HPDBC Chapter 252: Ch 252: Finding a Clue
Chapter 252: Ch 252: Finding a Clue
After the introduction was over, none of them wasted any time and entered the Ashen Barrens again for the investigation. Everyone was expecting an attack by the monsters again as soon as they returned back to the Ashen Barrens but to their surprise, nothing happened. It was just as calm as it was before the rampage.
It had only been a single day after the rampage but from the looks of it, the Ashen Barrens had returned back to normal. But that did not mean Rein and his partners would be able to relax because of this. These monsters could suddenly start attacking then any time they wanted and it was quite troublesome.
Obviously Sophia had the role of a scout in this team and Kasumi was supporting her. She also had a few scouting techniques that relied on mental wavelength to find living things. It was a little similar to Rein's own technique so he was extremely interested in learning more about it.
With those two scouting the way, the team of these five top ranking UR grades proceeded extremely smoothly. For the time being according to what Rein and Sophia had planned before, they were going to investigate the location where Rein had seen the gathering of monsters. They were really hoping to find some clues at that location.
It did not take them too long and soon they were able to find the area where Rein had seen the monster gathering. It was an underground cave and just looking at it once was enough for everyone to see that not long ago, this place was definitely crawling with monsters.
Everyone started investigating this area separately but they did not go too far away from each other. Then after about an hour, they all gathered together to discuss about the things that they were able to find out.
First it was Sophia's turn. She had investigated this whole area thoroughly and had managed to deduce that the monsters here had started gathering here almost at the same time as when the participants of the second round had entered the Ashen Barrens.
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Now that they had an objective in mind, everyone became more excited about investigating the Ashen Barrens. As their intelligent monsters had more complex thoughts than other ones, they were easily distinguishable by Kasumi's ability. For that reason instead of slowly investigating the Barrens, this time all of them started to run faster to cover as much area of the Barrens as possible.
For the time being other than these five people, no other humans were allowed to enter this place. So any mental wavelength with complexity in it would definitely belong to that intelligent monster. And not long after they started searching with this in mind, Kasumi noticed one such mental wavelength. Rein was also using his ability and a few seconds after Kasumi, he was also able to find it.
This was a huge advantage and all five of them immediately went toward the complex mental wavelength. And very soon the monster responsible for this wavelength was before their eyes. But the monster in front of them was not what they were expecting which made all five of the bewildered.
They had thought that the intelligent monster would be quite powerful and should be able to match UR grades in strength. But that was not the case here as the monster in question was just a scorpion who was nowhere near strong enough to fight against a UR grade.
But there was no doubt about the intelligence of this monster. Actually these scorpion monsters lived in a group. All the other scorpions were staying in their group as usual and only this particular scorpion was resting at a distance.
Even after finding it, they did not immediately attack it. Letting it know that humans were targeting it would not be a good thing. So without alerting it, all of them started to investigate this scorpion to find out if anything was different about it if compared to the other scorpions. And in a very short period of time, almost everyone noticed a big difference.
Now what that difference was ?