The general quickly got the full picture from Pat's desperation. Even though it seemed like a long shot, it was better to try something than to not try anything at all. Even if they were not able to get the monster to stop, maybe they might be able to get it to just change directions and move towards another city instead.
The general quickly started to put out calls to the various guilds around, and Pat also started to try and calculate the optimal path that the monster would take so that there would be the least number of casualties. But as Pat was doing this, he suddenly got a call from an unknown number. Pat narrowed his eyes in confusion and he almost ignored it, but something told him not to do that. There were a very limited number of people that knew his number and one of those people was Mark.
Pat picked up immediately, and once he heard the voice on the other side, Pat felt like falling to his knees.
[Pat, it's Mark. I need a ride.]
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