It took the group another hour or two of scouting around the crumbled sheds and village huts. They didn't manage to find anything else other than a few gold coins or ruined goods. From those they managed to prove that this had definitely been a spot to stop for rchants at one point. It might have even been what fueled the experintations.
"Now that we have dealt with that, we should head out, right leader?" Walker looked at Onyx who had managed to get them back in to a group to go over their findings so that Walker could send as detailed a notification to Clara as possible. He didn't get a response since she was exceedingly busy but this was not an extrely pressing matter. It was a random occurrence that the party had happened upon completely by accident.
"Yes, party mber. We will get in the carriage and continue on if songstress Alice is feeling up to it." Onyx teased Walker right back a little but was serious when he looked at Alice. She had gotten much more active and felt very good about heading out now. She raised a small fist to show she was all in on getting them ahead of their travel schedule. "Then onward we go!" With the starlight crickets behind them, the party was on their way yet again.
"… You go out to hunt for a ravine and search it for serpents and you find mutated magic crickets? What even is this." Clara was in her office rubbing her temples. She had no idea what kind of luck her party had but it was extrely unusual. Not only this, but she saw that they had docunts and other evidence for the adventurer's guild to take and use to investigate.
Since the group had been out, Clara expected so interesting results about the ravine. It was a worry that many rchants had co to the guild with since it was a danger they could face while transporting goods. There was the possibility that it could grow more like so had in the past and cause ascertain trails to be unusable. But this was just out of nowhere.
"We need to send a party to investigate an abandoned village. I want four mages, two tars, and the rest guards!" Clara yelled out and a staff mber just outside of her door rushed to get a party together. "I need soone to contact the demi-human representative as well. I want them to co by my office!" Clara also saw the notice from Walker about demi-human connections aning that it could have been a small group of researchers that split off from the two kingdoms and joined together in their slightly twisted ideals.
The next ten minutes were filled with Clara sifting through so old docunts hse had been brought about experintal farming. There were many that had strange ideas to improve farming but the human kingdom had not delved in to this too much. They trusted their farrs to rent the land and work hard to make everything that the kingdom needed. It tended to work out since the farrs always had great pride in the way their produce grew and hoped they could show off their hard work. That and they would be able to sell their best produce for better inco.
"Soone ca to ask to see you. I didn't think the adventurer's guild would be asking from , especially after your big announcent. Need so advice on infighting already?" Scylla had assud that she was called upon because of her battle strength. She knew that there might be so trouble between so of the smaller and inexperienced adventures trying to get the best herbs.
"No, nothing like that. It's about farming. In particular, experints farming with monsters. Mutated monsters." Scylla held up a hand. She was much more serious.
"We put a stop to that so years ago. During a reduction in food due to root rot and additional rain, we lost a few fields. Those that wanted to prevent that ca up with many different ideas. So were not acceptable. Mutating plants can work. Mutating monsters…despicable." Her voice was heavy. This was sothing that the demi-human kingdom had not been proud of. From what they had learned, they had acted swiftly.
"We stomped out those problems as soon as they arose. The fools made berzerk hounds, venomous lynx, and even tried to turn a simple fish in to a fast growing monstrosity which caused us to completely bury our largest reservoir. But they and everyone that fell for their ideas were imprisoned or dealt with otherwise. My people do not stand for such experintation." Seeing that Scylla felt so strongly assured Clara that this was sothing she could rely on her for.
"Then it will not be a surprise to you that our heroic friends found an abandoned village that was once used by humans that spoke with your prisoners. Apparently, they followed those theories and experints to create sothing called a starlight cricket. One that they had an encounter with since the village apparently still had living specins there." The look on Scylla's face was one that could silence any army out of fear. This was the look of the real general that stood at the front line of battles.
"Then I will personally take troops to handle it. Do not worry yourself. This is on my shoulders. I may have been a few years younger when I learned of it, but that does not an my feelings have changed over this matter. It would be a failing of the entire demi-human race if I did not clean this up." Clara nodded and handed over a docunt she had been writing with all the information and location the party had just been in. She trusted this matter to Scylla completely.
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