They all continued to walk in silence, as the neared the border of the town they could see many people building to fortify the walls of the city.
As they exited the gates a man called out to them, "Hey you three! Don't try to skip out on building this wall to go kill yourselves the beast in the forest are more dangerous than the ones attacking the village so it's best you three…" the man began before he saw Jason put his hand in the air as if waving.
In the same moment Jason raised his hand a large dark abyss appeared surrounding the entire village as though it were alive.
The man that had called out was an adventurer, and as an adventurer he could recognize this legendary formation.
All through the adventurer guild there was a rumor of a shadow king that commanded darkness to an extent he could defend cities alone without the help of other and without lifting a single finger but he never expected to see it in person.
"The ruler of darkness is here…" the man said under his breath as the backs of the three figures in front of him seemed to grow ten times in size as tears of relief entered his eyes.
"Everyone stop working go get some rest, we will pick work on the wall back up tomorrow." The man said wiping away his tears before he quickly quoted the protest of those saying the wall needed to be built or they would all die eventually.
"It's fine it's fine, the adventurers guilds finest had arrived and placed a formation around the town get some rest and place your trust in them." The man said as he continued wiping tears from his eyes.
'Luke, Jamie.. you guys didn't die in vain.' He thought to himself as he finally collapsed from his own physical exhaustion alarming many of the people below as they went quickly to catch him.
Lucian and Althea raised an eyebrow at Jason's ability to casually put a ring of his own energy around that entire town. It was much less of a town and more of a well sized city built along a cliff side.
The adventurers guild was just normally placed closer to a border where adventurers could easily access and leave the city and adventurers guild making it seem like a small town as they exited. But in reality what they had seen was barely a tenth of the entire city if that.
Such fine control of one's energy on such a large scale was rare even amongst heavenly geniuses. Jason surely couldn't be as simple as he presented himself.
"Uhh by chance can you tell us your rank in the guild?" Althea asked as her curiosity had been peaked. They could all clearly hear the man's words as he told the citizens not to worry.
Hearing this Jason smirked and laughed lightly to himself, "in the adventurers guild it is considered impolite to ask someone their rank unless recruiting them to your party, in addition to that some ranks hold a confidential status like mine and your own." Jason said in an amused tone seeing that the two youths looked up to him a little more as an inspiring figure.
Hearing this Althea harrumphed while crossing her arms showing a dissatisfied expression.
As they continued to walk down the path exiting the city the roadway became less and less dilapidated to the point it finally looked like an actual road again upon entering the forest.
Near the city the road and nearby lands had been torn apart and destroyed by beast hoards and human battle technology like swords, guns, and bows.
The three entered the forest, and immediately felt a crawl up each and every one of their spines as if something began watching them.
Immediately the thought of running out of the forest entered Lucian and Althea's mind before they were stopped by Jason's hand landing on their shoulders.
"Stay calm, we would only lead whatever has its sights on us to the city." Jason said in a low and calm voice before pulling out his adventurers badge.
He typed on the screen for a moment before the face of Xander appeared on the screen, "Master prime, I am requesting s rank to z rank back up. If not we can also withdraw and let a more powerful team handle it?" Jason said in a low tone as the three became low and moved towards a bush each facing a different direction.
"It is that serious? I was wondering why a mid level world would be struggling with a mission of that caliber. I will issue the order for back up. Make sure those two brats use this to get stronger and if you die I will bring you back myself so I can kill you with my own hands." Xander said through the badge before the connection cut out completly.
Hearing the sect leaders words Jason broke out in a cold sweat while Lucian and Althea forgot about being called brats lightly laughing at Jason's situation.