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Chapter 44 - Chapter 44 – Catching the pestilence culprits

Third person POV

 And so, the mayor of the town arranged 2 of the squads of his town guards and assigned one of them to guard and keep an eye on the farmer's remaining farming fields, as well as his neighbor's. Also, the second squad was assigned to guard the town's food reserve silos due to a possibility that any of the culprits who was responsible for the pestilence attacks might also attack those three tall silos. Russell and his group split up into two: Russell and his May party, alongside Cassius and Taryn, will guard the farming fields while the dragon family and Alder will guard the silos. All of them kept watch all day just in case any of those culprits would attack during the day.

 Then, at night, as the full moon rises over the horizon, one of the hooded members of the Square Order of the Squirrels came to the fields, sneaking in. His intention is like the others: to ruin the crops with insects using magic. So, as that hooded member used his magic to summon a variety of insects to eat and ruin the fully grown crops, Russell saw that and came out, using his lightning magic to kill off the insects.

And then, he did so, and as the insects fell to the field dead, the hooded figure was shocked to see that. "W…What the…?"

Russell then came out of the hiding spot and approached the figure, summoning lightning magic on his right hand.

 "So, it was you…" he asked with a serious and cold look on his face.

He still wore his bus driver's uniform because it was quite cold that night.

The hooded figure trembled and was afraid of him and his miniature wrath, but before he could sprint and get away with it, Azalea froze his legs with her ice magic, disabling him from moving at all.

Then, Cassius, Taryn, Adrian, and John came out and faced the disabled hooded figure with their magical abilities.

Taryn had an ability to call upon nature's animals like birds, and so, she summoned some birds from the nearby and surrounding forests.

The exception is John, who just growled at the figure like an actual wolf instead.

Being surrounded by them, the figure scowled at them and tried to use his magic to summon a swarm of insects again; this time, to attack them.

But Adrian immediately used his Mind Manipulation ability to temporarily disable the figure from using his ability, causing him to struggle to use it.

 Meanwhile, another 2 hooded figures from the same organization are sneaking into the property of the town's food reserve silos holding fire torches. Their intention is to burn one of the three towering silos, thus causing a little food shortage in the town. But Alder and the dragon family saw them going to do that, so the four of them came out and retaliated by using their abilities. Kelly, Rai, and Ria used their ice-breath magic to immobilize the two would-be arson intruders, while Alder used his archery skills to shoot their fire torches off their hands.

 Their combined teamwork made the effort, and before any of the two torches would touch the dry grass, Rai immediately shot 2 ice attacks to freeze the flames. She did so, earning a compliment from her mother. Now, two more intruders were captured by Alder and the dragon family, and the second squad of town guards came to the scene to apprehend the two shady individuals.