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"Thanks for coming Brother, I appreciate it." Luis said.
The man in front of him is cladded in a heavy silver armor carrying two swords on his waist. He was just as tall as him but he had red hair which made him stand out from the crowd. This is Bradley, Ellen's father.
"No problems there Luis. So, what's the situation here?" Bradley went straight to the point. Once he received the letter from the hawk, he imdiately reported and went towards here to provide support. He also brought so n with him since Luis also requested for that.
Luis nodded to Julius and he stepped forward to do the honors.
It was then that Bradley and his n were made aware of the horrors that this place were hiding. They never expected sothing like this went under their noses. If it weren't for the guilt of the recruit who reported what was going on here, then it might really be too late for any of them.
"…there might be so changes since it has been a few hours since we ca out. Either way, it's imperative that we take action." Julius concluded the report.
Bradley let out an audible sigh and massaged his temples, he thought: 'I'm getting too old for this shit.'
"What's the plan?" Bradley asked.
"Complicated." Luis replied which made Bradley raise his brow. "There's way too many of them. If we charge in head first, then we will soon have our backs against the wall, too many will be injured and the rate of extermination can't keep up. Stealthing doesn't work too since even though we could thin them out, we will leave tracks which also lead into chaos."
"If we raid them inside the colony, then we will walking on thin wire since we can't use attacks that are too damaging or else the ceiling will give in and we will buried underground. But if we work like that, then the damage we will deal would be slowed down and we will be mobbed by their numbers."
Luis was stumped. He had been thinking of a way to deal with this colony for quite a while now.
"Burying them alive doesn't work either?" Bradley suggested.
"It doesn't." Luis replied. "These are ants, they are used to digging. It also won't reach or kill the queen for that matter. She's protected by a thick mbrane of mucus. We tried getting an ambush before but all of our attacks only left a scar."
"I'll leave for a while so that I could brief the rest of my team about what we're about to face. I'm confident that you'll co up with sothing." Bradley patted Luis' shoulders and left.
Luis greatly appreciated this action, he sat back down to his chair and clasped his hand before him. "You guys may take your leave."
"Understood." The elite forces saluted and went out of the tent.
After they left. Luis massaged his temples, he was debating to himself if he should ask for from the Royal Palace. But he decided to leave that out as a last resort, he will know when to call for them anyway.
In the an ti, he had to at least co up with sothing, there's at least six days left according to the intel before the queen finishes her evolution. He's short of ti but he will managed, this wasn't the first ti that he was cornered like this.
Luis streched out his arm and a Mirage Hawk suddenly appeared. He sighed and stroked the feathers of his companion.
This is what Luis usually do whenever he's in deep thought, it beca a habit for him to be in company of his Mirage Hawk. His brain worked fast and tried to deduced for a good way to get rid of the trouble before them.
His mind wandered to the first mont that he t with Jonas. He retraced his mories and checked if he missed sothing very important. He recalled each of his orders, the deploynt and the events that transpired not too long ago.
Then, his eyes widened as he rembered sothing important, a grin appeared from his face as he whispered: "Yeah…yeah! That should work!" But his smile instantly disappeared since he knew that that shouldn't be all.
"What about the Queen? So long as he's in that mucus shell, even if our forces joined hands, we won't go anywhere. What to do?"
Luis thought deeply once more. He was glad that he already had an idea on what to do with the other ants, the queen is the only one left, and he absolutely can't let her succeed or else, there would too much destruction.
*Chirp!*
Luis' thoughts were distracted by the sudden squeal of his pet, he smiled and said: "Sorry there buddy, I was in deep thought. You should be hungry huh?"
The hawk let another squeal, but just as when he was about to feed it. The hawk tucked it's head under it's wing. It's head bended and using it's beak, it tapped the compartnt on it's feet. Luis saw this and frowned, he found it strange since he can't rember waiting for ssage at all.
There was a letter rolled up and placed on the compartnt on the hawk's foot. Luis took it and fed the hawk then placed it on a stand just beside his desk. He opened the letter and saw sothing that he wasn't truly expecting at all.
It was a map. To be more precise, it was a map of the place where they currently at. It clearly recorded each landmark that was familliar to him and there's the map of the colony, which is more detailed compared to what he and Julius made before.
Luis was highly skeptical. First of all, who could've intercepted his pet without him noticing it? Second, how did this person have a better version of the map of the colony? Third, what is his purpose?
He was thinking if this had been planned by soone, and he hated the feeling that they might dancing in soone else's palms.
He checked the map once more and saw that there is a highlighted markings here and there. Luis was shocked to see that even though they did combed through the colony when they went there, there's still sothings that missed out.
The map of this person pointed out so cleverly hidden rooms that they missed previously. There's also the tunnels that the ants used whenever they want to surface up. Those were also detailed very closely in this map.
But what's probably the most important part of the map is the traces that this person left which are shown with red markings. It was showing him sothing that might solve his current predicant.
Luis imdiately went into full alert mode trying to decode the ssage. He took out a map of the kingdom and tried comparing it to the one that this person made. Granted that this person didn't drew the whole map of the kingdom, but he did drew the map of their current location so it was at least easier for him to do the comparison.
Luis had a deep frown on his face. According to what he saw, the markings was leading sowhere opposite of where the colony is. He first guessed if it was the Market but soon denied that since that didn't make any sense. He then tried looking for other directions and found nothing aside from mountain ranges.
He was sowhat displeased because he thought that this person must be leading him around the nose. But he had this hunch that there should be more from this. Just to be sure, he sent his hawk to check the location while also activating the Shared Vision.
Luis was working with multiple things here, he was deducting the ssage of this mysterious person, looking at the map while also paying attention to the vision feed of the hawk. This is a very challenging task but one that only a few people like him could do.
Paying close attention to the vision feed from the hawk, he found that his previous guess was correct. What's beyond this point are only a mountain ranges-
"Huh?"
The hawk caught sothing on the corners of it's vision. He gave an order to look at that specific direction and saw sothing that he never knew was there before. He analyzed the idea for a brief mont, next thing he knew, sothing clicked on his brain and he gave another to the hawk to get a closer look on the field.
As soon as he saw the state of this place, anticipation rose from the depths of his heart. As the hawk flew closer to the target, his thoughts were soon confird and finally, enlightennt ca for him. A wide grin appeared from his face as he thought.
"I get it! So that's what you an! Okay, we'll do it just like that! Whoever you are, know that this service is a great rit for the kingdom! You did well!"
Unbeknownst to absolutely everyone on the field.. A hidden figure smiled and walked away.
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