章 111: Stepping stones

A large gathering of people; humans, elves, and Demi-species were gathered because of grave concern. To the fore is the human from among the most powerful empire, ranked the highest among those gathered... Seemingly. He had many thoughts, reminded on his way many times over of his duty by his emperor. Even though he had his own thoughts, he still decided to do this when his emperor commanded. Accompanying him is a force of thirty, quite small, but their ranks were high and their execution on missions perfect.

To the east of the beast forest three hundred kilometres away, tents and small earth houses were set up in various sizes.

On what looked like a well-made dais was a man dressed in light armour who spoke up after gathering the attention of all present, flanked left, right and behind by armoured members loyal to him.