Free Web NovelChapter 820: Chapter 504: Exploring the Ruins Cave
From the mountain top view, these few kilometers don’t seem like much.
But when standing at the foot of the mountain, these distances should be safe enough.
The Fishmen aren’t like those Raptors with astonishing vision.
As long as there’s no big commotion at the ruins, it shouldn’t attract the Fishmen’s attention.
However, in this case, the Magic Energy Drilling Machine is not suitable for use.
After all, being a magic energy mechanism, the device makes very noticeable noise whether it’s starting up or beginning to excavate.
Additionally, it’s impossible to mobilize a large number of people for manual excavation at the foot of the mountain.
If it’s just more than ten people, it’s still fine as long as they’re deliberately concealing themselves.
But if dozens of people were digging openly at the foot of the mountain, it would definitely attract the Fishmen’s attention.
Zong Shen flew slowly toward the foot of the mountain, pondering his next move.
He couldn’t find a perfect solution.
The Floating Technique’s speed is much faster than walking.
Three or four minutes later, Zong Shen had already landed at the foot of the mountain.
Upon landing, he felt the earth beneath him was incredibly soft.
Even after the Floating Technique effect vanished, his own weight left noticeable footprints on the ground. Besides this, there were many horse hoof prints nearby.
These prints were deep but smaller than the hoof prints of grassland horses, clearly matching the features of undead bone horses with no flesh.
Zong Shen cautiously observed and soon made more discoveries.
There were ruins near the position at the left side of the mountain foot.
The parts exposed on the surface were several large round stone pillars.
Most of the pillars had broken off and were buried by earth.
Approximately two meters of the pillars remained visible above ground.
Zong Shen walked to the ruins and touched the building’s surface.
The surface had quite a bit of loose dirt and was already in a grayish-white state. freeweɓnovel.cøm
Although this location is clearly a ruin site.
However, the strategy guide’s location isn’t here but five to six hundred meters north of these pillars.
It can be imagined that as a temporary camp, the Lion Skeleton Knight Order couldn’t have openly constructed stone buildings.
It’s mostly wooden houses or tents.
These pillars must have originally existed here.
After all, choosing this as a camp implies concealment was one of the considerations, also proving that over ten thousand years ago this place had human presence.
A temporary camp wouldn’t be set in a desolate location.
At the very least it was a safe rear area, as for the structures beneath the pillars, perhaps they were a contact point for rebel armies back then.
Or it could be a temple or some other ancient building, but it certainly wasn’t the camp itself.
Following the principle of rather err on the side of caution, Zong Shen still asked the guide.
"Besides the ruins, are there any other places nearby worth exploring?"
This way of asking covered all nearby areas.
(Marked locations within 50 kilometers for you)
This prompt quickly disappeared after showing up.
Zong Shen began to look around, searching for marked points outside of the ruins.
Indeed, within the fifty-kilometer range, besides this ruin, there were three marked points.
Two of the marked points were north of Zong Shen, extending to the lake shores beyond the mountain foot.
One marked point was near the lake’s center, covered by mist, making it impossible for Zong Shen to see anything.
Another marked point was on the northern shore of the lake, which was the core of the Rapids Tribe.
The last marked point was south, near the mountain top, where Zong Shen and his team had landed.
As for below the pillars, there was nothing noteworthy.
After confirming all locations, Zong Shen eliminated the other two marks.
Now is not the time to explore the lake and Rapids Tribe.
The Rapids Tribe possesses over eight thousand Shallow Water Fishmen.
Without bringing hundreds of people, Zong Shen could truly struggle against them.
After all, it’s the home turf of the Rapids Tribe.
Even hundreds of people would be a conservative estimate.
Even if starting with Eagle bombers dropping goblin bombs to scour the ground.
Then deploying various Tier 3 and 4 group attack magic to sweep through.
Finally sending in teams to strike.
Even doing all this, the outcome is hard to predict.
After all, there are over eight thousand Fishmen with basic combat capabilities, even slaughtering eight thousand pigs would take a while.
But having trouble now doesn’t mean it can’t be handled later.
These Shallow Water Fishmen are like natural bodyguards, waiting until Zong Shen’s strength is sufficient to harvest them later.
At least if Zong Shen can’t do it, other Lords can forget it too.
Unless hundreds of Lords united, assembling thousands of warriors to launch an attack.
Otherwise, the Rapids Tribe will continue to exist stably.
After all, they’ve been inhabiting here for one or two hundred years already.
This indicates their strength is enough to keep the tribe standing here, free from threats by other beasts and magical beasts.
Zong Shen shifted his focus back to the Lion Knight Order’s camp ruins.
He had been at the foot of the mountain for a while, yet hadn’t seen any Lion Skeleton Knights.
But he didn’t let his guard down, since there were plenty of tracks left by Skeleton Knights on the ground.
These traces hadn’t yet been erased by nature, suggesting recent activity.
Currently, Zong Shen hadn’t seen any active Skeleton Knights on the surface.
