Bab 451: Dragon Hunters return

The smoke was raising over the place formerly known as the Tuxi outerpost. 

Normally, I couldn't care less. But right now, this was the place where I was trying to start rebuilding the world one piece at a time. 

And the closer we got to the city, the more confident I was to tell the reason behind the smoke. 

'Someone's burning it down,' I thought, feeling how a strange, dark feeling welled up in my stomach. 

There was still a small chance it was all just an accident. A stray discharge of mana lit up a piece of wooden rubble allowing the fire to spread through a part of the ruins. 

Yet, once we got close enough, I could confirm that not to be the case. 

'The fire is rising from several different parts of the town,' I thought. 'This can only mean that someone is going around, setting buildings on fire!'

"Arty, slow down a bit!" Mia called out, doing her utmost to keep up the pace that I unknowingly keep on increasing.