33 Risen#re

Meana walked in the lead of her group with Jasmine and Kallus following close behind her when they bumped into the group coming from Tobias's exploration team.

They looked to be in equal disbelief as them, "Anything big happen on your side Anna?" Meana asked walking up to the other group's psychic.

Anna smiled slightly at her but shook her head, they were on good terms with each-other even in the academy despite their three-year age gap, there weren't many mental psychics around, so they tended to keep in contact.

Anna's eyes were still wide in disbelief from what she had heard, "We just entered into an area that has these extremely large trees, there is almost no light in that place making it difficult to navigate,"

"But by comparison it's nothing compared to what the main base faced, and did you hear not a single person died!" she exclaimed as their two groups mingled together.

"Yeah I heard them say it was all thanks to commander Lirian, they said that where ever he stepped the beasts fled back in fear, then he'd chase after them and slaughtered them by the dozen," as Meana spoke the others nodded along they had heard similar things.

When the two groups reached the commanders tent they pushed the flaps forward and saw a sight that none of them were expecting to see.

Edith was sitting on the edge of the table and Lirian was pressed up against her, they were kissing like wild beasts with their hands roaming around underneath each-others clothing.

Surprisingly even as they stood there the two of them took their time to stop what they were doing, Edith cast them an annoyed glanced, she had finally managed to get Lirian all worked up, but these bimbos had to stroll in just when things were getting good.

Lirian on the other hand turned to face them with a small smile, "It was a stressful night and we've had a hard time controlling ourselves," he said shrugging his shoulders like what they saw was nothing.

In fact, as they looked between Edith and Lirian they were surprised to see that neither of them seemed to be embarrassed about being seen together, the only thing bothering them was Edith's glare.

"So, what do you guys think off the renovations we made of the place?" Lirian asked them jovially.

They could tell that he was in a good mood, and the boys in the group couldn't blame just the little they had seen was enough to induce a severe nose bleed, and the fact that he was with a beauty like Edith made it impossible for them to not be envious.

They all chuckled a little at his comment, "It seems like it might be a good chance to send a few teams down to do some exploring," Meana said as she thought of the new slop, had things been like that when they arrived it was possible that the entire group would have remained together and continued progressing along the river.

Lirian nodded, "We are going to let it settle for a day before we begin sending big teams down there, I want both of you to tell your group leaders to send a hundred people back along with some supplies."

As they nodded obediently Meana went straight into business mode, "We encountered a huge swamp, that it is hindering our advancement, in an hour we are barely able to cover more than two miles through the thick mud, Miss Media requests to set up a sub base at the edge of the swamp and begin exploration," she reported.

'Sounds like she had some bad luck,' Lirian thought, "That is up to her," Lirian said simply, "But Cole has to be the one in charge of the base while she leads the exploration teams," he said.

When Meana finished Anna reported her news about the large forests, and Lirian pondered in silence for a while, 'If the place is as dark as she claims, they will have a hard time backtracking, even if they leave markings on the trees, and that's not counting the unseen dangers inside, any creatures in their will be in tune with the dark, so if they use fire or chop down some trees to get some light they are extremely likely to incur the wrath of the creatures.'

"Tell Tobias to retreat a bit and set up a sub-base, if there is nothing worth exploring then he may retreat back to the main base and he can lead the teams exploring down new path I made," Lirian said and finally dismissed them.

Edith looked at them coldly as they left and she quickly found herself some place on his lap, she had read in some stories that when couples get intimate for the first time, it isn't uncommon for them to spend entire weekends, and in some case's and entire week locked up in a room together.

She couldn't understand why they would do such a thing, but now she didn't understand why they wouldn't stay locked up for an entire month at a time.

At current that was the only thing on her mind, and she felt that it was a shame that they had duties to tend too, when they got back to the real world she intended to lock Lirian in her room for a month, maybe more.

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Mordred scoured the newly formed slop, the ground was a little unstable so from time to time he ended up sinking down, but he was used to such intense terrains, his time doing intense mountain climbing courses wasn't for nothing.

As Mordred roamed through the debris he couldn't help but feel conflicted, he had made a huge achievement but in his excitement he manged to piss Lirian off and ruin his hard work.

Now he had to find a single sword that could be buried beneath a mountain or worse it could be buried beneath that huge drake, and what truly made that thought scary to him was the fact that the massive drake was completely buried beneath the land slide.

There was not a single trace of it left, and it wasn't like they had any magnetic device to search for it.

Because of his contribution to taking down the drake, he didn't have to get involved with tasks in the camp, and he was glad for it, that sword was his one hope of truly becoming a Pendragon.

It was the most respected and feared of the ancient families, and in the current age so few ever earned the right to bare the name, especially when so young.

Mordred knew that his family had placed him in the empress's child's class for a reason, it was especial rare for them to show any interest in the internal politics of an empire.

He didn't know if he had done a good job so far, but he did want to impress them, and prove to them that he was worth their efforts.

When he reached the bottom the slop and walked to the river, by the way that the water continued to run it seemed that the water was still making its way to the river, it only lacked the smashing sound that came from the water fall.

Mordred bent down and took a quick sip from the river; he had been searching for hours and his thirst was slowly building up.

As he took sip after sip he saw something unnatural flowing in the river, it was a small object, so he dove into the water and snatched it before rushing back to the shore.

When he got back to the shore he was surprised at how far the river had washed him away, he was a full mile from the slop and he had just entered the water for less than 30 seconds, as he slowly made his way back along the river he opened his hands to look at the object.

It was just a piece of wood, he realised, but it was carved and well-shaped, he moved it around and looked at it strangely, ',isn't this a piece of Lirian's katana, he thought as he looked at the part he was sure that it was the hilt of the blade.

When he got back to the river he tried hard to remember which part of the river it came running down from, he slowly made his way up along the parts that had running water.

If a piece of the handle came running down in the water, there was a chance that the rest of the sword would be near or in the water, but it could be stuck under some rock or branch.

Mordred knew that the odds were low but at least he had a sliver of a chance at finding it.

When he climbed back up he quickly found the area the water was running through and walked carefully.

A few minutes later he heard footsteps from behind him and when he turned around he saw someone that he didn't want to see quickly approaching him.