"A stampede? Now out of all tis?" I asked Vanessa when she handed a report.
She had found early in the morning to hand this report, which just went to show how important this was.
"Yes." Vanessa said in a firm voice that had no quivers at all.
It was clear that she had already done all that she could on this matter, which was why she brought it to my attention.
But the fact that there was a stampede that appeared all of a sudden like this was anything but normal.
After all, it wasn’t a stampede of monsters that was happening.
It was a stampede of beasts that was coming our way.
It was just that with the beasts that we had tad and created a periter with around our town, it didn’t seem likely that other beasts would co and attack us. After all, beasts respected the strong and the beasts that were in our town were certainly strong.
That was why it was strange that they would suddenly attack us like this.
It was almost as if they were going against the very laws of nature by attacking like this.
Or at the very least, they were going against their instincts by doing this.
That ant that there had to be sothing that was driving these beasts to attack our town. It ant that there was soone behind this matter that was specifically targeting our town.
After a mont of silence, I asked, "Any leads?"
Vanessa just shook her head before saying, "None at all. I’ve tried searching, but there really aren’t any leads at all. Whoever is doing it is making sure that they’re completely hidden. I haven’t even found a trace of how they are controlling these beasts in the first place."
With a nod, I said, "Alright, leave this to . Thank you for taking care of everything so far."
Vanessa gave a nod before turning to leave.
But before leaving, she said, "If it’s too much, you don’t have to force yourself. We can find a different way if it gets too hard."
I looked at her with a smile as I said, "Don’t worry, I know."
She looked at one more ti before leaving the room.
Once I was alone, I said in my mind, "I have sothing I need your help with."
Of course, the one that I was talking to was Faust.
It wouldn’t be a problem for to kill all of these beasts with the power that the town possessed, but that wouldn’t solve the underlying problem. I needed his help in finding who it was that was targeting our town.
"I thought that we were going to operate separately from now on. You’re coming to quite soon, aren’t you?" Faust said in a teasing tone, but I just ignored it.
Instead, I said, "If it wasn’t for your expertise, I wouldn’t have called you. I don’t want to make a mistake, so I need your help."
"Is it for her?"
I didn’t answer when he asked this, I just said, "Are you coming or not?"
"Give a bit of ti. I have to arrange a few things here before I co. You should know how busy we are because of the whole situation with the Abel Kingdom."
"Don’t take too long."
...
"Alright, let’s see what we have here."
It was the middle of the night as Faust and I made our way across the open wilderness.
Since we had the reports from Vanessa, we knew exactly where the beast stampede currently was.
When we arrived, we could see that this certainly wasn’t a small stampede.
It even seed like the estimates that they had made were actually underestimating this beast stampede.
But looking closely, we could see that there were more and more beasts that were gathering.
Once we arrived at a safe distance, I waited for Faust to do his thing.
He didn’t actually do anything as he just stood there, but I knew that he had released his mana sense to check out this beast stampede.
What he was doing was seeing if there were any spells that had been cast on these beasts to control them.
That was one of the ways to make the beasts defy their instincts and attack the territory of a stronger beast like this. Though it wasn’t the only way, it was certainly the most common thod since it was easy to use magic in this world.
The other ways were much harder to get one’s hands on and to control.
That was why it was unlikely that they used other thods.
"It’s not magic."
I couldn’t help knitting my brows when I heard this, but I still asked, "Do you have any idea what it is then?"
"I have an idea, but I’m surprised that you didn’t notice it."
"What?" I was confused when I heard this, but I still looked closely at the beasts that were gathered in front of us.
It was just that no matter how I looked at them, I couldn’t figure out what he ant by this. Even if Faust said that it was obvious, it wasn’t that obvious to since I had no idea what he was referring to.
"Is your sharp nose really just for show?"
When he said this, I couldn’t help knitting my brows even more.
However, I still followed this clue that he gave and took a deep sniff.
What I slled was a strange scent.
It was very faint, so faint that I didn’t notice it until now when I focused on finding it.
But I could tell that this sll was only coming from certain parts of the beasts in front of us. It was as if whatever was causing this sll was only coming from certain beasts in the group.
Looking closely, I could see that it was the alphas of the different beast groups that had been gathered that released this sll.
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