CHAPTER 170 - Eerie Forest.

Alex walked through an eerie forest in the desolate, his boots crunching against the damp, decayed leaves that littered the ground. The trees shadowed him, their twisted branches dripping with strange gooey liquid.

It wasn't a place one would want to come to unless necessary, as the rancid scent of the surroundings made it hard to breathe.

Alex, however, wasn't focusing on the scenery; his eyes were fixed on the communication device in his palm as he spoke of the incident in Luminora.

The device flickered, showing the image of Zahara and Mira; they seemed to be sitting next to each other, meditating.

"—so yeah, that's what happened," Alex concluded his report about everything that had happened in the village.

"You... weren't hurt, right?" Mira's voice came from the other side, a bit low as she still wasn't that comfortable around Zahara—more like she was only comfortable around Alex.