Alterra Village.
[Your subsidiary village Vismont Village (Lv3) has been taken over by Shrao Village (Lv3).]
The announcement rang inside Althea’s head, causing her feet to pause.
"Miss Althea?" Luis asked, concerned. The others also did as well. She shook her head and waved her hand.
"Go ahead."
They weren’t able to discuss anymore as soon as the gates opened. They were expecting celebrations—not at their arrival, but overall. This would definitely have been the case, except for a few accidents that happened just before it ended.
They frowned when they saw that everyone was looking at them seriously. Winona appeared, panting heavily as if she had just run a marathon.
"Althea" She yelled, coming to hug her, greeting her with red eyes.
This naturally made Althea very worried. "What’s wrong?" she asked, patting the woman’s back.
"First of all. Everything is okay," she said, and somehow the serious atmosphere lessened.
"What happened?"
"Calm down and come to the hospital with me," she said, practically dragging Althea. The others who were with her were fortunately brought into the loop by people nearby, and many of them also headed to the hospital to see some teammates.
"What’s going on?" Althea asked as she followed Winona, her pace following hers.
"Don’t panic," Winona said.
"Just say it already!"
"Well, some people tried to kidnap your children. Ansel, Garan, and the others saved them." fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm
"WHAT? Are they alright?" Althea exclaimed, her steps immediately hastening to the point that she was already running.
"Yeah, they’re unharmed," Winona said as she struggled to follow her pace.
"And Ansel?"
Winona sneered, but her eyes were a little red at the memory. "In one piece, unfortunately."
Winona sniffed and wiped her tears as subtly as she could. She then told her of what happened just before the war ended. "The enemies were incredibly sly. They even used a magic weapon to make sure they were not interrupted.
"Obviously, they stayed with the intent of targeting key people."
"The old women were lucky and weren’t too hurt, managing to defend themselves. The guards are okay too, though they’re still in the wards. For the most part, it’s credited to your protection charms that they have all their limbs after being beaten up so much.
"The trespassers were caught by Garan and were now being apprehended. He’s probably with the babies right now though—he refused to place them out of his sight again."
"As for Ansel… he got injured because… of a bomb which was somehow there."
She couldn’t even think of where the bomb came from for now—her ears were just ringing to know someone extended their hands to her children!
She couldn’t imagine what would have happened if the bomb exploded with the babies nearby!
She arrived at the hospital with a nervous heart—no matter how many times Winona reassured them they’re all fine—and immediately went to one of the private wards.
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