Chapter 608 - Is There a New Person in Charge? (1/2)
Chapter 608: Is There a New Person in Charge?
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Gildern seemed to have something important to report. However, Link was already used to dealing with matters of great import. He said calmly, “Come to the conference hall. I’ll listen to your report there.”
“Yes, my lord,” replied Gildern, who then hurried straight towards the Mage Tower.
Link then said to Celine, “My love, I have something to attend to. Please continue without me.”
Celine’s eyes were still glued to the magic book in front of her, puzzling over an extremely difficult problem concerning Soul Magic. She waved a hand at him.
“Go do whatever you need to do, as long as it doesn’t involve flirting with that beautiful Dragon Queen.”
Laughing at this, Link touched Celine’s hand. He then let his hand run through her long, silky hair before lowering his head to give her a kiss on her forehead. Finally, he walked out of the study silently and headed towards the conference hall.
On his way, he saw Gildern hurrying towards him from the other side of the corridor. The two of them then walked side by side towards their destination.
Gildern said, “My lord, the problem we’re now dealing with…”
He stopped when he saw a Magician walking towards them.
Seeing how cautious Gildern was, once they were inside the conference hall, Link closed the doors and cast a Soundproof Barrier over the whole room. He then said, “Alright, now you can speak.”
Gildern handed two scrolls to Link. Both were black, which meant that their contents were extremely important.
Link opened the first scroll. It came from MI3 in Norton Kingdom. In it contained information on the Army of Destruction’s movements in the North. There was also a message scribbled in it by the writer.
The message was this: A veteran scout leader of Orida Fortress recently sighted a set of intriguing tracks in the Black Forest. He determined that it had been left by a 300-man shock troop of demon soldiers. Each member of this unit had a power level of at least Level-8.
A shock troop of this scale would be able to cause a lot of chaos anywhere in Firuman.
As soon as he made the discovery, the scout leader decided to take a couple of his subordinates to follow these tracks through the forest all the way to the depths of Hengduan Mountain Range. The enemy’s tracks stopped there abruptly.
As the enemy’s schemes had always been a great cause for concern, any information regarding them would be brought to Ferde in a black scroll to indicate its urgency.
When he was done reading the scroll, Link contemplated on it for a moment. He then asked Gildern, “Any word on the Beastmen of the Golden Plains?”
Ferde had set up scout outposts throughout all of the Firuman continent. These outposts formed a far-reaching information network, which was complemented with that belonging to Norton Kingdom’s MI3. This allowed Ferde to keep tabs on almost everything on the continent.
Gildern took out another scroll and gave it to Link. “My lord, the Golden Plains had sent us information regarding the demons’ appearances. They were sighted in five different spots. I’ve already marked them out on a map. Please have a look at it.”
Link took the scroll and unfurled it. A detailed map of the Golden Plains was depicted on the scroll, with five red markers on it which pointed out the locations where demons had last been sighted. These markers began from the northeastern corner of the Golden Plains, where the plains were connected to the Hengduan Mountain Range, all the way to the Korora Mountain Range in the southwest. It was clear where the demons were heading.
Link was stunned for a moment when he realized what the demons’ destination was. Are they heading towards the realm crack? But how did the Army of Destruction know where it was?
If the Army of Destruction had long known the precise location of the crack, they would have made a huge fuss over it a long time ago. They certainly would not have waited until now to do something about it. The God of Destruction would also be making a lot of noise trying to come through the crack from the other side.
Only now did they decide to move in to open the crack after it had been sealed up and the space around it had been stabilized. This could only mean one thing: They had just recently discovered the coordinates of the crack.
Regardless of how they came upon this piece of information, the demons needed to be stopped before they could break open the crack.
“When were the demons spotted?” asked Link.
“Any news from Orida Fortress would need at least three days to reach us. As all our scouts are given communication runestones, news from the Golden Plains would at most be delayed by two hours before reaching Ferde. Also, according to one of the scouts, an hour had passed since he received word on the demons’ latest movement and brought it to the nearest outpost in the Golden Plains, so there is a three-hour delay in total to the news that we’ve received,” answered Gildern.
This meant that information on the demons’ latest movements that Link now had was three hours old. He looked at the map again. The last marker was no more than a thousand miles away from the crack. The demons might already have started working to break its seal if they moved fast enough.