Chapter 539: Night Hawk
The battlefield outside the fortified city had gone from a din of fighting and cries of pain to an eerie, relative quiet.
Apart from the buzzing of the locust swarm beating its wings overhead, even the wounded below struggled to stifle their cries, as though any louder sound might alert the demon in the sky.
For a moment, war seemed to have left the crowd behind.
But not everyone was afraid to move. Among the exceptions were five seemingly ragged "Night Hawks."
The night hawk was a bird unique to the Midoa City-State Union Kingdom. Like owls on Earth, it was a nocturnal bird of prey, with the traits common to such birds: keener eyesight, more sensitive nerves, and greater agility!
One of the night hawk's main habitats was the forest around the Fanite City-State.
In the city-states near this forest, veteran military scouts were given the name "Night Hawk" in recognition of their exceptional abilities. These elite scouts had always been few in number, renowned soldiers who formed no organized units of their own.
In most countries of this world, scouts were not simply mounted reconnaissance troops. They were closer to Earth's modern special forces. Long-range patrols, intelligence gathering, and even assassination were all part of their work.
The city-state and Church forces now gathered around Sword Saint Degoni had sent large numbers of Night Hawks toward Qinggeli. Their primary objective was to find a way to obtain the crystal that the Sword Saint said very likely existed.
On the darkened battlefield, five Night Hawks from the Fanite City-State used the cover to edge toward Brantai.
When the sky darkened, all five had closed their eyes in advance to adjust, so they could now make out their surroundings more easily than the other panicking people.