Chapter 902 Crisis Averted?
While the girls were busy "asking" the demons for the whereabouts of the real people they had copied their faces on, I went around the camp, checking the defenses of the camp. Although they only use wood as their main defensive walls, they are made from tough wood, and knocking on them allowed me to see their durability speaking for itself. I am pretty sure it won't be knocked down so easily.
But even with the toughest defenses, there are bound to be some mishaps, especially since the demons who disguised as villagers might have already tampered with a few defenses in the camp.
Checking around, I found a few hidden ladders scattered and hidden, covered with fake grass to blend into the grassy ground and allow it to safely hide away from me and from the real villagers. Lifting it up, it's clearly pretty high enough to reach the wall and allow its climber to breach through the wall itself. And since the area I was in is far from the entrance, and checking from the drop area of the wall, it's clear it is planned already for them to use it. With multiple ladders located in different locations, they are definitely planning on infiltrating the camp without passing the entrance with the guards. With many ladders scattered, it is meant to be an all-out attack later on.
Not only that but some of the wood on the walls has been modified as well to allow entry by pushing a part of it that will reveal a hidden entrance as well.
"It seems they have already made some adjustments in case the others fail or are discovered."
I even have a theory that somewhere in the forest would be a tunnel that extends up to the camp and the exit is just hidden inside. I will have to examine the inside of the camp as well to ensure there will be no place here that will be used for illegal entry.
After my check, I found 5 ladders hidden and 3 hidden entrances from the wall, all situated to fill all the gaps in the camp and overwhelm everyone before help arrived. I took some notes on the locations of the hidden entrances to show them to Ragga. I also gathered the ladders in one place to let Ragga know about it.
But I am not done. After discovering those things, I went around the camp once more but a little bit farther in the perimeter to check for anything that seemed a little off. But it seems the demons have not gotten too smart to think of anything aside from those obvious traps I discovered, which is fine but I am a little bit disappointed.
Afterward, I returned to the camp and checked the surroundings. I asked a few of the soldiers who were also around the camp to help me look around for any suspicious areas as well and it didn't take long for us to indeed find a tunnel. It was located near the storage room, hidden under a barrel that looked full but was actually empty, allowing for easy lifting for intruders to come in.
We entered the tunnel to trace back where it came from and we realized they made a very long tunnel. There are even some of the tools used for digging as well left around the place, meaning the tunnel was just recently done. When we reached the very end of the tunnel, we emerged from the forest, near a brook. We looked for traces around and it seemed that nothing was around aside from some of the tools clearly used for the digging process.
Because we can't fill it back up with soil, the soldiers just rolled over a big stone and blocked off the entrance with it. I don't know if it was a good idea knowing demons can actually remove them if they have someone with abilities but I guess if they have indeed destroyed the rock, every guard in the vicinity will notice it.
All of the stuff that I noticed was immediately reported to Ragga and he immediately demanded his soldiers to repair the walls immediately. He also took the ladders I found and proceeded to destroy a few of them, only leaving one ladder as he wanted to have one he could use. Other than that, nothing much aside from him cursing the demons on their work.
I returned to the girls and I saw that most of the demons were either cradling their bodies with extreme pain registered on their faces, or they had been mentally scarred for life. I don't know what happened to them but knowing the girls, I would rather not know about it.
But thanks to their ways of "asking", they got what I was looking for.
"Still, to think that none of the copied people survived... It's a bit sad that they are now dead," Rika sighed.
"They needed the people who got their face copied by the demons dead to make the ability work right? That's a bit of an inconvenient ability for sure," Zena shook her head.
"Not really, I can see it as a way to also silence the original and keep them from ruining the situation and the disguise having close to none being revealed. You can say that it is an ability they deemed to be totally useful indeed," Riko shook her head in sadness.
We went to Ragga who was currently in the healer's house with Mimiko and his daughter. Their daughter is still asleep due to how potent the sleeping powder Pixie caused her to sleep. But she will wake up soon enough.
As for what was discovered by the "asking" method that Riko and the others did, Ragga didn't waste any more time and gathered a few of his soldiers to accompany him and us to find the dead bodies.
Ragga was silent throughout the whole thing as we found the dead bodies one by one. Some of them are still fresh and the flies have not yet gathered on some corpses while some are already rotten and some have already been decomposed to the point that we cannot even bring them back due to the intense smell.
Because some of the dead bodies can no longer possibly be retrieved, we have to perform a cremation to get rid of the smell, the dead body, and the contamination, while also giving down a prayer to ensure that even if they have been burned, they won't become vengeful spirits in the future.
As for the rest, the soldiers have gathered them and wrapped them in leather skin. A mass grave will be made for the dead bodies later and to also let the people who lost their families know the fate of the people who were copied by the demons.
In the end, we wrapped up everything smoothly. So smoothly that I can guess that the crisis mentioned in the prophecy will no longer happen due to my interference. Perhaps the biggest thing is that the predicted crisis has now been averted. Or is it?
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