Chapter 155: The Orcs Attack - I (1/2)

'Wait a second, isn't that--?' Merlin's train of thought was rudely cut off as the wagons ht of the palehere in the beta?'

'He's supposed to appear years later in the hts were slowly piecing together 'How did I not realise earlier That description'

The group of wagons continued through the tohile Merlin sat there lost in thought, a cold sweat ran down his back 'Wait, then thatokay?" Callisto asked, which caused Merlin to lose his train of thought oncea little pale"

"Yeah, sorry Lost in thought" Merlin aardly coughed before trying to change the topic, "This place is a ot the dwarves to thank for that" Callisto let out a scities, they're all surprisingly poor at planning for expansion"

"Isn't that just an excuse so they can build more?" Merlin remarked

Callisto's eyes widened, and she nodded a few seconds later "Now that you ons had ate, and this time the streets opened up rather wide, and there were several large buildings scattered around, almost all of which seemed to be for so between them

Merlin's focus dropped back down to his own lap as the wagons continued ical runes on his finger, which allowed hih of relief 'That could have been bad, I'ons eventually stopped in front of a large building, and based on its appearance and the types of people walking in and out of it, it seemed to be some kind of on and began speaking loud so that the entire group could hear her "We'll be working alongside the town's "

The rangers began leaping off of the wagons, and once everyone was gone, the driversbehind the barracks

The large group of rangers, Merlin included, began walking towards the barracks, where they were led down a hallway by an older looking knight with a scruffy white beard

They were eventually lead to a large auditorium, the rooroups were slowly entering the rooers who began doing the saers to the briefing rooe at the far end of the rooe

The old man introduced himself as the commander of Farnco Callisto as the leader of the rangers guild After a brief section explaining that the rangers guild will be working alongside thewas short yet inforeneral layout of the nearby land, and explicitly pointed out certain areas where scouts had spotted large groups of orcs gathering around

But one thing had worried Merlin, and that hen a wounded scout hobbled onto the stage and began describing his encounter with the orc warlord only a few hours ago

It seemed this orc warlord wasn't normal in appearance, even for a warlord which was already a rare variation of the creature The scout described an orc roughly twice as big as any other orc they had seen, which was normal for a warlord so far, but the next few detailson

Underneath the orc warlord's dark green skin were al veins, the whites of its eyes also seereyish colour

'Seriously, they even started corrupting ht to himself, 'We're still just in the beta, what haven't those cultists done?'

'I guess starved souls haven't appeared yet, that's a good sign at least' He internally sighed

Merlin noticed that Callisto's expression had changed draer