The Medallion
Chapter 184 New Attempt

After Rocky went back to the house, he fetched the bow and arrows along with other necessary equipment. He then took Uriah and Rubygon to sneak out of the military camp and head for the last possible location under the jurisdiction of the northeast military camp where they could possibly replace the Dark Heaven Insect.

This location was in the southernmost part called the Carcass Valley. The name itself was terrifying enough, not to mention that it was an area where wild spirit-manipulated beasts wandered, which made their exploration rather dangerous.

By the time Rocky arrived at the Carcass Valley, it was already dark. It was also very quiet all around.

The Carcass Valley was rich in foliage and water, which made it suitable for different wild spirit-manipulated beasts to survive. It was easy to assume there were at least hundreds of spirit-manipulated beasts wandering inside the valley. Luckily, it was already late at night which meant that most wild spirit-manipulated beasts were already resting in their nests except for the nocturnal ones.

A rustle came from a thick patch of grass where a figure then appeared, followed by two smaller beasts that differed in size.

They were Rocky and his two beasts - Uriah and Rubygon.

"Howl!" Rubygon growled nervously. This was the first time it followed Rocky into a dangerous place like this.

"Shhhh, you have to keep quiet." Rocky gestured to Rubygon.

Uriah also hit Rubygon's little head tenderly with its claw as a way to let it know that it must be quiet.

"This place could be really dangerous. I have sensed auras of different wild spirit-manipulated beasts from all directions." Rocky frowned. If he took out the magical saliva in a place like this, he would immediately be surrounded by a group of wild spirit-manipulated beasts before the Dark Heaven Insects could even show themselves.

However, the magical saliva was also the only way to attract the Dark Heaven Insects and it had certainly placed him in quite a dilemma.

To avoid drawing the attention of any other wild spirit-manipulated beasts, Rocky walked around the valley first to check its topography while at the time detecting the potential spots for the nests of the Dark Heaven Insects.

The valley was quite big. By the time Rocky finished his tour, it was already deep into the night with tons of stars shining brightly in the sky.

'The radius is bigger than that of the previous two areas. There are four potential spots for the nests of the Dark Heaven Insects. However, I could not just ask Uriah to take out the magical saliva and run around those four spots. Guess I will have to try them out one by one.' Rocky touched his chin as he contemplated. He then took Uriah and Rubygon to the first spot. It was a highland right next to a swamp which was a perfect habitat for the Dark Heaven Insects.

"Uriah, it's your time to shine." Rocky took out the bottle which contained one drop of magical saliva and tied it to one of Uriah's claws. He then asked Uriah to start running around the highland while he took Rubygon with him hiding nearby as they waited for the Dark Heaven Insects to show up.

Uriah did not run far before it drew the attention of the wild spirit-manipulated beasts nearby, just as Rocky had expected. There were three of them that looked like crocodiles with thick and long tails that crawled out of the swamp. Luckily they were all two-star spirit-manipulated beasts which were tantamount to spirit manipulators at the eighth grade of the Mortal Stage.

Uriah saw that it attracted the attention of three wild spirit-manipulated beasts so it ran towards Rocky's hideout as soon as it could.

Rocky was aiming with his arrow. He shot it out and it hit one of the wild spirit-manipulated beast and paralyzed it instantly. The other two spliced out and kept chasing Uriah while striking up dust with their strong tails that blocked Rocky's vision.

Rocky jumped out of his hideout with the Frozen Wind Dagger in his hand as he charged towards the two wild spirit-manipulated beasts. Uriah attacked along with Rocky after returning to him. The two remaining wild spirit-manipulated beasts were killed in an instant.

Rocky collected the treasures from these three wild spirit-manipulated beasts with his Frozen Wind Dagger before he took the three bodies which were dipped with Centipede-snake poison and placed them at three different spots. He then asked Uriah to keep running in hopes of drawing out the Dark Heaven Insects from their nests.

A few moments later, five hungry wild spirit-manipulated beasts were drawn by the magical saliva. They saw the three dead bodies and started to eat them immediately. It only took two bites before they twitched and died.

Rocky showed up immediately to scavenge valuable parts from the bodies of the five wild spirit-manipulated beasts.

They just kept repeating this process over and over again in hopes of luring the Dark Heaven Insects out of their hiding places.

After a single night, there were twenty more bodies of wild spirit-manipulated beasts but still without a single appearance of a Dark Heaven Insect. Although they were merely wild spirit-manipulated beasts at one or two stars, there were still parts of value found on their corpses. Most of them could be sold at a good price while the rest could be used to set up traps.

Seeing that the Dark Heaven Insect had not been drawn out, Rocky went back with Uriah and Rubygon. The sun was already up and shining brightly when Rocky made it back to the northeast military camp. He cultivated for a while to regain his strength before he headed to the beast farm.

When he arrived at the beast farm, Rocky saw that Verdanim, the war dragon of Marin, had also returned to the beast farm. He was thinking that he would ask Marin later about the accommodations of Sue so that he could go and check on how she was doing. Later, he began with his chores at the beast farm while he practiced the Magical Evaluation Skill at the same time.

Around noon time, Rocky went to see Marin. However, before he could reach the tent, he heard a discussion from the side.

"Haven't you heard? Evan has been transferred to another military camp."

"I did! I thought the Commander had not announced how she would deal with Evan. Who would have thought that he was transferred just like that."

"I think that the most plausible explanation for this is that Evan already knew that he no longer had a future for his career in the northeast military camp so he pulled some strings to get himself transferred to somewhere else."

"Looks like that Deputy Commander Chen is the only one that took the fall in the end."

Rocky raised his eyebrows. He was not surprised by the fact that Even had been transferred. He was shameless and despicable, but he still had not the balls to stay at the northeast military camp after his plan of setting Rocky up was compromised.

After arriving at Marin's tent, Rocky asked the guards to inform Marin of his arrival and entered once cleared.

There were two other Deputy Commanders along with a couple of squad leaders in Marin's tent.

Deputy Commander Chen was also there and he could barely look at Rocky in the eyes. He seemed to have aged greatly overnight. "Rocky, you arrived just in time." Marin greeted Rocky the second she saw him.

"Greetings, Commander. I am here to ask about the......" Just as Rocky was about to talk, Marin spoke first. "Evan, the squad leader of the first squad, has been transferred to another military camp. There weren't enough spirit manipulators for each squad so I am appointing you as the temporary squad leader of the first squad for the time being. Any penalty that you are subject to is to be postponed indefinitely." Other Deputy Commanders along with the squad leaders were surprised by Marin's announcement.☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐