In the early morning a group of 23 people could be seen leaving the school, 20 cultivators and 3 slaves were rushing from Geenom school into the wilderness.
The slaves were normal humans without any power, so each were carried on the back of a random cultivator, the group didn't run through portals, so they took almost 2 weeks of constant running before they managed to arrive before a huge forest.
The one that lead the group were an expert with a 9-god-level base power and each of the other cultivators were above the 7-god-level.
The slaves meant to be a living bait to recognize their target and in worst case scenario escape from the monsters while they are eating up the slaves, anyway the slaves will end up died.
No one tried to lie or to deceive the slaves without power in this world you can't even decide how to die and if they refuse to corporate they will just get tortured hard enough until they wish to just get eaten alive by anything – they knew that for a slave death was a bless.
The group of cultivators moved slowly into the woods, they were professionals, so they managed to move inside the forest without leaving any trace or making any sound.
Even the smell they emitted were almost nonexistent.
As they move deeper into the forest their worries mount up, the forest was almost devoid any life, they couldn't detect any kind of big life-form at all.
Only after 1 day or so they started to discover monsters here and there, most of them flew for their life the moment they detect the group.
What made them way more alarmed is that the number of corpses in the forest are just terrible! Whatever doing it never ate the meat of its victim, it probably doing it just for fun!
What the group couldn't detect is that only 100 meters from them something was monitoring them, it was none other than Mormo.
As someone who's entire power comes from life force it almost impossible to hide from him.
The moment the group entered his hunting ground Mormo was already aware of them. He didn't see humans for approximately 6 years, and he had not even one good memories from them, so he just thought about keeping his distance while ignoring them, but when he studied the group, he happened to lock into one of the slaves.
"Moshe..." Mormo deeply thought, his only friend … in his normal times Mormo would just leave, it's even questionable if he ever considered him truly as a friend. but after severing one of his emotions, his other emotions got much stronger.
Now if Mormo would consider someone a friend he will do much more for him, irrational as it was, he decided to follow them and search for opportunity to help him.
He knew that Moshe will never do the same for him, and that his end goal was to sever all his emotion for friends included… he even remembered that Moshe never did anything helpful to himself the only one who did the helping was Mormo. The worst of it all was that Mormo never really consider Moshe a friend before this exact moment, but now because of his uncontrolled emotion he just had to help him, deep inside he really hated himself for that wishful thinking.
For someone who cultivate his heart Mormo was like a little child who couldn't understand his own feelings even a little bit. as he thought about it, he considered this as a possibility for why he never managed to climb into the 2-god-level.
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The group moved slowly but surely into the middle region of the forest, they were strong enough to fight against any known monster that lived there but they still moved very cautiously.
When they entered into the middle region Mormo took a deep breath and entered after them still keeping a small distance for his own safety, the middle region was packed with bushes and almost no trees, the bushes were very tall and sometimes created a giant walls from above the middle region looked like a giant maze!
The group could create their way through the bushes, but you can never know what slept inside, so the smartest move was to find your way inside the maze.
Mormo reduce the distance to his minimum capability, around 60 meter and kept following them.
As Mormo observed the group he got to understand them a little bit better, there was an Absolut leader in this group which gave command to the others, a vice leader of some kind which deliver the commands of the leader to the other group. In some way he was much more like an assistant.
While the others were just like a puppet which just fulfill orders.
Every single member in this group made an oppressive aura which inform Mormo that he had no real chance of fighting with even the weakest of them.
But the leader and the sub leader were like a huge wall he knew he have no chance against, they were real monsters for him, which no real difference in strength, at list from his perspective.
The slaves were quite as if they were dead, they got a meal every day at the same time which they ate as quickly as they could.
Mormo follow the group for a week inside the middle region maze. The group fought numerus times and won each battle relatively easily. when they got confused, they open a map that helped them navigate inside the maze, which for some reason probably didn't change much over the years.
As times passed, they got more and more irritated, they spent a lot of time and money to come here unnoticed and blocked all the reports from the locals and village lords!
irregular events didn't happen that often, and an irregular event can lead to a big opportunity. Maybe even show the way into the legendary true god level!
"I just can't understand it… the outer region is in ruins but the middle region in perfect conditions" said the leader for the first time in this week.
"yes I think that even if irregular monster came to be it's a weak one which never had the power to enter the middle region, we never discovered it so it probably already run away or got eaten by the middle region monster" said the vice leader.
And for a split second he looked in Mormo eyes.
All the hair on Mormo body stood up and he just waited for any movement, but nothing happened as the vice leader kept talking.
"if we are here already, why don't we explore one of the abounded caves? it might be our destiny…" he said to the group.
"what are you all thinking?" asked the leader while looking at the sky.
Each of the members of the group show a sign of disapproval, the leader chuckle as he said
"if we came that far, we should at list check what this middle region has to offer".
they moved through the map, they was about to enter a random cave when the sub leader said "this cave have no ancient aura to it, we should keep looking for a good candidate before we bet our lifes on it"
the leader had an amusing smile on his face as he said, "Well why don't you bring us to a better cave, we will truly appreciate a good loot".
For a split of a second the whole group had a ridicule smile on their faces but after only a moment they return to their apathy expression.
"HAHAHA thank you very much" the sub leader took the map and study it for a little bit before he leaded the group inside the maze.
After only two hour of moving they stopped before a big cave entrance, more than a cave it was a dungeon, a circled shape entrance with a radius of a few kilometers.
The entrance was pitch black and emitted a dark and dangerous aura which made Mormo terrified, he wanted to leave this place as quick as possible. But for some reason it looked like no one in this group could feel the danger they all just stood there looked calm.
Mormo studied the sub leader again to the tiniest detail as he did so the vice leader looked at him again in the eyes with an interested smile, Mormo could hear his voice.
"creature follow me and head my commands for a while, when this little exploration will be finished, I will pass to you the slave you always look at and my group dead bodies. You probably can't talk but you can understand that much right? If you understood lift your hand, of course if you will not comply, I will kill you right away" he said with a confident voice as if everything was settled.
When he finished his treat and confirmed that Mormo lifted his rat hairy hand he entered to the cave while the group followed him.
And of course, Mormo tailed behind. He already knew that after that vice leader notice him without mention it, he had some plans for him.