A meeting set up in Armitis Kingdom

View of a long rounded table, with six powerful figures having a heated discussion.

"A group of mercenaries vanished in thin air after the appearance of a demon! Tell me how is that possible?!" King Sermell asked the six nobles sitting at the table.

"That really is strange, Your Majesty! The Magicians have never thought something like this could happen." Head Magician Perse Triflic says.

King Sermell slams his fist on the table causing the whole of it to shake slightly.

"That's you're excuse? Getting prepared for any type of danger is the grand rule of survival. I now have to put back my plan to find my son. Head Magician tract that thing and get a read on where it took those mercenaries." King Sermell points in the magician's direction before leaving the room.

The room was silent, "since this has nothing to do with me, I'm out of here." Count Ferchan says standing to leave as well.

"Same, I have some matters to attend to." Baron Vecca says following behind Count Ferchan.

There were four of the main figures left sitting at the table. These guys will most likely help once they find the loaction the mercenaries were sent to.

"Alright, I'll start tracking the dark magic." Head Magician announced. It was probably better to track from where the thing appeared.

But the magic would be too strong and cause interferrance, it's better to track from a distance.

He stood and started to draw a spell, this will help track the demon that took the mercenaries.

Traces of dark magic began to form, though it wasn't strong it was enough to form a map and mark a location.

"Woah, where is that?" Merchant Hanna asked taking a closer look.

"That place, there's no way anything is there, is just plains." Duke Manroot says with a frown.

The magic disappears, "well that's where it's pointing, but there seems to be a problem." Head Magician says.

"What?" Someone asked.

"While it is true we were able to track it, there seems to be something clouding that specific area. We won't be able to interfer." Head Magician says.

That's the feeling he got from trying to track.

Right now they had no choice but to wait and see what happens next. Something tells him that none of those mercenaries were coming back alive.

Since they are just some mercenaries, it shouldn't be a big deal. There's no need to get anyone's men involved.

Mercenaries Perspective

Things in the plains forest was getting more dangerous, so far five people had died and three were injured. With the way things are going, they will lose even more mercenaries.

The Mercenary leader wanted to find whatever was playing with them and wring its damn neck.

"What do we do, Leader? The three injured will drag us down." Mercenary Jameson says.

It's true that was the case, but there's no way she could leave them behind. It's still not clear on what type of boss monster that ruled this forest.

They were all at a disadvantage here.

"Leader, over there. There's something glowing!" A mercenary pointed due north where once could see a clearing between the trees.

"Everyone gather the injured and make it hastey. The faster we get to that glowing light the better!" The leader orders.

Everyone did as told gathering their supplies and two people each, took one of the three injured.

They made their way through the clearing of the trees towards the light.

There was no other choice, they are either heading towards a haven or their very deaths.

The trip towards the glowing light in the north was shorter than they all expected and luckily it was a place of healing.

"Are we lucky or what? For a healing river to be here, perhaps is there someone helping us?" One of the mercenaries asked.

The leader leans against a nearby tree, she couldn't help but think that this is just one of those things set up by whatever is in this forest.

"Let's keep our guards up." She says.

The other mercenaries looked at each other but they knew their leader was right.

She stared out into the trees, something didn't feel right. So far they have ran into wolves and largely sized shadow spiders.

It's been an hour since they ran into any other dangers, she couldn't help but think something big was going to happen.

"Hey, Leader. There's something strange in the water!" Mercenary Lilian says waving her over.

The leader walked over to the river to have a closer look at what Lilian had discovered.

Something was in the water it had a round shape and was clear.

She reached in and pulled out the item to take a closer look.

"Hm? What does leader think it is?" Mercenary Jameson asked looking over her shoulder.

She studied the round globe like item, there was something yellow with a bit of glitter inside.

It really was a strange item.

"Leader, we're surrounded!" A mercenary yells.

She glanced up in time to see that sure enough there were green spotted lizards coming from the trees.

They were medium in size and their spots were a bit yellow.

"Those definitely don't look friendly.

"Leader, I think you should put that round thing back down. I looked in that river and found thousands that look just like it throughout the river." Mercenary Timth says turning towards her and holding up several of the same round items.

What are the items the mercenaries stumbled across!?