"Are you seriously going to believe it?" Melody asked while furrowing her eyebrows. Clovis had been sitting on that chair for more than an hour, which made her a bit anxious.
Clovis remained silent for another minute before saying, "It’s a perfect plan. At the same time, they are pretty flawed once they’re known."
"So we’re going to check it after we’re done here?"
Clovis sighed. "We don’t have a choice. If this information is true, we can crush their plans, allowing us to leave the city with ease."
Melody couldn’t refute it. She never thought that they would receive such information and at such a time. She couldn’t help but remember what happened earlier.
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An hour earlier.
"They are in multiple locations."
That information made Clovis frown. "Are you playing with us?"
"No. What I’m saying is that all of them will come from multiple directions. And what do you think is the best place to hide those beasts? No, I should ask you, ’Why do they attack all those cities?’"
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"…" Clovis fell silent for a moment before saying, "They are hiding in fallen cities?"
"!!!" Melody widened her eyes in shock. "Fallen cities?"
"They destroy those beasts to create a container for the next beast wave. It continues to grow. And it’s not like people are going to scout that area at this point, especially the deeper part of the area since it’s extremely dangerous," explained Clovis with a grim expression.
"I only know seven cities where they hide those beasts. From the information I have, each city seems to contain ten thousand beasts. There’s no way they will attack the city with only that number. They’ll surely come with more than a hundred beasts," added Vina.
"Seven cities…" Clovis pinched the bridge of his nose. Even if they could somehow take all of them down, they would still face quite a lot of beasts. The city might be severely damaged, but after killing those beasts, they could still recover.
The problem would be how to crush those cities. Even if they got the help of the Renvolt family and the Havenson family, it wasn’t enough since they would be focused on the defense.
"…" Clovis closed his eyes for a moment before asking, "Give me the names of those seven cities."
Vina slipped a piece of paper.
Clovis looked at those names before furrowing his eyebrows on one of the names. However, he chose to hide it and said, "Alright. How about the south? What do you know about the south?"
"They are creating a kind of program where the cities are holding the line. As a result, there is a buffer zone where a lot of beasts are residing. You can think of it as the wasteland being stretched for tens of kilometers. Even if you manage to somehow fight your way out, numerous people will die. No, even you might die since there are a lot of Tier 5 and Tier 6 in there."
"Buffer zone, huh?" Clovis let out a long sigh.
"They are basically cutting our path to escape." Melody clicked her tongue. "This is getting annoying."
"All you need to do is win. Isn’t that right?" Vina smiled, knowing Clovis perfectly. "Besides, there is already too much blood spilled on this land…"
Clovis knew. All those deaths were caused indirectly by him and his family. However, his parents had defeated the high-tier beasts along with high-ranking enemies. At the same time, now that they were gone, they had to adhere to his grandfather’s rule, which didn’t bind his parents.
Clovis said, "Alright. I understand. Thank you for the information."
"Please take this." She handed over a similar coin to what she had given before. "If you need anything, please feel free to come to me. If there is a bar with two crescent moons on it, you can show this to the bartender to purchase information. Of course, next time we will require a fee instead of a favor."
Clovis hesitated. "Why do you give me something like this?"
"I’m merely showing goodwill. No one really wants to make an enemy of Clovis Hacfield."
As expected, she knew about it. Whether it was from the assassins or it was her own effort, it didn’t change the fact that Vina did it because of his identity.
Nevertheless, one less enemy was always better. He took the coin while saying, "Well, good luck to you too. You will definitely need it."
Vina smiled. As she expected, Clovis had figured out her situation. "Hehe. I hope that we’ll meet again."
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Melody asked, "In that case, should we check it out? We should still have time to confirm it, but we won’t be able to defeat them. Besides, it seems that you’re concerned about one of the cities."
Clovis smiled wryly. He gave her the note containing those seven names. "Silver Moon City."
"Isn’t that…" Melody remembered what she found after doing the background check on Clovis.
"Yeah. It was the city I used to live in before it was attacked by beasts."
"Sorry." Melody scratched the back of her head.
Clovis closed his eyes for a moment. "We’ll be investigating only three cities. As long as we can confirm their existence, it should be enough. Instead of spending more time investigating other cities, it’s better to use it for something else."
"Which city?"
"Silver Moon, Heyasha, Golden Horn. They are not too far from each other. Besides, there might be something that my parents left behind over there."
"Fair enough."
"Anyway, we’ll leave as scheduled. No need to tell the others for the time being. I’ll explain it after we regroup one week from now."
"Sure."
Clovis and Melody chose to continue the hunt without registering what they had hunted in the last few days. Their number increased significantly, trying to catch up with the others.
However, that six-day gap was simply too hard to close. In addition, the others were also refining their own teamwork as they progressed.
Even after hunting tirelessly for the next seven days, the result was as follows:
Kanaria and Ragna: 11,203,500 (3 Tier 4 beasts hunted). Jay and Erwin: 10,858,900 (5 Tier 4 beasts hunted). Clovis and Melody: 9,995,000 (9 Tier 4 beasts hunted + 5 unrecorded kills).