The Dark King – Chapter 297
Alright, I wasn’t planning to release any chapters today as I planned to publish upto chapter 305 in one go.. However I deemed that the chapter 297 and 298 could be considered as ‘dark comedy’ so here we go(a chapter less than daily dose)!
One more thing let’s not ‘hurt’ each other while expressing our thoughts! We respect the comments written by everyone until the thoughts pass the bottom line and become curses! I assume that even the younger readers of our novel are mature as they have read TDK up to this point.
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Run! Run! Run!
Dudian fleed away like fool. He would be willing to put up wings at his spine in his moment. His body was exuding the smell of the young splitter’s blood so if the adult splitter sensed him then it was bound to track him.
The only way for him to keep his life at this moment was to get out of its perception range as soon as possible!
“Damn it! I’m not sure which area where I’m located at right now! It had caught me and brought me into its nest and I’m unaware of the position.” Dudian’s face was ugly. The only thing that made him slightly less nervous was that the splitter’s nest would be in an area where monsters would not lurk around. However it also meant that if he encountered a monster in this area then it would be a very dangerous one. As a monster which preyed upon the eggs of splitter wouldn’t be an ordinary one. Especially its hiding skills would be out of this world.
In about few minutes Dudian had run out for more than a dozen miles. He was running through bushes right now.
“It’s a ruined city which is completely buried under and occupied by the moss and vegetation. There isn’t an iconic building or terrain which I can refer too…” Dudian pulled out the map and looked at it. Previously he took off his hunter armor but he didn’t abandon the man. The ruins were vast so he had to do something before the adult splitter caught up. If he didn’t refer to the map then he would lose his path and stray into the area of another dangerous monster.
He firmly remembered the main landmarks drawn in the map and was about to move forward.
rustle~~
The sounds of grasses swaying echoed.
Dudian’s face slightly changed as he looked back. He saw a terrifying figure catching up to him as it passed through the bushes on the ragged asphalt. It was moving like a spider while its front two scythes were cutting of the bushes in front.
However, it was not the adult one but the newly born small splitty. (t.n: I read through the comments and saw people referring to the young splitter as splitty. I like the way it sounds and I’ll be sticking to it.)
Small was a metaphor because splitty was as big as an elephant.
“Damn it!” Dudian’s face turned ugly. He turned and ran. Dudian wanted to curse out loud on impulse. How could splitty break open the boulders? Did it drill out?
The most dangerous and critical part was that it was pursuing Dudian!
Dudian was going to mad. At the time when the adult splitter returns back to its nest it will see one of its child dead and the other one missing. It will certainly pursue him. There is going to be a chase. If the splitty stayed back in the nest then the adult splitter may stay in the cave as a guardian. The possibility of a chase would reduce by a lot.
However, right now Dudian could give a 99% guarantee that the adult splitter would be tracking them!
Moreover it had to be noted that even the mutated crocodiles were hunted and killed by the splitter at their home ground in the swamps. It showed how terrifying predator it was!
Whoosh!
Dudian splintered as fast as he could. He wanted to get rid of this little ancestor.
The sounds of splitty chasing after him didn’t pull away. Actually as time passed it got more and more fast. It seems that splitty was getting used to its body and the limbs were adapting to the environment. The coordination between its limbs was getting better.
Dudian looked back to check his pursuer. He secretly speculated about trying to fight it head on. But he knew that he may not be able to kill it. Previously he relied on surprise and environment to kill the young splitter. How was he going to layout such a situation at this point?
Once the adult splitter returns back to the cave it will immediately chase after them. The latter is not something that he could play around with.
Hah! Hah!
Dudian’s breathed was getting hard as he ran. Nevertheless, the human’s physical fitness is limited in comparison to monsters. He was getting slower and the splitty was catching up with him. Dudian stopped as he held onto the dagger. He turned around and stared at it.
Splitty saw that Dudian stopped so it quickly reduced its speed. It came to stop at a few meters away from Dudian. It cried out as it hissed. Its vocal cords were not matured yet so it couldn’t growl or call out.
Dudian wryly smiled.
Splitty stood still as its emerald green eyes blink from time to time.
Dudian made a few steps back.
Splitty slowly moved.
Dudian made few more steps backwards.
Splitty moved forward.
Dudian immediately stopped.
Splitty also stopped.
Dudian went crazy as he wanted to pick up a stone and hit at it. But he changed his mind immediately. He thought that such a behavior may have a counter-effect. Splitty won’t be able to pick up a stone but instead would want to ‘exchange the communication’ by using its scythes. Dudian didn’t want to get sliced into two at this place.
How can heavens justify such a physique in a newly born monster?
“It is a second generation monster which was just born. I assumed that humans are… ” Dudian felt bitter in his heart. He thought of a way. Since he couldn’t outrun it then there was one way he could use to get rid of it. That was to trap it somewhere or else both of them would be stuck together.
Dudian pulled out the map and looked at it while he vigilantly checked the splitter through sideways. He was worried that it would suddenly rush out at him. Although he only glanced at the map but he remembered approximate look of the area by the death passage. However there was a big mountain and a great lake by their current location.
He search the vicinity of the death passage again. He saw few large lakes. Dudian’s eyes lit up as he saw the description on the map. He confirmed his current location with the map. Right now he was in an area occupied by the Scott consortium. It was the closest area to the death passage. Actually it was described as area no ‘0’ by the Scott consortium and was colored in gray!
If he traveled on a parallel line then he was going to reach area no 3 outside the death passage.
Finally he was able to pin-point his location. He quickly selected a route and ran.
Splitty saw that Dudian began to run so it immediately began to follow after him.
Dudian’s eyes were gloomy as he secretly prayed that the adult splitter wouldn’t catch up soon. His muscles were tight as he felt a feeling of death.
Whoosh!
Dudian ran out from the wilderness and sprinted through a relatively safe route.
In about two or three minutes Dudian got to understand that the little ancestor had no malicious feelings towards himself. It would slow down when Dudian felt tired and slowed down. Splitty didn’t intend to attack him but instead moved correspondingly as Dudian did.
It made his heart ease a little as he wryly smiled.