Chapter 333: Something Sinister Has Crossed The Sea (2/2)
If the federation’s armies didn’t quickly separate right after repelling the empire’s invasion and counter invade them, the empire would have lost a good chunk of their territory instead.
It was worth mentioning that the citizens living by the frontiers of the two nations were actually unaffected. Their lives wouldn’t change drastically regardless of which nation was in charge, and they would instead observe both sides’ situations like they were watching a drama.
Nonetheless, it appeared that there had been unrest within the Tegrono Federation recently. There were incidents of explosions across several cities, as well as ancient machines that awakened out of the blue and wreaked havoc everywhere around it. While the armies of the federation’s nobles and royals did not have problems, their sovereignty hence staying unaffected without any signs of uprisings, the various problems were blown out of proportion to the point that this side of the Kakatino inland sea caught wind of it.
“I don’t have anything concrete, but what I do know is that a bunch of people are attempting to capture something.” The bowman replied softly. “Eyewitnesses had spotted people in black robes running around inside the borders of the Tegrono Federation, and it seems that they were the ones behind the ancient machines waking up and the explosions in the cities too.”
“With such a big mess, aren’t they afraid of being captured by the Tegrono Federation themselves?” The spearman asked in confusion. “They definitely wouldn’t be followers of any normal church, right?”
“That is because the normal soldiers in the city watch can’t capture them since they have quite a few supernatural folks with them. When the Federation’s own finally arrive, they would already have left, strutting as they did so.” The bowman shook his head, hinting that it was not the Federation being reluctant to capture the culprits—they had simply failed to do so.
“But doesn’t that mean that they would be blacklisted? They would definitely have a hard time working inside the Federation in the future.” The spearman said, finding the culprit’s behavior hard to understand. “What could be so worth capturing that they would risk a culling from the Federation’s armies later on?”
“I’m not sure, but it’s alleged to be something that looks like a human.” The bowman smiled sinisterly.“Like a human? And don’t suddenly talk so mysteriously, I’m getting a little scared here…”
“The last time I heard of the news was from a traveling merchant, just before I came for this shift. According to him, what the black robes wanted to capture ended up jumping into the Kakatino Sea.” The bowman took no notice even as the spearman began to tremble and simply continued. “The black robes had actually summoned a giant water elemental to capture that humanlike thing, but they still failed, and that humanlike thing disappeared, just like that…”
That was when the spearman rose to his feet. “What are you doing?” The bowman asked.
“I need to take a leak… Damn it, my junk is getting frosted if this continues.” The spearman replied. “I’m heading to the watchtower for my shift soon-no way I’m staying there and getting my junior blown by these winds.”
“Careful. Don’t get eaten by weird stuff.” The bowman teased.
“Bugger off!” The spearman cursed unhappily before running to a distant observation well and started to pee into the sea.
And yet, before he was relieved, he found a yellow pair of abnormal, callous eyes glaring coldly through the well at him…
“M-monster—!”