“Wake up, we are in the middle of a battle!” A girl scolded Sakonori as she sluggishly opened her eyes to see Rayna looking down on her, this caught her off guard and made her get back up, “Isaac, Rayna, Johnathan? What are you guys doing here?” She asked as Isaac was too busy fighting a soldier who seemed to be his match and Johnathan was tending commander Bjorn.
“Isaac, for the love of god, just ask for help!” Rayna scolded as Isaac was exchanging punches with the soldier, then the soldier finally collapsed. “I thought I was fighting someone who dodged my weird spear thing, what happened?” Sakonori asked Rayna as she was scratching her head.
“Well, a couple seconds after you made that weird camera gesture, you collapsed, which looked embarrassing, so I had no choice but to fight even harder for you not to die, and look at Bolosophi!” Commander Bjorn scolded as he pointed at a dark-skinned man with dreads who’s entire right arm was covered in bandages.
“Wait, so did this battle end?” She asked even more, becoming even more confused about what was happening. “Most of the forces retreated after word got out that East died.” Commander Bjorn said as Johnathan finished tending his wounds.
“East?” Sakonori asked, with her curiosity becoming even more annoying to the point where the commander nearly threw a tantrum over her stupidity, but calmed down, and said “Compass rose.” “Ooooh.” She said before she got up to grab her bat.
This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it
Meanwhile in the commercial district where Sage annihilated the soldiers at. The group of VHC members alongside Ragnar and Satoya finally arrived in the district, but they were horrified at the scene. Multiple soldiers who were barely recognised as G.A.A. soldiers dead, charred up, with a single soldier clinging on to the little bit of life he has.
“H..Help…” The soldier pleaded as he tried to crawl to Satoya who was disgusted as well as horrified at the sight. “Who did this?” He muttered as the VHC members were investigating the sight, with Ragnar finding a golden pendant amidst the ashes in the middle of the district.
“34th East, Ogin Gaello ... .A compass rose member?” Ragnar thought to himself, before realising that the golden pendant and the ashes belonged to East. “Satoya!” He called as Satoya sprinted toward his location urgently.
“This was East..” Ragnar explained to Satoya, Satoya glanced down at the pile of ash, “what should we even do right now, this was no accident, the charred corpses and this pile of ash, does someone else have a fire-related calibre?” He muttered to himself, “Hmmm, 3 people have such fire-power to even burn a person of such level, Ragnar definitely is one, and Surtur also one, I forgot the last one..” Rius spoke in his head, “but stay on your guard, this place is unusually quiet also..” Rius added on.
As Ragnar and Satoya were investigating, Sage was eavesdropping on them from afar, silently channelling a ball of flame on her hand. “Those 2 look like trouble, but handling those fodders nearby will be a good idea, it might also scare them off too.” “Also, mind your step, I have a feeling we're being watched, but it seems like Ragnar doesn’t feel it..” Rius said before going silent.