241 Tribe (1/2)

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”I think forgot to place one more marker…”

Everyone was somewhat bewildered when they heard him say that. Carol, the Head Mistress of the Inscriptionists immediately frowned and said:

”Are you sure were missing something? We build exactly 20 markers right and double checked before we placed them at the suggested spots right? Did something went wrong?”

Everyone in the room also agreed, they all saw the markers before they were sent and just like Carol said, there weren't anything missing in their numbers. Even Jackson could attest to this since he was there when every single one was planted.

Instead of answering them, Raven just stared at the Jade Board. He was in deep thought, based from what he could see, he wouldn't be mistaken about this…

He took a deep breath and took out some materials out of his spatial ring, he then began working. No one interrupted him as they saw once his hand grasped the brush firmly and began writing one inscription seal after another.

Golden patterns flowed out from the tip of his brush and landed perfectly in the array disc he was holding. Carol, who was watching this, stared unblinkingly and committed his performance in her memory. Others might not have a profound understanding to what he was doing but to her, it's completely different. It was like she was witnessing a miracle unfold right before her very eyes.

There was no rush or impatience in his act. Every stroke of his brush was filled with confidence and power, which caused every single inscription to flow like an unhindered stream. The degree of control he had over his energies was on another level, something that most Knights don't pay attention to.

Raven took his time, but the performance was still too short even for Carol. He made a quick work out of something that should've taken a whole day to finish. Once all of the inscriptions landed on the array disc, Raven nicked his finger using a small dagger and sprayed blood all over it, causing the disc to buzz around and emit a strange noise.

Under everyone's gazes, he threw the array disc out of the window which nearly gave Carol a heart attack. But once it flew outside, it automatically floated in air and emit a gentle fluctuation.

Once again, Raven's were fixed on the Jade Board, patiently waiting until the disc he made earlier gathered enough energy to display what he wanted to see.

After a minute and a half, there was some slight change in the Jade Board. Raven's eyes gleamed as he hurriedly detached the Jade Board from it's stand and went towards the table.

”Everyone, please give me some room.” He said in a little urgent tone while holding the Jade Board.

Everyone in the room hurriedly took their things away from the table. Once they're done, Raven placed the Jade Board on top of the table and suddenly, it merged with it.

Now the whole table was displaying the overhead imaging of the Kingdom and the Yellow Zone around it. Raven the manipulated the array and pressed on the new Marker Legend that appeared on it.

Instantly, one spot from the map was highlighted. Everyone saw this and was puzzled, nevertheless Raven still didn't say a thing. He glanced at the accumulated energy of the array and noticed that it was enough. He then shifted his position towards the side where he could look closely on the highlighted zone in the map.

Raising both of his hands, he made a parting motion. Once he did that, the array responded and the map immediately started to zoom into the place that he targeted. Everyone watched with bated breaths as they saw the picturesque scene of the area. They still have no idea what Raven found out, all they felt right now is awe when they saw that they could practically see anything within the jurisdiction of the array in a detailed manner even without going out of the walls.

Suddenly, the map stopped zooming in. There were then left with an image of something that completely stunned everyone in this room.

”Son…is that…what I think it is?” Luis stuttered as he too stared unblinkingly at the zoomed in image.

”Yes, Dad.” Raven sighed, ”The marker I placed right now is specifically made to track humans.”

”It seems that my guesses were right on point.” Raven continued, ”Something in the Real Time Imaging wasn't showing things properly. We made a tracker for living things but when it initially booted up, the array didn't understand how to properly identify Humans since we didn't make anything specifically for tracking them.”

”Then I remembered, there's the Black Curtain Guild. How are we going to track them if we don't have a Human Marker? But it seems that it's not the Black Curtain Guild I found.”

Everyone gazed at the real time feed that the array was showing up. There, they saw a somewhat tragic sight.

Several patched up huts that, by their guessed, wouldn't even stand a chance against a strong wind. A petite wooden fence that could even be broken down by a wild boar. Pale and sickly looking Humans were walking from one hut over another. They wore loosely sewed animal skins which were only enough to cover their private parts.