CHAPTER 53: CHAPTER 53 PROPHECY

Standing at the foot of the mountain.

A few people looked up at the vast, towering mountain range.

George couldn’t help but swallow and asked, "So we have to climb over this?"

Getai nodded as if it was a matter of course: "Of course, but there’s no rush, it’ll take less than a day’s journey.

There aren’t many dangers on this road, we know it well, don’t worry."

George glanced at this Dwarf, was that what he wanted to say?

He couldn’t understand how Dwarves, with their stocky image, lived on a mountain. It would make more sense for them to live on the ground or underground.

"So there’s no shortcut to the top of the mountain?" Kana suddenly asked.

Getai looked at the Dwarf Sage, Lurik shook his head: "We seldom come to this side, so to the north, there are only a few outposts, and no shortcuts down the mountain have been dug."

It seems the problem is somewhat close to what I guessed.

"Wait, aren’t the sick Dwarves from these outposts?" Bobo seemed to have caught onto something and asked.

The Dwarf Sage nodded: "That’s right, which is why I’m thinking if it’s related to the experiences you had in that cave before."

Listening to their conversation, Kana linked the known information in his mind.

He didn’t know about this in the game.

This means it’s not enough to even be a minor regional quest, not worthy of appearing in some people’s story memories.

The outposts the Dwarf Sage mentioned must be the ones Kana frequently used in the game.

You need to know, when the game opened, these outposts’ shortcuts had already been dug through, seemingly used for a long time.

Were they dug through in the past one or two years?

Obviously impossible, even for Dwarves, it couldn’t be that fast to dig down a few mountain paths.

Let alone the small number of Gray Mountain Dwarves, which couldn’t support such efforts. It’s basically certain that the creation of these shortcuts is related to the current issue, without him.

Looking back, the shortcuts in the game were clearly not the same as those dug by the Dwarves themselves, all situated in relatively hidden areas around the outposts.

Considering all of this, the problem is quite obvious.

"Come with me, I might know a shortcut up the mountain, not far from here."

Hearing this, Alyris and Bobo were somewhat used to it and didn’t even bother to ask why.

Anyway, Kana would definitely attribute it to his future sight, seeing fragments of the future or past.

They knew, but others did not.

The three Dwarves looked at him with disbelief, even Getai couldn’t help but say: "Brother Kana, I have to say, even if we rarely come to the backside, we are still quite familiar with it."

Another one, Torik, who was already impatient, directly said without hesitation: "Do you have other purposes? Or are you delaying time or something?

We know you must be a noble of this country, we are not fools like Getai, and your country is almost destroyed now.

They call you Your Highness? Are you a Prince? And you still have the leisure to help us Dwarves? You’re so keen?"

Though Torik was agitated, he didn’t speak too harshly, but was almost openly saying that at a time like this, Kana being so enthusiastically helpful, didn’t match a human’s nature.

Assuming he must have ulterior motives and, no matter how you look at it, it doesn’t seem like a good thing.

Kana sharply sensed, this might be a good opportunity.

To understand the gap between the game storyline and reality, especially about the foresight abilities of these more ancient races.

He ignored Torik and directly looked at the Dwarf Sage.

This member of the Gray Mountain Dwarves’ Three-Man Council.

"Can you sense it? Dwarf Sage."

"What?" Lurik frowned.

"Darkness, the despairing darkness is spreading, countless evil eyes are watching, the world is sending a warning.

The final days are quietly approaching, conflicts, killing, despair, all these have already begun."

After Kana finished saying these mysterious, almost charlatan-like words, he stared at the Dwarf Prophet.

Alyris and Bobo had already heard similar words before, so they weren’t surprised. They were just surprised why Kana would say it again at this moment.

Moreover, this time, it was even more cryptic and harder to comprehend.

Getai looked at Kana with a strange expression, Torik couldn’t take it anymore and was just about to erupt.

Lurik, the Dwarf Sage, forcefully held him down with his hand.

"Yata?" Torik didn’t understand.

Kana knew, others might not understand, but this Dwarf Sage, a key figure in the tribe where Dwarf Players were born.

He must know what Kana was talking about.

Because it was simple, Kana was speaking lines from the opening scene of the game.

Every time he created a new character, he had to listen to it once, he had heard it enough.

Every race or faction with strength, more or less, had encountered such prophecies.

Those without much strength heard the first part, the truly strong saw the last part.

But without knowing the specific reason, they couldn’t respond.

That’s what is annoying about prophecies.

The words given are too vague, especially these world-related prophecies.

Apart from causing anxiety, making people suspicious, it doesn’t serve much purpose.

Not to mention compared to the prophecy, some races face real dilemmas closer and more concerning than the prophecy.

The Dwarf Sage took a deep breath: "I believe you, lead the way, my friend."

These words extinguished Torik’s fire entirely, he could only hold back his dissatisfaction.

"It seems you’ve foreseen, let’s go then."

He didn’t elaborate any further, after all, Lurik would draw his own conclusions.

Kana led the group, moving swiftly around the edge of the mountain range. After less than an hour, they could see a cave from afar.

"There’s a stench! That kind of Goblin!" George suddenly noticed something and quickly whispered.

Since there was no smell of Goblin blood, Alyris and Kana didn’t smell it.

However, Kana roughly knew the situation here, so after approaching, he deliberately slowed down.

George indeed found the problem.

He quickly climbed onto a nearby tree trunk, adjusted his view, and squinted his eyes.

After observing for a while, he looked down.

"Bobo, go listen to what he has to say."

Bobo nodded, quickly climbed the tree, heard the information, and came back down.

"He said he saw three Goblins on guard outside the cave, positions respectively at..."

After listening, Kana nodded: "The two farthest ones, leave them to me and Alyris, let him aim precisely, as soon as he attacks, we act."

Bobo nodded.

When the message was passed back, George on the tree nodded.

Drawing his bow and taking aim.

"Whizz!"

As the arrow was shot out, Kana and Alyris immediately performed Blood Enhancement on their legs.

The two of them dashed out like jungle leopards.

The Goblins in the forest were already reactive enough.

However, they couldn’t prevent a sneak attack from others.

The arrow accurately hit a Goblin hiding in the branches, with a cry of pain, it fell down.

Hearing the scream, the other two Goblins immediately raised their heads, poking their heads out from their hiding spots.

Making them even clearer targets to aim at.

"Ah!"

Then came the terrified screams, because in front of them suddenly appeared two humans wielding longswords.

Before they could react, deep wounds were left on their necks, nearly severing half their necks.

"I told you, they aren’t like the other humans here, far more formidable." Getai, watching from behind, said to the side.

Torik wore a sour expression but didn’t refute.

The Dwarf Sage had been in a rather contemplative state since Kana spoke those words, now also observing closely.