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Chapter 153 - 102: The Red Hat Living in the Castle_2

Chapter 153: Chapter 102: The Red Hat Living in the Castle_2

"Where exactly is the nearby castle?" Gu Shanhai tried to locate it using city positioning magic, but unfortunately, he found nothing. It seemed that the Redcaps had taken over and turned it into a nest, which rendered the place unrecognizable as a city.

Fortunately, he wasn’t limited to just one method. Since the city positioning spell failed, he decided to use water-body positioning instead. Cities always require a water source, so by finding areas with dense or unusual water sources, he could determine the direction.

"It seems the entire town has been destroyed, no wonder the Magic Pet Wizard is here, staying away from the crowd is a wise choice for wizards."

"I found it, but it’s quite far away and almost blurry. It’s a good thing I’ve become much stronger recently; otherwise, I might not have been able to find it."

A few minutes later, Gu Shanhai finally settled on a suspected target. As this was not determined by city positioning magic, Gu Shanhai could only rely on his instincts. As for using prophetic divination to confirm, it wasn’t worth wasting life for such a trivial matter. Instead, divining the potential dangers and fortunes of going there seemed more worthwhile.

If it was ominous, whether a small or great calamity, Gu Shanhai would immediately turn back. If it was unremarkable, it most likely meant he got the positioning wrong. But if it was auspicious, whatever it was, he had to check it out.

"Another minor fortune, looks like I might pick up something good again."

Although he said this, he still needed to clear out the Redcaps that occupied the castle.

"Little White, let’s set off." After making up his mind, Gu Shanhai naturally took Little White with him.

The road was a straight line almost to the point of breaking Gu Shanhai’s spirit. He was lucky he possessed the Forest Stride ability, else he would have wanted to use Spirit Blade to carve a new path.

On the other hand, Little White seemed to have developed a corresponding ability.

"Forest Stride? As expected from a descendant of the Deer King... Well, it’s nothing special; nine out of ten young deer are descendants of the Deer King."

"Stepping on Waves, Forest Stride, and then adding dark vision, I wonder what abilities will come next."

Little White’s potential was something that even Gu Shanhai’s impulsive and intuitive moments could trigger. Things like Magic Pet skills and Redcaps actually weren’t significant enough to trigger Gu Shanhai’s threshold of fortune. They were more like things Gu Shanhai just stumbled upon.

It was probably because there was little that could match up to him... Well, simply put, his opportunities were just few.

Like Sethanda Esohon’s Demon Spear, that wasn’t considered an opportunity; that was robbery. An opportunity is something given, not taken.

Such chances couldn’t possibly occur every day. Little White was also a gift after Gu Shanhai became the Marked Druid. In the Deer Plain later on, it wasn’t that there were no opportunities, but rather that Gu Shanhai could just take them directly. It really wasn’t considered as given to him, it was more like he had a stake in it.

After walking through the forest for nearly three hours, Gu Shanhai began to admire the Redcaps; they could travel such long distances to hunt, or maybe it was just that Gu Shanhai and Little White were slow...

From a distance, he spotted a town, and most notably a castle. However, the surroundings were only filled with the sounds of insects and some animals, and he could also see many shattered and rotten bones.

On the bones, there were traces not only of spears but also of claws scraping and sharp teeth chewing.

"I’ve never heard of Redcaps eating people; aren’t these creatures supposed to live just by drenching their caps in fresh blood?" Gu Shanhai was somewhat puzzled.

The blood on a Redcap’s cap didn’t dry at the normal rate; it dried very slowly. Otherwise, how many kills would be needed in a day to sustain them? It wouldn’t make sense for them to live in isolation.

By estimation, a Redcap that killed a horse and used its blood would not need to feed again for at least a week.

"Come to think of it, it’s strange. This place doesn’t seem to have been abandoned for long; why has nobody come to exterminate these Redcaps?"

"It’s not possible that no one managed to escape, that’s a bit unlikely."

The red hats are not powerful, a single person might not defeat one, but three or five could easily beat one to death, provided they have the courage to face it.

There’s also the fact that since there’s a castle, it means there are nobles, and where there are nobles, there are knights, trained in combat—not quite Transcendents perhaps, but in full armor and armed, these knights would not be easy prey for the red hats, and couldn’t they just flee if defeated?

Moreover, nobles mostly have a lineage of knights, almost equating them with Transcendents.

Thus, for the red hats to still occupy this place after such a long time, it could only mean that either the matter was suppressed, or it was a complete military disaster, and perhaps not just done by the red hats but also certain nobles; otherwise, Gu Shanhai wouldn’t know how to lose.

According to records, there were at most about a hundred or two hundred red hats; any more and they would split up and leave. Considering the scale of the town and the castle, with the knights, militia, sheriffs, etc., totaling at least five hundred, and tens of thousands of civilians, to be wiped out by just over two hundred red hats is utterly unbelievable.

"Forget it, the truth doesn’t matter, let’s just check inside the castle," Gu Shanhai entered the town, not intending to delve too much.

As he entered, he performed another Prophetic Divination, still resulting in "Little Ji," which is why, despite knowing there were issues, he was prepared to go in anyway.

The lack of danger is the most important thing.

"The signs of battle are a bit off, some kind of massacre?" Gu Shanhai’s expression grew even more solemn.

Examining the bodies scattered everywhere, Gu Shanhai confirmed it really wasn’t the doing of the red hats, but rather some other creature’s massacre, with the red hats likely just scavenging afterwards.

Red hats don’t eat humans, that much was certain.

The noise gradually reached Gu Shanhai’s ears as he neared the castle, the red hats’ movements naturally coming to his notice.

"The number is around a hundred, plus the thirteen I killed earlier, the number isn’t too problematic."

"It seems I really misunderstood the red hats, and almost made them the scapegoats."

After pondering for a while, Gu Shanhai put Little White into his portable lab to let it play, so it wouldn’t affect his performance.

He stealthily infiltrated the castle, which was quite large, capable of accommodating a thousand people for eating and living, so a hundred or so red hats wasn’t much at all. Moreover, the red hats weren’t scattered around the castle, but grouped together.

"Red hats’ intelligence isn’t developed, not even equal to elemental beings, almost similar to animals," Gu Shanhai observed the red hats playing and frolicking.

"So the question arises, where did their spears and iron shoes come from? Clearly, they didn’t forge them themselves, and picking them up is even less likely."

"Indeed, there’s a logic bug..."

Gu Shanhai commented, then didn’t dwell too much on it—who knew what secrets these things hid? He was here to scavenge some items, not to investigate the origins of such a peculiar creature. Wonders like elemental beings, fairies, and spirits were mysterious, weren’t they?

After all, there are plenty of oddities, no need to fuss over this minor issue because there would be more to worry about later.

"Kill this lot, no, use frost instead, so it’s easier to search the bodies later." Gu Shanhai subconsciously planned to use a fiery aura, but fortunately, he reacted quickly. Who knows what valuable items these red hats might have scavenged from the castle? If he destroyed them, wouldn’t that be a loss? So, he must be calculated when taking action.

It’s also alright to explode them after searching the bodies.

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