Chapter 337 - The Yabba Race Currently Being Massacred (1/2)

Chapter 337: The Yabba Race Currently Being Massacred Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

At first, Link didn’t have to care about the Yabba race since the Orida Fortress was in danger. However, he vaguely felt that something was wrong.

He felt that Aymons sealing off information from the Black Forest not just to prepare for the final attack. Aymons was probably taking advantage of the humans’ fear of the Divine Gear to secretly attack the Yabba city.

If the Dark Elves had powerful magic muskets and airships in the last battle, it would be a disaster to the Orida Fortress and the entire Norton Kingdom!

This worry meant that Link had to find out about the Yabba race’s current situation.

He waited patiently in the forest for half an hour. The screaming winged demons finally left. They didn’t go toward the northeastern Black Forest as he’d expected and flew northwest instead.

This meant that they probably had another mission, which increased Link’s worry.

“Let’s go take a look,” he whispered.

Skinorse led the way, and Link followed. The two of them used the forest’s vegetation as protection and snuck past the still-burning airship frame. The fire had weakened quite a lot, and they didn’t feel the heat beside it.

Walking up to a Yabba corpse, Skinorse started studying carefully. “This Yabba man is wearing an engineer coverall. He’s probably an engineer. There’s an emblem here of blue wings and gears. Master, do you know what it is?”

Link thought back to the previous game and quickly found the corresponding information. “The wings and gears mark should be the emblem of the City in the Sky, Pollol. The Pollol City is one of the Yabba’s important cities. They’re especially skilled in creating magic airships…This situation is bad. Continue searching for clues. We must know what’s going on.”

Skinorse nodded. He circled the airship and checked every corpse.

There were a dozen bodies of demons on the ground. Other than the hard-shelled armor that only demons had, they had nothing else so Skinorse and Link couldn’t find out anything other than what kind of demon they were. There were seven or eight Dark Elves. All of them had an emblem on their armor of a moonflower wrapped around a bloody sword.

“These are members of the elite Dark Elf air force, the Wings of Moonlight. Why are they here?” Skinorse’s voice was filled with shock, and the worry on his face deepened. It was clear that he’d thought of something.

After searching for a while longer, he suddenly called out, “Master, look, this Yabba man has a hidden letter.”

The letter was very deeply hidden inside an inner layer of the corpse’s clothes. The demons had searched this body before but just couldn’t find this letter.

This showed how skilled Skinorse was. His acuity was almost like gut instincts, and he could easily find critical clues.

He handed the letter to Link. It had the same City in the Sky emblem, but there was no magic seal, so there was no obvious magic aura. Opening the envelope, he took out the letter, but it was white. There was nothing on it.

“A blank piece of paper? Why would he hide it so secretively?” Skinorse was watching, and he found it strange.

“It’s not blank.” Link shook his head. Every enchantment Magician was almost instinctively sensitive to the elements of the material. Link was so as well. The moment he received the letter, he felt that there was something about it hidden.

“Element Detection.” Link cast a Level-1 enchantment spell.

Ding. A ball of powdery light appeared out of thin air and sprinkled onto the letter. Something miraculous happened.

There really was writing on the blank piece of paper. Because of the different material, it absorbed the element detection powder differently as well. Words appeared on the paper instantly.

The letter was written in the Yabba language. Skinorse was illiterate, but Link could read it, so he read it out loud in the human language.

“Respected human general, my race has suffered violent attacks from the Dark Army. We don’t know how many there are, but from the current situation, there seems to be more than 30,000 soldiers. Half of them are demons. Our city is in extreme danger. Practically all the civilians in the nearby towns have been killed…Lariel is on the brink of danger as well…I ask for your reinforcement as chancellor of the High Mountain Council.”

This was a letter for requesting reinforcements. It was written to Duke Abel of the Orida Fortress.

Link looked back at the airship. From the damaged frame, he could guess that this was not the main airship that the Yabba race used. Instead, it was an extremely fast airship for sudden attacks. It was longer and narrower than the ones Link had once made. There were fewer magic muskets on it as well.

It was obvious that it had burst out of the siege to ask for reinforcement but still couldn’t escape from the Dark Army.

The more Skinorse thought, the more shocked he became. “No wonder there was no action from the Black Forest these days. I can’t believe they were attacking Yabba cities without us knowing. They must want to receive their magic muskets and battle airships!”

Link nodded and said, “There’s still not enough written on the letter. Let’s follow the trail and see if there are any Yabba survivors.”

The Yabba airships had come under fire long before they crashed. They had been exploding as they flew and lay scattered on the ground. The trail was obvious.

The two followed the visible airship parts everywhere and went northwest. After around one mile, they reached a large patch of thick grass. Skinorse suddenly stopped.

“Master,” he whispered. “I feel something wrong. I think someone’s on us.”