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.

fled the scene because I couldn't sense the killer. If I continued investigating this matter, I was afraid I would

expression darkened as he asked

"If you don't

Seal on the back of Noel's right palm meant he wanted him to use the Spirit Oath to make sure that

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

don't have enough information, you can go to the Master Blacksmith called Roel. The people I

nose before saying, "Alright. Do you have anything else? Like where did you find

a 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 did you encounter

near Astary Town. Around one day

east of the fort. But he soon realized something as he fell

something wrong?"

be similar to their group mission. But the

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

and most likely an organization. And if that's the case, there's no way they'll choose these spots unless they have a connection to each other." Shale pointed at the map

doing both?"

they did both ways, it meant that the fort would be surrounded with this problem. "Don't

the bandits 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 this

"Huh? They were invisible?"