ARCHDEUS

AMYGDALA(2)

A cold wind began to blow in the darkness of the night.

The sound of branches and leaves flying from the wind could be heard by everyone in the tent.

In one of the tents right where is the tent occupied by Alex. It was the command tent of the entire army in Canadia's isolation mission.

The strong wind made his tent wavy. At first many people were worried that the tents that were built would be blown by the wind. But looking at all those tents that were still sturdy, they no longer thought about it.

At the moment Alex is just sitting in a chair reading a book.

The light from the burning lanterns is the only source of lighting here.

Mana stones are very valuable to make the kingdom supply it with very limited so to save it, they have to reduce the dependence on the use of which stone. Use a lantern instead of a magic lamp.

"The wind is pretty tight. Is it winter now?"

Rain who was in Alex's tent asked curiously.

"Seeing from the moon, it should now be winter. Maybe soon we'll be able to see the first snow" Alex replied.

Rain has come to Canadia on orders from Alex.  He used the services of traders as guides. It was Rain's first long journey alone. He was initially worried about getting lost but fortunately the guide he hired could guide him safely to his destination. Of course on the way there are various obstacles one of them when they reached the Canadia area and was stopped by the royal forces because of the policy of isolation. Fortunately Rain immediately showed me the badge of Alexandreia's nobility and said he was on a special mission from the Baron of Alexandreia.

Some low-ranking soldiers might not all know who their supreme leader is at this time of mission but for the captains and commanders who know who that person is, they immediately lead Rain to Alex's tent after learning that Rain is a direct subordinate by Alex.

In the warrant, Alex had ordered him to bring a large quantity of bottles of magic potions. Rain had no idea what the reason was for carrying the objects, but he saw Alex injuring his own hand and then filling all the bottles with his blood.

Rain just watched. Of course, only the two of them were in the tent. No third party saw any of this.

At first Rain started to worry when he saw the number of filled magic potion bottles was already overwhelming. He was worried that his master would bleed out. But seeing his master remain calm and instead read a book after all, in the end made Rain think maybe it was no big deal.

"Later you can send all those bottles to Justin" Alex orders suddenly.

"ah!  Fine, I'll leave now, sir," Rain replied.

"No need to rush.  I'm not asking you to send everything now" Alex replied.

The reason Alex called Rain was actually simple. He was worried that the blood stock Merry had for consumption had begun to run out. Initially, Alex wanted to call Justin but he remembered that Justin at this time must have been very busy taking care of the barony especially when he as a baron was not there. So he decided to call Rain. Besides for that reason, he also trusted Rain. After all Rain was one of the people who knew of Alex's ability to use mana and aura at once. So there's no reason not to believe it.

After reading for quite a while, Alex closed his book and placed it on the table.

He then saw Rain sitting cross-legged on the carpet staring at the insects flying around the lantern.

He's like a kid, Alex thought.

"Rain, what about your training?"

Rain who was pensive while looking at the insects around the lantern was surprised by Alex's voice.

"Ah, sorry Mister?" ask Rain.

"I asked about your training progress."

"Mr Trowbridge said that I was growing rapidly" he replied.

"Is that so? So you've mastered what level of magic?"

"I'm currently still at the 1st level of magic, sir."

Rain was a little embarrassed after saying that. He thinks first-rate magic is too low to be proud of.

Alex just nodded.

"Well, that's not bad. Don't be too disappointed. Mastering magic is not easy especially when you at the same time have to learn magic and swordsmanship."

"Thank you, sir."

"So what about Alven?"

"really? Well, as expected."

While in the command tent looks very relaxed with a trivial conversation in it, in the tent of the witches of the witch guild is seen in chaos.

It seemed like everyone was overtime after seeing something inside the city.

It was a sighting of a strange occurrence that was previously recorded by the witches through the image of Eagle Sensing.

They still have not informed this incident to the other factions or Alex as the leader of this mission.

As a result they have to solve the mystery themselves which makes all the witches work overtime.

"So this mysterious creature in town?" warfoy asked the witches in charge of operating Eagle Sensing.

"Really, Sir. We see through the image that there are people who are victimized by the creature. Although we did not see it fully because it happened in an alley that can not be monitored by the image but we believe the creature killed humans," said the witch who saw the incident earlier.

"But don't you have any idea what that thing is?" ask Warfoy.

"Sorry, Sir. We can't think of what the creature might be."

"Is it possible that it was the creature that spread this plague?"

One of the witches asked everyone. Earlier news from the Falcon team that the outbreak was spread by a spirit figure was immediately announced to the entire cross-faction forces on Alex's orders. That was why everyone even in the front row was no longer wearing hazmat clothes. The temple initially opposed the information and said it was false information. However after the debate with the magician guild and the magician guild had a more rational reason especially when they used the testimony of the merchants and the Falcon team who were eyewitnesses within the city and were also supported by Alex, then in the end the argument of the witch guild is acceptable. Of course as a result the tension between the magician guild and the temple grew even higher.

"I don't think, if you look at the video, it should be a creature that has a physical not like a semi-visual spirit" Warfoy said.

Witches especially from spiritual witches supported this.

"Your words are correct Sir. My spiritual partner said the same thing, too" said one shaman.

"Hah .. should we tell other factions about this?"

No one answered Warfoy's murmur. They also seemed to be unable to think of any other solution.

"Sir, the Royal Majestic Guards have come."

From the outside, a magician came and informed the arrival of the Falcon team members.

All the higher-ups of the magician guild knew the identity of the Falcon team members who were Royal Majestic Guards. So there's no reason to hide it.

"Sir, are you calling us?"

Richard asked Warfoy. Right now the Falcon team is resting in the witch guild camp. In general their identities were announced to other warrior factions as regular royal warriors who were successfully evacuated by the witches after seeing them through Eagle Sensing. It aims to avoid curiosity from other factions. However, the presence of the Royal Majestic Guard which is an elite unit of the kingdom will be very electrifying, especially to the noble faction such as soldiers from the nobles of the Sandwealth Coalition.

"This is not a big deal Mr. Moonshrine. I'd like to ask, as long as you're in Hadalon, have you and your team seen anything strange?"

"I'm sorry?"

Richard was confused by the question. If he remembered of course the strangest thing was the appearance of the plague. There's nothing else.

"What do you mean this is about the plague?"

"Hm ... yes it is possible but I wonder if besides the plague and the spirit that spread it is there something strange like a creature that has never been seen before or a case of theft or how?"

"Hm ..."

Richard thought very seriously, He tried to remember everything he had seen in Hadalon.

"I'm sorry I don't have an impression of that. What else has something stuck in your mind?" Richard turned to his members. Unfortunately they also had no impression of anything.

So it looks like we have to bring in the Baron of Alexandreia to answer that, Warfoy thought.

At first Warfoy thought of keeping this information as he felt it might be useful for the witch guild. Unfortunately what is information if they cannot understand it.