"The whole town was gone, and I don't mean It metaphorically. I mean It literally, The mercenaries when they got there witnessed an entire flat land devoid of any influence of people. As if someone had gotten a giant eraser and removed the town from the world, just like removing pencil markings from a piece of paper. There wasn't a single place checked by the mercenaries that was uneven."

"They even went so far as to dig 100 ft deep into the ground, yet there was no bodies or anything else hidden underneath. It was just simply, gone."

"The mercenaries at the time were rightfully spooked by their discoveries and decided to call it a quits. Go back to town and report their findings."

"So the mercenaries packed up and left with all the information... Or lack thereof."

"This is where things get spooky and people started to get anxious, the mercenaries went back to the town... And it was gone."

"No body, no buildings, not even an uneven ground. Everything was flattened into silence."

"By this time the mercenaries didn't want to play away their lives, they used an expensive one time group party teleportation straight to the nearest mercenary Outpost."

"And then from hearsay the rumors say they reported all their findings to the outpost and the outpost sent it back to headquarters with them included because they felt unsafe in town. But rumors also say that the mercenary outpost was spooked and wanted them personally to report it to headquarters."

"Either way, they're findings was alerting to Branch headquarters they went to. This branch headquarters then sent the information to all branch headquarters, including ours."

"It's been an estimated 3 months approximately when the last person to get out of town. And 2 months when the last person left the second town and the mercenaries discovered the empty field. And just 1 month ago another town was reported nearby the other two to be completely gone."

"And now it's almost 1 month since the last report. Many people think another town will disappear in a few days."

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"That's the mystery of the disappearing towns. By now about 70,000 people have gone missing, if another town disappears... It will reach most likely 100,000 people. And if that was to happen...then Branch headquarters will not be sending all their local mercenaries anymore for investigation, but the real professionals."

"Why didn't they send the professionals from the beginning? Isn't this already serious?"

"That's because this is the least concerning thing for mercenary headquarters right now. Other things have been happening that got more of their attention. And most importantly they are stretched thin."

"Someone has leaked secrets about the aristocrats to the public and is publicly stating they are transferring a lot of funding and materials they own to unknown warehouses."

"It was later proven true as the aristocrats that were robbed supposedly were actually very furious and then not deny it. They stopped at nothing to find this mysterious person, even getting the professionals of our branch headquarters involved forcibly with money."

"Some warehouses were found, but what's odd is that most of the materials taken and stored in the warehouses are common low level items. They have yet to find any of the truly valuable high level materials stored in the family for generations."

"Another point is why did the perpetrator publicly state such as act to everyone in the world? What are they trying to achieve?"

"Most people believe it's one thing, a distraction for the real big show. The steal of a century for something."

"And having professional mercenaries forcibly drawn into investigating warehouses all over the world seems like a good sacrifice for some materials."

"And then to make the professional mercenaries even thinner, there is a weird situation where a dungeon was transformed into a trap. About 1 month ago a rescue squad was dispatched to find professional mercenaries they have sent into a newly found dungeon."

"Why does this feel familiar..."

"You must have heard of it then, the dungeon was found nearby the first down to disappear."

"Anyways, the rescue squad came and the rumors say that when they found the professional mercenaries. They were bored sitting around. I don't know if that's for sure...but what I do know is that the mercenaries are stuck there for at least another 3 months before the barrier finally fades away."

"Damn, is there anything else going on? Rumors are rumors for a reason. Something must have sparked it."

"Hmm...uh...there's one final thing happening, I don't know much about it and I heard it from the few crazy men that came in here buying all kinds of armor."

"At first I thought it was the talk of a crazy man. But lately the potion shops, armor shops, enchantment shops, and a few others had gotten two or three of these crazy people."

"Take these words with a grain of salt but... What they said is basically similar."

"Don't look at the light. The city, this city...is not a city."