Chapter 494: The Calm Chief

He looked at the tribal warriors, but his gaze landed on something hovering right in front of him again.

"Yeah, it’s just like you said," Yuusha muttered to the air. "It looks like they didn’t have the bowls to stock up on the water."

He chuckled dryly.

"Well, I don’t need mana though," Yuusha said as he finally looked at the three men. "Unfortunately for every single one of you here."

"Did you guys go for a hunt yesterday?" Yuusha asked.

The men didn’t lower their weapons. "Do you want something?"

Yuusha cracked his neck. "Of course I do."

And the massacre began.

Two more days passed while both Adrian and Yuusha were busy with their own things.

While they were busy outside, Aria, Claire, and Serena had long since entered the time-dilated area and started their training. This area was specifically made by Adrian and it wasn’t connected to the zones where the cows or the other animals lived inside the dungeon.

The time dilation in this specific square was almost twenty times faster than the outside world. That meant those two days were equivalent to forty whole days for the girls. The ambient mana in that area was also a lot more concentrated.

This setup obviously came at a high cost, but it didn’t really matter to them. The real cost was area size. Adrian didn’t have the spare mana to splurge on a vast zone, so he just went with a square area that had a length of ten meters on each side. It wasn’t huge, but it was enough to spar, meditate and train.

Within those forty days, there was one person who made valuable progress and it was none other than Aria. She had successfully reached the fifth circle a few days ago inside her room. Adrian had gone inside the dungeon to congratulate her and spend a full day in there with her before coming back out.

Apart from that, everything else went normal.

Adrian had already learned the secrets of the last tribe that he wanted to investigate. Their method wasn’t too different from Tiger’s tribe.

The core concept was similar, but apart of bruising or cutting themselves under the rain, they did something else. They used a specific blend of herbs. They ground it into a thick paste and rubbed it all over their bodies right after they intentionally bruised themselves.

Unlike Tiger’s tribe, where they went out to hunt dangerous boars, these guys went for something much safer and controlled. They just slammed their bodies into huge logs or boulders and punched sand. They basically did everything under the observation of the tribe elders.

They did this for days on end before it rained. They just endured the pain and waited. When the rain finally came, they would feel a soothing sensation. The herbs helped make their skin and bodies incredibly enduring and thick.

Instead of the liquid mana going deep inside the blood vessels to heal, it just accumulated right over their skin, turning it slightly bluish. They were the only tribe that looked different because of this blue tint. The parts that were a deeper shade of blue were the parts that had a lot more defense.

But there was one major drawback to using these herbs. It temporarily disabled their ability to heal. While it heavily boosted their defenses, it completely impeded their regenerative capabilities. It wasn’t a perfect method by any means, but the knowledge was useful.

With all of the knowledge he acquired, Adrian headed straight back to the very first village he had visited since that was the direction his system compass had pointed him toward.

It didn’t take him long because he wasn’t just walking. He rushed over at top speed. He was already done with everything and he wasn’t having any issues with mana capacity. It had rained just the previous night, so even Octavia and Vance had enough mana to handle the long travel. Adrian had stored enough mana water for them and for himself.

As he ran through the forest, he chuckled inwardly.

’Well, even if I run out of mana water, I’ll just use the dungeon’s mana,’ Adrian thought. ’But I don’t really have a way to transfer my mana to these two, so I should probably save the water for their sake. At this point, I have saved up more than enough to probably last me a month, even if I share it with Claire, Serena, Aria, and these two.’

As he finally neared the area, he couldn’t help but feel a sudden sense of unease.

Ten minutes later, he stopped right at the edge of the first tribe’s clearing but he village looked completely unrecognizable to him right now.

Every single tribesman was dead on the ground, with blood pooling all over the wet dirt. It didn’t look like it had rained water last night. It looked more like it had rained blood instead.

Standing right near the middle of the corpse pile was none other than Yuusha.

And standing a few feet away from him was the tribal chief.

The chief did not look like a young teenager anymore. He looked much older.

And on top of that, he barely resembled a human.

Almost an hour ago, Yuusha casually strolled into the tribe. He didn’t even bother talking this time. He just killed the very first person in his sight, grabbed their arm, and threw the bleeding body right into the center of the clearing.

That alerted the whole tribe, and the fight immediately began.

The young chief silently watched from the side as Yuusha killed the tribesmen one by one. He just stood there with a calm, eerie smile on his face.

Once Yuusha was done slaughtering every single person there, he turned to look at the chief and wiped some blood off his bald head and frowned.

"You don’t look like you are paralyzed with fear," Yuusha said, sounding annoyed. "So why the fuck are you standing there without helping anyone?"