Chapter 191 War once again 7 (1/2)

A week passed uneventfully for Mars, other than helping Terry out with his greedy tenants and getting him drunk every other day nothing interesting happened during the week other than Terry's tenets eventually caved in and accepted his terms, after all no one among them wished to be thrown out of the building... anyways a week had passed and it was time to accept the compensation from James Ichma the governor of the Ichma province, Mars arrived at the mirror building and was greeted by a elver that showed him in

”it's just like you said chief they showed up yesterday evening and have not moved since”

”I see.... good work”

Mars walked up on the walkway over the mirror and walked over to a control panel and manipulated it to show the outer edges of the barrier forest and soon found a group of red dots that had set camp in an area he was quite familiar with then he asked the elver beside him

”is Alvin ready?”

”yes he is waiting outside along with the rest of his squad”

”I see... okay then let's do this, be sure to contact me over the communicator if other red dots show up”

”yes sir”

as Mars walked out of the building over to where Alvin's squad stood ready he called out

”Victoria, how long are you going to hide in my shadow?”

”I'm not hiding... I'm sleeping”

”oh... well I might need your help in a bit”

”I see... call me... then”

”sure”

Mars gave a sigh and walked over to the adjacent building and meet up with Alvin's squad and told them where the group from the Ichma province were waiting for them

”...really?”

”well it is a nice spot, got a cabin and all too”

”yeah I know, I made that cabin”

Helene was a little confused and asked

”you really know this place Mars?”

”yeah I used to live there about 4 years ago...”

”eh..? but that's a cave?”

”yeah and I lived in said cave”

At the cave a group waited on the envoys from Green river, along with the group of diplomatic envoys were a sizable group of mercenaries, hunters and a small number of soldiers, after all they were in the barrier forest and they had fought a lot of magic beasts on the way there, one of the less, shall we say... 'idle' hunters asked

”how long are we supposed to wait here anyways? I mean do the elvers from Green river even know where we are?”

one hunter asked his friend but said friend just shook his head he was thinking the exact same thing, how were the elvers suppose to find them? or had they been trailed since they entered the forest?

”stop the idle chatter and keep focused”

”come on don't tell me you are not interested mister soldier?”

the soldier kept silent, he was wondering the exact same thing but before he could say anything the governor's representative walked out of the small cabin and spoke

”since they have told us to be here they will naturally come find us”

”yes lady Vanessa”

the representative looked around and asked

”have you finished checking the cave yet?”

”yes... we found the hide of a giant magic beast in the end of the cave along with a pile of sharpened bones and failures of what looked like bone swords”

”bone swords you say?”

”yes, it looked like the former owner of this cave used the bones of a giant magic beast to make a bone sword, we found the practice attempts in the cave”

”I see... bone swords huh...”

”is something wrong lady Vanessa?”

”no it's just that I worked with a student form Destra under the golem war that used a sword made from bone....”

at this point in time a portal suddenly opened in the middle of the encampment startling everyone, quickly a soldier yelled

”enemy attack, defensive position!”

the soldiers, mercenaries and hunters all moved quick and formed a perimeter around the portal and soon someone stepped out of the portal

”...well this certainly is a warm welcome”

carrying a confident smile on his face a youth with black hair and blue eyes stepped out of the portal, he was wearing a pale suit and had a pair of bone swords sheathed on his hip, he scanned the surrounding soldiers, mercenaries and hunters and whenever his eyes passed over them they would tremble just a bit, soon his eyes landed on Vanessa that also stared at him with her jaw hanging open, Mars gave a nod and spoke