The Duke's Eldest Son Escaped to the Military

Ch. 44 - Platoon Mission (1)

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Iron felt satisfied as he watched his sergeant and corporals work like crazy dogs. It seemed like having a clear goal was the answer to increasing their determination.

However, he soon needed to deal with another troublesome problem right after this one.

After the massive attack of the giant snow rabbits, no large-scale monster attacks happened anymore. However, there were still some occasional monsters that appeared to attack them. And each time these monsters appeared, the being that pricked Iron’s senses always appeared from afar.

At first, he thought that someone was watching him. However, after repeatedly sensing the gaze and the energy that this being emitted, he realized that it felt somehow familiar. It seemed like it was even warning him whenever monsters appeared. Iron was left in thought as he recalled the familiar energy that appeared without fail whenever danger approached him. After thinking long and hard, he finally realized why he felt the energy was familiar.

‘This is the same energy that I felt when Bapsae first appeared in front of me.’

The energy that always pricked his senses felt infinitely close to the energy from nature and the surroundings. It was quite similar to the energy that a spirit or a divine beast emitted. And since the energy was extremely close to nature, it could easily assimilate to the surroundings and hide itself from others. Perhaps this was the reason why Iron had mistaken the being for a high-leveled assassin before.

Anyway, thanks to that, Iron’s senses were honed further.

In order to detect its presence, Iron sharpened and raised his senses to the limits. This helped him further increase his grasp on his mana. Because of this, he was able to take a step closer to taking full control of his mana application. In other words, he was able to take a step closer to reaching the perfect 4th Stage. Iron felt that he was lucky enough to grab the foothold to the perfect 4th Stage while doing his mission as a Ghost.

“The divine beast… is it really missing?”

From what he could see, it seemed like the phoenix did not really disappear or die. It seemed like it was still here in the Winter Mountains.

Iron quickly spread out the map as he stared at the topography surrounding the 4th outpost. The 4th outpost was the place nearest to the area where the Phoenix was last seen.

He could investigate it further but once he tried to go further than the highest place, the 8th guard post, and went to the exact area where it was said to have disappeared, he would face a high possibility of being frozen to death. In fact, the chance of this was almost next to none since he could have possibly died already after meeting a high-leveled monster on the way there.

So, to prevent this risk, it was necessary for him to slowly expand the search area and build a forward base at that exact point.

“We need to make it up until this point but…”