The next step

As if fate was trying to balance things a bit in Rain's life since nothing had happened as of late, on that night of the fifth day, he finally could see some auras in the distance and on the other side of the waterway… they didn't approach, and it was hard to assume that they could see him from that distance, but they were aware that something was happening in the area and soon they would send a force to investigate whatever that was…

On the next day, coming from the nearest town on the other side of the waterway. A battalion of two hundred soldiers approached the waterway. Since they didn't see any signs of people and monsters around, they didn't feel any danger, and the tremors were no longer happening. Still, they couldn't explain that aside from being the work of a massive sea monster…