Sophia deployed her shadow field to search as much area as she could and used her ability to travel across the Ashen Barrens at her fastest speed. Her target was to first reach the area where Rein was seen for the last time and from there she could start searching for him methodically.
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Sophia did not care about the monsters at all and did not try to avoid them. She took the shortest possible path and if any monsters appeared on her way, they were turned into minced meat by an uncountable number of shadow blades.
The more monsters Sophia encountered, the more worried she became. She had not encountered this many monsters when she was travelling toward the temporary base. Actually she had not encountered much danger except for a few monsters with decent strength.
But now with her searching, Sophia noticed that the Ashen Barrens was crawling with monsters everywhere. She was still confident that Rein should not have any troubles with these monsters but unforeseen things always could happen. So she was still getting more and more worried.
But then in one part of the Barrens, Sophia noticed that a huge number of monsters were gathering. Not only that, she also sensed that more monsters were going toward that location at full speed. This was an easy sign to see that something important must be happening in that area. And 9 out of 10 times, Rein would be involved in this.
So she did not waste any more time and immediately started going toward that area. After just a few moments, she was able to feel the familiar presence of the person she loved from the bottom of her heart. Rein's presence was still strong and it did not looked like he was badly hurt.
This relieved Sophia quite a bit but still she increased her speed even more as with this many monsters attacking him, Rein would have already either run away or woke have killed them all. So him staying in that area must mean something and she needed to help him as soon as possible. With that in mind, Sophia quickly went toward Rein's location.
With Sophia's help it did not take much time and very soon all the monsters were dead. The other groups of monsters who were coming toward them would still need some time. So Sophia and Rein had some time to talk.
Rein told Sophia about the problem in short and asked her to carry Ruby. With Sophia's speed outrunning these monsters would not be a big deal. And Rein would also be able to fully focus on killing the monsters and getting away from here.
Sophia immediately followed Rein's plans and started to run away with Ruby on her back. While Rein went to attack one of the groups of monsters who were coming to attack him. Now that Rein did not need to stay in just one area, he used hit and run tactics and ended up killing quite a few monsters.
After making sure that Sophia and Ruby had gotten enough time to run away, he also went back to the new temporary camp.
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After returning to the camp, Rein was able to find Sophia immediately. Obviously she was unharmed and had already taken Ruby to the infirmary. There she was getting treated by a blessed with healing ability and would recover very soon.
That was a good news but Rein decided to go and meet her in the morning of the next day. It was already late at night and Ruby also needed to rest. Then Rein and Sophia also started to rest in one of the tents that they were given and there they told each other about their experience.
Rein also told Sophia about his assumption of there being a mastermind behind all this and she also agreed with this opinion. The way all those monsters were targeting Rein, it was only possible if there was a mastermind controlling and ordering them. From what Rein heard from the organisers, this was a terrible tragedy and a total of thirty seven people had died in this incident.
Most of them were the members of the organising committee who were taken by surprise with the first surprised attack of the monsters on the base. But alongside them, 13 UR grade blessed had also lost their lives. This was a terrible situation that would go down in this world's history as one of the biggest disasters.