Chapter 315: Search Party Mobilizes
After slipping away from the site of the battle, Liam circled around, entering the enemy’s premises.
These lands were actually still within the borders of the Gresh Kingdom. However, at the moment they might as well be the dark elf territory.
For all he knew, there could be more dark elves here, perhaps waiting for an opportune moment to attack or perhaps not even planning to engage in battle because they had other reasons to be there.
Liam intended to scout about these things as well to make his plans accordingly.
Irrespective of what laid ahead of him the fact that they had successfully managed to deal with a significant portion of the dark elf camp would not change.
Liam steadied himself and slowly looked around.
There were still a couple dozens of dark elves in between the human NPC soldiers from the other Kingdom, fighting fiercely on the battleground.
Now that Liam was on the other side of the war, he was able to get a better look at the overall status.
He took a moment to observe everything from this side and then his lips curled up into a small grin.
Yup! They were definitely winning this battle!
He sighed slightly and then continued to move further out, now away from the scene of the intense struggle and fight.
The black mist also thinned out and slowly by slowly, the smoke, the dirt, the shouts, and the shrieks from the battle also died down.
He had finally managed to leave the area of destruction.
The battle had utterly devastated the landscape and made it unrecognizable.
Trees, forests, all the greenery, and even small hills had been blasted into nothingness and now only a barren land was present instead.
Not that this side was any better.
Since the dark elves already had time to do whatever they want in this territory, these lands also resembled the site of the battleground.
They were barren, dull, and dreary as if life had been sucked out of them. Liam paused for a moment and stopped his advance.
Instead, he started looking around a bit more in the same area.
This was because other than the site of the battle, there were surprisingly no more dark elves.
He moved around with as much speed as possible and combed through the entire area but he couldn’t find any dark elves or even other human beings for that matter.
Whoever was here was already participating in the battle.
There wasn’t even a single soul apart from that anywhere around him and definitely not any more dark elves.
“That’s it. This confirms it.” Liam came to a conclusion from the facts he observed.
There were no big units of dark elves or NPC soldiers or other players for that matter lying in wait to ambush them right after the battle was over and their team was exhausted.
When the dark elves had brought out the main Generals and the NPC soldiers that was the last of their backup.
This felt a bit unusual to Liam. “Shouldn’t there be at least more players in the vicinity?” He pensively looked around.
A battle of this scale was bound to draw the attention of the other players no matter what.
But surprisingly, no one was there. Not one wandering pest.
“Maybe the other players did not notice because this is in the middle of a high-level zone?” Liam concurred.
“Or maybe some other event is happening in the city?”
Irrespectively, he did not think too much about this.
He sent a message to Berat who was still back at Yleka city taking care of the gold farming and the market manipulation.
They were short on men right now so he had to act as an intel gatherer as well, but the person had been reliable until now.
So Liam sent him a message asking him if there was something unusual or significant happening at the moment.
“Check in the taverns and the inns.” He added as they were the best places to get random information and gossip.
After that, he did not linger on this thought any further and quickly moved on to the next target.
Alex! He needed to find her!
Liam circled the area for a few more minutes and then began systematically combing the nearby forests, towns, and villages.
Unfortunately, the dark elves had already laid waste to more than a dozen places so the area he had to search through was considerable.
Moreover, Alex could be held hostage anywhere, even someplace like the underground tunnel back at the necromancer’s hideout.
Thinking about all of this, Liam stopped moving again.
The task in front of him was definitely not simple and it was going to take him more than a few minutes to accomplish all this if he had to do it by himself.
Also, he might not have that much time.
If the dark elf assassin or thief came to know that the battle was coming to an end and their side was losing, he might take drastic actions.
If he kills her, then that’s good because it would simply result in a graveyard spawn saving everyone the trouble.
But seeing that he hadn’t killed her for so long, Liam knew that the chances of this happening were slim. That and probably the person was deaf?
Otherwise, he was sure that the hot-headed woman would have chewed his ear off and made him want to kill her.
Liam shook his head helplessly and chuckled. He only had half a mind to search for her. The woman was more trouble than she was worth it.