Border Station, also a military fortress.
The soldiers on lookout duty stood on high alert, their postures straight as they vigilantly monitored their designated areas. Though all that met their eyes were the gently swaying grasslands, with no Magic Creatures daring to approach this human territory, there was no trace of the laxity and negligence common among soldiers in the inland.
If the militia from the village the Hero went to rescue had even a tenth of their vigilance, they might not have paid such a hefty price under the Goblin's stealth attack.
This was partly due to their elite competence, but more so because a batch of the border's most elite troops had recently set off from here.
"Captain, they've been gone for over a day now," a rookie soldier said, keeping his eyes fixed forward as he spoke.
