Pride Online

Chapter 48: Chaotic Digging Part IV

“Found it!!!”

Maysa did not finish before the rejoicing voice of Manoch interrupted her. The shout made the two who were crouching on the ground peek up, not believing their ears. Then they yelled out ‘Huh?!!’ in unison.

“I found it, bro. Here’s the level 4 gem, even prettier than Lala’s.”

"The young merchant exclaimed with the most excited expression. His tall and slender figure sped toward Wisana, kicking up a cloud of dust.

His rough hands held that gem to Wisana, his face having a big smile on.

“Yeah, you really did it.” Wisana widened his eyes.

The gemstone was in a beautiful amber. It was clear and reflected light into simmering sparks with a little bright fireball blazing inside it.

“How was it? I did a great job, right? It took a while, but it was still a lot faster. We wouldn’t have found it if we kept digging like that.”

The glasses one bragged, and the listener could only give a wry smile in reply.

“Well, thank you a lot.”

“No problems, bro. We’re friends ...ouch!!”

The man exclaimed out mid-sentence because someone just kicked him in the leg with full force. The pair of eyes behind the glasses gazed down at the attacker.

“Why’d you kick me, May?!”

“You’re lucky that I didn’t shoot you in the head, Ae! Did you even realize that you could have killed me by your stupid bombs?”

Maysa placed her hands on her hips as she was bawling, looking angry.

“And did you die?!”

“No! But I almost did! Next time, use more of your brain to think about other people, too. There’re a lot of other ways that don’t need to use the bombs, too!”

“Huh? If we wasted the time trying to come up with another plan, Wisana would have been overdue. Or do you mean that we should have waited until you could dig it up? Nah, I don’t think so.”

“Ae!!”

“Alright guys, calm down. It’s okay. The most important thing is that no one got hurt right? Let it go.”

As the fight tended to be prolonged, the specialist of preventing quarreling like Wisana interrupted them. They both were grunting in their throat for a while before they turned in the opposite direction, making him let out a wry laugh.

“Come on, May. I know what Ae did was a bit too reckless, but it worked. Look, we’ve got the gemstone now,” Wisana tried to convince Maysa who was still pissed. But she just tilted her head to the side, pretending she did not hear it.

“And you, be more careful next time. You should have discussed the plan with your team first, or maybe just given us some time to take cover. You could have got the whole crew dead, you know.”

“...Okay.”

Manoch did not like it very much when he agreed to what Wisana said, but the courteousness he had for the older one made him lay down his ego compliantly. The middleman in this fight blew out a sigh of relief before his eyes looked at the gemstone in his hand. Then he smiled.

Well, at least he got what he was looking for.

Even though how he got it was a bit too thrilling!

“I think we should hurry back to Aeneas. We got what we wanted for the quest and plenty of gems to sell. So, we can have some more time to sell them when we’re back in the capital again.”

He broke the silence before he pushed the couple’s backs to start traveling back now. It was better than wasting time sulking at each other in a nonsense fight.

RUMBLEEE!!!

They just started walking for a few steps before the ground beneath them shook like it was a small earthquake. The tiny figure of Maysa would have got knocked down if her hand was not so fast to hold on to Wisana’s pants in time.

“What did you do again, Ae?!” She turned to accuse the second-place troublemaker.

“Are you crazy? That wasn’t me!”

He responded immediately, his face did not look playful like usual, the eyes behind the glasses searching around the area cautiously.

How would there be an earthquake in the middle of a desert like this?!

“It was you who was blindly throwing the bombs. That’s why a portent is happening again!”

“P... Please stop blaming me every time some crap happens. It’s not because of me!”

“How is it not? It was you who blew up the whole place. If it’s not you to blame, then who is it? The birds?”

“Man, why are you unbelievably talking nonsense like this?!”

“I am making a lot of sense. Your brain’s just having a problem perceiving it!”

“Guys! Can you stop already?!”

Wisana snapped, feeling so fed up with them.

He was going crazy!

Even in this situation, these two still kept on senselessly fighting.

It worked. After Wisana raised his voice at them, the two went completely quiet. Because this was the first time since they had known each other that the man snapped, bursting his mood up like this.

“Er... Well...” He awkwardly paused for a moment. It was so strange that the earthquake calmed down after Wisana’s shout, too.

“Bro, that scared me a bit. You’re even scarier than the teachers in my school,” Manoch whined weakly.

“R... right. See, even the earthquake feared you, too,” Maysa said.

“Hehe...”

Wisana just laughed it off. He tried to look around to find out what was going on here, but he did not see anything. The shockwave from earlier was not an earthquake, of course. He could sense it. His instincts were kicking in to alarm him that there was some threat coming. That was why he accidentally yelled out at his friends like that.

“Let’s go.”

Wisana said as he was pushing Manoch’s back to walk, so harshly that he almost got the younger one falling flat on his face. He sped up his steps until they started running. Maysa, who could go slower was carried by the taller one, so they could go faster.

“What’s wrong, Wisana?” Maysa raised her eyebrows, asking in his arms.

“I have a premonition that we’re about to get into trouble, so we should leave now. Trust me.”

The man replied so quickly as he was running to the birds tied under the tree. However, they did not get there before another shockwave came. The trio stopped.

“It’s happening again, bro!” Manoch shouted.

“Doesn’t matter. Just get to the birds now.”

Wisana was sure at that moment.

This was definitely not the earthquake!

There was something under the sand that was using their voice to locate them. A while ago they lowered their voice, so the thing stopped, because it could not find them. But when they started running, it heard them again and now was going for a hunt!

That was totally a monster!!

BOOM!!

Wisana’s suspicion was answered by a massive figure of something leaping up from under the sand behind them. Every one of them turned to look at it.

The monster was so huge that it could block the moonlight, casting a shadow in a large area, including on the three of them, too.

“Holy! I am so, so screwed!”

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At the magic warrior office, the creepy NPC was walking back and forth maybe a hundred times already. She was biting her nail, looking all anxious about something. Then she looked at the moon outside the window, sighed, and then she shook her head again.

“Did I forget to tell mister Wisana and his party something, or not?”

She said as she was trying to think of it.

At the same time, the huge body of Leonard walked into the room.

He might see that his supervisor was acting strangely, so he asked with a deep voice.

“Is there something wrong, Miss Lala?”

“I’m not suree,” Lala replied. “It feels like I forgot to tell mister Wisana something, but I really don’t know what it was.”

Leonard tilted his head to the side like a confused dog.

“Was it that you didn’t tell them about how to dig the gems?”

“No. It was my intention not to tell them that one.”

“Or maybe about that they should ride the birds to get there faster?”

“That one they could probably figure out themselves.”

“Then, it could be about the Juzsworm’s nest.”

“Well, that...” Lala paused midair. “That’s right! This is it! Leonard, I completely forgot about this one.”

“Well, damn. Miss Lala, wasn’t that the most important thing for them to be noted?”

“Told you that I forgottt,” Lala cried. “What should we do now? If they’re being too loud at the Crevier, the Juzsworms will attack them surely. What shout we do, what should we doo?”

“C...calm down, Miss Lala.”

Lala held the head with her hands, looking terrified. She continued walking around in a circle again, having no idea what to do about it. Then, she suddenly stopped, making Leonard pause by her swift actions, too.

The pale NPC smirked before she slowly turned to catch the other’s eyes.

“Well, just get over it, Leonard. Even though the party gets killed, it still has nothing to do with us anyway. Let them fight on their own.”

“Wait, then what were all the worries from earlier for? Miss Lala!”