Chapter 18: Expedition
After reluctantly ’agreeing’ to join Dido’s expedition with the War beasts, Nick followed them out of the Sanctuary with a weary look plastered on his face.
He was calculating his chances of being able to escape from them now that he was at the back of the group, but all of the scenarios he came up with just ended up with him either being recaptured and forced back into the expedition, or straight up dead.
Sure, the Federation claimed to have brought peace to the Sanctuaries, but was that really the case? Nick didn’t think so, at least not openly.
And as the strongest force in the entirety of War Beast Sanctuary, Nick was certain that if anyone could get away with murder in this place, it would be them.
He wasn’t willing to test that theory out.
Unfortunately for him, he would just have to brave this expedition out and hope that he would still be alive to make it back in time to wake Luna up the next morning.
Dido and the War Beasts had already informed him of the kind of beast they were heading out to hunt.
In fact, they had also explained more thoroughly about his role in the whole operation, which was why he hadn’t just said fuck it and attempted to escape regardless of the risk of death or recapture.
To summarise, the War Beasts were heading out to hunt a Radiant Beast, which quite frankly in Nick’s eyes, was suicidal, but that was just him. Deep down, he knew that the War Beasts did in fact have the capacity to take down those mighty beasts, but it took their whole expeditionary force to do so.