Chapter 412 - Following the bread crumbs


    Sitting atop Luna''s back, Liam opened the map of the Zodal Empire on his system interface and looked at it again.


    Now that he had more information about thisnd after viewing the old parchments from the garrison, his map was far more detailed.


    However, this was only in those parts of thend where the demon settlements were established. The vast majority of the empire was stillrgely unexplored.


    Liam''s index finger slowly circled around the parts that were still greyed out. "What is there here? Hmmm…"


    Ideally, he would have liked to explore each and every single one of these areas, but time was running out. He couldn''t afford to waste his precious opportunity wandering around aimlessly.


    Instead of trying to randomly cast a in the sea and hope for a fish to get caught, he chose to go to the well-known hunting grounds. At least here, he would for sure return home with a game!


    Liam looked at the Zodal Empire which upied the eastern zone of the Nether Realm.


    There were still three more kingdoms in the Nether realm, which upied the other northern, western, and central zones.


    The south was mostly uninhabited. This was because a poisonous miasma upied the whole southern part of the Nether Realm which even the demons could not endure.


    All the yers who attempted to go to the south in hisst life had also died. They had died the moment they stepped into the zone, without being able to get a single look at thend.


    However, there were also a few rumors circting around that some of the guilds managed to sessfully explore this southern region as well.


    Liam had no idea whether this was true or not, but he knew for sure that the Gu family hadn''t been in the south. So that area was definitely ruled out at least for now.


    This left him, the eastern, northern, and the western parts of theher realm. He knew that the Gu family had explored bits and pieces of all three regions.


    This meant that the herbs he was looking for could also potentially be anywhere in these three areas.


    And among these three, Liam was starting with the Zodal Empire in the east. This was where the garrison was located and he had also already covered many areas in the Empire.


    So he decided that it was a good ce to begin his search.


    "Let me see. Where all did the Gu family camp within the Zodal Empire? Hmmm…" Liam wrinkled his brows and tried hard to think.


    He remembered a lot from his past life but it was impossible to remember everything.


    As far as he knew there were a few ces in the eastern part of the Zodal Empire where they had set up shop and this was also the ce with the most favorablends for vegetation.


    So this area fit his two criteria very well and he decided to start from here.


    "Well, it doesn''t matter. I should be able to find these herbs soon. The portals to theher realm were not open for that long. They should not have been able to explore that much."


    Liam''s gaze wandered over the map for a few seconds and he soon picked the first spot.


    "Luna, go southeast for some more time and then slow down." He patted the white fox and she nodded her head obediently.


    A few minutester the duo promptly arrived at the first location. Coincidentally, it was raining heavily in the zone and ck raindrops tumbled on the white luscious fur of the fox.


    "Does it hurt?" Liam asked and just like he expected the fox as well shook her head. [No, master]


    Unlike before, there were no debuff notifications, so this made sense. "Ok. Good then. Keep going."


    Continuing to get drenched in the horrendous downpour, the duo circled the area slowly. It was mostly nd except for the hugeke that was sprawled across the region. Pa nda


    No vel "I never noticed this." Liam''s curiosity got piqued and he patted Luna, signaling her tond. There were not manykes or water bodies in theher realm so this was a rare sight.


    The ck drops of rain pattered on the calm stillke, the ck color changing as soon as it touched the crystal clear water.


    It was a strange sight to witness. The water itself was red to look as it reflected the red sky of theher realm and in thiske of red, ck dots drizzled everywhere.


    Liam could even feel theher energy in the raindrops dissipate and disappear into the air as if it had never been mixed along with the water.


    The duo continued to observe this phenomenon curiously for a few seconds after which Liam quickly got down to business.


    He started scrambling about the ce, looking everywhere for herbs, minerals, beasts, basically anything that could be of value.


    "Hmmm. This won''t do. I need more help." Liam stopped. "Come out." He called his army forth and the entire ce quickly became lively.


    Bak Bak Baka!


    Kraaa! Kraaa! Kraaaa!


    Squeak Squeak!


    Roar! Rumble!


    A wide cacophony of noises rang out loudly as the bunch of undeads started running around everywhere.


    Liam only dared to let them all loose because he hadn''te across a single beast or wild animal yet and he had already been searching around this zone for several minutes now.


    This seemed a little strange but his main goal at the moment was to scour for herbs. So along with his group of soul undeads, he continued rummaging the area from top to bottom.


    Thanks to this, within a matter of minutes, they covered the whole ce and had finished looking everywhere except for theke.


    They did manage to find a few patches of herbs here and there, but they were not the ones he was looking for.


    "Ok. Good work everyone." Liam dismissed the gang. Only theke was now left, so he decided to first take a look inside and then call his undead helpers.