Chapter 171.3
She seemed to have received a certain amount of healing as she answered my question.
The guild’s adventurers were half destroyed by the breath of the earth dragon, and the elite group, including Jesha and Zilgan, was supposed to fight against the dragon, but the first breath disabled half of them, at which point Jesha ordered them to retreat, but it was too late, and Zilgan became a decoy to help her escape and disappeared into the flames.
Still wounded from the initial attack, Jesha was unable to escape and was thrown in here, kept alive only because she was one of the town’s prominent figures.
Apparently Jesha had also fainted, but she had woken up two days earlier than I had.
“Where are we?”
“Oh, I don’t know, I’ve never seen this place before either, but it’s probably a Demon Army fort.”
“A Fort…?”
I’ve only heard rumors of a Demon Army outpost on the other side of the ancient ruins of Reiz Veil from our location in Cutlass. It was only seen by scouts decades ago, so it raised some eyebrows, but… it seems to be true.”
A Demon Army outpost, huh? Apparently, the situation was not so good.
Being on the other side of the ancient ruins means that in order to get back to the town of Cutlass, we would either have to cross an ancient ruin the size of a small country, or walk endlessly through the desert in the middle of nowhere. To do that, we would have to break through the Demon siege, and even if we could return, the town of Cutlass would probably be occupied by the Demon Army.
But we would not give up. If we have our lives, we could still do something.