Around Cratter Spring, Lean and his friends were preparing their meal and weapons. Sierinn and Ises was the one to cook, Lean was reading inside their bedroom, Axis and Maxx were polishing their weapons. The aroma of the prepared food by Sierrin and Ises went all over the house. The scent of the hot soup prepared with a sliced chicken on it, together with some fresh ingredients that Ises brought back in the market, made all of them feel hunger as the tasty sauce of meat was prepared by Sierrin, its sweet aroma made their friends suffer on hunger.
"Isn't it ready yet?"
; Asked Maxx, who is really hungry.
"Ain't yet!"
; Replied Maxx, mixing the thick tasty sauce.
"You better sit your ass down there yet, this meal needs a very keen focus"
; Ises, tasting the hot soup from the pot.
"You get to taste it, can I too??"
; Asked Maxx, who was very upset looking at Ises tasting the soup.
"Nah-uh"
;Ises shakes his head.
They continued doing their designated tasks when Lean appeared beside their meeting table.
"I'd like something to discuss regarding--"
; Was interrupted by Ises.
Graille walked towards Jaeye holding the serving spoon and stopped when he reached his front.
"Discuss after we eat"
; Ises.
"Is the meal now ready?"
; Maxx, asked while his tummy growling.
"Eat up! Don't let our prepared meal wait and turns cold!"
; Sierinn, calling for his friends to come.
"But can't I discuss this before we eat?"
; Asked Lean, looking to his friends in the table.
"Lean! we should eat up first"
; Maxx, convincing Lean with his very sweet eyes.
"Yeah, don't you want Maxx to listen to your discussion? besides, we are all starving we might not be able to understand every little points we'll be hearing with our stomach empty, sit up!"
; Axis, convincing on Maxx's behalf, tasting the hot soup on a bowl.
"You got point"
; Lean walked to the table and sat down for a meal.
"Both of you do not prepare this kind of meal often, are we celebrating or what?"
; Asked Lean to Sierinn and Ises.
"Oh, we haven't thought about celebrating or what, but I only knew Ises dragged me into this because he said that it'll be hard for us to eat this time like this with a very delicious meal once we begin fighting nitros"
; Sierinn, took a sip of the soup.
"Ah yeah, sorry about that, I'm not saying that we won't be able to do this again but, we'll be all tired and busy somehow that now that those demons appears everywhere. Let us just consider this as an appetizer before killing and saving one's lives and family shall we?"
; Ises, smiled sincerely in front of his friends.
"Let's do this!!"
; Maxx, lift up his meat with sauce on a fork on the table.
"For Iuzenki!!!"
; Axis, lifted his meat with fork.
They all did what Axis and Maxx did in front of the table which brought them happiness and determination.
After they ate and cleaned the table, Lean began to call his friends in the meeting table as Maxx and Ises sat down on the floor, while Lean, Sierinn, and Axis sat on the chair.
Lean, speaks in front.
"I don't know how to put this up but, earlier, I happened to bump with Lt. Col. Viess, he was alone wandering inside the city and I asked him the state of the land, what he said is that, level 3 nitros have a large percent attacking each"
; Lean, worried.
"Level 3?"
; Asked Sierinn.
"There are 3 levels of nitro based on their danger. Level 1 must be easy to kill as well as level 2, well I don't know much about level 2 but level 3 has the very high state of danger, luckily it only appeared at Lau Spring and was never found. But still, they haven't discovered where it came yet"
; Replied Lean.
"So, there's no report about the nitro on the third level that appeared in Lau Spring?"
; Asked Axis.
"Certainly, so we should be more careful, I believe our cursed swords will be a great help killing those"
; Lean, crossed his arms.
People refers to call their elemental made sword as a "curse" to make the information about where it came and how it is made for keeping it hidden.
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Earlier...
"if the general asked for me, report to him that I've gone somewhere and it'll be quick"
; Lt. Col. Viess, talking to Isle in the hallway of Euzenki Palace.
"Understood, Sir"
; Isle, Niel replied.
Lt. Col. Viess left the palace and continued to get his horse and proceeds to leave the Euzenki Kingdom. He first visited Ubactia, looking at the place, it seems very quite early in the morning, no people were outside nor looking at the window, perhaps every window in the village were closed. He continued visiting all places of Iuzenki in a circular form, but only that, he didn't passed through Millwalls and Lau Spring.
He took off in Cratter Spring and walked while the horse of his were held by him in a lead, there, Cratterzes (people in Cratter Spring) windows were open, some of the children were looking out, and some of the teenagers and adults were standing in front of their door, either watering their plants or just getting fresh air.
As Lt. Col. Viess pass, there was someone in his front that he bumped into, and it was Lean.
"You are not supposed to--"
"I know sir"
Salutes.
"I'm sorry for doing this, if you think I'm disobeying orders, first hear me out"
; Lean bowed down to Lt. Col. Viess.
"If you want to buy something, we'll be announcing what time would it be for safety"
; Lt. Col. Viess replied, looking at Lean.
Stood straight up.
"No sir, I'm Lean Len, one of the men that has been reported one of those who killed a nitro back in the market"
; Lean, smiled.
"Oh, is that so? you did a great job, I'll be speaking to the general, now you should go back--"
"Sir, I wanted to ask how's the state of each city?"
; Lean quickly spoke.
"Clear. But level 3 nitro might appear often. Who knows, it's a very large percent that I'd rather not talk about here outside the public. Now, you should go back to your house because I'm just taking a quick observation around, I shouldn't be bothered with all questions, but you're lucky because you happened to be one of those tough boys who fought that nitro"
; Lt. Col. Viess replied and parted away.
"Be safe sir!"
; Yelled Lean.
Lt. Col. Viess raised his arms in a second, responding to Lean.
Walking while the sun rise up, Lt. Col. Viess was thinking about some points of how they will defeat the unknown nitro, slaughtering human kinds wherein they all once lived in peace and wisdom.
As Lt. Col. Viess continued going to the Euzenki Kingdom, he gradually head straight up to the North Phase 16 of Euzenki Kingdom, remembering that the researchers who observed Lau Spring went there before this morning.
Almost 1 hour passed, Lt. Col. Viess stood in front of the door, staring, thinking of what he'll speak in front of them, if he's going to ask some certain question or give an order in advance. While he was in a state of focus, someone opened the door, startled and then salutes to Lt. Col. Viess.
gasp.
Holding the door knob.
"Good morning, Lt. Col. Viess"
; Ms. Oli, smiled, seeing Lt. Col. Viess standing in front of the door.
"G-good morning, I'm sorry if I scared you, but I'm here to say that, please. Do everything that you think you can find as soon as possible"
; Quickly, he replied.
"Of course. It is our duty.. knowing that the euzanndys have been appearing in some many places unknown, let's put an end to this after so many years"
; Ms. Oli.
"Thank you"
; Replied Lt. Col. Viess, looked down.
Behind Ms. Oli, there was a voice walking nearby and suddenly widened the opened door.
"Lt. Col. Viess"
Salutes.
"It's a pleasure meeting you here this morning"
; Mr. Riell, looking at Lt. Col. Viess, smiling.
"It's a pleasure meeting you sir. I'm here to ask the state of the researchers and when you all will start investing the subject"
; Humbly asked Lt. Col. Viess.
"Come inside, we'll let you know the situation"
; Offered Mr. Riell, one of the researchers inside.
Three of them walked inside the room, Lt. Col. Viess was offered a hot coffee while all the researchers inside gathered in the sala to report the situation.
" We spend the rest of our night hours to investigate the subject. We can't dissect him yet, but he accompanied us in the search of Lau Spring this past week. He is Dr. Dine, Willy Dine. One of the greatest researcher. He's from Widers and he still have a wife and 2 sons. We really respect him. We all know that we don't have time for mourning. But maybe later we'll be doing the work"
; Ms. Oli reported.
"I understand. Why is he half-bodied?"
; Asked Lt. Col. Viess.
"That's what we also wanted to find out"
; Replied Ms. Oli.
"We'll do everything to keep everyone safe, since we have a subject, this will simplify the problem"
; Mr. Riell added to the conversation.
"I wish you all goodluck, we're going to protect everybody as well. We're all counting on each other"
Stands.
"I have to leave now, we all have important works to do. Thank you"
; Took his bow and left.
Lt. Col. Viess proceeds to leave and ride his horse and goes back to the palace.