บท 107: Finding the place

"Sir, are we getting close?" One of the mercenaries asked.

"I don't know. We can be just a step away from the place I'm looking for, and we might be still weeks away." Layn shrugged his arms in response.

It was the fourth day since they first encountered the strange, monster-producing facility. Ever since that time, the changes started appearing all around them.

At first, the monsters turned far more intense. From their aggressiveness, through their power all the way to their density, all of those statistics jumped up, forcing Layn to withdraw all his forces and move as a single unit.

But that was only the beginning.

After passing the first facility, Layn thought that it was just one of the few that sprawled all over the desert. Yet, barely a few kilometers deeper into the sands, another magically active mound of earth appeared, striking through the surface of the sand.