Chapter One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Nine

Beck and Adam looked up at the towering mantis. Her body looked like it was made from green leaves, and it was clear she was quite adept at camouflage, especially since she had some way of making her blood melody barely audible to Adam’s ears.

“I knew there had to be a Mantis vendor!” Beck exclaimed. “The Wandering Forest has a lot of these guys, so I was confused why there weren’t any on the island. It all makes sense now.”

The Wandering Forest was the twelfth Stage according to what Emelia had told Adam. It had a lot of insect humanoids and they were supposedly quite difficult to defeat, even for her. She’d especially warned him about the Weaponmasters, and said they could be identified by the badge they wore.

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