A big wide room. Brown walls, black hexagonal patterns.

Trophies and medals on the shelf. A huge stuffed deer head on the wall.

It was an office. An office with a man in it.

He looked aged. Around 50? Black short straight hair. Strong jaw lines,angular face with a bushy beard.

-"Hmmmm...."

The man looked at the paper in his hands. He was turned towards the huge magical class window glancing at the city under.

He turned around pressing on a magical gem on his table.

From the comfort of his chair said

-"Send in Captain Sierra"

Slowly a minute passed when the opening of the door could be heard.

A gorgeous woman stepped through the door. She had straight long hair, it looked black like the darkest night.

Beautiful purple eyes.

-"Captain Sierra reporting, Sir. Do you require anything?"

The man looked at the woman. Even though she looked only around 170 cm,delicate and small compared to the man. He did know that the appearance was deceiving. Every mage could feel her power and even for normal people her position showed how much power she represented.

No connections or background could get you the position of the Council Guardian Captain.This postion represented true real ability.

-"I called you because of the report. I know clearing up the slums shouldnt be your responsibility, and we the council forced it up on you. I hope you understand. We cannot look weak due to the visit."

"But..... Huuh."Sighed the man.

"These reports highly disturbing and making the council restless. Three cases in the last one and half month. Everytime almost the same report. No evidence, nobody seen or heard anything. Our patrols always late to the scene. You also know this makes us look incompetent.

Well this is the councils smallest concerns with the case.

The problem is the odd parts, all corpses look like they lost their souls and they have no shadows. We are quite scared this maybe related to some dark magic rituals.So based on this information we made a decision on todays meeting. This is the reason why I called you here.

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We invited the Thousand-Eyes wizard from the Cloak Guild. With her specialization as a 7th tier mage, we should be able to catch the culprit."

The man slowly took out a crystaline card from his desk and tossed it towards the Guardian Captain Sierra.

-"Shes arriving from Mjuzeld 5 days from now. The rest of the information on the crystal card. Her job to help you catch the culprit, meanwhile yours to keep her safe."

The woman catched the crystal card.She infused some mana in her fingers.Her eyes slightly arched a little then said.

-"Understood Council Elder Kalanvir. I do my best to catch the culprit and keep her safe."

Then the woman turned around and exited the door.

5 hours later

-"This is the councils decision in this case. Until then we keep going with the same patrolling routine"

As the mage patrols heard the end sentence they slowly left to continue their jobs and rest.

-"Captain Sierra do you think we gonna able to catch the culprit with this outside help?"

-"Cannot say for sure Boyd. But sure we can get some extra information with her help. As a 7th tier mage specialized in reconnaisance and scouting, Her abilities should able unveil the identity of the culprit."

-"Lets hope so, Captain. I would like to avoid having a town full of assassins and an unpredictable killer. Even if hes only killing monsters now. He just needs to step over the line once then after its just get easier."

-"Well we dont even know his motive. Based on how hes dealing with the monsters I highly doubt he wouldnt kill a person if necessary."

-"Thats true. Also Captain I may have some extra information. I did not write into the reports,because theres no evidence ,but after asking around seems people mentioned such monster kills werent unheard in the past. There were many times dead monsters found around the outskirts.Sadly as there was no investigation we dont know if they related or not. Only that the execution method matches based on witness testimonies."

-"Hmmm..."

"Thats a good information. Thank you Boyd. If thats true its not related to the upcoming event in anyway. After checking the past events, seems the killing started after we cleared out the outskirts. So if that was the killer previous hunting ground,we cleared it so he moved to hunt down the ones that successfully invade into the slums."

-"Sadly we cant cover the whole outskirts as you know Captain. The one time purge was already a huge operation, keeping everything at bay would require too much manpower which we dont have."

-"Yes, I know Boyd. But lets end this meaningless chatter. With the Thousand-Eyes mage we going to know more."

-"Understood Captain. Have a good rest." These were Boyd last words as he left the hall.

5 days later....

Captain Sierra and Mage Patrol Boyd was standing on the airship docks.

Huge Zeppelins fueled by magic crystals were leaving some of the docks. The docks were bushy as always. People coming and going, passengers disembarking and getting on new flights. Dock workers moving cargo and doing other tasks.

A huge Zeppelin could be seen getting closer from the horizon. It was marked with the numbers 11. It clearly could be seen that it was bigger than the other ships by quite large margin. The reason being it was the direct trade and passenger ship between the City and Mjuzeld.It held a quite large importance.

The ship was slowly arriving, parking into the dock. The ship slowly floated into the docks magical lights. The huge crystals which shined with great light slowly anchored the ship. As soon this was done workers started to move cargo.

Captain Sierra and Mage Patrol Boyd slowly eyed the ship with hawk eyes as passengers started slowly getting out of the ship....