Nobilis of War novel Chapter 43

Darren searched around carefully with his spiritual sense for something or someone that could be watching, but he found nothing around him. He could only hear the chirping of insects in his ears. Darren felt odd about the situation.

Perhaps it was just his imagination.

Darren rubbed his head and turned around to continue his march into the wet and dense forest.

After traveling for a while, the corpses of several giant beasts appeared before Darren's eyes.

"Judging from the scents, these appear to be diabolic beasts, which are even more fierce than the ordinary ones." Darren moved on, walking past the corpses that had been gnawed on by other creatures.

Darren was pleased to find these mighty beasts. If he could kill just a few of them, his talent would be significantly improved. The cardiac cores of the diabolic beasts also contained a lot of spiritual energy, which would be particularly helpful to his cultivation.

In front of him, an Armor Beast moved leisurely through the trees, looking for food. It had not yet noticed Darren's presence.

"Wow, this Armor Beast is level eight."

Armor Beasts typically stayed in the lower levels. In the area of the forest that Darren previously visited, the Armor Beasts were at most level three or four. But in here, even an Armor Beast could be level eight. It was really extraordinary.

However, this was exactly the type of opportunity Darren needed now.

Darren tried to hide his breath and quietly approached the level eight beast. His hand gripped on a cold sword, ready to release an attack at any moment.

Suddenly, the sword stretched.

Darren rushed to the Armor Beast with all his speed, and with a single stroke of the sword, he split open its throat.

"The dumb creature didn't even notice me."

Darren laughed. Then he absorbed the talent of the Armor Beast and immediately began to assimilate its cardiac core.

But the spiritual energy contained in the level eight beast's cardiac core was still not enough for Darren. He needed even more spiritual energy for both curing his wounds and accumulating internal force.

As he moved through the forest, he killed more than thirty level-seven and level-eight beasts, and slowly he began to recover from his injuries. Now, his physical condition was almost fully restored to peak condition. He had accumulated plenty of internal force inside his body.

A sudden noise rang through the air.

Darren felt something flash by in front of him and disappear just as quickly. It was like an illusion.

"No," he said to himself. "Something is going on." Darren was a little nervous. He was now certain something was following him, but he still could not detect it.

He decided to act as if nothing had happened and continued moving forward into the forest, waiting for the presence to present itself.

A few steps later, Darren saw a corpse laid strewn on the ground. It was a human corpse with dark and sunken eyes. The lower half of its body was missing as if it had been eaten by scavenging animals, leaving a trail of internal organs. The whole scene was horrifyingly disgusting.

Darren held his breath and frowned. He inspected the corpse more closely and was shocked to find that the corpse was dressed in the uniform of Ilmen Sect. Judging from the pieces, Darren knew that the uniform belonged to one of the people who had followed Dalton that he had seen before he entered the forest.

"Those people are at the fifth or sixth stage of the Spirit Realm, and the leader is at the ninth stage. Even if they encountered a level nine diabolic beast, they could still escape. How did he die?"

Darren could not understand it. Moreover, they had moved in the opposite direction of Darren, so this dead disciple could not be here!

At this moment, several shadowed figures surrounded him. They released strong breaths.

"It's you?" One of them shouted out.

Among those who surrounded Darren, the leading young man recognized him and stepped forward.

"Dalton, look, Cole Chen is dead!" said one of Dalton's compatriots. A scream came from another at the sight of the corpse.

"How could it be?" Dalton stepped over and asked, "Matt, Cole was with you just now. How could you not see him disappear?"

"I don't know. I was talking to Cole, but when I turned around, he was gone. I only saw traces on the grass, and roughly identified that he left in this direction."

"Huh, boy, tell me, how did Cole die?" one of the disciples who followed Dalton shouted at Darren.