Chapter 27: 27. Horrors of the forest

Chapter 27: 27. Horrors of the forest

Dexter reached the entrance of the door of the building which was at the middle of the camp. There, he saw that two soldiers who were holding batons were looking at him. As he approached the door, one of them suddenly blocked his path.

"State your business," One of the soldiers said while looking at Dexter from head to toe.

They noticed how flashy he dressed with his black and golden robe and they thought whether he was from the exploration team.

"I'm with the exploration team. Also with Laurence," Dexter said while he yawned tiredly.

"No confirmation. The camp leader is currently having a meeting," One of the soldier said and tried to push Dexter backwards.

"Ah." Dexter slapped the first soldier and he spinned and fell to the floor unconscious.

Seeing his friend who went unconscious by just a slap, the second guard nearly fell to the ground.

"You– you're one of the explorers," The guard mumbled in a fearful tone but Dexter just sighed.

"I'm having a bad day. Just tell me where Laurence is."

"O...of course. He's upstairs with the head of the camp..." the guard gave him directions and Dexter just opened the door and went upstairs.

The guard breathed a sigh of relief after Dexter left.

"If only I had courage to face monsters head on, I would join the exploration team." He then turned to his unconscious friend. "This fool should learn to ask questions first."

The guard then picked his friend and took him away to the nursing section.

...

Dexter entered the door to see a staircase that leads upstairs with a bunch of other sections. Ignoring other places, he made his way upstairs until he saw a door and entered it.

Entering the door, he found himself in a wide living room with people sitting in a round couch.

Zain spoke as he turned around, "Dexter? I see you're better now."

Leo sighed as he looked up and began to talk, "We should also send out teams to check the forest for these titans. It would be great if we have information on what we could encounter in the forest."

"Yeah, that's also true," Laurence supported him.

Colonel Packard breathed out smoke from his mouth as he considered all the points made and came to a conclusion.

"Chapman, Johnny, Dexter and Leo would be on scouting duty," He said.

"Huh? But why them?" Laurence asked with a raised brow.

"I'm not sure they have what it takes to train people. The rest of you can recruit more people that can stand up for themselves and coach them on how things are done," Packard said and Laurence sighed tiredly and agreed.

'It's a good thing I wasn't on teaching duty. I don't like stress.' Dexter thought and he was about to leave when he saw a telephone with a wire connected to a cube shaped machine which was on a table.

"What is that?" He asked.

"Hm? This is a military telephone for reaching out to other military bases that were far away. Doesn't require satellite," Packard answered.

"Can it call cell phones too?" Dexter asked with eyes full of hope.

"I'm afraid not. Cell phones have a method of collecting and transmitting of energy. This one is different." Laurence clarified and Dexter nodded sadly.

...

After everything was settled they all made their way out of the main building and that's when Dexter remembered something.

"Hey. I forgot to say this. We got a few more rewards from killing the queen bee," Dexter said and Laurence and his men stopped along with Beatrice.

"Have you checked them out?" He asked and Dexter shook his head.

"You guys can have it. I and my team are about to enter Heaven's tower anyways," Laurence said and walked away with the others except Beatrice.

"Let's head to the room then," Zain said and Beatrice followed them.

She has already entered Heaven's tower but seems like she also needed to get stronger too.