D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad

Chapter 1649 Out of the Mist and…

--- Kat ---

Kat had to resist the urge to stop as soon as they broke out of the mist and into the more normal forest around Forest Village, Bower’s home. They were still perhaps a day out but it had been a long few days. Of course Kat was leading the way for her group so she had to keep moving to allow everyone a chance to get out. Read new chapters at empire

Kat couldn’t help but smile as she saw everyone glancing around at the sky, what little of it they could see anyway. Everything had started blending together not long after finding Kamiko’s team. The bubbles were interesting sure but for the most part Kat and whoever she managed to stick with just burned their way through.

The groups were brought together and split up multiple times. They had the full party together either once or twice depending on how you counted things. Once by luck and twice if you counted how Bower enforced it for everyone leaving the mist together. He’d got to the edge first of course, with Hunter second, Meg third, Kamiko forth and Kat’s group last.

Kat felt a touch embarrassed about that but in her defence Church had only mostly recovered and was no longer being carried because Brook now was. He’d clearly caught whatever it was Church had by sleeping in the same tent, or at least that was Kat’s best guess as nobody else had gotten sick on the journey. It meant that she’d needed to keep a slower pace to ensure Church didn’t relapse.

It was also annoying because they’d ended up on that snowy mountain. AGAIN. For the FORTH DAMMNED TIME. Kat now knew what Bower meant when he said some bubbles were more common then others. Sure Kat had seen a wide variety of varied landscapes within the bubbles... but a couple of them kept coming back with the snowy mountain being the most common, along with the jungle and a few others showing up multiple times but with slight variations.

Kat never saw the blue sandstorm again... and she wasn’t sure if that was a good thing or not. It made it very hard to investigate the oddities that she’d noticed alongside Lily in regards to the bubbles. They did try asking Bower about it when he showed up... but he’d just shrugged and said, "I’ve got no idea. Normally we keep hunting parties to a smaller size so that we don’t have to deal with getting split up all the time. Anything under ten people is usually fine and that’s always been enough for us,"Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Bower’s approach was probably more sensible and from the other questions they’d poked at him with it sounded like there wasn’t really enough capable hunters to test large groups anyway. Including random people would just be asking for trouble... so that mystery went unsolved.

Kat wondered why it was the way it was, with Lily suggesting.

[What if there’s meant to be a certain number of people in a ’team’ and the bubbles occasionally try to separate us? As in give us a chance to escape? We ARE tying people to each other after all.]

*Hmmm... I guess it’s a question of how much intent there is in the mist.*

[Because I still don’t have one! Clearly swallowing the candy piece was the trigger and there’s no way to know if the other bits and pieces of ’edible’ foliage had the same trigger or different ones. Heck, if we had Bower with us he might’ve been able to explain which ones were safe. I refuse to believe that everything there was deadly. That’s not how you properly tempt people.]

Kat nodded in agreement.

At least the place was really nice to look at. *A bit chilly for the others perhaps but I suppose that’s how it’s all kept in edible condition. I imagine things would start melting in there if it was too hot. Shame we didn’t have Hunter or Meg around to test with proper fire.*

[Eurgh. I’m thinking of burning some time to line some fire spells for testing purposes.]

*Was the pun there intentional?*

[Yes it was, though I’m quite serious about it. I’ll try talking to Thyme next time we meet up with them. I don’t need anything fancy, just a basic spell to set things on fire will be acceptable.]

*Fair enough I suppose.*

Kat didn’t have time to continue the mental conversation because now that everyone was out of the mist Meg was clapping her hands together. "Right, everyone. I get that we’re all excited to be out of the mists but we’re not at the town just yet. Before we can head there, some discussion needs to be finalised between Bower and Corela. At that point we may be heading into town,"

"Why is that?" asked Malt and Craunch.

Corela sighed, "It’s simply that we don’t have permission to enter the town nor a place to stay. Bower and I will need to discuss things, and there’s a good chance that I’ll need to go ahead and discuss things with the mayor before coming back to get you all,"

*Hmm... I wonder if she’s going to be rushed there by Hunter. I wouldn’t put it past her to know exactly how to get to the town now that we’re finally out of the mist.*