The Tales of Draconic Warlock

I am screwed.

The sound probably is the only way that I could find out what happened to those two merchants and their group. The investigation teams searched everywhere. They searched every nook and corner. They didn\'t leave anything in the path that they took.

The sound was an anomaly. There was no mention of it in the file. So I believe that the sound might be the possible way to find out but with the sound disappearing, I need to find a new way.

Before that, let\'s loot those idiots. I need to leave this place before the Mayor becomes suspicious and sends more of his henchmen to investigate why those three missed their regular updates.

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(3rd POV)

"What the hell happened for them not to send any information? Did they enter an area where there is no signal?" an old man kept muttering as he paced along the room.

The old man is none other than the Mayor of Endis Town.

He had sent some watchers to keep an eye on the student from the Royal Academy. He came here to take on the mission to find out what happened to the cousins of the Count.

The watchers were to observe him and update him every half an hour. Everything was going fine until now.

After the boy took the mission, he went straight to the Inn where he booked a room for himself. He stayed inside and didn\'t leave the Inn till the next morning.

The time at which he left the Inn confused him.

All the investigators started investigating the moment they got the details but the boy waited till the next morning. Moreover, he left the town just as the sun was rising.

The mayor didn\'t understand the significance at first. He thought that the boy may be over his head taking this mission alone and he would fail but after thinking for a while, a bulb suddenly lit in his mind.

The merchants left the town at a similar time, more or less. This was recorded in the file that was given to all the investigators who came to find out what happened. No one paid any attention to that point but the boy did.

Is that point important?

The Mayor has no idea but he understands that the boy is trying to solve the puzzle by looking at it in a way that no one thought to look at.

There may be a chance that the boy could solve the problem, though he was not hundred percent sure about that, the mayor had a feeling that the boy had the highest chance of clearing this mission. This was he instructed three watchers to follow him, instead of just one.

There was no need to send three to follow just one. In usual cases, one was more than enough even to follow two to three people, unless they decided to divide and move in different directions. Sending three might appear as an overkill but in the mayor\'s eyes, it is still low.

He didn\'t understand why he felt like that but he was someone who always followed his instincts and they never failed him.

So he issued an order for those watchers to update him every half an hour and they did until now.

The last contact was an hour ago and after that, there was no contact till now. There is a chance that they crossed the signal limit.

Though the technology has developed and signals can be reached even if you are outside of the human cities, the coverage is not large.

In the past, once someone crosses a human habitat, that would be the end of communication, unless you use some magical way to communicate but that\'s used as an SOS signal, in case of emergency, not to actually communicate.

As the world progressed, with outposts along the roads, the signal coverage is now quite large. So unless you go deeper into the forest area, the chances of losing a signal are almost nill.

The only reason why that could have happened would either the outpost signal transmitter was damaged or under maintenance or the watchers were attacked and are dead or at least their communication devices are.

If it has to do with the outpost or that the mission took them deep into the forest, then it was well and good.

The issue was that he was feeling that something bad had happened. He has a feeling that they are either dead or their devices are damaged.

There were three watchers and each had their own communication device and it would be too unbelievable for all three to get damaged at the same time. So there is a high chance that they were dead. Maybe the devices got damaged in whatever fight that happened.

The Mayor was someone who would like to take chances. He was never the one who would put his fat in someone\'s hand. He wanted to make sure that nothing went wrong.

He quickly pulled out his phone and called his secretary.

"Mary, call the Night Stalkers. Tell them I have a job for them and to meet me at the back of the mansion in half an hour", he said and ended the call.

After ending the call, he left his office, which was a part of his mansion where he lives. He quickly went to the back of his mansion, to await for the Night Stalkers, who are the best and worst of the mercenaries in Endis.

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Now that it was done, I should check out the area around here. After all, the sound stopped around here. I mean it could have stopped because we were fighting or because I reached the place I was supposed to.

If it was the first reason, then there was nothing that I could do but if it was the second reason, then sooner or later I would find what happened all those days ago.