Chapter 265: Ch 265: Ben's Past (2)
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The start of the expedition went extremely well. At the outer area of the Desolate Plains of Gahana no other monsters were able to see through his special hiding ability so Ben remained safe for the whole time. The only regret that Ben had was the fact that he had to abandon his beloved Danger Rover car at the very beginning of the expedition.
Ben was forced to do that because as soon as entered the danger zone, a huge amount of monsters immediately surrounded his car. Without getting rid of them, it was impossible for his car to advance. But unfortunately, Ben did not have any combat abilities at all so clearing out these monsters was impossible for him. So he had no other way but to abandon his car to continue this journey on foot.
This drastically reduced his speed. With his broken otherworldly hiding, he was able to keep himself safe from all the monsters of this region. So the biggest problems that he faced was the rough terrain which he was having a lot of trouble navigating.
Ben was a fit person with above average physical strength if compared to a regular blessed person because he had been working hard in a dangerous area like this for a long time. But still his physical abilities had a limit. And the terrain here was really pushing his physical capabilities to his absolute limit.
But Ben did not just give up with these obstacles. He worked hard and continued forward. At first he was quite a bit nervous but the more he went deeper inside this danger zone, the more determined he became to see this journey to its end.
Just like that extremely slowly but surely he was able to reach the deepest part of the Desolate Plains. On his way, he did not only come across various mystical sights, he even got to see many different types of monsters he had never seen before. Quite a few of these monsters were extremely powerful and Ben felt extremely lucky that they were not able to go out of the range of the Desolate Plains. If they could go out as they pleased, Ben could not even imagine how much damage they could cause.
After about a month since Ben started his journey, he came across a scene that blew him away. He saw a large mountain which was actually a pure piece of a single Huguocite ore. This was insane. Huguocite was a very valuable and rare material. And a piece as large as this world was probably priceless. Anyone wanting to get their hands on it needed to pay billions.
Obviously greed aroused in his heart and Ben wanted to take this mountain for himself. But as soon as he looked at it again, all the desire he had disappeared. The reason for that was the super large monsters sleeping surrounding the Huguocite mountain and the size of the ore.
So far, Ben had not found anyone or anything that could see through his otherworldly stealth ability. It had definitely made her overconfident. So even though Ben knew that he had no way to carry this large mountain, he still wanted to touch this wonderful creation of this world. So with his stealth activated, Ben started walking toward the Huguocite mountain.
But as soon as, he went a little bit closer to it, for the first time, his stealth failed to perfectly conceal his presence. All three of the super large monsters immediately looked toward his general direction as soon Ben crossed a certain threshold.
Ben was extremely nervous by this situation and did his best to hold his breath. Then to his relief it looked like his stealth was not completely useless against these monsters. Even though for some reason, all three of the large monsters were able to sense him, as soon as Ben stopped moving and did his best to hide his presence even more, those monsters suddenly lost his presence again.
This was a very good news for Ben but at the same time he was very sure that if he continued to get even closer to these super monsters, they would notice his presence again. And at that time, there was a high chance that those monsters would immediately attack and Ben would most probably die.
For that reason, Ben decided to not take any risks and tried to slowly move away from his current location. But it turned out that these large monsters were way too sensitive and even this little movement of his did not escape them. This time one of the monsters who looked like a large ball of fire did not waste any time and immediately attacked the area where Ben was.
Ben knew about the Eternal fire and how scary it actually was. He knew that if he was touched by this fire, he would definitely not survive it. So he did his best to run away from the fire. But obviously Ben realised that he was not powerful enough for even just that.
In his desperation, Ben activated his inherent symbol. He had no idea or delusion that it would be able to help him in any way but still he activated it as he was no other way to save himself. Then to his astonishment, Ben found an unusual ore just a little bit ahead of him. He had no idea what effect this rock had but he decided to smash the rock anyways.
As soon as Ben crushed it, a gust of wind suddenly appeared in the area where that rock was. That powerful gust of wind blew Ben high up in the sky. Ben was still in danger of falling from the sky and dying but with this he was at least able to avoid burning to death.
While being in mid air, Ben did his best to adjust his posture so that he would not directly fall on the solid ground. After trying very hard, Ben was able to lessen the impact of his fall by using the tree branches and then he also managed to fall on a small body of grass covered earth. Even with that quite a few of his bones were broken but he at least managed to escape the terrible fate of dying.
Ben did have a medical kit with him with high quality potion so he was able to fix himself up in just two days. But he had lost a lot of blood after falling and he did not have anything to counter that. So even after he managed to completely heal up, Ben was still feeling extremely weak.
But he had no idea where he was so he decided to move away from here to find a familiar place. Only then he would be able to go out of this danger zone. After coming face to face with death, Ben finally understood his foolishness and arrogance. So he did not want to continue this expedition anymore.
But after walking for only a few minutes, to his surprise, Ben suddenly saw a little girl standing in the middle of the dangerous area. Even though Ben had no idea about his current location, he was sure that he was still inside the Desolate Plains. So he had no idea how a little girl could be here.
Then again to his surprise, even when Ben was hiding himself with his otherworldly ability, the little girl directly looked at him and tilted her cute little head.
Now what was Ben going to do ?