"Still no news?"
This is already the thirteenth day since they came back, and the latest exploration team has already made a round trip.
They just went around the nearest village and came back, not because they were tired so soon, but because the village they went to had a little problem.
"...There's no one left in the village?"
The confusion of the long night is still ongoing, the more remote areas are actually the most difficult. Besides, this area is close to the Ashen Forest, which is full of dangerous monsters.
The village is completely deserted, with farming work half-done on the fields, intact houses, and complete mud walls. There are no traces of attack, but all the people are gone.
Did they flee? The leading knight couldn't find anyone, so he reluctantly went to the nearest village for information. The news he got was that everything was fine a week ago there, which had at least several dozen households.
