Chapter: 606

Slowly his anger was building, but instead of releasing it in a rage, he decided to channel it into a workout as he began doing pushups in the cold darkness.

He had learnt to build himself up instead of tear everything else down – not that there was anything to tear down in here anyway.

“…the cold will feel nice soon.” he whispered to himself as his chest muscles began to squeeze.

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~Losla~

With the signs of skeletons, the mage hunters quickly went to search the west forests of Losla – that was the way the skeletons were heading after all.

Lieutenant Marsh was wiping blood off his armour as he heard reports of skeletons in Losla, and a cunning smile grew on his face.

He was already having a good day today, as many of the guards in the adventurer guild decided to rise up against him and his mage hunters, so they were cut down like grass.

Quelling a revolt was enjoyable, however it was nothing compared to finding traces of the necromancer, and this was his opportunity for advancement through the ranks.

After the situation was stable at the guild, he dashed down the hill and to the west side of Losla, finding the skeleton corpses as well as the mage hunter who slayed them.

He interviewed the mage hunter, wasting no time, and he soon found out some intriguing, or at least some strange information.

– The skeletons were running out of Losla: what were they doing inside Losla anyway? Why would a necromancer put them in there only to have them run out again? Shouldn’t they be attacking Losla if anything?

– The skeletons didn’t attack anyone. Usually necromancers’ skeletons would cull all the surrounding lands and collect bones for their master without rest.

– Some of the skeletons appeared to have armour but none of them carried weapons. This was unheard of. Their records stated that necromancer skeletons nearly always had weapons, but never armour.

– The skeletons were all at such a low level, and there were only five of them. The lowest skeletons ever recorded were in their thirties. It made no sense.

– The skeletons ran out of Losla shortly after the powerful mana fluctuation, which they were already familiar with: a sign of the variant rebellion. But were these events connected, and if so, how were they connected? Perhaps teleport magic somehow summoned undead?

– Then the most strange part was that one skeleton which turned around and stared at the mage hunter before it was summarily executed. Not normal undead behaviour at all. Marsh asked the soldier about this multiple times before he accepted it.

After lieutenant Marsh got every single piece of information out of the mage hunter, he sent the mage hunter back to the capital to be punished for not keeping a live specimen.

Next, he had another soldier gather the bones into a pile and create a magic time-pause barrier around them, to protect them for analysis later.

Using an expensive long-distance communication crystal, Marsh contacted his commander, who in turn contacted theirs, and eventually he received word that now there were seven thousand mage hunters coming to Losla: a whole division.

There were also two more divisions coming to search the entire region.

With the standard procedures completed, Marsh could now start his own investigation.

He went back to the association and began to go over the facts, along with every other piece of information about Losla, with scrupulous attention to every little detail.

Marsh was also known as the inquisitor after all, and he planned to live up to that name.

Under his command were currently four squads. He did initially send some to Tolgard, but he decided to keep most of his men with him.