57 How naive... (1/2)

Raven and Blaze ran after Ozul while drinking the purple potion to heal themselves quickly.

Of course, they were as discreet as possible since Raven had explained to Blaze that Ozul did not like it when someone used that potion in front of him.

They passed quite a few houses and arrived in a dark alleyway. They rested to catch their breath since surviving a blast such as that with only the distance of 20 meters took a heavy toll on their body.

Even the potions used to heal Raven and Blaze worked by utilizing the stamina of the consumer to treat their injuries faster. Hence, Ozul was relatively in a better state than both of them.

Not to mention that he was also a Rank-7 Fighter!

After Blaze had caught his breath, he asked;

”Where do we start the search now?”- Even he knew that searching in two big cities was not an option now. The time was ticking.

Just as Ozul was about to reply though, a high pitch scream reverberated in the air!

*Screech*

The shriek was so ear-piercing that many of the commoners had their ears bleeding! Even Blaze had to cover his ears to reduce the pain since he was only a Rank-2 Fighter!

No sane being could produce such sound. It took a few seconds for the inhumane screech to stop as everything came to a standstill.

”This is where we start the search...”- Ozul replied Blaze's earlier question without looking back at him.

Just as his voice died down, a big commotion took place as people began to panic. It seemed as though the things were starting to get heated.

Eclipse's Order must be behind this. There was no other explanation behind this monstrous scream that could spread out to the whole city!

Many Mercenaries were wandering around various cities in hopes of completing the task. Some of the sensible gave up on the mission when they weighed the pros and cons.

But other hot-headed Mercenaries wanted to court death. But there were hundreds of such people.

Hence, on the one hand, many people were screaming and running away from the direction of the shriek. And on the other, many of the Mercenaries ran for the so-called 'opportunity'.

Ozul and the duo also advanced towards the direction. However, compared to all those other Mercenaries, Ozul's team was relatively in a better condition even though the trio had just survived from a massive explosion on a point-blank range!

The other Mercenaries couldn't be blamed. None of them could afford the expenses nor the time to advance both as a Fighter and a Mage!

Due to the city structures and the woods ahead, no one could see what the cause of the earlier scream was, but they were sure that it wasn't something that they could take lightly.

Since Ozul's team was on the other end of the city, it took them a while to reach the woods.

They could still notice some teams of the Mercenaries advancing vigilantly.

However, just as they had entered the forest, many wild Magical Beasts started attacking them! It was not only their team, but everyone who entered the woods was facing a similar situation.

All the Beasts also had the same red glow that Ozul had noticed on the previously controlled Beasts.