The next day, after saying goodbye to their family, Billy and Drew headed toward the town ’s western gate. A large number of soldiers were waiting for them there. Around two hundred… Drew went to talk with the other tribe leaders, and then Billy found his friends. However, he was forced to stop when he saw who was the leader of the elementalists mas the black-haired girl.

”You sure like to look at her, ” Natalie said.

”I am just surprised… aren ’t you considering that you are both at the same age? ” Billy asked.

”What are you trying to imply? ” Natalie frowned.

”What I mean is that it seems that they are short handed, since she never managed to wound me… ” Billy said and frowned as well. ”Geez… what is wrong with you? Why are you so angry this early in the morning? ”

”Mind your own business, ” Natalie said and then turned around.

”What a difficult kid… ” Billy muttered under his breath.

She was probably mad because the girl was the one who caused a lot of problems to Natalia back then, on the day of the attack. As usual, she had a short fuse since she couldn ’t let go of that grudge. Nevertheless, Alexander was forcing a smile, and Lily was shaking her head. That really was a group of troublesome kids, and yet, Billy couldn ’t leave them alone.

”What do you think, Billy? ” Alexander asked. ”This mission will be pretty exciting. ”

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”You are the same as usual, huh, ” Billy said. ”Regardless, what happened to your bow? We are going to an unknown area, you should have the means to fight at a distance if necessary. ”

”It will be fine, I will trust my teammates, ” Alexander said.

That was something Billy couldn ’t do. Leave kids to watch his back… that would be insanity. In any case, the group soon began to move without worrying about any formation. While most of the tribes were pretty much divided, there were some groups like Billy ’s… that probably was a tactic to make the members of the tribes interact with the others more.

In any case, the group passed through the forest that the redhead archers used to hunt on that very same day and continued to March in that same direction. Billy hadn ’t seen that because of the thick forest, but there weren ’t many mountains in that area. So, it was hard to imagine why such a large river would exist there.