Under a tall, slender Silver Flash Tree, amid the fluttering leaves, Yuta put away the Communication Crystal under everyone's expectant gaze. Several young people immediately peppered her with questions. "How did it go, Captain? What did the lord say?"
The beautiful Female Mercenary Captain tossed her fiery red hair and smiled easily. "What else could happen? His Excellency naturally agreed to my plan. These Cruzian people are secretly raising the dead here, so they're definitely up to no good. They've been holed up in Oweixin for ages, and that may well be connected to this secret. How could His Excellency let such a good opportunity slip away?" Her emerald eyes teasingly swept over her subordinates. "Well? How could my judgment be wrong? You still have plenty to learn, brats."
"Yes, yes, Captain knows His Excellency best."
"But Captain, His Excellency is much younger than you."
"What did you say?" Yuta narrowed her eyes and asked ominously.
"Nothing... Nothing. Did His Excellency give us any instructions?" the young people hastily denied.
Yuta snorted through her nose and grew serious. "His Excellency's task for us is to hold these Cruzian people back. Ideally, we shouldn't let them cross Golden Needle Valley before dusk."
"Wow, that's no simple task. This is an army! How could just a few of us possibly hold them back?" the wizard among the young people immediately cried out dramatically.
"But this isn't an ordinary army. In reality, this army is controlled by only a handful of people. The lowest-ranking Skeleton Soldiers have no intelligence and can only obey orders instinctively." The young knight called Mel thought it over carefully before saying, "So we only need to hold back the people controlling the Skeleton Soldiers."
"That's not simple either." The young wizard shook his head and pointed out the