Chapter 131: Approached after Sunrise (2/2)

‘Onii-san, something’s coming. A great number of them.’

When he asked which direction, she told him west.

Putting down the knife and bread he was holding, Loren looked to the west.

A field spread out past the houses of the villages, but he couldn’t see anything like what Shayna had just warned him about.

But it was a warning from a no life king, so he couldn’t let his guard down just because he couldn’t see anything, so Loren tied his great sword that was next to him on his back.

“Loren? What’s wrong?”

As Lapis picked up the bread he had put down and took a bite, Loren wondered how he should word it.

He didn’t think they would believe him if he said something was coming even though they couldn’t see anything.

Of course, he could tell Lapis that it was Shayna if it were just her, but he couldn’t say that when Klaus and the others were there as well.

If he couldn’t mention Shayna, there was no credibility to his words.

“I think I saw something.”

Loren said so, knowing that there was no credibility whatsoever, yet not able to think of anything else to say, but Lapis’ face grew grim.

She threw the bread away and tapped Ange, who was reaching for a slice of bread.

“Lapis?”

“Ange, could you use the spell, <<Distant View>>?”

“O-of course. It’s an elementary level spell…”

The spell was a simple one that allowed the user to see off into the distance, and as Ange had mentioned, it was an elementary level spell.

It was a spell any magician could use, and it wasn’t something you would ask if they could use, but every now and then, there would be magicians who specialized in attacking spells, so it was common practice to ask.

“Then please use it.”

“That direction? Got it.”

Ange didn’t question Lapis’ request and started chanting.

“What’s happening? I can’t see anything…”

“Dunno, but I felt something bad.”

Loren didn’t like how what he was saying was so vague, but there was nothing he could do about it.

He even considered telling them about Shayna but comparing whatever was coming towards them and a no life king, it was obvious which one was more dangerous.

“Mercenary’s intuition? Sounds legitimate.”

“You doubt me?”

Loren asked Klaus, but he threw the rest of the bread in his mouth and shook his head.

“It’s the intuition of a battle-hardened mercenary. What else would you do except believe it?”

Nodding at Klaus’ words, Layla and Roll immediately started taking down the tents.

Loren felt kind of bad since they couldn’t even eat properly, but as Loren was trying to think of how to apologize, Ange’s warning reached his ears.

“I see a cavalry! Their numbers…I don’t know, but a lot!”

“Judging from the direction, it looks like they’re from the side of Wagenburg. I feel like there wouldn’t be a problem, but I don’t want to meet them either.”

“I’m not sure, but it only smells like trouble.”

The possibilities that Loren could think of was the war going on farther north, past the forest.

He guessed that it was probably some sort of unit that was participating in it.

There wasn’t enough information to know why they were coming towards the village, but adventurers making food with ingredients they found in an abandoned village wouldn’t be a good first impression.

“Nothing good’s going to come out of them finding us. Ange, are they coming this way?”

Loren stomped the fire out.

He had used dry wood so there wasn’t a lot of smoke that went up, but to keen eyes even a light smoke trail could be visible.

“It looks like they’re coming straight for the village.”

“There’s nowhere to run. We’ll have to hide in a house or storage.”

Loren considered running into the forest, but he wanted to avoid heading into it when they weren’t sure if something was wrong with it, so he took it out of their options.

“Let’s go with that then.”

“You’re supposed to be the leader of this party, right…?”

Klaus immediately started moving, but Loren glared at his back with half opened eyes.

Since Loren had received the information from Shayna, there was no way Klaus could’ve known anything about the situation they were in, but since they now knew, it should’ve been Klaus to think and make the decisions.

“Yeah, but you seem like you’re more experienced, you know?”

“I won’t deny it.”

Although he said that, he wasn’t sure what to think of Klaus not saying even a single word.

Not even knowing his thoughts, everyone started taking down their camp quickly and covering their tracks.