Chapter 99 Guard 2 (1/2)
The party went on smoothly. Cheering and laughter could be heard from the party. However, despite the happiness in the party, there was some part of the group that was still had a serious face.
”Patrol team, how is the situation?” Gerard asked through the communication device.
”There was no activity around here. Everything was safe”
”No, living things here.”
”There was a monster here before, but we have chased it out from here.”
”It was safe here. There is nothing suspicious.”
”The entrance of the forest was safe. No, monster nor human here.”
This was the fifth time Gerard asked this through the entire day. In fact, he asked this same question once an hour. From this past 5 hours, the situation was seems under control. Nothing strange nor suspicious going on.
Every time Gerard got the answer from his patrolling team, he put a serious face on the outside, but inside, he was relieved. What the others didn't know was that he got a strict order from Kelial and he alongside with Jackal already knew the situation that befall on Daniel. When he first heard about it from Kelial, he immediately tensed up. Moreover, he knew it right just before he was assigned with this task. This made the pressure on Gerard higher.
”Patrol team, how is the situation?” At the next hour, Gerard asked the same thing over again.
”Everything under control, no suspicious movement or person in sight.”
”Another monster's group in sight, we have chased it out. One person suffered light injury.”
”We also encountered a group of monster and had successfully kill all of it.”
”We sight a suspicious figure deep inside the forest, but when we tried to chase it, it ran away deeper to the forest. We decided not to chase it and raised the alert in the area.”
After several answer, Gerard only heard 4 answer from the patrol team when there were actually 5 teams. Gerard tensed up, and became more serious. Moreover, it seems there was heavy movement and encountered with something suspicious and the timing was almost at the same time made this became more strange.
”Is this going to begin?” Gerard thought in his mind.
”Everyone be alert. You and you go to the southwest and looked over the team there.” Gerard commanded every guard in the party area seriously. He also commanded a group to head over to the missing team. It was actually from the one of the adventurer teams.
The guards became tensed. The one who was instructed to search the missing team got ready to set out.
”Reporting, we encountered a group of bandit disguised as a merchant.” When they was about to got out of the party area, the missing group suddenly made a report back to Gerard.