Entering To Hell

Wincent POV

The party already ended and we are getting ready to go back...I already adviced general Keisuke, he'll help us getting ride of those ants in at least a week or two.
Their warriors are way more strongers than mine of course.

Boats are ready.

The plan is, we'll separe in groups of three, the two first will be composed with fifteen warriors, five healers, one fire mage and two priests in case of monsters with masive darkness. One of the groups will be doing guard at the enter of the cave, and the second one will be the one that enters to the same.
The other group is gonna be on charge of finding the citizens, for this they have to enter to the deepest part of the town, they have the double of troups we have, probably they'll split when they got in...

I really hope this work...

"Sir Wincent."

"Yes?"

General Keisuke is a holy one. He's been selected by the same gods at the age of six, his father maked sure this new arrived to the ears of the king. Having a holy one is a chance around a thrity five percent, that makes the kingdoms fight for them, the Capital counts with five of them and General Keisuke is the youngest one of.
This only makes me feel way more trusted.

"Can you explain me with more details what happen back there?"

"Ah, of course sir. Is been a week ago since this happen, i noticed that something was around the island so..."

I explained him everything, without skipping any part. I'm not gonna lie to myself, I feel ashamed for telling him that I runned away, leaving the poor corpses of my companions.

The time flew by thanks to my long talk.

Thanks to the gods all of us maked our way here. With difficulty I could see multiple boats...It's too late already? No! There's has to be at least the half of them!

"Sir, calm down yourself, am pretty sure there's still a lot of people alive, I don't think the gods would do something like this to innocent persons."

"Yes...I guess you are right..."

This is horrible, I leaved them die, I should have told the truth to everyone, so they could have had a chance in escaping on time...

"We arrive!"

"Everyone, to their stalls!"

We started to unfold, just as planned.

"Everyone ready?"

"Yes!!"

Everything has to go according the plan. The fire type mage has to burn the eggs when we are done cleaning a part of the cave. He's gonna stay behind us, next to the the priests. If something happenes to him, the second thing we can do is use the priest Holy Light skill, the bad thing is that it uses a lot of mana.

So, we better get the luck of getting blessed by Prithmvà, and by all the gods that are watching.

"Sir Wincent, can you tell me how the ants looks like and how they attack?"

"Oh...Sorry, my bad, I forgot to the tell you that. They were from our size and their skin was red, killing one of them is easy, but if they come in group is literally impossible, at least for us it was..."

"Sorry... for make you go back to that scene."

"It's alright General Keisuke, giving you that information am helping making this way more easy."

"Yes, you are right. We have a high ranking mage, so if they come in group he can just burn them out."

-Tap Tap Tap-

"Hold up Sir Wincent. Someone is there. Could it be that a citizen has been stuck here?"

"That's impossible."

"Ahh...Is someone...there...?"

That voice...Armand! Did he survived?! If that's the case then-

"It's a trick."

"Are you sure, Hellig?"

"Yes, General. I feel a something but I don't know how to describe it... We have to be careful."

"..."

What should I do? I can't leave Armand alone...

"Please understand, Sir Wincent. I know you are hurt about what happened to him, but you told me how you saw how the ants devoured Armand...It has to be a trick of them."

"I...know..."

Holding the tears back, I got into combat stance, along everyone.

-Tap Tap Tap-

Chapter end