System vs Rebirth

"That's what I believe as well. This is the reason I tell you about it. I am sure that the letter about the message has arrived, right?"

"Yes. I still can't believe it, but I have made an investigation team. They're already heading there, so I guess we can confirm it." Shale nodded with a serious expression.

Even though Shale couldn't believe it, he still acted according to the procedure. He made sure that the investigation team was formed and sent them on this mission.

"I have reported it to the commander as well, but he wants me to take care of it." Shale let out a long sigh.

"I believe this matter is bigger than you think." Anna added. She knew how much the destruction this matter would cause, so she couldn't afford to let the same thing happening again. She said, "You need to have the commander act on this matter personally. I'm afraid that it's going to be a big problem for the Demon Banner Army because we'll be finding this kind of mission appearing sooner or later."

Anna wanted to prevent it by using the commander's authority, but Shale shook his head and asked, "Do you have any proof that can back up your words?"

"I… don't." Anna clicked her tongue as she didn't know how to convince Shale.

But this time, Noel was the one that supported her. "I do."

"Noel?" Anna widened her eyes, never expecting Noel to help her here. She thought that her words previously had worked on him.

leader, someone killed him. At that time, I immediately fled the scene because I couldn't sense the killer. If I continued investigating this matter, I was afraid I would die, so I chose

darkened as he asked again to confirm it. "You

right hand and said, "If you don't

on the back of Noel's right palm meant he wanted him to use the Spirit Oath to make sure that he didn't falsify the

paused for a moment and said, "I understand. I'll bring this matter to the commander right away. Is

have enough information, you can go to the Master Blacksmith called Roel. The people I saved from that bandit group

nose before saying, "Alright. Do you have

out a map around the fort and pointed at the location of their first group mission, which turned out to

to them, near Astary Town. Around one day from that

the east of the

there something wrong?" Noel

group mission. But the location was at

possible to cover that kind of huge area unless…" Noel also understood why

spots unless they have a connection to each other." Shale pointed at the map and circled it. "What if from this place, they continue to the south and eventually reach the west? Or they can go

they're doing both?" Noel asked, dropping

Shale sucked a cold breath as he couldn't refute that claim either. But if they did both ways, it meant that the fort would be surrounded

since the moment they released the demons, they weren't attacked. But do they think the Demon Banner Army will lose

"Huh? They were invisible?"