Chapter 324: Reunion
Chapter 324: Reunion
After being startled by Jayna’s beautiful appearance, Angus’ expression is back to calm. But, a smile still pastes on his face. Ignoring the little troublemaker that was rolling in pain on the ground, Jayna immediately approached Angus as she saw him.
“Angus, you are here.” called Jayna.
“Yeah, I am here. Sorry, I made you wait for a long time.” said Angus.
“It’s okay. Besides, I am with Anna, and this place is full of surprises. So, I never get bored.” said Jayna.
Then, both of them begin chatting intimately. Looking at the cold princess chatting casually with Angus, surprised a few of Jayna and Angus’s bodyguards.
However, some of them already know their relationship as Angus often meets with Jayna in the royal palace before entering the Endless Battlefield Dimension. Although at that time, Angus is posed more like a teacher than a boyfriend to Jayna.
After waiting for the little Anna to recover from pain, they go towards the inner base that was already prepared by Duke Jacob. Since the Black Fortress is under Jacob’s jurisdiction, he will not let Angus and Jayna stay inside the inn like the other adventurers or people.
Therefore, they will stay and live inside the inner base where only the high-grade combatant and generals remain. During the way towards the inner base, Angus could see a gigantic black-colored wall on the other side.
If the wall facing the Heart Kingdom side is already massive, this wall is many times bigger and more massive than it. Moreover, all of them are coated in a deep pitch-black color.
Angus could also feel a little bit of a weird and mysterious feeling coming from the massive black wall. Using his perception, he also could feel countless small enhancement runes placed on it along with dozens of soldiers patrolling around it.
He couldn’t help but want to inspect this ancient wall that managed to stay intact even after hundreds of years. Soon, they arrive at the inner base, which is located in the center of the fortress. The inner base is built very high towards the Dark Forest.
Therefore, everyone on it could easily observe the Dark Forest from its height. After entering the inner base, Angus could see the endless sea of pitch-black colored forest across the horizon.
While looking at the mysterious forest, “How is it? It kind of resembles the Farsight Woodland from that dimension, right?” said a person that was coming towards them.
“Elder Fosa!! Glad to meet you again.” replied Angus.
Elder Fosa is one of the elders from the Sur Village. After coming to Firuman, Elder Zeth didn’t want to meddle with the Heart Kingdom’s internal politics. But, as an elder, he also feels some responsibility to protect their new homeland, the Heart Kingdom.
Therefore, he decided to stay in the Black Fortress to help observe and protect the Heart Kingdom from the Dark Forest’s monster. Among other Elders from the Sur village, Elder Fosa is the only one with a kind and approachable character.
Angus has certain respect towards Elder Fosa during their journey inside the Endless Battlefield dimension.
“Hahaha… Don’t call me elder anymore. I am not an elder here. Just call me old man Fosa.” said Fosa.
“Don’t be like that. You are not too old yet.” said Angus
As a combatant and fighter, Fosa still looks like a person in his forties despite already past his seventies. Then, they begin to chat and catch up with each other. Angus also didn’t hide things and told Fosa that they might go to war with the other kingdoms soon.
“War, huh?? It seems after coming to Firuman. We still can’t avoid the conflict and killing each other.” lamenting the old man.
Before they continued to chat, “Fosa, you are here!!”as they heard a loud voice from behind.
Then, a rough muscular dwarf in battle armor approaches them.
“General Borkins, what brings you here?” replied Fosa.
“I bring the latest report about the Dark Forest. Hm.. Who’s this kid? Why does he look familiar?” said Borkins in a loud voice.
“General Borkins, My name is Angus Victory, third son of the Duke Victory.” said Angus politely.
“Hoo.. So, you are that imbecile’s latest child that I heard about.” said Borkins while scrutinizing Angus.
‘Imbecile?! Do all the dwarfs have such a rough mouth?!!’ thought Angus.
Angus is certain that no one dares to call his father an imbecile unless something is wrong with their head. Suddenly, Borkins launched a sudden punch towards Angus.
However, Angus already saw this before from the dwarf general’s previous gesture. Rather than dodge the attack, Angus decides to counter it with his own. *BAMM*
Their fists clash with each other and create an air shockwave nearby. This sudden action surprises everyone, even waking Anna from her stupor.
“Haha… What ridiculous strength!! It seems you almost reached the limit of the 1st gate.” said Borkins.
Hearing the general’s sentence, “1st gate?!” replied Angus.
“Well, the gate of life is our most secret and dangerous technique. For a human kid like you to be able to open it, you are certainly famous inside our dwarf community. Besides, that old Balrug likes to brag about you as his student.” replied Borkins while pulling his fist.
“I am not his student. He just happened to help me with a few things.” rebuked Angus.
“Hahaha… I like you, kid. You are even better than that imbecile. Anyway, let’s go and talk inside. We have certain things to discuss. Lady Jayna, little evil, you also need to come.” said Borkins.
As a general and dwarf, Borkins character is really rough and sometimes too bold. Like Angus’s case, Borkins also tested Jayna and Anna with his fist. In fact, he tested all the nobles that came to the Black Fortress with his fist.
Some of the stupid unprepared nobles often get injured and need to be hospitalized for a few days. During the test, Jayna managed to redirect Borkins’s fist while Anna fully received it with her petite body.
At that time, Anna gets thrown back and embedded into the nearby wall before coming out unscathed. After that, Anna grinned like finding new toys and started attacking the general until she was exhausted.
The dwarf general also heard about Anna’s ridiculous strength and its source. Therefore, Borkins didn’t hold back in his strength and beat the little troublemaker as he knew it would be hard to kill her. However, inside his heart, he is already satisfied with the two of them responding.
Then, they went into one of the meeting halls inside the inner base. The general immediately gives the Dark Forest report to the others. Although the monster overlord period had already passed, it didn’t mean they could slack off.
Inside the inner area of the Dark Forest, there are still a lot of Monster Overlords waiting to launch a disaster. All these Monster Overlord is similar to an unpredictable time bomb. They didn’t know when they would attack the civilian society.
Even if they don’t launch an attack towards the nearby kingdoms, they could cause a lot of effect on the other monsters. Some of the gigantic Monster Overlords could even create a monster wave by changing its sleeping place.
Therefore it is necessary to keep looking out the Dark Forest ecosystem and detect the potential of monster waves.
Although ordinary scouts could not go deeper inside the Dark Forest area, they still could observe the monster around the Black Fortress perimeter and detect the possibility of monster waves from them.
Seeing the scout report, everyone couldn’t help but become solemn. As the students of the royal academy, both Angus and Jayna know how to read the report from the scout and make a conclusion.
Unlike regular reports, the reports in their hand are the accumulation of data from the various locations inside the Dark Forest near the Black Fortress.
The report gives the approximate monster’s kind and number from the scouts’ observation. Just take a single glance and all of them immediately conclude the same things.
“Are these numbers accurate?” asked Fosa.
“Yes, I already confirmed the report with each scout leader.” replied Borkins.
“We need to immediately culling their numbers before they create a monster wave.” said Fosa.
“True. The problem is their territory is located near the inner area. It will be hard to send a lot of people to eliminate them.” said Bokins.
“You may not know this, but the deeper you go towards the Dark Forest, the stronger the monster and their number. It will exhaust a lot of manpower just to reach their territory.” added Borkins.
“But, we still can’t leave them alone. They are Ogre, one of the top chain monsters. Just by their number it is already enough to disrupt the ecosystem of the surrounding Dark Forest.” said Fosa.
Ogre is a green-skinned monster that used to be grouped together. Unlike the other monster, this kind of monster is one of the rare monsters that grouped and even could create a small village together.
They are pretty intelligent but still hostile towards any mana-based living things. Not only are they grouped together, but they are also powerful physically and could wield miasma better than normal monsters. Some of them could even learn and use skills.