After Lena and Jake disappeared into the treeline, the forest fell silent. The War Mastiffs' footfalls faded, and the only sounds left were the wind and the calls of monsters.
Reidar stood alone in the clearing for a mont, letting the silence settle over him. The journal was gone, as he had given it to Lena. That made Reidar feel a little better because he could trust the two to take care of this task, and he felt a load get off his chest. Of course, after he was done here, he would still need to head to Creamont and help them with whatever they needed, but now was not the ti.
His problem was the church.
Reidar pulled up the feed from his Vorathid Sky-Hunters. Through their eyes, the outpost appeared as a cluster of structures surrounded by forest, and the illusion magic was now visible to him since he had watched the convoy walk through it.
He counted the church mbers. There were around two thousand of them spread across the outpost. Most of them were around the level 280-320 range; around 24% of them were guards at the warehouse, and they were slightly stronger at level 320-330.
Reidar wanted to summon the Archon Rift Lords and turn the whole place to ash. Well, not everything; the magic circle still had to be kept.
More importantly, it would destroy whatever intelligence was stored in that warehouse. Lena had said the food contained parasitic eggs, and if that was true, there had to be records sowhere—shipping manifests, delivery schedules, details about who was receiving the infected rations inside Kingsgate, and how much had already been distributed. Without that information, Reidar would be fighting blind once he was in Kingsgate.
He then began moving through the forest toward the outpost. His Stealthy Presence perk reduced the attention he drew from living creatures, and the undergrowth was thick enough to provide cover from the patrols that circled the periter every twenty minutes.
Reidar reached the edge of the illusion thirty minutes later.
Up close, it was more impressive than he had expected. The spell wasn't just visual; it also suppressed sound and sll, which explained why his Sky-Hunters hadn't detected the outpost during the week he spent scouting the area. The church had learned from its losses.
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