After Evelyn left the Town of sharpton someone of importance came to the town it was none other than the famous former A-rank Adventurer John hameris he was the guild master of The town of malses that Evelyn had first arrived at.
"Hey! John it's good to see you after so long!"
Guild master Gorman said as he greeted his old friend.
"Gorman, it better be worth it! I have to run here because that brat Garuda said he won't drop me here!"
John said angrily, Gorman understood his reactions but it was currently breeding season for the magical Garuda tribe so they won't respond to your summons as long as it isn't important and summoners life isn't in immediate danger.
"I understand you know, but that weird incident brought back memories."
Gorman replied with a grim tone, even John stopped complaining seeing his friend was in a serious mood.
"What do you mean by that?"
John asked with curiosity in his tone.
"They were corrupted , though it was only in small amounts,but when that many monsters attacked I could feel it, if it was one of two monsters I couldn't even have felt it."
Gorman said in grim tone, surprise could be seen on John's face but it also turned grim.
"Are you sure you weren't dreaming?"
John asked in a skeptical tone, he just didn't want to accept that horrors from the past could once again bear its ugly head, while it all appeared so peaceful too.
"Yeah! And I am not going senile even Mark felt it you know."
Gorman said with bit of agitation.
"Now I understand why you asked me to come, but corrupted monsters are corrode others with miasma I didn't feel any at all, if more than 300 corrupted monsters attacked that there should be casualties, even you and Mark can't protect everyone while fighting those monsters."
John replied with confused query.
"Well it was because we were fortunate enough that traveling mage stopped by."
Gorman replied with sigh of relief , he was really glad that mage girl stopped by without her help he and Mark had to deal with monsters but that was easier said than done as miasma could've weakened them and it wouldn't be strange for weakness to accumulate and then to die, but with help of other Adventurers they were hoping to avoid that but that would've led to casulities among weaker Adventurers, but when the girl helped them out no death took place it was honestly impressive.
"Oh, mage? Is it famous B-rank mage or something?"
John asked as his curiosity was perked.
"No, she was young girl about 13 and she had quite the bit magic power reserves "
Gorman replied with enthusiasm, he wouldn't have told about it to anyone unsavory but John was his old friend and he cared for all Adventurers and their freedom.
"Young girl huh? That's interesting wouldn't you agree ?"
John said with grin on his face I couldn't understand his reason at all.
"So what was her rank?"
John continued asking, he had inkling who it was as he had observed young mage with quite promising future before in the townhe was guild master at, he didn't interact with her but he felt her mana she has stupidly crazy amount of mana but she wasnt good at controling it so I had to keep eye on her when she was in guild so her magic won't go haywire.
"She was Cute D-ranker with silver hair and blue eyes, she was quite young girl so I was surprised by her strength."
Gorman replied with look of wonder, John couldnt help but smile his friend really admired brave people and when little girl like her took to fight despite being not confident he admired her guts.
"Oh that lass,I know her, she registered in my guild not that long ago."
John replied with a sense of pride, Gorman groned, they have this friendly rivalry going on they keep an eye on promising youngsters that register in their guild and then compare whose registered Adventurers were more impressive.
"Anyway we should check out the forest as early as possible."
Gorman said with a grim look and a light atmosphere that went out of the window John also nodded with a heavy heart he didn't want to deal with corrupted beings but it couldn't be helped if they are trying to rise once again .
After resting for bit , Gorman, Mark and John began searching through the forest and to there utter disbelief they couldn't find even hint of corruption or miasma it took them more than two days to search the surroundings thoroughly but they couldn't find the source of corruption at all that unsettled veteran like them, not having any good lead they couldn't continue the search though the result of search that even someone experienced like them failed to find the reason behind sudden attack from corrupted monsters but they couldn't find any clue and returned to the guild, after that they searched the perimeter of the forest and once again they couldn't find anything while they were searching in the town I slump district of town a clocked man with sinister aura was standing in front of group of thugs thugs attacked the sinister man but to horror of thugs robbed man released black mist that have creepy feeling but they couldn't dodge it and they were corroded and only mass of flesh remained of the 3 thugs black mist began coming from the three thugs and it was way larger in amount than released by robed man, while this was happening residents of slump hide themselves in there houses hoping that neither thugs nor creepy man encounter then, after seeing no one in front of his creepy man's hood came of he had creepy red eyes with white hair with scar across his face.
"Glory to the Evil one."
Chanting sinister phrase that sinister man vanished from the place.. as if teleported out