The wording of the document was severe. Charlotte did not dare delay; he only had time for a brief farewell with Anne before hurriedly leaving Strasbourg with all his subordinates.
This time, Sophia Garland was not among his party.
Nor were those younger students from Sheffield University.
This trip back to Strasbourg had brought Charlotte a great harvest. Both his position and personal strength had improved. Aside from being somewhat reluctant to leave Anne, he was in quite a pleasant mood.
After leaving Strasbourg, Charlotte joined up with the troops stationed outside the city and headed straight for Machu Picchu. Though they encountered scattered groups of defeated orcs along the way, they caused him no trouble. After all, he now commanded the main force of the West Wind Knight Regiment and the orc Labyrinth Guardians, enough to confront any orc tribe head-on.
Upon returning to Machu Picchu, the first thing Charlotte did was convert the orc warriors captured along the way into Labyrinth Guardians. Then he discovered a major problem.
Among the three hundred-odd orcs he had captured, there was one he could not turn into an NPC no matter what. It simply could not be converted into a Labyrinth Guardian.
At first, Charlotte was rather surprised, but his surprise quickly faded...
And turned into dread.
What kind of person could not be turned into an NPC?
The answer was simply one he did not want to face.
In an instant, Charlotte thought of seventeen or eighteen possible plans, but in the end, he decided to do nothing.
It was like discovering that a tiger had slipped into one's flock of sheep. If the tiger pretended to be a sheep, the shepherd was best off pretending it was one too, rather than poking at the tiger and reminding it to