"Wha-what happened?!"

Zora, Count Rique's son, who was acting all haughty just moments ago, was now on the ground, with the whites of his eyes showing.

Moreover, his body was trembling nonstop, as if he was possessed by an evil spirit.

"What did those people do?" Thought Lia.

Seeing this scene, many couldn't help but tremble in fear. Especially for the ones that only have ordinary backgrounds.

Most of them only joined the army for the high pay and to bathe in it's glory when it achieves victory.

Never did they thought that they're first ever battle would end in a miserable defeat.

"Keep moving and don't stop!" Shouted one of the guards.

Hearing this, they obediently listened and once more began to move.

To some others that were plotting to start an escape, immediately threw the idea off.

They didn't even know what happened when Zora fell to the ground. If they do anything funny, the might probably end up receiving a more bitter end.

The guards immediately dragged Zora's body away from the moving crowd and then put his body on a caravan.

After that, the caravan left.

"Lia, come on. We have to keep moving."

"Gart. What do you think happened?"

Without looking at Lia, Gart made a straight reply.

"I don't know about that. But we're probably watched by something."

"Watched by something?" Asked Lia.

"Yeah. The guards didn't do anything, in fact, they just watched The Count's foolish son make a racket. And then, that's were it came."

"That?"

"Yeah, a flash of light came from a certain direction. I'm not sure which direction it came from though. However, through this, I am sure that something's watching us. Keeping notice of our every movements. This is probably why none of the guards made a move."

"I...... See..."

Lia then began to deduce what Gart said. If what Gart said is true, then those that were making some "funny" movements earlier were probably already noted on the watchlist.

If what he said is false, then.......

What was it then.

......

On a tower situated on the Fortress walls.

"What great timing. We have a volunteer."

"A possibly immature volunteer."

"Who cares. Our friends down there would have just possibly shoved that guy with brute force. Good thing he mentioned mentioned his nobility. Because of that, I was allowed to use my new toy."

"Moreover, now we can grab some Intel."

"You can't kid me okay. You just want to know how the power control of the new sniper, Ss-77, actually works."

"Ey, at least we now know that it actually works right. Even the police can use this to taser someone from afar."

"Aiyaiyai."

.......

*Philippines*

*Clark air Base*

The presidential private plane made a touchdown at the airbase.
From which the airbase itself, was riddled with news caster's and journalists. Trying to get anything from the recent events the country is receiving.

As Macario appeared to these people, they immediately pounced on him, trying to get anything.

Seeing such a ruckus, the military and the stationed police immediately went into action and block all view and negated any form of contact with Macario.

Rushing into the building of the Department of Foreign affairs, Macario then asked the informants that were with him.

"Give me something good."

"I-i don't think it's good news Mr. President."

"Well then tell me!"

"The compound has been secured. However, a very serious case of trafficking seems to have gone unnoticed."

"Trafficking? As in human trafficking?"

"No Mr. President. It's probably beastmen trafficking."

Macario looked at this informant exasperatedly and shouted.

"The what now?!"

......

*Philippine Marine corps, Fort Bonifacio Headquarters*

On the headquarters, General Lakintaw was receiving reports left and right.

"Report!"

"The compound has been cleared. However, the main heads for the organization was nowhere to be found, at the same time, Manila north harbour container port inc, a port operating company, was attacked during the clearing."

"The port was closed due to inactivity. But there were still some people doing maintenance there from time to time."

"Those that were there at that time said that they saw a sub appearing in the area. Checking the CCTV's, we have classified the sub as an Mariana class submarine. This was probably what they used to escape."

"A Mariana cla-!!! Nasty bastards!"

A Mariana class submarine. A special type of submarine designed to be used at depths around 4000 to 6000 ft. It's crush depth ranging from 6158 to 6786 ft.

For short, the submarine is classified as a bottom feeder of all military submarines.

Moreover, the costs for building such a sub was high. Even them, the Philippines, could only build three of such submarines next to their contingency fighter, were only one of such things were built.

A pity that it was damaged during the fog event.

"Try everything in the Navy's power to locate that sub now!"

"Yes sir."

"Anything else?"

"Sir.... The hostages they had numbered around a few hundred."

"A few hundred huh...."

One more problem. Those bastards had hostages. And they were not ordinary hostages.

They were classified as beastmen.

A species known as a combination of humans and animals. Although the evolutionary path this set of species took is unknown. It just summarizes and holds more proof of Darwin's theory of evolution. (Based on scientists)

"Has this been reported to the president."

"It has already been informed."

"Sir!" A man from the intelligence unit came running to General Lakintaw's office.

"What?"

"The... A beastman wants to speak to our higher ups. He said that he is their tribe's chieftain."

Tribe chieftain? Talk to our higher ups? Why?

General Lakintaw contemplated on this for some moments then said after.

"Bring Commander Allen there to tend to them for the moment."

"Also tell him to try and grab any information on how they were captured, Where they came from, and what happened during their capture."

"Yes sir."

......

*Elf and Dwarf city, Edrius*

"Alright, their royalty is arriving today. Arm yourselves. Bring what you can in case things go south."

"Roger."

"One more thing, act normal."

"Haven't we have already done that for years commander?"

"Fair enough."

A knock was then heard on the door on their temporary residence in the city Lord's castle.

"Sir Brando, Miss Viyani calls for you and your friends."

"Is that so? Tell her we'll see her at the lobby."

"At your request."

Evan, Nievas, and the rest looked at Brando amusingly and said,

"Sir Brando?"

"Really commander?"

"That has been noted. Hehehe."

"Delete that note or I'll make sure that you won't have a good time."

"Roger that... Commander.... Hehehe."