Chapter 60: Enemy Lines
The days pass by them like a blur, the sun rising for the third time into the sky. Its rays fell upon ready hunters, their staff pointing up to the vast blue above. Their calloused grips tightened on their staffs, narrowed eyes piercing ahead ready for orders. In front of them Vagnis sat with his legs crossed as he eagerly waited.
"Soon..." He muttered, rising to the almost finished city around him, the buildings built from the ground up, their shells long hardened and fighting against the sun. He smiled, "of course. She was right, once again."
Once the sun had met its apex he stood, everyone getting even more tense as they awaited his words, his eyes to the midpass forest as the sun slowly touched the trees that they would soon venture. The wind started to pick up, blowing through his white locks that fluttered in the intense breeze, the cold feeling of the night soon replaced with warmth.
He took a breath, turning to the crowd behind him with a more serious look, the citizens of the village watching on with a more concerned look in their eyes, praying for the people who’re risking their lives today.
"Soon we’ll be crossing that forest," He muttered, though his voice was loud enough to be heard. "Astra and the others have gone ahead but it’s up to us to back them up!"
His grip tightens around his staff taking a minute to gather his thoughts, looking down to his feet for a mere moment as if what to say would be plastered across the floor.
"We may have started late, but this the dawn of a new age, we won’t let anything come in the way of our progress now!" He shouted, though no one said a word, their eyes locked on him listening to every word.
"Celi will soon take us to where we need to be, there she’ll brief us on what the plan is." The Craftsman explained. "We’re going to have to be quiet, the midpass is filled with sound sensitive monsters,"
"But we’ll pull through—for the futures we’ve carved into these stones, for the voices silenced by their tyranny—we’ll save everyone, and tear their kingdom down to its roots!" He smirked as he remembered, a line his friend would always say. Adrenaline and excitement now flowing through his very veins he couldn’t contain himself.