Chapter 98 Golem war 1 (1/2)
”I kinda miss the color green...”
Mars was looking at the endless sand dunes
”yeah me too...”
he was looking out the window of the sky carriage at the scenery, it had been 4 days since they had left Mirefield in a sky carriage almost identical to the one that crashed and 2 days since the scenery changed from wild forests to what Mars was looking at now, sand and more sand
'well there are some rock formations here and there but that's it'
Mars gave a sigh and looked away form the window and at the others in the sky carriage, as usual Chloe was sitting next to him, she was also looking out the window at the unchanging scenery, next to her was Lily and across from Lily was Lee and Karen, the sky carriage felt a lot more empty now that it wasn't filled to the brim and looking at the 2 empty seats still gave Mars a feeling of guilt
'if only I formed the shield a little quicker... well no use in thinking about the past'
Mars gave a sigh and looked over at Lee that was looking a little restless
”what's wrong Lee?”
”um... the odd feels strange”
”the odd?”
Mars felt for a moment and sure enough the was something wrong, it felt almost restless
”weird... well it's probably nothing Lee”
”okay...”
just as Mars finished reassuring Lee he felt a change in the sky carriage and looked out the window
'we slowing down... I think we're there'
soon his guess proved correct as the sky carriage slowed down even more and began to lower it's attitude, Mars still looked out the window as a small town of tents came into view for some reason Mars found it slightly nostalgic, when he saw a group of soldiers doing push-ups the sense deepened. The sky carriage touched down a little away from the camp and the group got off along with their luggage, as they stepped out of the sky carriage the group felt the temperature of the desert and began to losses their clothes, Chloe also began to fan herself with her hand
'what now..?'
just as Mars was thinking about what to do the sky carriage lifted off and speed off to the distance, seeming like it was fleeing from this place
”what do we do now?”
Mars looked over at Karen that had raised the question they all was thinking about and gave a light sigh as he picked up his backpack
”we head to that camp and explain why we're here”
”...why we're here..? oh right I had almost forgotten”
Karen gave a sigh right before Chloe chimed in
”what about me and dad?”
”well... just tag along for now..?”
Chloe sent Mars a glare
”don't look at me like that, I don't know either”
”Mars, Mars”
Mars felt someone tug in his sweater and looked down and saw Lee looking up at him with his red eyes
”what is it Lee?”
”soldiers are coming”
”hmm... oh, they sure are”
Mars saw a group of soldiers closing in on them, they were dressed in matching brown desert camouflaged armored uniforms and carrying spears, it also looked like there was a small number of mages in the back that separated themselves from the other soldiers with the staffs tipped with crystals that glinted in the sunlight they were carrying. the group of soldiers spread themselves out in a fan formation with spears pointed towards Mars and the rest of his group before one of the soldiers stepped forwards and shouted
”identify yourselves!”
Mars took a brief glance at the others before he spoke up acting as the leader of the group
”we are tactical mages form Destra, sent here to reinforce”
the soldier that had spoken first paused and exchanged some words with a soldier besides him before he signaled for the other soldiers to lower their spears and walked forwards to Mars
”you were expected nearly a week ago”
”...our sky carriage was shot down 4 days south of here, we lost 2 of our people in the crash including our teacher”
”I see... my condolence but still you are a welcome sight, follow me the general will want to meet you”