Chapter 176 War in the north 6 (2/2)
Mars pulled back his blood lust and the gauntlet dematerialized into red particles that floated off with the wind
”...neat”
satisfied with his new skill Mars walked back to the carriage and laid down next to the twins and closed his eyes and soon fell asleep...
The next morning Mars woke up to the town of Irker being completely conquered and so the main force occupied the town until a garsion force could arrive from Destra, the town itself quickly adapted to being under Destra's rule with no riots or other forms of resistance and so for a time Mars enjoyed a peaceful time were he could laze around like he wanted to for some reason, whenever he met other soldiers they would salute him, this puzzled Mars in the beginning but then he remembered how he had cut down hundreds of enemy soldiers and then it made sense. Whenever Mars was lazing around the twins would play by themselves and Karen were off doing her own thing so nobody came to bother Mars it was only after he had lazed around for a week he suddenly sat up form his sunbathing spot where he had been lying for the past 5 hours and muttered
”...I'm bored”
Mars looked around, he was laying on the roof of the castle in the middle of Irker and had a fantastic view over the entire town, so from his vantage point, he started to look around for something to do, the first thing he spotted was a busy bar in the main street where he saw several soldiers were celebrating something
'nah, I don't feel like drinking...'
Mars shifted his gaze away from the happy soldiers and searched for something else to do, soon he spotted the twins running around in the streets
'they look like their age for once... I should not disturb them'
Mars shifted his gaze away again and after overlooking the town like some kind of caped crusader for a couple of hours looking for something to do Mars eventually laid down again and enjoyed the last of the evening sun before he climbed down from the roof and entered the castle, as he walked through the hallways of the castle he ran into Henry that greeted him
”hello Mars... wait why are you in the castle?”
”well... I was sunbathing on the roof”
”I see... do you happen to be free right now?”
”well, I don't have anything to do at the moment”
”good, then accompany me, I might need your help”
”sure...”
Mars followed after Henry though the castle and soon the two of them reached the catacombs under the castle where Henry stopped in front of what looked like a prison cell and asked Mars
”have you ever interrogated someone before?”
Mars gave a nod, sure it was not his favorite thing to do but if he could earn some points with his superior officer he would be game, Mars thought for a moment and spoke
”as long as it's not women or children”
”it's not”
”good”
”well then let's see what we can get out of him”
Henry gave a nod to the guards that stood outside the cell and they gave a salute before they opened the cell and dragged the figure out form inside the cell, it was a man in his 20's with a mana sealing collar around his neck, he also seemed kind of... drugged, his eyes were unfocused and he was dolling slightly, Mars gave a questioning look at Henry but Henry ignored him and said to the guards
”follow me”
””yes sir””
the guards began dragging the half conscious man with them after Henry Mars gave a sigh and followed after them and soon the group arrived at the interrogation room where the guards seated the half conscious man down in a chair and pressed a button on his collar before they walked over and stood on either side of the door, Mars sat down next to Henry on the other side of the prisoner and waited, soon he noticed a change in the prisoners expression, his eyes seemed to regain their focus