Science/Magic

(Changing Chorius's pronoun from It to he.)

…

Bloed and the others stayed a few days more in Chorius's nest. Mainly because Bloed wanted to check all the books Chorius owned.

Chorius found Bloed's behavior strange. He realized that Bloed only checked each book for a few minutes before passing to another book. This process repeated many times for three days.

"What are you doing?" Chorius could not help but ask. "If you want to read the books, you don't need to hurry. Just stay here all the time you want. I don't mind if you stay for one or two years."

Unfortunately, Bloed could not waste all that time. Besides, checking the books once was enough.

Actually, his eyes were scanning all the information in the books and sending it to a storage device. If Chorius knew that Bloed was copying his books to read them later, he probably would have been stupefied.

But even with that method, Bloed took a total of three days to finish.

When he finished, it was finally time to leave.

Chorius was reluctant to let Bloed go. During the last three days, he had conversed with Bloed many times and realized that Bloed's knowledge was even deeper than he expected. More than once, Chorius discovered that Bloed's opinions helped him to resolve some of the questions that had been plaguing him for years.

Bloed had inherited the human confederation's knowledge after all, so the things he knew were different from the knowledge of this world. More than once, the different perspectives were enough to show Chorius the answer.

But no matter how he tried to convince Bloed to stay, Bloed was determined to leave.

In fact, Chorius considered using strength, but each time he recalled the terrifying strength of Regina, he gave up. Although Chorius did not think he would lose, he was not confident about defeating her either.

He did not want to make a demigod-level enemy without reason.

"Okay, if you are leaving, I need to tell you something."

"Hmm?"

"You were being chased for a monster before entering the swamp, right? Well, that monster brought a horde and surrounded the swamp completely."

Bloed was stunned. "It has not given up yet?"

"Nope. In fact, the only reason the monsters have not entered the swamp is that the controller fears my presence, but once you leave, it will surely go after you."

Bloed fell silent for a moment. "... Chorius, do you know anything about the monster controlling the horde?"

"No, nothing. There are too many strange monsters in this place, so if they are not related to the Blight, I don't care about them."

Bloed nodded. "I understand. Thank you for the information."

"It's nothing, consider it a farewell gift." Chorius then looked at Regina. "Girl, are you sure I can't check your body even once? Just for research purposes."

Regina scoffed. She looked at the bird with a warning look, as though she wanted to pluck all his feathers.

Chorius's felt cold sweat running on his back. For an instant, he felt a murderous vibe coming from the silver-haired girl.

Bloed did not understand why, but Regina disliked Chorius even more than Liu Ying. He once tried to ask the reason, but Regina called him an idiot and walked away.

Well, Chorius was rather rude towards Regina in the first place.

After everything was ready, Bloed, Regina, and Liu Ying left the tree. Bloed took Tito and Leto out the space device they were stored and looked at Chorius one last time.

"Be careful in your way, boy. Remember to visit me!" Chorius waved his wings and said his goodbyes. Bloed grinned. "Don't worry, I'll make sure of visiting you later." He then turned around and left.

Although Chorius was a bit of an oddball, Bloed rather liked him. Not only Chorius was very strong and knowledgeable, but he was also humble and polite. He never despised Bloed for his lack of mana or for his low strength.

To be honest, Bloed could not associate the weird bird to the title of 'Demigod'.

When they were far enough of the Archon tree, Regina heaved a sigh of relief.

"Finally, we got rid of the bird."

Bloed smiled wryly. "I think Chorius is a good guy. Just a bit rude."

"You don't understand, master." Regina looked at Bloed and explained. "The bird only seemed a good guy because I was nearby. I'm pretty sure he thought more than once about kidnapping you and taking you all for himself."

Bloed's face twitched. "You are exaggerating."

"No, I'm sure. My female instincts never fail me." Regina declared confidently. Although Bloed did not understand what female instincts have to do with it.

Liu Ying, on the other hand, was unable to resist chuckling. "Yeah, that bird seemed as though it wanted to kiss Bloed and marry him."

Bloed put on a strained smile. "Now I'm feeling chills."

Liu Ying laughed happily, and even Regina showed a smile.

"By the way, demon." Regina suddenly stared at Liu Ying. "When are you planning to leave?"

Liu Ying froze.

She looked at the ground with a complicate expression and fell silent.

Bloed could not help but frown. "Regina, enough."

But Liu Ying shook her head. "It doesn't matter. Don't worry, Regina, I'll leave after we find a city."

Bloed looked at Liu Ying and sighed. He said nothing, though, and just continued walking.

An awkward silence enveloped the group. Bloed tried to break the silence in more than once occasion, but Liu Ying just would show a forced smile and reply perfunctorily.

Just like that, the group arrived at the edge of the swamp after walking for another two days.

And just like Chorius said, it was filled with monsters.

Bloed activated his satellite sight and saw thousands of monsters waiting for them. There were at least twenty thousand monsters out there.

"… So many monsters." Liu Ying grimaced. "Bloed, how are we going to pass them?"

Bloed looked at Regina and smiled. "Did you forget?"

"Huh?"

Bloed patted Leto's head and smiled. "Three days have passed."

Liu Ying was stunned, the next second, an expression of realization appeared on her face.

"How could I forget!? Leto can fly!"

Bloed's curved his mouth in a smile. He then let out the nanorobots in the spatial device and Leto started to grow.

When its height reached to five meters, Bloed commanded.

"Leto, flight mode!"

One minute later, three people, a puppy, and a wolf were flying in the skies.