The northern part of the Eastern continent.

There was a mountain range here that blocked the cold air that came down all year long from the tip of the northern region that was covered in ice.

“…F*ck.”

The Mercenary King who was climbing the tallest mountain in that mountain range could not help but swear.

The White Star’s second secret base would appear once they climbed over this mountain.

So, why were they walking so slowly?

Bud Illis was slowly climbing the mountain at a speed that he thought was too slow.

An Elf walked up next to him and started to speak.

“Please be patient.”

“…I need to be patient, but it is frustrating.”

It was at that moment.

Shaaaaaaaaaaa-

A light breeze brushed past him.

Both Bud and the Elf next to him stopped moving.

The breeze stopped next to the Elf.

“The thirty-first message.”

Swooooooosh-

The Wind Elemental delivered a message to its contracted Elf. The Elf then immediately relayed the message to Bud.

“Squad leader Sorros in the west. No abnormalities discovered. No life forms discovered.”

The Elf raised his hand.

Rustle. Rustle.

Leaves fluttered in the air. Bud observed what was going on.

There were still a lot of trees around them as they had not reached the snowy portions.

Numerous pairs of eyes started to appear and look at Bud.

Blink.

As all pairs of eyes blinked once…

The Elf next to Bud started to speak.

"Everything seems normal.”

There were Elves surrounding the mountain from East to West as they climbed the mountain together.

They were looking for traces of the 1,001 Ranger Brigade and the enemies.

“Haaaaa.”

Bud subconsciously let out a sigh.

‘It’s too slow.’

He was wrong.

It was not slow at all.

They had already reached the middle of the mountain that the Ranger Brigade had climbed.

They would soon arrive at the spot that they believed the Ranger Brigade was located before they lost contact.

However, their movements just felt as slow as a turtle to Bud.

Pound. Pound.

He pounded his chest in frustration.

It might take months if he tried to investigate with just the people from the Mercenaries Guild.

Of course, it would not take very long if they charged straight into Arm's second secret base.

However, 1,001 people had instantly disappeared without a trace.

He needed to figure out what happened.

He couldn't save them otherwise.

However, he had a bad feeling that the chances of the Ranger Brigade members being alive decreased the longer they took.

He was starting to get anxious.

‘…Glenn will soon come to the north.’

Highest-grade mage Glenn Poeff was Bud’s close friend and one of the core members of the Mercenaries Guild.

He would soon come with the core members of the Mercenaries Guild. They would wait for the Mercenary King's orders to save their peers and get revenge.

Some people might find it weird that mercenaries were taking action for their peers, but they believed in friendship as well.

This was especially true for the guild’s core members who knew the importance of the Ranger Brigade for the Mercenaries Guild's future.

That was why they could not just do nothing.

But the Mercenary King needed to give them some information first.

However, for some odd reason…

‘There’s nothing.’

There was nothing there.

They had climbed up to the middle of the mountain, but there were no traces at all.

How was this possible?

“Mercenary King-nim. I will let the eastern search team know that everything is fine here.”

Bud started to speak after hearing the Elf’s statement. They needed to send their status to the east as well.

the thirty-first report with a

There’s nothing anyway and all we can hear are the

‘…Huh?’

Bud's eyes opened wide.

“…Mercenary King-nim?”

“Hold on!”

the Elf’s mouth and looked around. It was almost afternoon but the ground was dark because of the tall

looked around the dark forest and slowly started to

seen any

We’ve heard a lot of wild

Elf stopped mid-sentence and opened his

“Quietly! Please speak quietly!”

a quiet but firm voice in

well.

seen

like this became most anxious and wary

forests even in

have their homes

Bud, and the Elementals had heard many different cries that they believed belonged to the animals

they expected that they were somewhere on

gaze sank down. He mumbled very

“We made a mistake.”

had

haven't seen

“Mercenary King-nim-”

put his hand on the

the west team

the nonstop unlike his hand on

"We are retreating.”

“Excuse me?”

“Quiet.”

quieted the Elf who was about to raise his voice. The Elf was looking at Bud with a gaze that was asking what

the one who was just complaining that the search speed was

“Mercenary King-nim, retreating-”

“Now!”

Bud’s gaze sparkled.

life forms on this mountain. Well,

The Elf turned pale.

seen any life forms other

even

They only heard them.

looking for the search team that they

seeing them was important

will immediately share this information with

“Shh.”

the

Swooooooosh-

He subconsciously started to frown. The wind by Bud’s side was not the

of

was an ancient

was currently using his ancient

allowed him to tell a person's

using that

Boom. Boom. Boom.

could feel his heart

Please let me be

of information about the battles against the White

“Ah……”

Bud sighed.

“…I can smell it.”

could not see

people, no, the smell of

one

were a large

the only one he could see

powers did

could not see

Bud was seeing

“…Hehe.”

was more than

released his grip on the Elf’s

started to

“Inform all search members.”

forward and continued

"We are retreating immediately.”

Clang.

came

aura shot out

enemies we cannot see

Bud urgently gave an order to his

pairs of eyes looking at Bud opened

they could not

are at least a couple hundred of

the entire mountain

type

“They should be assassins.”

Rustle.

enemies moved at

Claaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang-

were made of glass. He then saw an assassin

“Die!”

assassin flung his dagger at Bud. Bud swung his sword and glared at the

Tang, tang!

flew away after hitting Bud’s aura

who chose to become the White

was familiar with the dagger attacking method

Glenn Poeff.

member of the Poeff household that used to be one of the Eastern continent’s greatest underworld households. He had seen Glenn practicing his family's dagger techniques in the

was seeing the same thing

Shhhhhhh-

His surroundings were crumbling.

illusion

could now see the

“Ha!”

of assassins wearing

how some assassins had gathered under the revived Molan household, there were some

new subordinates during the past fifteen years as Arm

in the illusion

“…You bastards-”

eyes were full

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