Reborn as A Snake! (3.) [ONGOING]

(11). - A Soul in the Graveyard.

         After a little bit of spending more time at the guild, we set out on our path — with me saying my farewells once more to Lacerta and then leaving the guild building with my siblings. From there, we headed back down the road we had taken to the guild building, which allowed us to also see the damage that had been left behind from Harcones battle against the Leader of the Hand Sons. The street was wrecked, some nearby buildings were wrecked and overall it looked like the town had been hit by canon fire from some enemies.

However, at the same time, the damage was somewhat minimal — with no severe damage being present and thankfully with no one being harmed in the fight - well, none of the citizens who had nothing to do with the fight were harmed at least. The same most definitely could not be said about Harcone or the Leader of the Hand Sons.

If I knew anything about the Heavenly Knights, it's that they are not to be underestimated at all. It's not an understatement when someone says that a Heavenly Knight using their full power may destroy everything, there is a reason they are ranked at SS.

After navigating through the Town, we left it, with a couple of guards bidding us a farewell and wishing goodluck on our travels at the gate.

From there, we all took the road which led towards the Abyssal Woods — as this road was the one which led towards the Deadmans Graveyard the quickest. The road from Yiinao cut off into two roads, one that led towards Hidial and then another one that went towards the Deadmans Graveyard, with both roads being considered as 'main' entry ways to Ordial, considering that behind it... Well, there was just the Abyssal Woods and perhaps the Tomb of the Dragon of Abyss.

And now, we were all moving through the Abyssal Woods once more, only this time, sticking as much as possible to the main road and trying to not diverge from it too much, as it was pretty easy to get lost within these dense woods.

I was walking at the front with Hipsha and Dala walking right behind me. Then there was Dedela and Leola behind them with Dreoda at the very back. We had taken on this formation mostly for safety reasons, as me and Dreoda were pretty much the strongest of us all and so thought that it would be best for me or him to be on either the front or back, just so we would be able to react and take action as swiftly as possible, should anything happen that requires us to do so.

Mainly, should monsters appear.

As we moved through the woods, I couldn't help but keep looking around with a slightly nervous gaze. The woods around this road looked quite a bit different since I was last here... I suppose that is an estimate of just how much had changed in the years since I moved away from Ordial.

The woods around looked almost unrecognisable now, which wasn't hugely surprising, considering that the Abyssal Woods were known to be this dense mostly because of the presence of the Primal Dragon of Abyss being sealed in a tomb within this forest — his Magical Energy leaking all across the forest and causing it to grow out of control.

Oh and also causing the woods to be 10 times more dangerous than any other forest in the world, as his Magical Energy keeps creating very powerful monsters. Yeah, Ordial wasn't the best place to start your journey as an adventurer, as the Abyssal Woods are considered to be at the very least a C-Rank location — with the deeper parts of it even reaching a danger level of A-Rank.

<Dedela>;
"Does anyone else feel like..."

<Leola>;
"We're being watched..?"

The two Gorgan sisters stated, both of them sounding distressed as they slithered closer to one another, hugging eachother tightly while trembling. I looked around, observing the woods around us carefully before focusing back onto the path.