Chapter 370: Genius Alchemists
When we left The Pit for a second time to look for more survivors in the nearby settlements, we got to a small town that the warriors hadn’t been able to save from the soldiers before.
Rio, who was in my group, told me that they had over fifty brainwashed soldiers protecting the town, and the last time they scouted it, they spotted an Accursed Beast accompanying them.
For that reason, the warriors never had a chance to save any of the enslaved villagers that they kept inside the town.
Now that I was here, they thought that we had a better shot at it. Nevertheless, when we arrived at the town after hours of walking, there weren’t as many soldiers as they said.
There were at least twenty soldiers and no Accursed Beast in sight. Even when I used my "search" spell, I couldn’t sense anything remotely close to our location.
"Are you sure this is the same town?" I asked Rio, who was surprised to see their defenses had gone down.
"Definitely. This is the place..." he replied.
It was clear that Baelzor was redirecting his forces somewhere else, but we didn’t know where they were being taken or why.
If Drakzen had told Baelzor of our presence in the north, then it would have made more sense for him to buff up their security. Instead, it seemed like he was retreating—almost as if he was purposefully giving us the town’s people.