Chapter 105: Waking Up
"The mission came from the Dragonborn of Radagan. It’s a search mission."
Alpha’s brow creased in a slight frown. Radagan? She tried to remember what world Radagan was again, and it was only after a few seconds that she remembered them. Radagan was a world populated by Dragon and Wyvern riders about five Dimensional Leaps away from Kari. From her information in that part of the Primordial Expanse, she knew that they were currently going through a coup d’état that led to the death of the incoming king and queen. The Dragonborn all possessed high affinities to fire-based magic, and there was a time when Alpha thought about recruiting some of them into her Phantoms. But she decided against it. The world of Radagan was filled with powerful warriors, but they were prideful and quick to anger, so they weren’t suitable for her line of work. Alpha only accepted people she could control.
Alpha’s voice came out in a smooth tone.
"Is the mission to search and eliminate?"
"No. It is a search and retrieval mission. The target is Riyala, the former princess of the Dragonborn who is now an exile. The client also asked us to eliminate anyone standing in our way. Discretion is not necessary."
Alpha’s only reaction was a calm blink as she watched one of her men tear a gold ring away from a woman’s finger. She narrowed her eyes when the man tried to put the ring on, and the man immediately looked up at her in fear as he felt her mana reaching for him. He quickly put the ring into a bag that held other valuables, and Alpha turned away from him and glanced back.
"Does the client know where the princess ran off to?"
The man behind her shook his head. He could already tell that this mission would take a long time, so he made sure that the client explained things as thoroughly as possible. But even the client was in the dark about Riyala’s whereabouts.
"There was an incident between the Imperial Guards on Radagan and Riyala. They chased her down on dragonback when she escaped from the palace, but when none of them came back with news, a second group was sent out to investigate. They found the dead bodies of two of the Imperial guards along with a dragon and wyvern. The third Imperial Guard and his dragon had disappeared along with Riyala."