new Daughter of the Forest to be recognized by the skull spider in scenarios where the lineage had been broken or during pregnancy.
“The giant creature and the Daughter of the Forest are bonded by blood. For example, when the first Daughter of the Forest introduced her successor, she drew a little blood from the baby’s finger to show to the skull spider.”
Kiyan added.
“If Enya were to show a significant amount of her blood, it would undoubtedly make the skull spider hesitate.”
“It’s a complicated path ahead.”
Piache sighed in frustration.
“How are we to communicate this method to Enya in Nervana forest, and how is she supposed to shed that much blood?”
Inaken murmured.
“Fiarca is with her, isn’t he?”
“What does that always sleepy kid during Kiyan’s lectures know?!”
Yaru exclaimed, rolling her eyes.
“And to think Aquilea would be devastated to this extent.”
As Yaru said, Aquilea’s situation was indeed dire. After Servia and the core elders departed for Garganta, only the incapacitated and the elderly were left on the plains.
Piache clenched her teeth.
“Elders are always irresponsible.”
“Ah, but what about that bastard?”
Inaken asked.
“Which bastard?”
Yaru asked back.
Kiyan’s expression darkened. Piache, beside her, grinded her teeth.
“That b*stard.”
She said, pointing somewhere.
Yaru narrowed her eyes.
In a dark, shadowy corner of Piache’s herb shop, someone was detained. Yaru’s eyes widened after spotting the face. It was the supreme elder Haraibo. The once dignified figure was now just an old man cowering in a corner, who stiffened under Yaru’s gaze.
“Caught him right after Servia’s forces left.”
Kiyan said confidently, baring her teeth.
Looking closely into the shadows, Yaru realized it wasn’t just Haraibo who was detained there. She recognized Ruhan’s face and gasped. Ruhan was huddled next to Haraibo, alongside Ashika and Suya.
‘The girl who had openly bullied Enya…’
Yaru contemplated the face of the woman in front of her from the past commotion. The women looked terrified, and children who appeared to be their offspring were exhausted, sleeping beside them.
“Servia took only her father, Haron.”
Piache explained, then pointed coldly at Ruhan.
“That woman lost her newborn and her second child in the chaos caused by Servia’s troops.”
Indeed, only the eldest child was in Ruhan’s arms. Compared to Ashka and Suya, who were shivering beside her, Ruhan looked utterly shell-shocked from losing two of her children at once.
Piache cast a frosty glance at them.
Being of foreign descent herself, Piache had always taken it upon herself to care for the people of the plains.
Thus, she harbored deep resentment towards certain privileged groups in Aquilea who had shunned her despite her being a caregiver. Had it not been for her medicinal skills acquired from her original tribe, Piache knew she, too, would have been ostracized.
“Can we take them with us?”
Piache asked through gritted teeth, looking at Kiyan.
“Nervana will not take responsibility for them.”
As Kiyan replied flatly, Piache snorted.
“Of course. Don’t even think about it. I plan to drag them along, bound hand and foot, just like they once did to helpless foreigners.”
Piache’s eyes were full of repressed rage as she glared at Haraibo, who flinched under her resentful gaze. She was unrelenting. In the first place, she thought of Enya and Tarhan, almost like her own children, and a deep, indescribable emotion welled up within her.
“I knew something like this would happen someday. I just knew it.”
Piache sharply instructed the pharmacy women with a sharp gaze.
“Gather up all the medicine and healing tools we’ve been collecting for the Allied Forces! Everything we’ve been keeping back, we’re taking it all to Nervana!”
With Piache’s command, the women in the pharmacy began to move with remarkable efficiency.
Realizing they had gained robust support, Yaru and Kiyan exchanged glances. Lehijin nodded, and Inaken watched the herb shop women with an impressed look. Only Haraibo’s face looked as though it were rotting away.
Suddenly, Inaken, who had been guarding the door, turned sharply.
“Someone is coming.”
His words sent a wave of tension throughout the room. Yaru got up, readying herself for combat. Inaken looked to Kiyan, seeking permission to open the door.
Kiyan solemnly nodded.
Creak.
The door opened. From the darkness, several pairs of white figures appeared before them. Inaken immediately drew his sword and blocked their path.
“Identify yourselves!”
“Wait!”
Yaru quickly intervened, stopping Inaken.
Squinting into the darkness, Yaru scrutinized the figures. They were numerous, shrouded in white bandages, giving them an almost ghostly appearance. She recognized them instantly. They looked just like the group from the leper den that she had seen with Enya.
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
