Chapter 175: A Brief Rest
"They came out of the ground, sir! I swear on my life."
Already spread thin through the duchy, the Knights of Hydrogia only had about half of their forces in the Duke’s Tower, and Gunnar was feeling the stress. To hear that one of his apprentices thought goblins were appearing from the earth made him worried about the stress they were under as well.
With his arms crossed, the knight regarded Leif with scrutiny.
Irene felt she ought to speak up for her friend.
"Sir, he isn’t wrong," she defended. "He told me when he first saw them, and there were a lot in what felt like an instant."
Seeing that Iro was trying to convince him, he decided he ought to ease up a bit. They would investigate the situation later to see how the monsters might have seemed like they were coming from the ground. He was a logical person who believed everything needed an explanation—it was why he was so harsh towards religion, the same way he was towards magic.
The knight sighed, trying to decompress his worries.
"Put out the fire on the wall, then the two of you ought to go inside and eat breakfast while it’s fresh. No need to attend morning practice. This was enough."
Leif went right to the ladder, so Irene allowed him to go while she chased down their horses. Leif’s horse was closer to the tower, so she decided to go to Sorrel first.