Chapter 192: The Expert

Chapter 192: The Expert

With the actual plan identified all Lake needed to do now was bring this map to Masters and he was sure Masters would know what the Demon Worshipers planned to use to form and power this massive formation. Running back to the guild with the map, Lake slammed it down on Masters desk.

Lake didn't even need to say anything for Masters to realize what the shape on the map was but he didn't seem to understand why Lake had put it on his map. "Why did you draw all over my map?" Lake guessed a formation of that size wasn't something one saw every day so he could understand why Masters had missed the point.

Before Lake could say anything to explain what it was, Masters said. "Are you saying we should make a ward for the city or something?" Lake could tell Masters was reading the formation he had set on his desk so Lake didn't correct him right away and said. "Are you saying this would form a ward if it was made and powered?" Continue reading on No_veLbIn

"Well that's what this part would do but there are a few other places in the formation that I don't recognize. Listen, it's not the worst idea but it really isn't something we could do with just a few hours of time. We also would need more resources than we could request from the guild to do something like this."

Lake stopped Masters here and said. "This already exists, the Demon Worshipers set it using buildings to hide it and this isn't the full thing but I didn't go over the whole city because I wanted to bring it to your attention as soon as I realized what it was." Lake could tell Masters was shaken by what Lake said but he seemed to have a problem with what Lake was telling him.

"We would be able to tell if there was a formation this big being set in the city. We would all be able to feel it." Lake was about to say more details that might help Masters answer his own doubts but he was cut off by Masters asking. "How were you able to see it if it's under the houses? You weren't gone long enough to go into every one of these building basements."

Lake was kind of hoping that Masters would just take his word at face value because of the fact that he had saved his life yesterday but it seemed what he was saying was too far out there to accept with no evidence. Lake didn't think they had time for him to convince Masters with a made up method so he just chose to tell him the truth, or close enough to the truth.

"Masters what is it? We're kind of busy right now." Masters didn't start talking till he had handed the map to the Temple Head. "We found what the Demon Worshipers are planning. It's some kind of giant formation and we were hoping you could help us destroy it by painting out key parts of each part of the formation."

Lake had to say, the tiny dwarf took the news quite well or at least he didn't change his face much and just started to look at the map. Around ten minutes later Lake started to wonder what was taking the dwarf so long but eventually the tiny dwarf did look up from the map and say. "What idiot drew this? It's not even complete. Look here this is an imprisonment formation but because it's incomplete it looks like a ward."

Lake didn't mind being insulted like this because he hadn't been able to go around the whole city plus he wasn't an expert on formations or anything so his ego wasn't wrapped up in this like someone who thought they had done a perfect job and was proud of their work. He was really just trying to do the bare minimum as fast as he could and he was pretty sure he was killing it if you were to judge him based on that.

You couldn't really dispute this fact either since this tiny man had been able to identify what the one part of the Formation did. "You can still help us though right?" Lake found it nice that Masters didn't say Lake had been the one who had drawn the map and had just moved the conversation along like nothing had happened.

"I can but I would recommend you get your forces ready before we start because there's no way the Demon Worshipers will just let us stop them. As soon as we move in on the first location every Demon Worshiper will try to lay the formation before we can destroy it or stop them. We also need to worry about the fact that any good plan has some redundancy and that's also true for formations so the formation is probably set up to still do something if heavily damaged."

"Are you saying we should hit multiple places all at once?" The tiny man nodded and said. "That would be for the best but I need time to try and decipher all of the effects this formation might have hidden in it and to do that I'll need the full thing so send out whoever got this information again to finish the job."

Lake didn't care if the dwarf knew it was him so he said. "I'll get on it right away but I'll need the map back so transfer what I already have to a new sheet." Lake was expecting the Temple head to use paper but instead he just wove it out of mana in front of them and then handed the map back to Lake.

"Good luck Lake, I'm going back to the guild to start to organize the strike teams." Master waved bye to him and started to run for the door and Lake was on his heels when the Temple head stopped him. "Try and get more information than just where it is this time. Knowing what they plan to use to lay it is very important. If it turns out to just be a few powerful mages it will be easier to just kill them."

Lake wished he knew more about formations so he would be able to identify the Demon Worshipers chosen method of laying the formation easier but he still said. "Yes, Temple Head." Even though he didn't really know if he would be able to meet this request.