CH533 Shadow Couple's Assassination
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About an hour later, the rest of the Fortuna party caught up with the scouts.
They had successfully tracked the fleeing gnolls back to their village. Although the creatures had tried to throw off possible pursuits, their attempts were laughably crude before a hunter of Silver's calibre.
When Alex saw the settlement, he finally understood how the gnolls had survived in the supposed brutal environment that defined the Wildlands' core.
A cesspool where berserk beasts, their nest, monster, berserk humans, adventurers, bandits, and all manner of savoury and unsavoury existences collided daily.
The answer was surprisingly simple.
They had found geography that favoured them.
The village lay within a natural hollow— a modest patch of land encircled by low hills.
For the gnolls, those hills were perfect.
