Chapter 110 Scouting party 5 (1/2)

the group walked though the quiet streets, besides the sounds of their footsteps there was no sounds in the ghost town and after walking for a little while Nicole broke the silence

”this is really creepy...”

the other 3 nodded Mars however had seen plenty of ghost towns and even city's in his past life so he was fine with a empty mining town

”look the armor suits are over there”

the group went over to the armor suits that stood next to the mine, the 4 soldiers began inspecting them for damage while Mars walked over to the edge of the mine and looked down into the pit

'that's really deep... about 25 meters down, it looks like the mine have been made with some sort of magic with how cleanly the walls are cut...'

”Mars you see anything?”

”hmm... well the elevator is down so they might have gone into the mine”

the elevator was indeed at the bottom of the mine, after looking around for a bit Mars spotted the controls for the elevator and brought it up to the surface before he turned to the the rest of the group and asked

”what now?”

Vanessa had a frown on her face

”well their armor suits show no signs of battle... let's head into the mine and look for them”

”okay captain”

Mars put down his backpack and the other 4 got out of their armor suits and grabbed their backup weapons, Vanessa carried a sword, while Hans held a staff with a red gem fixed on the end, Gus carried a battleaxe and Nicole held twin swords

”let's go”

the group boarded the elevator and slowly descended into the mine Mars was rather relaxed but the other 4 was rather tense as they looked down into the mine, arriving at the bottom of the mine the group got of the elevator and looked around at the numerous shafts that spread out from the bottom of the mine

”which way?”

Vanessa looked around for a few moments before she looked at Mars

”....Mars pick a way to go, we'll follow your lead”

”I have a better idea... Victoria can you tell if people have been here recently?”

Victoria gave a nod before she walked around sniffing the ground and after a few moments her horns lit up as she looked down a mine shaft

”this... way”

”okay then let's go”

the group walked into the shaft, Mars was able to see fine in the darkness but summoned a flame so the others was better able to see and for a couple of moments the group walked down the shaft until Mars spotted something on the left side of the tunnel

”look at that”

there was a opening about a person size with tool marks around it

”let's check it out”

”okay captain, I'll go in first”

Mars walked up to the hole and stepped trough and soon he found himself in a square room, he put his hand on the wall and found the stone had been polished down so it was smooth, in the middle of the room was a platform made of wood with a couple of mana stones

”how is it Mars?”

”it's safe come on in and see this”

the rest of the group squeezed tough the hole and looked around the room Nicole pointed the other side of the room

”look there's a door”

Mars looked over and saw she was right, there was indeed a door made of the same polished stone as the rest of the room so it was rather hard to spot, Mars quietly walked over to the door and put his ear to it and closed his eyes

'paper being moved..? no someone reading... besides that 5 sets of breathing... but 4 of them sounds... weirdly stained?'

Mars turned to the other 4 and signaled them to be quiet as he put a hand on the hilt of his sword, Vanessa nodded and made some hand signals to the other 3 before they stacked up on the door and counted down with her fingers

'5'

'4'

'3'

'2'

'1'

”go!”

Gus kicked in the door and the other 3 quickly stormed into the room weapons raised, Mars also walked in the room just as he did a clear and relaxed voice rang out

”oh... more mortals...”