"The supervisor is inside the mine."
"The mine?" Flora's heart sank.
"Yes." They nodded. One of them stepped forth while explaining, "Because of the shake not long ago, a part of the mine collapsed. He was bringing people in to rescue the workers."
Flora bit her lips. 'The situation doesn't look good. In this scenario, the last thing you want to do is go into the mine. Not only the earthquake, but the alien can also cause another collapse. It's especially true with an alien of that size... What should I do? Should I go to the mine?
'But Nathan and Serafina will be in danger. Should I abandon them? The mission will be considered a failure.'
As a royal, she understood that her own life had a higher priority. She didn't lack people who would sacrifice their lives for her sake.
However, it didn't mean she could just abandon them like this.
Even though they weren't her subjects, she was still tied to a contract.
'Should I ask Nathan? Although I hate to say this, that guy might have a solution to this situation. No. I'm hoping he has a plan. If we don't have one, I need to take a more drastic measure.'
Flora bit his lips. She was forced to make a decision when she heard the deep roar of the elephant.
"!!!" Flora raised her head and immediately summoned her familiars. "You guys. Go rampage in this area. Kill as many aliens as possible and ensure the safety of these people and mine."
The spirits nodded without hesitation. "You guys wait here."
The people were confused, but Flora had already leaped toward Nathan. She pointed her palm at the alien and formed a magic circle. "Advanced Lightning Elemental Magic, Thunderbolt."
A bolt of lightning flew toward the elephant.
"Ah shit." Nathan gritted his teeth. From the north, he could see more than a hundred aliens coming. They were easy to spot because they were coming from the sky. Yeah, all of them were flying aliens.
More importantly, he could see a giant humanoid alien. Instead of a beard, it had tentacles. There was a pair of wings on its back as the alien was holding a giant club made of the symbiote.
His instinct was telling him this was a mature class alien.
From the east, he could see a giant six-legged spider. The legs looked similar to humans, and the top of its body was filled with many tentacles. This, too, was a mature class alien.
Underneath the spider was a cloud of dust, showing that there were also a lot of aliens coming with the spider.
From the west, he found a worm that bulldozed everything in its path, coming at a much faster speed than the rest of the aliens.
Last but not least, they didn't see anything but a dust cloud. However, Nathan's familiars were most wary of this direction, as if they realized the strongest one was actually coming from this direction.
'What is going on? How come all those aliens move so fast? If they're near us, Flora would have noticed. Nidhogg should be able to sense them too.
'The fact that they haven't sensed it this whole time means they're not there. It's as if the alien is moving as soon as we arrive here.
'Are they waiting for us? No. The alien might be smart, but they shouldn't be able to use such a tactic. In other words, something is going on without our knowledge. We have been trapped.'
Nathan bit his lips. The situation was looking worse. There were at least five mature class aliens in this area, along with a few hundreds, if not a thousand, lower-level aliens. The number of juvenile class aliens must have surpassed a hundred as well because Nidhogg had a hard time earlier, showing the ratio between juvenile class and proto-class aliens.
Unbeknownst to them, there was a man watching them from afar. He was the person Nathan met earlier in the town, Iskar, or more like Iskar Haygaiden.
Iskar smirked. "Well, how are you going to handle this? If he is able to survive, it means he has another backer protecting him, as long as I don't sense the Sage. If he doesn't survive, the Sage will lose a piece he needs.
"Of course, I'm going to kidnap him right before the alien kills him. Still, Master has told me not to mess with Nathan for the time being, but there's no better time than this. I need to know whether the Sage is the one moving piece, or this guy is a hidden threat."