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War onto Mok andin the trees nearby were startled and let out calls high above the canopy, breaking the peace of the woods

Even though his head was bruised and the corners of hisfrantically and blindly through the dim woods filled with branches, vines, and bushes, ultiht his head to look, even though nothing had been pursuing hiht behind hiht before a green grass field below a gentle slope Mok could see the sharp corners of a village's wooden houses and the chimney smoke fro out of the woods, Mok ran towards the se without another look back

That was the village of Colca!

As a se of the Greenland Forest, it was not very prosperous However, it was still a good place to replenish food and water stocks Thereforein the Greenland Forest enjoyed resting in Colca Village

It was deadly silent in the s, this was the ti parties and venturing into the woods to check if their traps had caught anything This was the tiathered to chat at one end of the village; while the wo animal leather that had just been tanned……

Mok looked in confusion at the ee before him He didn't even see any of the rowdy brats that were always playing in the village's clearing

Was everyone in the village absent?

No, soe!

Mok was aor killing, his observation skills ell-honed He could vaguely see the light reflecting off eyes behind each tightly shut wooden door He could even hear several people breathing heavily

"Hank! Thor! Dhaka! Are you here? It's niseheard Mok's shouts, the door of a wooden house in the village opened The familiar silhouette of the hunter Hank appeared behind the door Mok didn't knohy, but Hank did not welcome him warmly as he had done in the past Instead, he stood silently in the shadow of the door, slowly letting Mok inside

The frightened Mok had spent an entire night running through the forest He had long since been exhausted and hurriedly ran into the house

"Hank, I don't care what you have, just getto eat and drink first I still need to rush back to Blue Hillock City after I get a quick rest Let , Hank You need to warn everyone in the village not to enter theThere……"

Mok had adjusted his eyes to the darkness inside and was shocked to find all twelve of the village’s hunters inside They stood silently in the house, their faces hidden by the shadows that obscured their expressions

"Are you having a ht a la completely dark Hank had closed the door!

With the door shut tight, the inside of the wooden house became even dimmer and more ominous!

Mok shivered For the first tieness of the situation before hirabbed hi his are, fir? It's ht His right hand tried reaching for the dagger at the back of his waist, but the three people surrounding hi hith And since there were three of theht back

Mok, as cursing and screa, was approached by a hunched silhouette

He had white hair, a white beard, and a face full of wrinkles It was the elderly village head of Colca Village, Grampa Norham

Before Mok could even say Norham's name, the old man with the compassionate face abruptly opened hisThe corners of Gra his o It was torn all the way to the base of his ears

But it wasn’t a mouth he opened It was… it was a hideous mandible split into four parts! Ses of theto look at! Within the mandibles, a hideous and odd scorpion scurried out of the bloody red throat

Grampa Norham sloalked forward and used thethe hideous scorpion into his mouth

Mok was deathly terrified at this point He squir outhe didscorpion successfully squeezed its way inside his throat After a er struggling The pained expression on his face had vanished, turning into a nulint lit up deep within his pupils Like the other hunters, he waited silently in the darkness for his master's orders