Choros Tribe

After resting for a bit, John resumed his journey like nothing ever happened, he was looking forward to reaching the country of Minstrel.

As the country is regarded as the holy land of dance, there must be many exciting dances there, right?

Then with a heart full of excitement, John set off for the country of Minstrel.

Then after a full week of traveling on the flying boat, they finally reached the borders of the country of Minstrel, they traveled while tasting the various foods and experiencing the different cultures of the towns and cities they went to.

Although they only stopped in each town and city briefly before rushing to their destination again.

Looking at the mountain range that is on par with the Himalayan mountains back in his previous life.

"This should be the place right?" John asked while repeatedly reading the map to ensure he was in the right place.

"It should be," Sebastian said while also taking a look at the map.

"Then let's go quickly, there's still a lot of interesting things written on this booklet that can be used to enrich the Mage's Sanctuary."

"The only problem is where on this huge ass mountain range can I find that damn tortoise?" John cursed while walking through a huge bush, already very annoyed at finding the target.

"Patience is the key, John," Sebastian said from a tree branch he was stepping on.

"Did you pay Bill Gates the copyright fee for that?" John blurted out hearing what Sebastian just said.

"Who's this Bill Gates? And What's this thing you called copyright?" Sebastian asked a bit confused at the new term.

But, he's already used to it, there's a lot of times when many strange words popped out from this kid's mouth like poggers, pogchamp, or even something like red bull gives you wings.

Like how could a simple red bull give one a pair of wings?

The sun in the sky slowly started to set as John searched the mountainous region as the moon started to rise in a spot inside the forest without trees.

John and Sebastian sat on a log with a campfire in front of them and a giant wild boar roasting on the top of the campfire.

"It's been a whole day and we didn't find anything, not to mention a tortoise, all the animals that I found here are pretty much mammals."

Sebastian smiled at the cursing John and finally decided to remind him of one thing that can rapidly speed up the process of searching for the Jeweled Tortoise.

"John, do you know why your whole search for today has no fruits?" Sebastian asked with the temperament of a teacher asking a student why he can't solve the problem on the board.

And like a problem student, John responded with a curse, "Don't go on speaking riddles on me, Sebastian. If you know something you better speak up."

Sebastian sighed and then explained like a patient teacher to a stupid student. " Feel the surroundings, John, what does the habitat of the Jeweled Tortoise have that this place doesn't have?"

"Other than a lake what else could the damn tortoise have? Stop playing magic tricks on me, Sebastian...Wait, magic?" John was cursing when he suddenly stopped as he realized something.

"Magic Power..." John muttered slowly as his eyes lit up, and the average concentration of ethernano around them confirmed his thoughts even more.

"Then according to the record written in the booklet, Jeweled Tortoises live in places rich in ethernano, so what I've been doing is utterly useless."

"Right on." Sebastian smiled with an expression of 'This stupid student can be taught'.

"Wait, do you smell something burning?"

"Shit, the meat is burning!" John hurriedly removed the giant boar from the campfire, he then sighed in relief when he saw that only the outer skin got burnt a bit while the meat inside is still juicy.

They then went inside the Mage's Sanctuary to rest for the night after eating a whole black boar, only the ashes and scattered bones on the ground proved that someone was there just now.

The next day, John went back to searching after eating a hearty breakfast, this time with a clearer goal he went straight into the core regions of the mountain range.

The deeper he went in the mountain the more concentrated the concentration of ethernano is.

John heard a soft gushing sound from somewhere, it's soft but it should be deeper into the core regions of the mountain range.

When he walked enough to hear the sound of the gushing water loud and clear, just as he was about to continue walking, a shadow shot out from the trees in front.

The shadow landed on the ground in front of John with a light thud, the shadow was then revealed to be a tanned young man dressed in tribal clothing and with many tribal tattoos all over his body.

And when the young man spoke, contrary to the rather expected broken speaking of a tribal man, this young man spoke fluently and eloquently.

"These explorers, I implore you to please stop and turn back, up ahead is the territory of the Choros Tribe, if you two still decided into the land ahead despite knowing so, don't blame us for being rude."

After saying that four more pair of eyes are visible in the dark of the forest ahead, and they were obviously looking at John and Sebastian with clear scrutiny.

"Oh, I apologize for intruding on your tribe's territory, but, since your tribe has been living in this mountain range for a long time, you should be familiar with the terrain here right?" John apologized first before asking about his target.

"Yes, as people of the Choros Tribe, it's only natural to be familiar with the surroundings that the tribe has grown in for an unknown number of years. Why are you asking this? Are you perhaps looking for something?"

The young tribal man asked a bit vigilant because the few things that can be targeted by the young man in front of him are only a few things inside the mountain range.

And the most precious of it all is closely guarded by their tribe's strong man.

And the young man in front of him is obviously strong or else he won't be able to walk this deep into the mountain range by himself, the young tribal man completely ignored Sebastian thinking he was a servant of John.

"Yes, I'm looking for a tortoise that should have a jewel embedded on its back, and it's called Jeweled Tortoise," John explained the Jeweled Tortoise's appearance to the young tribal man, not noticing the other party's face that became more and more aggressive as he continue to talk.

"I actually treated you with respect because of your strength, but you are actually eyeing the sacred beast of our tribe!" The young tribal man suddenly roared with red eyes.

"Since you are eyeing the sacred beast, we can no longer let you go, blame yourself for eyeing the things that are simply out of your reach!"

[Vegeta: The cringe is over 9000!]