Chapter 280: Against a Calamity (1)
The following night he teamed the ladies up with Bashar’s team. As he expected, the man didn’t like the two female Knights joining his team.
Hex acted like he didn’t see the crease on his forehead. The furtive glances a few of the men in Bashar’s team gave each other didn’t escape him.
’They are up to something. I don’t mind if they leave me out of it. But I doubt it.’
He couldn’t help but sigh. It seemed things had been going too smoothly the last couple of days.
The previous day he discovered the presence of a few Fiends in the first tunnel as soon as they entered through the outer entrance. He assigned Bashar and his men to test their resolve and abilities.
Bashar and his team were all Knights. He expected them to survive against a small team of Fiends. In the worst case, they would flee and ask for his help. He didn’t expect them to exit without a single scratch on their body. And certainly not deny the existence of some level of danger in the first tunnel.
After discussing with Sterling, he assigned the twins to their team. Sterling assured him that the two could look after themselves and they stood a better chance at extracting information from the men.
Hex entered the third tunnel with other plans. While the other group cleared the first tunnel, he would train.
Whatever the other parties tried to do, it required at least one more day. He could tell. If they planned to pull something off tonight, they would resist each other’s company. But except for being wary of each other, he didn’t sense anything else. Here, out of everyone’s vision, he could grasp the basics of the Techniques he read, in the meanwhile.