230: Chapter 84 Going Ho_1 230: Chapter 84 Going Ho_1 (Happy New Year to everyone, how was your New Year?
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“Sothing’s not right.” Catherine furrowed her brow, “The gates are open, but there are no guards, no villagers coming in or out, and no one patrolling the wooden walls.”
“That seems normal, the magical beast invasion has ended, the rcenaries have no need to guard and patrol like before.” Lina said, “And the fact that there are no villagers entering and exiting is also normal, it’s getting late, it’s almost ti for villagers to go ho for dinner, no one will be wandering around the village gate now.”
“It is almost ti for dinner, but where’s the smoke from cooking?” Catherine pointed to the sky above the village with her chin, “There’s none.”
Lina also beca serious and quickly adjusted her mindset to a state of alert, “It seems there’s a problem, shall we go over and check?”
“Let’s go.” Catherine drew her shield, gently tapped Vivian who was in a daze, briefly explained the situation to her, and the four of them, each holding a weapon, carefully approached Spindle Village.
“Sothing feels wrong, both inner and outer doors are wide open, this is against the safety rules on the forest boundary, and it is **quiet, I can’t hear any noise at all.” As Catherine carefully entered the first gate, she noted, “It’s as if all the villagers have disappeared.”
“It’s terrible, I can sense the remnants of magical fluctuation.” Vivian said with a grave look, “It happened about half a month ago, but the remnants of the fluctuation are still obvious.
Let see, um, at least three Legendary Rank Mages were involved, I fear the situation of the villagers won’t be good.”
“Magical fluctuation?”As if Catherine had a sudden realization, while maintaining maximum vigilance, she quickened her pace, rapidly crossing the inner gate into the village.
As soon as she crossed the gate, she let out an angry roar filled with hatred, “These bastards!”
The bodies of villagers could be seen everywhere on the village street, they had died a long ti ago, falling in various poses, evidently they went down unexpectedly during daily activities.
Catherine anxiously turned a body over, but as she had feared, the face before her was one of extre old age, and this was the sa with every body she turned over.
“Damn them.” The one to explode in anger first wasn’t Catherine but Lina.
Lina felt that strange herself too, but found that Catherine did not appear to be very angry, her face instead wore a cold expression, “Big sister, are you alright?”
“I’m fine.” Catherine shook her head, “Now isn’t the ti when anger can solve the problem, this is a declaration of war and also a ssage for us to mind our own business.
Unfortunately, they do not understand that knights will never fear war.”
“Put the war declaration aside for now.” Pannis said from the middle of the street covered in bodies, “Dora and the others were supposed to co here first.”
“Damn it, Dora.” Although Catherine always scolded Dora, on hearing Pannis’s words, she ran towards the temporary residence of the rcenary Guild with her shield up, with the other three closely following behind.
As they hastily pushed open the big door of the temporary residence, luckily, they saw no bodies, but many things had been knocked over.
In the middle of the living room was an oak chair that had been smashed to pieces, from its shattered fragnts, they could clearly see the traces left by Dora’s whip-sword.
“Dora.” Catherine softly called out the na of her forr friend.
She knelt half in front of the chair fragnts, gently caressing them.
Her hanging head and hair hid her profile, leaving her expression to be a mystery.
Only her slightly trembling shoulders betrayed her inexpressible worry and agitation.
“Are you mourning for this chair, my dear senior sister?” a familiar voice suddenly sounded from outside the door.
Catherine quickly turned her head and Dora’s tall figure projected into the room from the door.
Against the setting sun, her thoughtful face still had a teasing smile, “Sorry, senior sister, had I known how much you love this chair, I would not have smashed it out of anger.”
“You…” Catherine’s tense shoulders slowly relaxed, “what the hell happened here?”
“To be honest, I don’t know, we only ca back three days earlier than you.” Dora slowly entered the room, nodded to the others in greeting, “When we ca back, it was like this, including our key force of more than 30 mbers, there was not a living person.
I checked, no clues were found, except for this.”
Dora snapped her fingers, the Illusion Fox following her produced a mory Crystal and handed it over.
“A mory Crystal?
Are they playing the sa trick again?” Catherine sneered, activating the crystal, “I’m curious what he has to say this ti.”
“It has been a long ti, I am very pleased to see all of you again, honored guests.” The image projected from the crystal was of the long-lost Mage Sandy, not even wearing a hood this ti, standing on the street with the bodies lying around behind him, “You must still rember , did you like the feast I provided?”
“My servants offended you last ti, so I punished them for you as a small gift.
But I’m disappointed that there isn’t a sign of you wanting to reciprocate and this makes very sad because to forget returns is not becoming of a noble’s position and strength.” Sandy made a very convincing disappointed expression, he sighed and said, “But I do understand that you noble ones must have overlooked so customs of reciprocation living in the jungle for such a long ti, I believe it wasn’t intentional.
Therefore, to save you from carrying the bad reputation compatible with your position, I took the liberty of considering this village as the reciprocation.
Even though it was impolite to take decisions without informing you, but to preserve your reputation, I would rather carry the bad na of impoliteness.
There’s no need to thank , this is what I am supposed to do.
After a brief pause, Sandy bowed while holding his chest, “Then, we are running out of ti.
I must excuse myself earlier, and I hope it will not cause any inconvenience.
I also hope that in the near future, I will have another opportunity to et you all and have a good chat with you then.”
The Crystal projection flickered a few tis before finally disappearing.
Catherine stared at the place where Sandy had vanished for a long ti, finally turning to Dora with a troubled look, “Where did you find this?”
“Right here in this very room, this exact living room.” Dora stamped on the ground for emphasis.
” It was placed right here in the center, even inside a bright red box to make it more noticeable.
So, what do you make of this, sister?”
“Just before we entered the village, Vivian ntioned that there were residuals of magical fluctuations from at least three different Legendary Magicians in this place.” Catherine said, “This news is really serious.”
“This indicates that the incident was not carried out by an individual but a group.” Dora’s face beca even darker: “It’s incredible that a group containing three Legendary Magicians was ford.”
“We should inform the Guild, this is sothing out of our ability to handle.” Catherine said with furrowed brows: “Though reluctantly, it’s better to let the Guild with main responsibilities handle this, we can only assist at most.”
“I have already inford them.” Dora replied: “I’ve dispatched Night Owl to report to our captain who should be on his way here to handle the Guild.
Conveniently, you all can et our Captain when he arrives, there might be opportunities for us to work together in the future.”
“Nevermind, it’s not necessary, I plan to leave imdiately and head back to the City of Knowledge.” Catherine said.
“So soon?
You’re not planning to rest here for the night before leaving?” Dora expressed her surprise: “You guys haven’t rested in a safe environnt for a month, can you still hold on?”
“We can, it’s fine.
I need to get back quickly, to inform the Adventurer Guild.
Vivian will also report to the Mage Guild, they will take the lead, collaborate with the rcenary Guild to locate the perpetrator.” Catherine turned to Lina and Vivian with an apologetic smile: “I’m sorry everyone, there’s no ti to rest, let’s set off right away.”
“It’s not a problem, we can rest once we return.” Lina and Vivian said: “We are still holding up, we can depart anyti.”
“Alright.” Catherine gratefully nodded her head, then suddenly turned to speak to Dora: “By the way, regarding this adventure, there’s sothing I need to tell you about our guide Elrad.”
Catherine drew closer and narrated the whole incident, as Dora’s face showed changing emotions.
It was not until Catherine had finished speaking that Dora seed to awaken from her shock: “Thank you, sister.
However, compared to the extermination of our village, these can be set aside for now.
I will inquire about his whereabouts in the rcenary circle after everything is settled.
He certainly cannot get away with deceiving us.”
“I’m just informing you, but I hardly keep any hope of finding him.” Catherine explained: “Alright, everything has been made clear now, let’s set out now.”
“Be careful on your journey, may you have a safe trip.” Faced with the seriousness of the situation, Dora simply replied, without further ado.
“You should be careful too, who knows if it’s still dangerous here.” Catherine nodded, and then continued, “I apologize everyone, we won’t be able to rest now.
Let’s get going, let’s head back ho.”
“Heading back, heading back.” The girls turned around and started walking without any complaints or regrets, as if it was the usual thing for them.
“Heading back ho?” Pannis chuckled after repeating the phrase: “Great, let’s all head back ho.”
No matter if there’s failure, pain, sadness, frustration, disappointnt, or confusion, perhaps the word ‘ho’ will forever be the ultimate redy for all these wounds.
However when was the last ti Pannis heard this simple but not so simple phrase?
“Okay, ha, going back ho.” Pannis sighed, lightly mumbling to himself, as he followed the girls walking towards the setting sun: “So many years have passed, all sorts of strange people dare to step on my head, interesting, very interesting.”
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