Chapter 292: Orders Now

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Chapter 292: Orders Now

As they walked in Donny saw they were the only group to arrive just yet and wondered if maybe Keel in his distressed state hadn't kept the track of time correctly. He didn't say anything about this though and just silently waited for other people or Keel to say something. He didn't think that would happen though because when he looked at Keel he was just looking at the ground.

After a while Rigbis and his entourage showed up and Donny apologized to Keel in his mind for thinking he had messed up. It seemed they had only been a few minutes early in reality. Going back to waiting since none of the other groups had shown up yet Donny tried to read the faces of the people near Rigbis like he always did whenever he knew they had news for the fortress.

Like the last time he had done this he didn't get much from the faces of the people close to Rigbis and he was pretty sure the people who looked upset were the same people that had the last time. Since last time it had been good news about rescue Donny guessed trying to read the faces of any of them was a complete waste of time.

Like this they all waited till another group of people walked in. Donny looked at some of the faces and found it was the people that hadn't been put into either team when he saw Fendis with them so all that was left was the other team and they could finally hear what Rigbis had to say.

After a while Donny started to get worried and when he saw the people in Rigbis' group whispering he knew he wasn't the only person who thought it was a bad sign that the other team hadn't come yet. As he was wondering if in fact they had been infested by Demon Worshipers and undead when they went outside a few days ago Donny looked around for the guy he had been yelling at all day to shut up about infiltrators so he wouldn't cause a panic.

Donny would really hate it if this guy thought he had been the only person to see this coming if it ended up being true because that wasn't the case at all, Donny had just shut him up so no one would panic because what he had been saying was a real threat. There had also been nothing they could have really done about the other team since they weren't allowed to leave their room.

Seeing it rush towards the closest person to it and be struck with a spell Donny looked away from the door it had come in through and looked at Keel. "What are we doing?" They needed to go and reclaim the fortress before the intruders completely took it over and opened a gate to let more enemies in and so far Keel hadn't shown any signs he planned to do any more.

"Waiting." There were reasons for them to do this but since Keel hadn't given any Donny started to worry that maybe Keel didn't have any and was panicking too much to think. It didn't make sense for someone at Keels rank to act like this but the last few hours made it clear the news about the Temple had affected him heavily and he wasn't in top condition at the moment.

"Keel we need to move towards the gate and secure it." Donny was sure there were a few other smaller entrances but the gate should be their top priority. It would also make sense for him to make a barrier there since it would help protect the gate if there was going to be an attack from outside as this was happening. "You're right. Give the orders."

Hearing Keel give him command Donny yelled over the noise of the room and gave his orders. "Into the hallway!" He made it loud enough so if any of the people that weren't in a team wanted to follow him they knew what he was doing. Of course this would allow any enemies who were hidden within this room to go with him but there was nothing he could do about this.

As they moved he could tell no one wanted to follow him out into the hallways that were infested with an unknown number of undead but they did as they had been told and a few extras from the other group joined them including Fendis. Like he had thought he felt very wary of the others that had followed them but he didn't fear for his life just the other people in his group.

Knowing it wasn't the time to hold back Donny started to weave a formation he had learned from the shield and held it in front of him. He could feel how unstable it was as they moved but the fact it was holding together this time really showed that he had made a lot of progress in mana control in just the last few weeks.

As they turned the first corner Donny saw a large group of undead doing something to a small group of bodies. Not wanting to give them the time to finish whatever it was they were doing Donny sent the shield formation forward to cut them in half.

This was the first time he had tried to use this formation to attack since he had never had enough control to keep it stable this long so he wasn't sure if it would even work but when he saw it pass through the undead like the shield did he put his worries in the back of his mind and kept moving towards the gate.