Chapter 497 - Pale Skin (1/2)

After reading the message to everyone a bit more, Ray had clarified what Slyvia had said. All they knew so far, was that one of the fortresses located in the shadow continent, had been destroyed.

By who, it was anyone's guess, but there weren't many that had the power to even go up against the shadow in the first place, so she assumed the most likely suspect to be the empire.

”It looks like Slyvia wants us to leave quite soon to investigate,” Ray said. ”If the fortress has already been taken over, then there will be no need to take a large force.”

”Not necessarily, ” Lenny replied. ”Unlike our attack, they knew we were coming, my guess is the shadow content had no clue this would happen and was probably why they were able to succeed or part of the reason. If that's the case, then they will send one of their own to investigate.”

”Someone like Monk?” Martha added. ”His group were the closest and he seems to have taken over Gary's role being in charge of the human side of things. There won't be many that work for the shadow that would be able to investigate.”

It was a decision they would have to make, unlike Gary, they actually had no clue what power Monk held, although they could tell he had been influenced and possessed by the aura of the gauntlet.

”Did the empire finally stop focusing on us and decided to fight the shadow then?” Van asked.

He was interested in these matters, things concerning the empire. It affected all of the kingdoms, including the Alure kingdom which had allied themselves with the Redwings.

Martha stood there with her finger on her lip.

”If I remember correctly, it was rumoured that the kingdom were having their own problems with the shadow. Perhaps after dealing with that, something had inspired them to attack the shadow.”

”I thought they had been overrun by the shadow,” Harry added.

”We don't know if that's true or not,” Martha replied. 'If it was, I doubt they are the ones behind this.”

”Then for now, it would be best if we just treat them as another group,” Ray said. ”They are nether with us, nor against us until we find out some more details.”

Thinking about it, Ray was trying to figure out how they were able to defeat one of the fortresses. Each of the fortresses would usefully contain a shadow guard member, Both Morfran and Gary were part of the shadow Guard and Ray knew their strength. He had even gone against the grand mage Wiz. One of the most powerful mages' to ever live.

Although, he himself didn't have great power but it was his ability which gave him great strength. Still, it just showed what strength the Shadow had. In Ray's mind there were only two ways they could have taken over a fortress, either the grand weapon that Roki spoke off was found and somehow they were able to activate it without the key. Or it had something to do with Sera. Roki said he shined the most when leading an army.

A couple days had passed and the army were making preparations to move out. A large force wouldn't be taken, but Sylvia also wouldn't allow for Ray to head off with just a few of them. No matter what, she was sure they would be confronting an army. Whether that was led by the empire, Monk or some unknown force she did not know.

At the moment, inside one of the rooms, four young knights were busy talking and these were knights that belonged to the beast squad. There was Flynn, a former Black sash squire, Wendy, an archer. Both of these had gone through the beasting process and were taken out from their sash groups. The two additional people in the room had become quite close with both of them, during their time here.

Although these two had no need to go through the beasting process, because they were already part beast. One of them was a girl named Claire who was close with Jack, Both of them had left the town of Zrey together.

She found it harder then she realised to speak to others when arriving at the Redwings, but for some reason with Wendy, she found it quite easy. Maybe because she was part beast, she felt she could connect and the two of them were a similar age. As for the other werewolf, he was named Dale, a quiet one, but one who would show his caring side at times.

During the war, he had always stuck by Claire's side, although it would make her think of Zinc, a werewolf that had chosen to go with Steven. Jack's brother. The two of them with a group of the saved werewolves had gone in search of the other Werewolves, who apparently had a dislike for humans. She was just glad that they hadn't run into them on their journey so far.

”It looks like we might be going into another war,” Flynn said, his hand shaking a little. ”I saw all the knights, I think we will be moving out today.”

'It's not confirmed yet.” Wendy replied. ”Remember they said another group has already dealt with them, this is just a simple investigation.”

After the last battle, they were no longer Squires and were full fledged knights now. They had joined the main force and wouldn't be babysitted by Harry or Jack.

At that moment, Kyle had barged into the room to check on the others, as he was in charge of these little groups of young knights.