Chapter 1191: Cursed Canyon

The forces were completely exhausted from the forest. They could only sit there and recover for another two hours. By the time, they moved from that spot it is actually afternoon.

Noah is still having a bad time with the failure of her grand preparation.

Sam couldn’t take it anymore and ask.

"Just what is wrong with you. Just tell me what you planned, then I will think of a solution. You cannot be sulky just because your trap didn’t work as well as you wanted it to be. You are acting like an immature little girl."

Noah just gave him a side-eyed glance and spoke.

"There is nothing wrong with the trap. It is his reaction that was at fault."

"Okay, what part of the reaction is at fault?"

"He was way too cautious. He didn’t react fast enough. If this was him before, he would have just burned that stupid dog up as soon as he saw the vines coiling around it. If he did, the rest of the vines would have reacted at the same time. Instead, he first went after the vines surrounding them instead of going after the immediate attack.

How stupidly cautious one has to be to do something like that?"

Sam couldn’t believe what he was hearing at all.

"Of course, he would be cautious. Your badass boyfriend just killed one-third of their bunch in three minutes. What do you expect him to do? Just walk around in the forest and just attack whatever that comes across. That would be the stupid thing to do. He did what he was supposed to do."

"No, he didn’t. He did something stupid and didn’t attack the vines instantly. My plan failed that is it and I am going to beat him up after he comes here."

Sam looked at Kumar. Because at this moment, his attention was captured by the non-reaction of Noah towards the fact that she didn’t deny him calling Kumar her boyfriend.

Noah left the room without noticing her mistake and Sam looked at Kumar with a grin.

"You must be a real charmer. Noah? Really? How did you manage to do that?"

Kumar just rolled his eyes and turned around, but he didn’t deny anything.

While Sam is having his fun, the forces are not having any of it.

They reached the last trap set up Sam used. The large rocky canyon.

The remaining people are extremely cautious and they don’t know what danger they would be facing, but they know that this place is the perfect place to set up another trap.

This time, the team leader went to investigate himself along with the scout group.

He tapped every place that could be used as trigger for the trap to the best of his knowledge. He threw the attacks around just to see if any traps would be triggered by that. He searched the whole canyon for an hour.

But he didn’t find anything.

Stomach grumbles could be heard all over the camp and everyone was surprised. Generally, after reaching a certain level, they wouldn’t feel hunger or thirst. Their spiritual energy would be supplementing all their biological and metabolic needs to keep them moving.

Only if they are deprived of energy to a great extent, would be their body show the reactions of hunger and thirst.

The leader looked at the soldiers in a daze.

"Seems like we are traveling for a long time, we need to recover properly and also try to find some food while we are at it. It has been a long time since we had a proper meal. The potions and pills can only bring us so long."

He said and everyone looked around to hunt.

Even though the canyon only has a range of rocks, they have a lot of wildlife. Like the stone lizards and such.

They looked for them, as for leaving the canyon, for some reason they couldn’t think of such thing, it is as if going out of the canyon is something extremely bad in their opinion and they shouldn’t be doing it at all.

After finding some food, they started acting, at first, they at least managed to cook it, but soon their patience ran out and they started eating the raw flesh of the beasts.

But soon they ran out. They couldn’t find enough supply for all of them.

They started eating into their pill and potion reserves. They couldn’t think of doing anything but eating them up.

Some people ran out of those too and then started eating bones of the beasts they just finished eating and then resorted to eating sand and rocks.

They felt that something is wrong for doing something like that, but they didn’t know what is wrong with it and felt like they should just continue.

Kumar looked at the scene and flinched.

"Dude, what the hell did you do to them? Why are they behaving like this?"

"It is a curse. It large curse is a result of setting a number of curses into an array. It is actually an experiment on how it would work and it is working perfectly fine."

"But it is too nasty. Are you sure they wouldn’t get out of it?"

"No, they wouldn’t get out of it. If they are anymore unprepared, they would all just die there."

As he explained, they noticed that everyone stopped their actions and looked into the sky in a daze.

"What happened now?"

"Hallucinations. They are currently looking at the person who they are close to but did something extremely guilty."

"What?"

"A friend they betrayed, a soldier they abandoned, a companion they killed, the kid they couldn’t be with. All the things they felt guilty for and the one they felt most guilty for will be haunting them for the rest of the time they are in the canyon."This essence is securely nested within the heart of Nøv€lß¡n★