When Villin jumped out of the hole in the wall, he immediately started sprinting together with Rein and Kayley. Luckily they didn’t seem to be in some sort of military base, instead, they could see a city only about ten kilometers to the west.

The problem was that there wasn’t anything between the city and the warehouse, the city was surrounded by flat grasslands with extremely little vegetation. There was no place to hide.

Rein and Kayley looked as if they were close to panicking but Villin didn’t feel this way at all. He felt calm and was able to think about the situation realistically.

In at most three minutes the soldiers would have smashed open either the door or a part of the wall. Another ten seconds later they would have made their way to where they were standing now. Even though Villin wasn’t sure how accurate the rifles of these soldiers were he still recalled they also had weapons that looked like sniper rifles.

Villin looked toward the left and right of them. With the city on the left side, the right side was just empty for as far as they could see. Other than a bush here and there there was nothing else.

Rein and Kayley were looking at Villin nervously. They had been thinking of possible ways to survive. Thus far the only option seemed to be trying to use stealth spells but they had no idea how effective these would be, they somewhat wished they tried on the mask of the first soldier they killed now. Then at least they would be able to know if Villin’s guess was right and they could track heat.

“We’re going to attack them,” Villin said calmly after about ten seconds.

“Huh?”

Both Rein and Kayley reacted in the same way. They remembered when they were taken there were at least fourteen soldiers in total. There was no way they could defeat so many, hell thus far they had only been able to take care of some soldiers because they weren’t prepared. If they were holding their guns and were alert and ready to fire even just the first soldier they killed would’ve had a decent chance at killing one of them.

But before they could voice their concerns, Villin laid out the plan.

“Right now we broke through the back wall of the warehouse but our enemies probably still believe we are fortified inside. Pretty much all of them should be heading to the door we blocked off right now, ready to take us out. This means the front of the warehouse should be largely unprotected. On our own, we stand almost no chance against these soldiers.

Kayley, you may have a large variety of spells but they mostly lack power. Rein each of your spells may be incredibly useful but you don’t have enough of them. As for myself, I am also lacking in both of these parts. 

But Amelia is different. She only stayed within the first grade because a teacher told her to. She even has a healing spell meaning she should’ve been in the top three in one of last year’s tournaments. She has a bunch of spells and knows how to utilize them better.

So the plan is to go in through the front as quietly as possible, find Amelia, and then let her think of a way to escape utilizing her spells.”

Rein and Kayley looked at Villin with surprise, they didn’t think he would be able to properly plan under this kind of pressure, they certainly couldn’t.

Before they could ask Villin about the plan some more though, he already started taking off. In about two-and-a-half minutes the enemies would probably realize they had escaped the room. Even though there was almost no way they would then suspect them to have infiltrated again, they might have people capable of tracking their footprints and the soldiers would probably spread out a little again, increasing security over the entire facility.

Villin sprinted, he decided to move past the western side, just in case they had someone that came from the city. The trio sprinted quickly, soon arriving at the corner that would connect them to the front of the facility.

Villin slowed down as he prepared to peek out to see if there was any security. When he slowly peaked out he was pleasantly supplied. There were some pallets with supplies and even a couple of forklifts in front of the big open gate that was used to enter the warehouse. It looked like some supplies were recently delivered and they were still busy bringing everything inside;

Villin noticed one of the forklifts was in a raised position with a pallet attached, it was clear the worker had suddenly left.

As for guards, Villin didn’t see any, Rein also peeked and confirmed this. It was likely the ‘workers’ were supposed to be the guards and were actually also soldiers. After all, there was no way soldiers with some of the best weapons out there could just stand in front of the warehouse without attracting attention. There was still a road nearby so there were people that could notice such a thing.

Villin and the others quietly snuck up to the open gate and prepared to enter. If there were guards waiting it was highly likely there would be one standing on either side again. Villin would once again take care of the potential enemy on the right with his overwhelming strength while the other two would cooperate to take care of the other soldier quietly using their magic.

After Villin used ‘Mentallage’ to count down from three the trio stormed into the warehouse, immediately focusing on where they suspected the enemies to be, but there were none.

It looked like all the people defending the main entrance had indeed gone to the back. When Villin looked inside he once more noticed most of the area was like a warehouse. Surprise surprise.

It looked like the plastic constructs holding the pallets went all the way from one side of the warehouse to the other, up until the containment area that was.

To the right of them was another separate area though. This was quite normal, after all there were still people who had to do paperwork and the likes, normally Villin would’ve just assumed it was a place where the workers did this.

But now this wasn’t the case. If Amelia was within this compound she had to be there. The only other option would be that she would be stashed in a random crate but if this was really the case, there was no way they would find her.

From where they were the trio could hear voices coming from further inside of the warehouse. Around the area where they had killed two soldiers earlier. This made it so that Villin had to open the door they had to go through quietly. If they did like earlier and just barged through, the soldiers they heard now would be alarmed. Then it wouldn’t be long until they got blocked from the exit, and somehow Villin doubted the trick where they made a hole in the wall would work twice.