Chapter 89: Beasts of the Golem valley
"Remember to inform your leader that I saved you all, put a good word to her on my behalf." Lucas smiled at the group before jumping away.
"That bastard!" someone hissed.
"He wants us to be grateful because he chased away the lizardmen? I would rather face the lizardmen than this heat."
"No wonder the leader hates him, he’s a scumbag!"
The members of the Rising Wave group cursed as they watched Lucas leave.
Lucas came out and stood on one of the boulders, seeing his group members killing the lizardmen, he nodded with satisfaction. Their gains here could very much double their gains during the past hours.
Not long after, more people began to appear. They were from the other two groups and had come after sensing Selena’s lightning energy as well.
Apparently, these three groups had been the closest to them so they were the first ones to arrive.
When they saw lots of lizardmen running around and the members of the Golden Tree group hunting them, the people of the two groups immediately joined in an attempt to get some more profits.
"Stop, these lizardmen belong to the Golden Tree group, others are not allowed to kill them. If you have already killed any, please return them." Lucas’s voice rang through the air when he saw this.
His words sounded reasonable and righteous but his threatening tone was as clear as day.
The other two groups were speechless, even Selena and the members of the Rising Wave group who were suffering in the pit were also speechless.
Who would go around laying claims on magic beasts that were in the wild?
Some of the members, however, were stubborn and still wanted to store some beast corpses that were close to them but were immediately scolded by the Expert mage of their group.
Lucas had claimed to know Mr Chen; it would be unwise to get on his bad side since they might need him to get in contact with Mr Chen; it was better to just allow him to take these lizardmen.
Lucas stood tall on the boulder with a sharp glint in his eyes, he nodded in approval when he saw the others’ behaviour.
Sometime later, the flames on top of the transparent disk finally died out, and Simon retrieved it.
The disk went back to its original size before dropping on Simon’s palm, he calmly stored it in his storage ring.
Selena immediately dropped to the ground after the disk was retreated. Her entire body had turned a shade darker, and one would feel like they had touched a hot object when they touched her skin.
"Selena!" The members of the group immediately rushed towards her with worried expressions.
"I’m alright. God, you all are so noisy!" Selena’s tired voice rang out as she slowly pushed herself to a sitting position.
The members of the group gathered around her but didn’t touch her or make any more sounds.
Simon glanced at her with a relieved look on his face before looking at the figure standing on the boulder, his gaze instantly turned murderous.
With the lizardmen gone, the group didn’t immediately climb out from the pit. They were finally able to relax and catch their breaths after a long period of suffering; their nervous system had almost reached a breaking point.
They spent minutes in the pit, recovering their energy. After they were in a good enough state, they finally climbed out of the pit. Lucas glanced at the group as they jumped on the boulder one after the other, one of the members was carrying their wounded teammate.
"You guys finally came back. You’re lucky I came on time; you all might have been in serious danger. I don’t want to imagine how heartbroken Mia would be if something happened to you all." Lucas expressed his worries but a cunning grin could be seen on his face.
The members of the Rising Wave group felt disgust toward this person and they cursed at him in their hearts. They just didn’t dare to say it to his face, after all, he was an Expert mage.
Selena glanced at Lucas with narrowed eyes, her face colder than ancient ice. Anyone could instantly tell that she didn’t have a favourable impression of him.
Simon turned to Lucas and nodded slightly.
"Thank you, we’ll remember your kindness." He said tonelessly.
Although they didn’t like Lucas, they still had to show courtesy in front of him.
Lucas nodded with a pleased expression on his face. "It’s nothing, all I did was cast a few spells."
His words made the members of the group almost throw up but they forcefully held down their stomachs. They turned their attention to the scene below.
The members of the Golden Tree group had almost finished off the rest of the lizardmen and only a few of them were still running around.
"Let’s wait here, the leader should arrive soon. We’ll return to Balon City soon." Simon said while staring at the man who still had a spike stuck in his lap; his face was now as white as a ghost, but he was still awake.
They needed to return quickly so that he could get treated.
But Simon’s voice had barely fallen when the ground suddenly trembled as if an earthquake was happening, followed by a series of earth-shattering roars.
Members of the Rising Wave group "..."
A look of disbelief appeared on their faces as they looked in the direction of the disturbance. There, in the distance, a horde of earth golems were approaching and behind them was an even larger earth that was ten meters huge.
It was enormous and the other earth golems looked like little children in front of it.
The eyes of Simon and the others almost popped out of their sockets.
What the hell? Was this valley being serious right now? They had just survived the encirclement of some lizardmen not long ago but now a horde of earth golems were coming?
Was this place really not going to give them a way out?
Not just the members of the Rising Wave group but every human being in the area stared at the gigantic golem.
Without a doubt, that giant was at the mutated beast rank!
"So, so many!" Someone exclaimed with a look of terror on their face.
Selena glanced at her teammates, except for Simon, the others had dreadful expressions.
"I’ll be going ahead first, see you guys later."
Unlike them, Lucas still had a relaxed look on his face. He waved at the group before disappearing into a blur, he arrived in front of his group members the next moment.
"As expected, the beasts in the Golem Valley are more active at night. I just didn’t expect them to come out so soon; this isn’t a bad thing, though." Lucas turned his head and gazed in the direction of the incoming golems before looking at the other two explorer groups.
"Since the mutated rank earth golem has appeared, all Expert mages will join me to kill it while the others deal with the smaller ones. The Golden Tree group will take ownership of the remains and mana core after we kill it, in return, my group will owe all of you a favour." Lucas voiced out.