
They stopped the movement because it took a lot of time to take care of the vines, where it made them take longer to reach Komodo City.
Therefore, they decided to return to walking without taking seriously the vines that passed them all.
Isander and the others continued walking eastward while occasionally destroying the vines that were about to hit them.
These vines have no eyes and such, move in one direction, and if they hit something they will change their direction to avoid the object they hit and stay in that one direction.
You could say this plant lives as a whole, but it lives because it is controlled by a strong existence so that it can control vines from so far away.
Swooshes!
The Dark Spear Isander held waved his hand several times and instantly cut off many of the vines along with the ground below.
The black-colored energy was able to cut through the dense and hard soil to a depth of tens of centimeters before finally disappearing.
After that, they focused more on the journey than damaging these endless vines.
However, after they look further, these plants have the same direction as their path. To where Komodo City is located.
Knowing this, Reza thought that the monster that controlled the entire moving vines was in Komodo City.
That way, they agreed to accelerate their acceleration in walking to get to Komodo City faster.
Isander thought the same thing with Reza. The monsters that manipulate the vines are in Komodo City or maybe near the area because these vines are getting more and more.
And it's also like conical in one direction in the east
The terrain they traveled was now in an area that was quite rarely overgrown with trees, but a lot of grass and shrubs were blocking the way.
That way, members of the Isander group can see the movement of the many plants clearly.
The plants move more and more tapered and no longer straight eastward as if their goal is moving closer.
"Be careful, maybe we will meet a terrible monster" Isander told them all with a serious face.
Giya and the rest of the group nodded and put on full vigilance, they all continued to look around, keeping watch from the monster's sudden attack.
Isander only realized that the monsters they rarely meet so this journey feels smooth and easy.
However, Isander did not consider this strange event a good thing, but vice versa. Isander suspects that there will be something bad and possibly dangerous from the arrival of the Catagtress and Goatager monster groups.
If they do not exist, they may be afraid of something strong so they do not dare to live around the existence of something. And maybe stronger monsters appeared in their territory and the weak monsters chose to budge and then left.
There are many possibilities of this event. The point was in something strong that controlled this entire plant and it affected the activities of the weaker surrounding monsters.
Just when Isander was walking with his group, suddenly his legs stopped and he turned his body back.
"Come out, I know you followed us from now on" Isander said in a calm voice.
Hearing Isander's sudden remark made all the members of his group confused and astonished by what was happening at this moment.
They all looked back and turned their eyes towards the direction Isander was looking at.
Too bad, they didn't find anything Isander intended
Isander smiled as if he knew his words were not heard and ignored. Then he took out a small fireball the size of a marble and shot it into one of the tree trunks that was 30 meters away from him standing.
The fireball struck the tree trunk made of wood precisely. Blast with a fire that is not too big and burn a little tree trunk.
"Get out, I already know you're hiding there," Isander said once again.
As soon as Isander's words this time fell, a human figure walked out from behind a tree wearing clothes that were all covered by black cloth to only look long hair that was draped in a slightly yellow blonde.
Seeing this figure, Isander immediately remembered a person he had met in a settlement outside the city, and passed by him.
Helen and Reren remember this figure. Both of them pointed their index fingers towards the humans in front while glancing at Isander in panic.
"Who are you? Why did you follow us from a few minutes earlier?" asked Isander with an unhappy face.
Dark Spear had lit up on the blade, the purple electricity surrounding the spear body made it look terrifying.
Anyone who saw this knew that the spear Isander was holding was extremely dangerous.
The members of Isander's group learn this sign and, without being told, Giya takes Meisya out of Isander's hands and they all move away.
The figure wearing black covered clothes continued walking and stopped at 10 meters in front of Isander.
A pair of beautiful blue sea-colored eyes looked at Isander's face with a piercing and personal gaze.
Isander was a bit uncomfortable seeing these eyes seeing him. Without saying much more, Isander swung the Dark Spear so quickly, unleashing a long curve-shaped wave of energy that shot towards the strange figure in front of him.
Just when Isander's black energy wave wanted to hit the body of this figure, a huge wall made of ice was created and tried to resist Isander's attack.
Unfortunately, the ice wall that looks sturdy can not hold Isander's attack for long so that the next few seconds the wall was split into pieces.
The smoke from the ice splashes made the black figure disappear from the wall.
This black-clothed figure was wrong to choose people, Isander was not an Agter, but a man had a system so he immediately knew what this figure wanted to do after making a wall.
Isander's whereabouts unbeknownst to his group members had disappeared on the spot, and he suddenly appeared above the tree at a distance of 60 meters from where his group members were standing.
They saw Isander standing on a tree branch while lifting up the black-clothed body.
As they stared at him clearly, Isander was gripping the neck of the clothed figure with a face that was cold, colder than an ice wall.
Right now, Isander lifted up the body of the figure that had been following her and her group members from a few minutes ago.
Isander's hands are very strong like pliers that are able to cut iron is not easy to move.
The black-clothed, heavily-covered figure tried to remove Isander's fingers from his neck as he was already in pain and unable to take a breath.
Isander looked at these two eyes for a moment, and then pulled the cloth that covered the entire face of this figure quickly.
Srett!
The cloth was torn and revealed the real culprit behind the black-clothed figure.
Isander dropped this mysterious figure with his pupils shrinking.
Isander slowly retreated a few steps on the branch away from the black-clothed figure slowly.
"It's good to see you again, Isander."
Behind this black-clothed figure was the face of a beautiful woman with extremely high facial features. He smiled at Isander and greeted him.
This man was Aqila, a friend of his wife's former college days.
Isander was still not reacting at the moment and was still confused. His eyes were still staring at Aqila with a shocked look.
In the next second, Isander's face changed and he immediately jumped off the branch and walked away from Aqila.
Aqila was shocked by Isander's movements, and with quick reflexes came down to chase after Isander.
"Hey, Isander! Why are you leaving?! You don't know me?! I'm a friend of your wife?!" aqila said in a loud voice while running after Isander who was running faster than her.
Suddenly Isander stopped running after hearing Aqila's words. Turning his body towards Aqila who was running in the distance and he said, "No, we have never met before."
Isander's words made everyone not suspect.
The group members who were initially surprised by the figure in closed clothes were Ice Frail, plus surprised to know Isander was familiar with Ice Frail and the fact that Ice Frail was a friend of Meisya's mother. As if that had not surprised them enough, their speech was even more shocking.
Aqila was surprised by Isander's words. He was shocked for a moment and then knew the reason Isander could say that.
Standing 2 meters away from Isander, Aqila looked at the handsome man in front of her with a sad and guilty face.
"I'm sorry, sorry, sorry I didn't have time to help you and him back then, I'm really sorry I couldn't save him. I'm sorry, Isander!"
As long as he said that line, his tears fell down his clothes while holding back his cries.
"You ...." Isander looked at Aqila with complicated eyes.
Isander can't hold this. He let out a long breath, and he turned around to continue on his way towards the members of his group.
Having just stepped foot once, Isander's hand was held by Aqila with both hands.
"I'm sorry I never helped you in person. I know you're still disappointed in me for not helping you and him back then. Believe me, the one who sent you food from Meisha was born until you fled the village was me. I know it is still lacking to avenge the good deeds of you and him on me, and atone for my sins, I have been trying my best. However, if you still can't forgive me, that's okay, I deserve to be hated by you. Thank you." Thank you."
Before Aqila left, she gave a brown bear-eared bando to Isander's hand silently, then turned her body around and disappeared in the trees.
Isander who held the bando was stunned for a few minutes, and water droplets fell on the bando to wet it some place.
True, this tough guy could finally cry just because of a cute bando. It's silly, but it's not ridiculous.
The bando given by Aqila is a relic of his wife. Isander knew this bando because this item came from him, he bought this bando to his wife and then gave it to Aqila.
When Isander gave up this bando, his wife did not have a taste. He received his gift, but it was given to Aqila.
However, Aqila knew this was a gift from Isander, and Aqila used it almost every day at school.
Isander who knows this is quite sick, the woman he likes does not like giving. However, all the pain paid off when his wife and he got married.
When that happened, Aqila did not know and did not come, even until his wife was gone.
The thing that makes him surprised is the person who always keeps food on his doorstep when in the village first turned out to be from Aqila.
During this time, the food Meisya and him had consumed for many years came from Aqila who gave it away secretly.
Isander was so shocked that he could not speak, coupled with the appearance of the object in his hand.
His heart was very complicated, a lot of feelings were being mixed up inside. Grief, disappointment, resentment, and regret were felt at the same time.
The members of his group who saw this could do nothing but give Isander time to finish crying.
Meisya cries and Giya tries to calm her down, assisted by Helen, Reren, and Nina.
Almost more than 5 minutes Isander stood still motionless staring at the bando in his hand, finally he moved to wipe away his tears that stuck to his face.
Next, he turned his body back and walked towards the direction his group members were in.
"Dad!"
The crying Meisya immediately called out to Isander in the distance. His daughter asked to be carried.
When he reached the place of his group members, Isander without speaking took Meisya.
Under the gaze of all of them, Isander put on a bando on Meisya's head, and hugged her daughter while crying silently.
The surprised Meisya came back crying. Both of them were crying over someone precious in their lives.
Giya and the others could do nothing but feel Isander's grief and silence.
They vaguely knew what happened between Aqila and Isander, it was still related to Meisya's mother which was still a mystery they had always wanted to know.
Isander and Meisya cried not too long, just a few minutes, and they returned to normal, but Isander's sad and complicated expression was still displayed.
After crying, Meisya's energy drained until she finally fell asleep.
"Let's move ...."
After saying that, Isander again walked eastward without looking at his group members.
Seeing this, they all followed Isander and walked behind Isander carefully.
On the other hand, Aqila was sitting on a tree branch not too far from the place where she handed Isander's stuff.
This cold woman cried again after a long time of not crying.
"Sorry, sorry .. sorry! I'm stupid!"
Aqila cried while saying an apology repeatedly. In his heart he still regretted his choices in the past. A lot of mistakes he has made, he is completely unreliable and he does not deserve to be helped.