Fortress discovered

'Yes, sir, how did you know? Was the main fortress also attacked?' Astrus took a few minutes to respond, but he cleared up the doubt in Athos's mind.

"They're definitely refugees, but you still say you don't know them? Maybe they left after you and went in a different direction?"

"I have no excuses, patriarch." The orc bowed his head even more ashamed.

'My king, I questioned some semi-humans and discovered something unbelievable.' Astrus began to report almost the same information Athos had learned from the orc, with only a few details differing from the original.

'Are you saying that these refugees came from the nomadic clans that lived near the border of the Mirkor kingdom, the ones that usually attack the border fortresses? They were also attacked by mutant semi-humans?' Emilia asked.

'Yes. That's what they said.' Astrus confirmed.