"Leo, I got intel about that region," one master suddenly approached a young man, one who just looked twenty years old.
He was Leo, the leader of the Scarlet Eye legion. And they got this unique na thanks to this young man.
Even if he was young, even if he was just at the early stage of dark gold grade, he wasn't soone to be taken lightly. In the entire Fate Sacred Cult, he got a na for himself; the Deadly Asura!
"And?" Leo passed his fingers through his long silver hair, a habit that he used to have when excited. And he got the reason for it.
He just ended a mission which went all wrong. He faced a stubborn enemy and had to massacre everyone living around hundreds of kilotres to get rid of a nasty infestation curse.
The higher ups didn't like how he did things back there. As he had a long track of bad records in dealing with his missions, he expected a severe punishnt this ti. Last ti he went off with a strict warning and light punishnt. But this ti he expected to get demoted or sothing.
Yet least to his expectations that he got another assignnt just when he expected the worst. This one was a highly valued mission, one that got the full attention of the Cardinal Council back at the cult.
He heard the brief about this mission. And he got to know there were lots of gaps in the information provided by the cult. So, he sent his scouts to see if they could gather up intel before arriving in that region.
"That place suffered lots of turmoil in the past month. It started when a young master ca from the Scorching Lands, one who is famous as the Fox master…"
His right-hand master started to speak about the intel gathered by the scouts they sent. The more he spoke, the more Leo understood the general situation out there.
"... And now there is a huge war going on at that dark academy side. It's the Blue Hills, not too far from our current location."
"Luckily," Leo smiled, and that smile ant he was ready for another massacre, "any clue about the one who rang the bells back ho?"
"So far all the intel we got speaks about the Cursed Black Clouds," the master who was a few years older than Leo paused, and the latter got his face changed the mont he heard such news.
"Don't tell they covered the entire region already!"
"Well… That indeed happened," the master paused, "and on top of that, we didn't sniff the whereabouts of the one who caused all this."
"Hoyo, that's quite bad!" a tough looking master approached, looked at Leo before adding, "last ti we ended up killing a million masters to get rid of such nasty things. Boss, are you cursed or what?!"
"Hahahaha, stop it Jeremy, our boss is indeed blessed with bad luck and the wrath of heavens, hahahaha!" the right-handed master laughed, and Leo ignored the two of them.
"You told they brought an army of hundreds of thousands? Not to ntion the dark ones inside that damn place… It's hopeless…"
"Boss, we should inform ho about this," Jeremy cracked his knuckles, "I don't mind doing my job, but hated it when we got all the bla with zero thanks or appreciation for it."
"Yes boss," the right-handed master, nad Rockos, nodded as he chid in with his friend's words, "we need to get their full support on this."
Leo looked at the two before taking sothing out. Yet before he'd do anything, Rockos received a new intel that made his face slightly change.
"Wait boss, there's an update," he hurriedly stopped Leo from activating the secret thod to contact ho, "not all the monsters are inside that region."
"What do you an?" Leo was holding so sort of a seashell, big enough to fit in his hand, made out of azure green pure and semi-transparent ore.
"Most of them are standing outside, surrounding the entire place," Rockos was also puzzled like Leo, "they just sent three teams of thousands, at most ten, towards that dark academy."
"Just ten thousand? Did they already kill all the dark masters?"
"The dark masters are still alive," Rockos kept listening to more intel from the eyes they sent towards the Blue Hills, "they are around one hundred thousand, if not more."
"That… What do they think of? Are they crazy?" Jeremy exclaid in doubt, but Leo answered such news with a loud laugh.
"At least we are going to escape this without any penalty. Saving hundreds of thousands on the cost of just ten thousand? That's not a big deal."
There was a certain system to assess any team's performance at the cult. One of the paraters was about the percentage of survivors on the cost of the ones getting killed.
"I want to hear everything about what happened there," Leo led everyone in his team and went towards the Blue Hills, "I want to understand why they didn't send everyone out."
"Working on it!" Rockos spoke with the scout team mbers and let them know about their new assignnt.
And soon enough, Leo and others got to know about what happened back at this war, and why things ended up in such a way. It was easy to get such news from the huge number of masters who surrounded the area. And among all their talk, one na kept repeated all the ti: William.
"What an interesting youngster he is," Leo's interest got piqued by what he heard, "try to find a way to communicate directly with him."
"For what?" Jeremy rolled his eyes, "don't tell you are going to break another sacred rule of ours!"
"Co on, rules are ant to be broken, right?" Leo intended to speak with William, a thing that was forbidden in their cult, "he is related to that alert from before. And I'm sure he got sothing to do with the one who did all this."
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