When they arrived in Deep Stone City once again, Kudla and his subordinates felt as if they had been cut off from the outside world for ages. When they curled up in Silent Highland's narrow cave, no one would have thought that they would once again see this familiar scene. Some of the surviving mercenaries burst into tears, sobbing and lying on the ground.
Kudla only dozed off for a while; then he felt frustrated and depressed. On the way back, there have been two or three subordinates that spoke with him privately; they were trying to leave the mercenary group and quit being a mercenary. It's something often happened in a mercenary group. Mercenaries were still humans; if they were put near death situations regularly, naturally some would fear for their future. This time they were lucky because the reinforcement from Mercenary Association made it in time. But how about next time? And the next?
