Chapter 423 - The Worrisome Guard

The warming light of the setting sun made its last efforts to gleam through the dilapidating wooden buildings and tattered huts when the sound of footsteps could be heard from behind the grated gate.

The four guards stationed to thwart any foolish attempt from the locals to make their desperate and forlorn attempts to take revenge for the loss of their loved ones were coming to the end of their 12-hour shifts. Each but one of the quartet has long since forgotten the band of youngsters that came in front of them this very morning and brazenly stepped inside this ominous hellish hole with this gut-wrenching stench.