Chapter 223: Plans in motion (1)
High above in the sky, above the dark clouds, the outline of a large bird glided in the air. The Commander sat inside the figure he manifested out of his energy.
From his vantage point, the thick walls looked like lines drawn to divide the city into five parts. He looked at the ant-like humans busying around in the former market district. He moved his eyes a bit to the left and saw thick columns of dirt and smoke appear.
The groups tasked with scouting and cleaning the housing district progressed steadily. The wall dividing the housing district and the noble district was within reach.
Despite the distance, his hawk-like eyes surveyed the noble district. The vague outline of domes and mansions stood in the dark. The silhouettes of some creatures moved along the empty streets in the district.
Nex his gaze landed on the wall between the noble district and the Temple district. His eyes narrowed as he tried to peer through the darkness shrouding the area between this point and half of the Temple district.
No matter how much he tried, he couldn’t peer into the darkness over there. This was the case since the Witch performed her Sinful rituals. At first, he assumed the darkness was a consequence of the act against Heaven. Over time he started to have doubts about his theory though.
The hints were subtle and far too vague. Many cases were filed and put away as unsolved. No one bothered about the prisoners disappearing from guarded prisons. Villages and towns hit by plagues didn’t register the missing corpses. Missing crew members on ships hit by a Fog Storm chalked the disappearances to lores of the sea.
No one paid attention to the individual cases. Not even he, the Commander noticed a trend. But a few years ago, his friend, the baron wrote him a letter with numerous cases to investigate.
Even now, the Commander didn’t know how the baron discovered and connected all those traces. But over the many years he knew the baron, he stopped pondering about the man’s sources and intelligence. As far as he knew, no full-blooded human of his caliber ever existed in the mortal realm.