Chapter 69
“Now? Have they arrived at the border already?” Daran snapped.
“No, not the border.“.
The guard looked horrified.
“They attacked Fox Town earlier this evening, which is only about 50 miles from here! The whole
vige was burnt down to the ground…Alpha, you have got toe and take a look!”
J widened her eyes in shock.
…How was this even possible?
How did the rouges cross the border without anyone noticing ande this far into their territory?
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Most importantly, the timing was super suspicious.
They were just about to send out their advance force to the border. Yet the rogues acted before they
did and ambushed their vige first.
Did the rogues know where they nned to deploy troops?
…Had anyone been feeding information to the rogues?
That thought sent a chill down J’s spine.
“J!”
Daran cried and snapped J back to reality.
“I need to go down to the Fox Town immediately,” he said.
“I aming with you!” J hissed.
Daran frowned. He dashed out of the office with J following on his heels. When they reached
the ground floor, Daran said to her hastily, “Gather your best men and meet me at Fox Town. Be
careful!”
“You too.”
J hurried down the stairs and rushed into the night.
She called Balvina first, asking her to assemble their soldiers. Balvina sounded sleepy at first. But
she jerked wide awake when J told her what happened.
“Rogues at Fox Town?! Tonight?” she cried with the rustling sound of clothes in her background.
She was getting dressed at the same time, “But how is this possible-
“It baffles me too.”
J ran across the empty training field and arrived at the warehouse, wrenching the door open.
She put the phone between her face and her shoulder and started grabbing weapons.
“Listen to me. Gather a team and meet me at the north gate in 5 minutes. We areing with
Alpha Daran to Fox Town. Be quick!”
“You got it!” Balvina hung up the phone.
J gathered enough supplies for a team of 10 and rushed back out. When she made it to the
outside of the training field, she bumped right into someoneing her way.
It was Glen.
“J!” he gasped astonishedly, “I just came back from the bar and saw the warehouse’s light was
on…What happened?!”
“The rogues attacked us. In Fox Town.” J said hastily.
“WHAT? How did
“I don’t have time to exin! Just tell Steven and Jeff about this. Ande with us if you will!” J
cried and rushed away.
Balvina and the team arrived at the North Gate at the same time as J. They each grabbed a
weapon, shifted into wolves, and started heading toward Fox Town.
J’s heart was pounding wildly as she dashed across the dark forest with her soldiers. Her heart
was filled with worries and anxiety.
A small part of her kept hoping that this wasn’t real. That rogues didn’t just sneak up to them and
attack their vige. And that everything was simply a mixed–up…
-Till she smelt the burning smell in the air.
“Gamma J! Look!” Kass gasped behind her back.
J didn’t need him to remind her of what was happening in the distance it was quite hard to
miss.
mes could be seen rising through the top of the forest, painting the dark sky into scarlet red.
They could already hear the sound of people screaming, wolves howling and houses crashing down
in fire.
The temperature kept rising as they approached. When they finally arrived, the ce had already
turned into a hell of heat and zing fire.
Hard to recognize that this ce used to be a small and peaceful vige.
“Gamma, what do we do?” Balvina gasped.
“You take 5 people to put down the fire and rescue the injured,” J said urgently. “The reste
with me. Look for any signs of the rogues!”
“Yes!”
They split up.
J rushed down the road with her eyes searching for suspicious figures. But anywhere she
looked, she saw nothing but ruins and ashes.
It was like the rogues had vanished in thin air.
“Gamma!” Kass called right behind her, “There is someone in that house!”
The roof of the house had fallen down because of the fire. And weak groans wereing out of the
ruins.
J came to help Kass. Together they lifted the roof and pulled a man out of it. “Sir! Can you hear
me?” J knelt down by his side and asked, “Where are the rogues? Have you seen them?”
But the man seemed traumatized. He covered his face and kept screaming in fear, “Don’t…No–
Please don’t kill me–I am begging you!”
“It’s OK. You are safe now. Just tell me where the rogues are…”
“I–I don’t know! Stop torturing me! Please I am begging you!” the men wailed hysterically.
J sighed and said to one of his soldiers, “Take him to Balvina. Treat his wounds and keep him
safe.”
The soldier nodded and carried the man away.
J and Kass continued their searches. One by one, they rescued nearly 20 people from the fire,
but none of them could tell where exactly the rogues were.
These people were either scared as hell or injured too severely to say anything.
As frustrated as J was, she couldn’t me them.
These people spent their whole lives living in a peaceful small town, which was not. far away from
the packhouse.
Who would have thought the rogues would attack a ce like this?
A whileter, Glen and his men arrived.
“J!” he cried running towards her, “Any sign of the rogues?”
“Not yet. These bastards vanished in thin air!” J snarled.
“F**k. What do we do then? Shall we draw back? The wind tonight is helping with the fire. Maybe
we should focus on treating the injured first!”
J hesitated, clenching her fists in frustration.
She knew that Glen was probably right.
But she didn’t want to give up looking for rogues just yet.
There were too many questions piling up in her mind. Like how did the rouges cross the border’s
lookout post? How did they pick this perfect timing? And how did they know the way so well and
evacuate just in time?
There was only one answer to all these questions- Somebody was helping the rogues from the
inside.
If she let this go now, she would never find out who the mole was. And they would definitely face
another bigger defeat in the near future.
Making up her mind, J turned to Glen and said, “I am going into the woods to chase after
them.”
“What? No!” Glen snapped, “Don’t let your anger control you. It is too dark out there and you don’t
have any backups! The night and the woods are both working to the rogue’s advantage-‘
“But here is the question! How did the rogues pick their target so well?” J said hastily, “The
rogues had never been here before. How did they know Fox Town is a small vige surrounded by
dense woods with very few armed soldiers?”
Glen froze.
A horrified look appeared on his face.
“J, you are not saying that…”
“It is too early to make any conclusion. But I am going into the woods!” J snapped.
“But to which direction? The forest extends up to 20 miles on all sides. You can’t finish searching
the ce in time!”
J bit her lips anxiously.
Glen was right again.
She didn’t have a clue about where she should go. The rogue’s scent was covered by the strong
smell of fire. And their trials disguised by ashes.
Should she pick a random direction?
Let her gut lead her?
Just then, a distant howling interrupted her line of thoughts.
It was a very strange howling, different from the kind that J and her kind spoke, like a foreign
tone.
“It was the rogues!” Glen gasped in excitement, “But what does it mean? Does anyone speak the
rogue’snguage?”
“To the West!” said Kass abruptly.
Kass was standing behind J’s back the whole time. He looked up to the other now and said in
an urgent tone:
“This rogue was calling out to his fellows, asking them to meet him at the creek down the West. We
should follow them now!”