Yarra’s Adventure Notes
Chapter 1118 - 231 Difficult to Detect Changes

Chapter 1118: Chapter 231 Difficult to Detect Changes

One must admit, once able to withstand the Soul Assault of the Forbidden Area for Living Beings, the difficulty of entering the heart of the Forest of Death would decrease significantly. After all, Twisted Souls do not have consciousness of their own and their sense of perception is much lower than that of Upper Rank magical beasts. As long as no accidents occur, one is unlikely to encounter any great danger. However, this is not absolute; after all, one is still within one of the most terrifying forests in all Yarra. If one lets down their guard due to the absence of magical beasts, the likely outcome may well be tragic.

"So what you’re saying is, the victim we saw last night, was it because she let her guard down?" Catherine paused, but immediately resumed her original pace, "But that should have happened while countering the lake’s anomaly, right? Even if she had not let down her guard, could she really have avoided it?"

"If they dared to cross the center of the lake, it means they had a way to avoid disturbing the Twisted Souls, similar to us. After all, as the clients, those two Undead Mages would want to utilize them to find their target. First of all, they would have to be able to enter the heart of the Forest of Death. Since they found a way to evade the Soul Assault, figuring out how to avoid Twisted Souls wouldn’t be strange," Pannis, leading the group, said. Since the potions were limited in quantity, everyone had refrained from consuming Philarx’s concoctions to conceal their souls; thus, the caution experienced upon first entering the Forbidden Land of Living Souls had returned. With each step, they carefully calculated the distance between themselves and the sparsely scattered Twisted Souls. Pannis waved his hand, leading the team around a circle of four Insane Twisters who were pacing in a tight circle. These four Twisted Souls seemed to be of the same species of lizard-type magical beast. Unlike others, they didn’t float in the air but wandered on the ground on all fours, as in life. Once past them, Pannis continued, "Although it is unknown what profession the deceased belonged to, with the capabilities of the Legendary Rank, whether a physical or Caster Profession, as long as one pays attention to their surroundings, even amid the chaos of the lake’s anomaly and environmental disturbances, one wouldn’t be simply assimilated by a Twisted Soul. Don’t forget, not many of these Twisted Souls can directly assimilate with just a touch. Among the known Twisted Souls in the Forbidden Land of Living Souls, even the most terrifying ones don’t assimilate in one encounter. It usually takes at least five or six contacts before the victims start to twist."

"What about the strands?" Catherine frowned and asked, "Aren’t those strands inescapable once touched?"

"If you’re fast enough, you won’t get entangled if you crash through them," Pannis shook his head, "And our souls are concealed, so we’re only affected, not bound. So, the victim we found last night must have collided with a group of Twisted Souls in a panic on the water, initiating the twisting of her soul. It was at this moment that her teammates had no choice but to help her break free."

"You keep talking about souls being assimilated," Lina asked with curiosity, "What exactly happens when one is assimilated?"

"Er, that’s hard to describe," Pannis said, scratching his head with frustration, "You would understand if you saw someone being assimilated with your own eyes. But, I think it’s better if you never know."

"Alright, I think so too," Lina blinked, smiling bitterly, and swiftly changed the subject, "We’ve been away from the lakeside for half an hour now, have we entered the range of the Bones Burial Ground yet?"

"The so-called Lake of Termination and Bones Burial Ground are just convenient names people concocted; there are no precise boundaries between them," Pannis shook his head, "We are currently in between the two. According to the records of predecessors, when you notice a significant change in the environment, that’s when you’ve entered the range of the Bones Burial Ground."

"I think, leaving the lake and re-entering the dense forest, that’s a significant change," the priestess couldn’t help but reach into her sleeve to scratch her skin and murmured discontentedly, "Rashes have already started on my skin, such bad luck. If I can make it back to the Holy City this time, I would choose not to come to the Forest of Death ever again in my lifetime given a choice. I would rather live in the Shining Forest for a year than spend even a single short day here again."

"Who let your skin be so good, hehe, I’m just fine." Vivian tiptoed and poked the priestess girl’s face teasingly, saying, "In a few days, you’ll be covered in rashes and turn into white raspberries, haha, then we can just wash and eat you up, woowoowoo harka woota lan."

"Thump, thump," two sounds, the girls holding each other’s faces pitifully covered their heads as they returned to their normal progress, and Catherine retracted her two fists, letting out a cold snort from her nose.

"You two dummies dare to make trouble again, and I’ll continue to knock." The knight girl swung her fists as a threat, but after seeing the pitiful look on Lina’s face, she added, "Don’t worry, we’re almost at the Burial Grounds."

"Eh? Big sis, how do you know that?" Lina asked in surprise: "You’ve never been here before, surely."

"Didn’t Pannis say that once a noticeable environmental change occurs, it means we’ve reached the Burial Grounds?" Catherine explained: "And I smelled a very special flower fragrance, one I’ve never smelled before, coming from up ahead, so that must mean there’s been a noticeable change in the environment, right?"

"You smelled the change in environment?" Lina’s smile on her face was slightly odd, and she musefully said, "Heh, I get it."

"What?" Catherine had just asked the question when she was also taken aback. In the memory of the knight girl, she had never used her sense of smell to judge the changes in the environment a few years before. It wasn’t that she couldn’t smell, but that most of the time, she wouldn’t react even if she did. However, since when had she learned this method of perception beyond sight and unconsciously got into the habit of using it?

The knight girl’s face turned red, and she gave Pannis a somewhat coy glare, but Pannis didn’t notice the girls’ reactions at that moment as he had climbed up to a high treetop, looking ahead.

"There are not too many obstacles, and at this rate, in just three hundred more meters, we’ll enter the Burial Grounds, hmm, indeed a fitting place for bones." Sliding down to the ground along a vine, Pannis noticed the strange atmosphere and couldn’t help but ask in confusion, "What’s wrong, what happened in such a short time?"

"No, nothing happened, you idiot." No one answered his question, it was only the scorpion-tailed lion Dillie speaking with a heart full of sad fury, gritting his teeth and fiercely saying, "It’s just that a certain moron is about to be executed by fire, and the executor will be me!"