ARCHDEUS

AMYGDALA(1)

It's been a week since the Falcon team met Alex. As Alex had said last time to them, the entire Falcon team and the merchants were not evacuated at all. Instead, they are ordered to go into self-isolation and as a week has passed, this is the last day before they can meet Alex again.

Of course during the waiting period, the Witch Union sent logistics to them be it food, clean water, to clothes if needed.

But of course, although referred to as self-isolation, in fact they do not isolate themselves at all.

Sometimes they would come out of the warehouse especially Darius and Rionard who had to observe the surrounding area.

This did not have any effect at all because when the last day of self-isolation, Alex and Warfoy returned to the warehouse. But this time they are not alone. There were five other witches following them. All Falcon team members were given Invisible Cloths and Wing Shoes to get out of the city. So that they do not get lost, everyone must cling to each other. While merchants like Gale had to be brought in by the magicians since they were completely unable to use magic items.

From above the sky, everyone could see the condition of the city that was currently giving no signs of life.

Everything is quiet and silent.

They just kept silent and kept an eye on the area below.

When it finally reached the post of the Witch Union, all the members of the Falcon team finally sighed.

All the nervousness during his stay in Hadalon City finally disappeared.

They can finally chat with others. Come to think of it, their fate is quite pitiful. They are a team of elite units given a very important mission but now their fate is torn in obscurity and their mission ends without certainty.

***

Meanwhile, at the magician post of the magician guild precisely in the control and surveillance tent where Eagle Sensing was located. Nowadays many witches are busy working on their respective job desks.

Some magicians are in the control panel where the image of Eagle Sensing can be changed whether it is moved, scaled down, or enlarged. Then, there are also witches who watch a giant mirror that has a function as a monitor that displays visuals of the environment captured by the image view. In addition, there are also witches who are busy with various papers. They are witches who are tasked with presenting data either in the form of reports or the form of the latest map.

Among the busyness was seen two young witches were chatting even in the middle of a crowded job.

The two witches were in front of the magic mirror. They are tasked with monitoring visual data captured by imagery. They can also give commands to the control party if they want to resize or focus the image displayed.

However it seemed that the two witches looked quite relaxed.

In the beginning, they were just like everyone else. They are very focused on their task. However this had been almost a month but no major events had happened. Except when Eagle Sensing captured images of a group of people from Hadalon City trying to escape the rat path, they did not find anything else.

Especially for almost a month they only see the sights of the city and the surrounding monotonous. That makes them sometimes sleepy and have to drink coffee to keep awareness.

"Damn it, the city was completely deserted. Is it true that everyone there is dead?" ask one of the witches.

Another witch immediately pointed to the image of someone who was on the pedestrian street of the deserted city.

They ordered the magician in charge of controlling the image to enlarge the captured image.

As if through a satellite viewpoint, they could see the person was running frantically around the sidewalk.

Unfortunately the visuals are too blurry to tell if the person is a man or a woman. However if looking from the height of that person, he was definitely an adult.

"What is he doing?"

The two young witches kept an eye on wherever the person went. Even the more focused they were, the two did not realize that some other witches were also watching.

It was rare for anyone to appear in the city at midday. They will usually come out in the morning or evening. It was only to find the available food stocks. Most of the people's movements were recorded in the settlement located not far from the city hall. But now they are observing the suburbs which are mostly slum housing.

The two witches suspected the man was looking for food. That was why he was seen running without a clear direction as if he was looking around for something around the outskirts of the buildings.

Then the guy seemed to start slowing down and then stopped. He stared at something for a few seconds before starting to walk slowly. The two people were unable to be certain as it was covered by the surrounding buildings but they were certain that the person was heading towards a dark alley that was not pierced by sunlight.

They kept watching him until he got into the alley.

"He can't see anymore. We recommend immediately save this image to be sent to the presentation of data."

"Good."

The fellow magician began to suppress the various features that were there. He started saving pictures and footage. All data is stored in an orb.  Then they will do the printing. It is like printing a newspaper. That's why when the first generation Eagle Sensing was created, the journalist union was very enthusiastic. They wanted to buy a package of Eagle Sensing to serve as a printing machine and camera. But unfortunately because the magic class of the item was so high that it had an expensive price. In addition, its enormous size and weight make it have low mobility so it cannot be used as a camera that captures news. Journalists once pleaded with the witch unions to make a much smaller and cheaper version but until now the development of the project has been stalled due to inadequate technology.

"Eh, look at that! Wasn't he the one!"

The young witch suddenly called out to her friend who was currently busy storing the data. But when the two people stared at the mirror screen, they could only be shocked because what they saw was beyond everyone's expectations.

At this time they saw the person who had entered the alley now come out but he was seen crawling by dragging his two legs that look severed so that there is a trail of long puddles of blood behind him.

But what was even more surprising was when the man had come out of the alley and was on the sidewalk of the main road. All the witches could see after the man came out, he was instantly captured by four thin but long arms. The hand was very long, maybe two to three times the length of a normal hand. The man who tried to escape was caught, he tried to resist. But less than a minute later, he was seen being pulled back into a dark alley. Now there are only traces of blood that soaks the sidewalk streets.

The two witches stared at each other. Until one asks the other.

"What was that?"