Arrival

Jason and the platoon finally arrived at Earl Grey's territory. Or at least that was what Boops said, if Jason looked at the map, they really were in the Earl's territory, they had followed the road at around the 3rd day. And they had finally reached it, 4 days of heavy marching, not that Jason was tired or anything. Sprinting for an entire night was much harder than this. Besides he got to sleep and take breaks during the night and make food for the trainees so everything was good.

The wolves definitely enjoyed it too, especially at night when Jason made a large amount of food for everyone.

As the platoon traveled down the road, Jason looked around him. The land was just a grassy plain. Jason could see for miles and miles around and yet no human activity could be seen except for him and the platoon moving through the road.

Jason's map told him that no human activity or even animal activity was near him. He at least expected some animals or something to be around them. But the plains were just eerily quiet.

The platoon suddenly stopped and Jason tried to look around and see what was the reason why they stopped.

Boops suddenly said

'Jason, a group of green dots are approaching us, and fast, I'm not sure who they ar.... oh wait, its green barrack members'

Jason looked to see a group of hooded people running towards them if Boops hadn't told him that they were the green barrack members he would have instantly gotten on guard and pulled out his sword.

Jason watched as the group of hooded figures ran quickly to Charlie who was in the front of the battalion. The person in front of the hooded figures pulled back his hood and Jason saw that it was the green barrack member who had talked to him about whether to bring the wolves or not.

His face was flushed and he was breathing heavily. He started to talk to Charlie quickly sadly Jason was too far away for him to hear anything. What he did know was that Charlie got a serious and a bit of a worried expression on his face when he heard whatever the green barrack member told him.

Charlie turned around and yelled out in a hurried voice

"We are marching double-time, get your weapons ready"

The entire battalion roared out a "yes sir" and the started prepare their weapons, the blue barrack members had their hands on their sword hilts, the red barrack members placed their large shields and maces and heavy weapons in their hands. The green barrack members integrated with the platoon and Jason could see them pulling out bows checking quivers. Others pulled out daggers and fiddled with them.

The relaxed and mischievous nature of the red barrack members had disappeared, the blue barrack members started to stare off into space like they were thinking hard and the green barrack members countied to stay silent just silently fiddling with their weapons.

Charlie then started to jog, and the entire platoon started to follow him. Jason could hear Boops getting confused

'wait, shouldn't they want to go to the nearest city first? why are they going to the one on the border of the two kingdoms?'

Even though it seemed like they platoon members were jogging, before the started to run Charlie had chanted something. For some reason Jason could hear the chant perfectly it went something like

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w╎リ↸ ∴ᔑꖎꖌ

A fast wind started to get conjured up behind them and it lowered itself and blew towards their feet if Jason looked closely he would have seen their feet slightly glow in a light green glow. The entire platoon felt lighter/

And soon the entire platoon even though they were jogging could audibly see their surroundings blast past them in a blur. Before it was hot because they moved further inland and away from the nice and cool sea breeze and now the sun was shining down on them with all of its hot brightness. But the wind that came from the entire platoon's speed was like a refreshing bath, it was a bit strong though but that didn't matter.

The countied down the little path cut in the grassy plains. Boops was saying some stuff about how fast they were going but Jason wasn't paying attention, instead he was paying attention to the smoke that appeared in the distance.

Now Jason wasn't an expert in smokes and fires, but if you saw a literal cloud of smoke in the air much longer then a few hundred meters long it probably meant something was wrong. And the rest of the platoon it seems noticed and thought the same thing as the speed of their jogging increased to an all outrun. And with Charlies chanting and magic it only served to make then faster.

Jaso could hear somebody in the front shout,

"the village it's burning!"

Those words only served to make the entire platoon run even faster. Jason heard Charlie yell out

"green barrack split off and secure it"

Jason witnessed the 15 green barrack members in their black or roguish clothes split off and run towards the village. They blasted off towards it and Jason could see them only get smaller and smaller as they ran towards the village.

Then Jason heard Charlie shout out again

"ARCH BRING THE WOLVES TO LOOK FOR SURVIVERS, WE WILL MEET YOU AT THE CITY, MOVE IT PEOPLE WE ARE IN A HURRY PEOPLES LIVES ARE DEPENDANT ON US"

Jason nodded and got out of the formation to run up to the wagon that the wolves were in. He shouted to them as soon as he got into ear shot

"Jeffery, Asher, Lance get everyone out! we are going to help that village"

Jason could hear Jeffery and the rest shout out instantly

"YES BOSS"

And Jeffery with a few younger wolves jumped off and raced to where Jason was running too. Asher and Lance were still at the wagon hurrying the rest of the wolves. Soon thanks to their hustle all of the wolves jumped off and were running with Jason who was running next to the sprinting platoon members.

Jason increased his speed until he passed almost the entire platoon. He finally was next to the front of the platoon where Charlie was.

Charlie yelled to him

"ARCH, THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THAT VILLAGE BUT I CAN'T COME AND HELP FIGHT OFF THE MONSTERS THAT ARE ATTACKING IT, WE HAVE A CITY THAT'S UNDER ASSAULT RIGHT NOW, THAT'S OUT PRIORITY MEET US AT IT THE GREEN BARRACK MEMBERS WILL SHOW YOU, NOW MOVE"

[new mission]

[defend the village]

[rank: B]

[description: defend the village from the monsters attacking it]

[rewards: dependent on completion rate]

Jason nodded and split off with the wolves. The platoon at that point had almost passed the place where the smoke was coming from. Jason and the wolves took a 90 degree turn and made a beeline for the village.

Jason yelled out to the wolves as he ran

"Asher, Lance take two squads of five to go around the perimeter of the village the rest of you guys smell out any monsters inside the village after that assist the green barrack members. Jeffery on me!"

All of the wolves growled in affirmation and Jeffery even started a howl that was picked up by the rest of the pack.

The green barrack members who were fighting smilled as that howl was very familiar to the monsters that were fighting, it suddenly gave them a chill.

The arrowhead formation that was formed naturally with Jason in the front started to split with Asher and Lance quickly barking and taking a group of five with them. They quickly started to run tot he edges of the village which had come in view.

Jason could see the village that was made out of wood. Most of it was burning and he could see humans running away from monsters. Some screamed as they got cut down by the cackling green monsters.

As soon as the wolves saw who the monsters assaulting the village were a collective growl of hate eminated from them.

Their limbs started to churn even faster, Jason started to quickly anylize the situation while Boops started to shout out information on the monsters

'Jason, 600 goblins are attacking that village there are around 70 survivors 67 now, HURRY UP JASON'

At Boops's urging, he started to sprint even faster making the pack push themselves to keep up.

In the village, these fasts shadows were slaying goblins left and right while a small number escorted a group of 30 villagers to safety.

Screams of woman children and men alike were in the air. Smoke was everywhere and hanged on the ground like a fog.

Bloodstained the ground goblin and human blood intermixed and above it all you could hear the monsters cackling in glee at the chaos they were creating.

Jason slammed down the iron helmet down on his head. And a familiar red aura surrounded his right eye.