Chapter 74: Boshwalkins.

Chapter 74: Boshwalkins.

BOSHWALKINS WERE NOT meticulous killers. Perhaps they deemed stealth and tidiness beneath them, given their undisputed reign as Umicore Prime’s jungle kings.

Nigel streaked through the dense forest, his eyes scanning the ravaged path left by the retreating spiders. This very chaos, this trail of destruction, became his guiding thread to Pete. From the ruined treehouse rooftop, the spiders had blazed a path directly to their lair. Snapped branches, splintered and raw, littered the route alongside glistening, torn chunks of white, sticky net. Nigel’s stomach churned as he identified several spots where they had dragged the Dagerstanteen, the telltale scoring marks left by their thick spit ropes.