Chapter 68 (1/2)

The next day the Darkness God Corps party had left Rinwaal and headed towards Driadria No one noticed when Reifold returned from the palace, but he joined the party for their breakfast and didn’t have any qualms when he was told that he was to join the Rudea mines party

“By the hat did you talk to the King about yesterday?”

“We talked about the recent events and had some small talk”

“Is that so?”

Understanding that it was useless to pry further, Yuusuke easily accepted his answer The only thing real about Reifold was his usual smile There were two roads that could have been used to travel between Rinwaal and Driadria The road that the locals used, which trekked through the h any difficult terrain Because the party was not used to traveling the dangerous mountain roads they opted for a safer choice

Then again, the modified demon beasts’ incident was not yet solved so the safety of the other road was also questionable at best

Currently they were back in Fonclanc’s territory, travelling towards that different road They approached Trent Rietta’s territory for the second time at around noon and had stopped for a break By the time they reached Driadria the sun had already set

“Whoa, so this is Driadria”

After dise around, ad the view of the city The second city of the country was built at the intersection of the major roads The city seemed to be divided into aa particular artistic sense of its builders

The roads in the city center idened during the developh the es and stalls of the trading co these roads

“The city is bustling!”

“Rather than just bustling, it is also awfully noisy”

“There are also a lot of armed people, they’re probably mercenaries”

“Could it be related to the evil beast incident?”

Yuusuke asked, about the reason why there were a lot of armed people, which seemed to be out of context in the busy city Shaheed answered his captain that this city also had a huge nuroups simply stood out more from the rest

“So they are not related to theShaheed’s answer

The Darkness God Corps carriages were slowlyin a foreign country’s e so they attracted quite a bit of attention The party was talking about the city when a reeted them in a loud voice

“Hey! So you guys came here as well, huh?”

A person separated fro his hands He was one of the adventurers that had fought alongside the the evil beast incident Thethe larvae of the evil beast that had killed his comrades was still fresh in everyone’s minds

“It’s been a while You seeained your spirit”

The adventurer s and waved to his co them to come over as well The othersuch a carriage was dangerous

“So, did you guys also coate the evil beasts research facility?”

“The evil beasts research facility?”

“A? Surely you have come here to exterminate those beasts… no, no matter how I look at it you have come here too quickly”

“I have no idea what you are talking about…”

Yuusuke’s party was duue Hence the man explained them about the incident that this city was currently involved in, and why it was so noisy and full of armed people

Late last night a single, barely alive ravely wounded and had trouble breathing even when healing arts were used to help hi the people around him about an evil beastat His words brought fear and uneasiness into people’s side them curiosity and ambition had also appeared

According to the survivor, one of the scientists had gone crazy and opened the cages with the evil beasts and the situation within the institute had quickly turned to hell

Some of the researchers tried to use the special flutes that were used to control the evil beasts that had not yet undergone complete modification Yet the special divine art aura of the flutes had also called more evil beasts, and the researchers that had tried to stop the rae with these flutes were all devoured

The surviving researchers had ed to close off the research facility and escape, but soed to escape into the forest The researchers were attacked and scattered by these beasts on their way to the city

The researcher that had soed to reach the city was afraid that the research that he had participated in had wrought an unthinkable calaer should these modified beasts mates with the beasts in the wilderness, the man drew his last breath

“Normal beasts can be killed with divine arts, but the modified one’s can only be killed eapons”

The flute was supposed toother beasts in the surrounding area Yet a tool that could control these beasts was very valuable

Flutes aside, even if it was currently closed, there was supposed to be a lot of expensive equipment inside the research facility

It was probably because of these news that adventurers andin this city At the saer to hire them to protect themselves from the threat that these beasts posed to the city

Therefore the bustle of the city was not one that could be heard while preparing for war nor was it normal It was a cacophony of both – there were people that had come to exterminate the evil beasts, there were also treasure hunters that ca to quickly attain their wealth, and there were alsointo the forest, relied on for supplies

“So, this means that we stumbled on the continuation of that incident”