The Runesmith

Chapter 210: Hey, wait a minute…

“Hey, was that the last one?”

“Yes, there are no enemies in the vicinity anymore.”

Roland replied to the shout coming from the front, Grisalde was there pulling her axe out from the ground. When removing her weapon he could see a combination of sand and blood covering the edge.

“Are you sure you aren’t a tracker?”

Senna popped her head out of the side and started twirling her daggers. Ever since the first ambush, the adventurers had been slowly building up trust towards Roland’s detecting skills. While he couldn’t track anything, detecting monsters in the forest was quite easy, even easier for him than for proper scout-type classes.

The forest area was quite dense and with a lot of various creatures living there. With so many living beings around it was hard for anyone to get an estimate of all of the enemy locations. But Roland only needed to look at the dots on the map to quickly point out the next nearby monster.

“No, It’s just a tracking spell…”

“That’s some handy tracking spell that can last for so long.” .𝙘𝒐𝒎

Senna glanced towards Roland’s metal helmet as if she didn’t quite believe his story. While the technology he was using wasn’t all that groundbreaking, the sheer length he could keep it up was the real deal-breaker. All-day and night he could have his radar function up and it would even jolt him up from his sleep if something appeared.

“It’s not like I can detect anything, any monsters that specialize in hiding their presence would not be easy to spot for me. Don’t let your guard down.”

‘Is it this tree… there is something off about it’

He glanced towards the massive tree in the middle of the village. People were still dancing around with smiles on their faces. The more his gaze focused on it, the more he felt something was wrong. With the help of his mana sense, he tried feeling it out and to his surprise there was something.

While glaring intently at the tree for a fraction of a moment he saw something. It flashed there before him for a fraction of a second in the place of the tree. It had a strange shape of a double helix covered in strange patterns. It was something that he had witnessed before all those years ago.

“It can’t be…”

He retreated a step while shouting and almost instantly activated his debugging skill on the object before him…