Chapter 108 Scouting party 3 (2/2)
”careful it's really heavy”
”okay?”
Vanessa clearly didn't take his warning as she tried to pick it up with only 2 fingers and quickly found she was unable to lift it from Mars's hand Mars gave a grin which was quickly spotted by Vanessa that pouted and asked him
”what?”
Mars straightened out his face
”no it's nothing captain... but this thing is really heavy”
Vanessa gave up on picking up the cube and just looked at it while Mars held it and eventually she gave a sigh
”...well whatever it is the general needs to see it”
”that means?”
”that means we need to return to camp... but not now, we're close to the mining town were the golem infestation started”
Mars gave a nod and asked
”so we're driving into their lair?”
”basically... well we will go as far as we can”
”roger that captain”
”anyways... go get Hans and let's get some food”
”yes captain”
Mars quickly walked back to the edge of the sinkhole and jumped down before he walked over to Hans
”Hans, let's go eat”
”roger that... what was it you found earlier?”
Mars showed off the cube to Hans that leaned in and inspected it for sometime before he asked
”...what is it?”
”well I don't know and neither does the captain”
”huh... well it's covered in runes so it's probably best to keep it away from any and all mana stones”
”yeah... we don't want it activating after all”
Mars put the cube into his pocket and followed Hans up the robe out of the sinkhole and walked over to the temporary campsite were Gus was busy boiling water with a mana powered portable stove, Nicole saw the 2 of them walk over and asked
”what do you want to eat today Mars?”
”hmm... something with chicken”
”and you Hans?”
”....same as Mars, as long as it has chicken its fine”
”okay...”
Nicole digged into the big backpack and fished out two packs of freeze dried food which she threw to Mars and Hans, Mars looked at the package
”curry chicken”
Hans also looked at his package
”same here”
feeling satisfied with his food mars opened the package and fished out a wooden spoon before he poured some boiling water into the package and began mixing the continence with his spoon and asked the captain
”so captain what do we know about the mining town?”
”well I was going to brief you all later but now is a good time too.... first off it's about 30 kilometers away from here and it had a population of about 5500 people... besides that we don't know a whole lot other than the golems first showed up in the man stone pit mine”
Mars stopped stirring his food and tasted the chicken curry
'oh... so good...'
”wait captain that's basically nothing we know of the town right?”
”that's what we're here for Nicole, remember we're scouts”
”oh right”
”our job is to scout out the town and return in one piece”
”Mars... what... are you... eating?”
”oh Victoria, its chicken curry”
Mars petted Victoria that once again had showed up out of nowhere
”want to try it?”
”yes...I do”
”here you are...”
Mars took out a spoonful curry and moved it in front of Victoria's face that then proceeded to lick on the spoon a couple of times before she stopped and her horns flashed
”tastes... weird”
”so you don't like it?”
”no...”
”okay then, more for me”
”hey Mars”
”what is it captain?”
”...is Victoria well fed, I mean I have not seen her eat anything the last 3 days”
”hmm..? oh Victoria why don't you tell me what you have hunted the last few days?”
Victoria looked at Vanessa then at Mars before her horns flashed
”goats... mostly”
”okay, captain she says she had goats to eat”
”that's good...”
”why do you ask in the first place?”
”well it's because I have been thinking of adding Victoria to our combat formation and you can't fight on a empty stomach”
Mars gave a smile and petted Victoria on the head
”that's true”