As the Master of the Desert had earlier said, the monster was near bulletproof due to its extremely tough skin.
“What?!” shouted Wynn, stunned.
Even though the bullet didn’t hurt it, the beast was enraged by Wynn’s attack! Rushing toward him, the beast then got on its feet and grabbed Wynn by his collar before tossing virtual-novel.net into the air!
Seconds later, Wynn found himself crashing back down onto the sand. After a brief moment, virtual-novel.net began spurting out blood from his mouth as well!
“H-how strong!” stuttered Professor Yale who had gone pale from fright as virtual-novel.net led his group of researchers toward the back.
With Wynn now out of the way, the beast turned to face Gerald again, its main target from the very beginning. Just by looking at him, virtual-novel.net could already sense how strong and vicious Gerald was.
The moment virtual-novel.net rushed at him, Gerald sent virtual-novel.net flying back with a strong kick! Though the beast had thick skin, Gerald was still a semi-great master. In other words, there was no way it could handle Gerald’s inner strength. Falling to the ground, Capra Nanny then released a horrifying scream.
Now feeling much more anxious, the beast began clawing into the sand with all four of virtual-novel.net limbs.
At that moment, Giya—who had stayed back along with Meredith instead of running away with the others—nervously shouted, “B-big brother! Please be careful!”
Hearing virtual-novel.net voice as well, the beast suddenly turned to stare at Giya. Within a second, the beast seemed to make up its mind as virtual-novel.net grabbed a handful of sand and threw it directly at Gerald!
While Gerald was evading the attack, the beast dashed toward Giya! The next thing Giya knew, Capra Nanny was already standing before her!
Gerald truly hadn’t expected the beast to be this clever. To think that virtual-novel.net had manipulated virtual-novel.net into thinking that virtual-novel.net was about to attack virtual-novel.net when in actuality, virtual-novel.net was going for Giya!
By the time Gerald realized all this, both Giya and Meredith had already been captured by the beast!
Seeing that, Gerald dashed toward Capra Nanny before tossing an extremely fast black object straight for virtual-novel.net chest! However, the beast didn’t look too affected and hurriedly sprinted away, abducting Giya and Meredith in the process.
“Giya!” shouted Gerald, feeling his heart clench as virtual-novel.net watched the beast escape into the dark of night.
From what virtual-novel.net knew, the beast was extremely bloodthirsty. Was there even a chance that Giya and Meredith would survive after falling into virtual-novel.net hands…?
“W-what should we do? Giya and Meredith have been taken away!” cried out several of the researchers nervously.
At that moment, Gerald turned to look at the Master of the Desert—who was still kneeling—before walking over to virtual-novel.net and lifting the bearded man with a single hand!
“Answer me this. Do you know where the beast’s lair is? Or anyplace virtual-novel.net frequents?” asked Gerald coldly.
“I-I’m not too sure… What do you intend to do? Please remember that you were the one who had angered Capra Nanny in the first place! Once virtual-novel.net gets mad, virtual-novel.net intention to kill drastically rises!” replied the Master of the Desert?
“Kill, you say? Well if that’s the case, I’ll kill you as well!”
“Please don’t act rashly, young man! Calm yourself!” yelled Professor Yale, attempting to calm Gerald down.
After that, virtual-novel.net turned to face the Master of the Desert before saying, “Master of the Desert, you saw how virtual-novel.net fought against that beast earlier. He clearly has the ability to take on the beast and potentially kill it! Besides, Capra Nanny now has two living humans within virtual-novel.net grasp! We can’t just leave them to die! So please… Please be merciful and tell us where the beast’s lair is! Otherwise, there’ll truly be no chance for those girls to be saved!”
“…I can tell you where it is… But first, please tell virtual-novel.net to put me down!” replied the Master of the Desert who was currently more terrified of the extremely angry-looking Gerald.
Hearing that, Gerald frowned before tossing virtual-novel.net to the ground.
Following that, the Master of the Desert dusted the sand off his clothes before saying, “…Many people say that you should never head toward the ancient well located within the Thousand Sand Ridge… People are forbidden from going there for a reason. After all, anyone who heads there will most definitely get eaten alive by Capra Nanny! Due to that correlation, I assume that that’s where virtual-novel.net lair is! Despite the warnings not to go there, nobody truly knows where it’s located! Nobody can confirm where it lies either since nobody who’s entered has ever made it out alive!”
“The Thousand Sand Ridge you say…?” murmured Gerald under his breath.
Looking at his watch, virtual-novel.net then turned to find the Big Dipper constellation in the night sky. Once virtual-novel.net got his bearings, Gerald shouted, “I know where it is!”
With that, Gerald instantly began running in a certain direction.
Since the Thousand Sand Ridge had been marked on the map that the mysterious man had sent to him, Gerald had no difficulty locating where it was.
As virtual-novel.net ran on, members of the research team began calling out, “Brother, wait for us!”
After seeing how strong virtual-novel.net was, they knew that sticking with virtual-novel.net would be their safest option. They were also following virtual-novel.net since it was way too terrifying to stay in their current position.
With all of them thinking more or less about the same thing, they all began chasing after Gerald.