35 Why Do You Sound Afraid Too? (2/2)

When Mark heard him, he beamed with joy because he felt like he was being a burden even though he's also at the same age as Dylan, who was given the small responsibility of protecting the group and even possessing a small weapon like an axe already made him envious. So when he heard Leo giving him a task, he immediately followed to it as he went and looked for the family of three using the torch light on his hand.

Discovering that they are already at the very back of the group, he hastily made his way towards them as he politely took Olivia from her mother onto his hand and handed her the torch light instead.

”Thank you young man” the woman said grateful as the weight she was carrying lightened as she was also carrying some supplies on her other hand while breathing hard for a bit and at her side, Jacob has a grateful look on his face as he clearly heard Leo's voice earlier.

”You shouldn't be thanking me ma'am. It was boss who told me to, he probably noticed that you guys are lagging behind and had a high chance from getting separated from the rest” Mark said while he walked along with them and he thought ”Good thing I still had my backpack where I put the supplies I'm carrying right now

”Uhmm, I'll make sure to give my thanks to him later” the woman smiled.

What they didn't noticed was the pair of green eyes staring at them from a distance, the person then muttered in a small voice and said ”Targets are safe, sir”

”Targets are safe, sir” Alex voice sounded from the intercom on his ear.

”Alright, go and continue scouting around us” Leo replied.

The moment he noticed that someone getting left behind on the map, he immediately ordered Alex to keep an eye on the group that was slowly getting behind and knowing that it was the two siblings and their mother. Leo immediately gave the order to Mark that he should take over carrying Olivia instead.

Leo gave a sigh of relief as he does not want someone dying or getting lost in these woods under his watch, specially that he needs a lot of manpower back at the camp so that the responsibilities within would be distributed among the new arrivals.

”Alright, we're near! There's only a five minutes distance left so the faster you guys move the faster we'll reach our destination” Leo bellowed as he faced the group who are already breathing hard, them being in this state is understandable as they are also carrying multiple supplies on their hands.

A few minutes later, they finally arrived.

”We've arrived” Leo looked back at the group who are panting and said.

The group, hearing that they have finally arrived, they gave a sigh of relief and they excitedly looked towards them and some pointing their lights towards the front but what they saw instead confused them as they only saw a row of logs clumped together in a standing up position but when they pointed their lights upwards, they saw a structure that looks like a tower, a few already realized what was in front of them leaving them stunned while the rest still had curious and confused looks.

”It's a freaking wall!” someone suddenly yelled in surprised.

All of them wore stunned looks with mouths agape, after all something like this probably don't even exist anymore in modern times but was pretty common back in the day, the Medieval Age.

Suddenly they heard rapid footsteps on top of the wall and along with a flickering light rapidly heading towards them.

Then they noticed that it was a flame torch being carried by someone and the next thing that happened made their bloods run cold, guns were suddenly pointed at them and the people below like Isaac, James and Edward also pointed their rifles back at the people above with stern looks.

”Halt! Who are you people!?” Henry's loud yell rang along with a piercing whistle.

”It's me, dad” Leo voice sounded below.

”Damn, you're finally back” Henry said with a bit of annoyance.

”Don't tell me you guys didn't even see me and my familiar Armor? I was just standing in front of you” Leo replied.

”No, the lights blinded my eyes”

”Asshole, you already saw me earlier but you just pretended you did not!”

Leo snorted as he waved his hands and the gate leading inside opened.

'What!? That was the gate?' the people below was a bit surprised that the entrance was just in front of them as they didn't realized it because it really merge itself along with the wall.

”Move along” Leo said to them and his father and the rest came down from the wall and welcomed them.

”Boss, you're finally back! My god, you're mother was really angry earlier when she found out that you went out again” Michael's voice sounded as he came over at him with a pale face.

Leo looked at him surprised and he laugh in thought ”Why does he sound like he's so afraid of mom?”