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.

and said, "I have a proof. I encountered another bandit group with that kind of situation. When I was about to interrogate their leader, someone killed him. At that time, I immediately fled the scene because I couldn't sense the killer.

Shale was surprised but his expression darkened as he asked again to confirm it.

hand and said, "If you don't believe it, we can

of Noel's right palm meant he wanted him to use the Spirit

"I understand. I'll bring this matter to the commander right away. Is there anything

Master Blacksmith called Roel. The people

the bridge of his nose before saying, "Alright. Do you have anything else?

map around the fort and pointed at the location of their first group mission, which turned out to be the southeast of the fort. "This was the place of your group mission. Where

near Astary Town. Around one day from that town,

pointed at the rough location which was located on the east of the fort. But he soon realized something as he fell into deep

something wrong?"

out the mission catalog and opened it, finding another mission that seemed to be similar to their group mission. But the location was at the opposite direction. "This is the similar

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

they'll choose these spots unless they have a connection to each other." Shale pointed at the map and

doing both?" Noel asked, dropping the

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

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

"Huh? They were invisible?"