After continuing their exploration, the group encountered a new area as the surroundings transitioned into a dark small marshland that looked like a small lake with a radius of few meters.

This location was already quite far from the entrance.

Short stubby bushes flourished all over. A dense fog lingered in the air. Once in a while, a cold wind blew past.

The marsh left an eerie impression on those who came across it.

“So there is also something like this in this place?” Rain asked curiously. He had never been here so he never saw something like this before.

“You haven’t been here before?” Celis asked curiously.

Rain shook his head. “Truthfully, I’ve never been outside the Lair…”

“Hmm,”

Rain examined the whole area and saw that the earth was muddied and filled with basins of festering waters, where one would occasionally discover the corpse of some unlucky monster rotting inside.

Passing through this area will take a bit of effort.

A slight rustle or movement periodically came from the shrubs as a few snake or lizard-type monsters slithered by.

In any case, all sorts of hidden dangers lurked inside this dark marsh.

“That’s dangerous… right?”

Celia nodded her head as she answered Rain’s question, “That’s right. That water is toxic and filled with poisonous monsters so you should be careful,”

Rain nodded his head as he followed the others, circling the round marshland. “How far are we from the place you found me?”

“Still much further…” Celis answered while stroking Alba’s soft fur. Alba doesn’t seem to care about her as she slowly followed the group. “We are scouting the place first then we found you being carried by Werebats…”

As she was talking, at this moment, Rustle! Rustle! Rustle… large silhouettes charged past the shrubs and pounced at the group.

They looked like enormous lizards as big as a crocodile. Their breaths were purple-colored, clearly signifying that they are poisonous monsters.

“Poison Lizards!!” A shout echoed in the area.

But the warriors didn’t engage immediately as they retreated towards the back. Only knights with shields remained at the front while the paladins, Priests and magic casters started chanting.

It’s not like the warriors are scared but because they know that they are useless against Poison Lizards. If they cut the monster’s skin, a poisonous gas will leak from their wounds. Thus, it’s better to kill it in the distance to avoid being poisoned and die a useless death.

As expected of a veteran group with only high-level warriors, even though they had fought and killed the troublesome monsters such as the Poison Lizards, they didn’t feel the slightest bit of tension, as they held complete control over the entire battle.

Amazing teamwork… Rain was impressed by the teamwork of the rear support towards the vanguards.

The group killed several more poisonous monsters along the way.

As the group successfully passed through the poisonous marshland – of course not without problems as some knights were poisoned. Fortunately, they were priests and paladins among the group and healed them if not they would have surely died. The poison was strange very toxic – it can probably kill an ordinary elephant in just a matter of minutes.

As the group continued in their way, suddenly, the group heard the sound of strange noises. They were heavy but amidst the other sounds, they couldn’t distinguish if they were real.

Shing! A sound of metals clashing each other and Woosh! Woosh! At the same time, a brilliant beam of lights consisted of magic Fireballs and wind blades fell over in the front of the group.

The sudden change in situation startled the crowd as they immediately stopped and raised their shields.

“Who’s there!!?” Several people cried out.

From the dark shadows, dozens of silhouette came out. All of them wore raging expressions like some sort of Asura while wielding weapons. They seemed to be extremely furious and angry!

Eyes sharp as swords and spears, just being stared at them make the crowd of veteran warriors felt the chill…

As the group stayed vigilant, they saw that women with extraordinary beauties appeared one after another from the dark corner. However, what shock the group was that these women all had lower bodies of a long tail akin to that of a snake.

Seeing this not only the group was shocked, the Werebat who was following the group shrieked in fear as she immediately hides behind, not daring to come out even her little head. She looked like a small kid seeing Freddy Krueger in flesh!

“Lamians-!?” Princess Leticia cried out. Lamians are rank 4 magic beasts as they are monsters innate capable of magic. They are strong not only as magicians but also in close combat. It can be said that all of them are born to fight and wield magic.

Thus, due to their high intelligence that akin to that of human and high mana affinity, they are ranked as 4th ranked monsters in the monsterclopedia…

Tsk-! Princess Leticia clicked her tongue in displeasure. Judging from silhouettes, they should be over a dozen… how come they are here??!

Is this an ambush!?

Princess Leticia draws her sword but before she could issue her order, a shadow suddenly brushed past her. She instinctively turned her head and saw the identity of the shadow…

“Rain!!?”

She called out after seeing him excitedly rushing towards the monsters. Rain’s face looked like a child seeing his Santa Claus kissing his mommy while holding a huge present.

What is he…!?

“Lafetti!!” Rain ignored the dumbfounded expressions around him and rushed towards Lafetti and the others.

Seeing Rain, all the Lamias furious expressions immediately subsided and were replaced by excitement and relief.

The one in the front, Lafetti immediately throws her sword and catch Rain with her arms. “You dummy!!” She angrily cried out as she hugged Rain so tightly he felt his bones cracked.

His face immediately distorted in pain but he endured it. She must have been so worried. Yeah, just give the lady some moments…

“You dummy! Are you alright?!” Lafetti let go of Rain and started examining every part of his body. Seeing that he wasn’t wounded or anything, Lafetti let out a sigh of relief.

At this very moment, Rain noticed that Lafetti’s usual cold front was already gone and her eyes started becoming moist, ready to cry at any moment.

This scene almost makes Rain’s heart as soft as tofu and a warm feeling surged through him like an undammed water, it gushed out in every part of his body, flooding his deepest emotions. Damn, life without a woman is fine but if there was, how beautiful life can be…?

Too bad, this life can be understood by those who have…

“I’m fine,” Rain said with a faint smile.

Lafetti’s tears started falling as she pulled Rain to her embrace again. She was really scared this time. She almost went crazy!

Watching Rain and Lafetti, the other Lamias slowly surrounded the two while looking at them with gentle expressions. Their heart finally relaxed after seeing Rain returning to them.

The human group watched Rain and Lafetti’s moving reunion with wide eyes expression. What is this?

Princess Leticia, the twins; Celis and Celia and two holy knights; Doram and Garas made an expression that seems as if they had eaten a bug. They couldn’t help but felt complicated…

What is with this Aquarian…!!?

An adopted mother of a wolf – no, not just ordinary wolf but a Monster King magical beast!

And now this – the heck, is he not human but a monster wearing a human skin? How the heck was it possible for a human and a monster this close? Look at them, it’s as if they had finally seen their husband who went to a war after a long time.

Their eyes are so gentle, unlike demon god from a while ago…!!

Although Aquarians doesn’t really care about monsters or humans – more like they can get along with anyone human or non-human but… this was the first time they had seen someone like Rain who was so close to monsters!

This is really an eye-opener!

Alba, on the other hand, didn’t care about the commotion and started walking towards Rain and Lafetti.

Seeing her, the lamias started to become vigilant while slowly retreating. They felt the extraordinary of Alba with just her presence. She was certainly not just a simple magical beast!

“Fear not, Children of Lamians, I am that boy’s mother…” Alba spoke as she walked over.

The Lamians were doubtful but no one dared to stop her, after all, Alba didn’t release any hostility. They ignored Alba and all of their gazes went towards the human group.

“Humans, leave this Lair at this instant!” One of the Lamias growled towards them.

The warriors and knights parted and Princess Leticia along with the others walked over. She cast Rain a complicated expression before she returned her gaze towards the Lamians.

Although she was skeptical when Rain told her about his supposed to be family but seeing it with her own eyes was really different.

So these monsters were what he meant by that?

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