Chapter 762: 762

Arlo was a scout in the Benton adventure team . The Benton adventure team was very famous because of the accurate information that they sold .

Arlo was just a novice warrior, but he did receive a lot of training in the art of disguising himself . He was very talented at being stealthy . This way, he managed to infiltrate into a lot of places without ever being detected . Like now, he was out in the Orc Empire’s wolf garden, and he was several hundred miles deep to do his scouting mission .

About ten miles from where he was, there was a hiding spot where his partner was waiting for him at . That partner was waiting for him with the mounts that he prepared, and once he was back, they could just leave the place without anyone noticing .

There was a city in front of where Arlo . The infrastructure was not very city-like, actually . The walls (built with clay) were only about three meters tall . It was enough to block away snakes, insects, and small animals, but if, say, a lion decided to run it over, there was pretty much nothing that could be done .

This was Niyan City where worgens lived in . Arlo came here to check on the circumstances . More specifically, he was here to check on how much military presence there was here . He was going to draw everything on a map, and once he was back, he was going to sell the map to other adventure teams .

For the past few days, human adventurers had been going on an onslaught of any orcs that they could find . The area was much wider than before . Now, about several tens of miles of radius outside the orc battlefield became the playground of these committed bounty hunters .

The Orc Empire had no choice but to take this . The worgens, especially . They were the ones that were hurt the most badly during the great war . With little to no ways to defend the wolf garden, their territories had been shrinking by the days . Because of this, the Benton adventure team had been able to do scouting at the deeper part of the area . They could get first-hand information faster than anyone else in the business, making them richer and more famous than ever before .

Arlo took out some potions and rubbed them carefully around his body . Ever since he came into the deeper part of the wolf garden, he had been relying on these to prevent the worgens from smelling his appearance . When he was done putting the potion on, he took off his camouflage outfit and lay flat on the ground . The outfit was the same color as the plain, so once he was going inside Niyan City, it would be of no use .

Again, Arlo was a novice warrior . That being said, it wasn’t hard for him to get past walls that were about three meters tall . With a simple leap, he grabbed the ledge of the wall and pointed his neck towards the top . As he would see it, there were barely any worgens within his sight . So it was true that the population had been on a massive decrease .

“Why does it feel like someone’s watching me?”

Arlo couldn’t help but murmur . He was confident in his senses . As an experienced scout, he had been in multiple situations where his very life was on the line . If he hadn’t been as careful as he was, he would’ve been a goner a long time ago .

While grabbing onto the ledge, Arlo turned behind him to check if anyone was watching over him . The feeling of being watched was suddenly gone . It was bizarre, and he couldn’t help but shake his head .

“Maybe it’s the booze I drank . It was a bit cold yesterday, so I drank a little more than I should . ”

After flipping over the wall, Arlo concentrated on his sight and hearing . He dodged over several packs of worgens, and at the same time, he counted how many there were in total .

Suddenly, a howl came from the garden that was not very far away . It sounded strange . It was the kind of howling that Arlo hadn’t heard of before . From what he could tell, it belonged to some sort of fierce beast . He could also hear the sound of chains .

As he slowly approached the yard, he could see that the establishment belonged to an orc nobleman . The fences were even taller than the city walls . The city walls were three meters tall, and the ones he was looking at were about ten meters tall . Anyways, he could still find ways to climb it .

By finding a corner that was not out in the open, Arlo threw a flying flaw at the top of the fence . He was doing it all without making any sound . After securing the tightness of the rope, he quickly climbed his way towards the top . Once he was finally able to see what’s over inside, he was shocked by what he saw .

There were ten griffins that were locked up in chains . Most of them were too weak to even struggle . There was one that still had some strength in it, and it was hissing in anxiety . Needless to say, they all once belonged to the griffin knights, who were the heroes that prevented the sky sparrows from infiltrating into the human world . Griffin knights were supposed to the pride of mankind, and yet, they were put in conditions that were worse than even domestic animals .

Arlo thought that he must return to let the others know about this . He was already climbing down the wall . After retrieving his flying claw, he went back from the way he came . Fortunately, he managed to leave Niyan City without facing any danger on the way . Once he was completely out, he immediately put back his camouflage outfit and ran into the wolf garden .

Burbridge passed a pile of paperwork to Abel, “Please have a look at this, your Majesty . This is the information that the intelligence agency has been collecting . ”

Right now, the duchy of Carmel had just managed to recover its intelligence agency . With more funding than ever before, its size managed to grow twice-fold . Abel knew how important information was . He wasn’t very experienced with managing his own nation, but his knowledge back on Earth did teach him a lot about the importance of information .

Also, when he was just a duke, he had already begun to take an interest in forming his own intelligence agency . He didn’t have the resources at the time, so there was no choice but to postpone that decision . Now, with so much at his disposal, he achieved his goal at an extremely smooth pace .

Since he knew that a massive decrease in food was going to happen within the next ten years, it was easy to assume that the entire world would be in disarray . With this in mind, information was crucial . Abel understood that much . If he could, he would even extend his information network outside the humans resided .

As Burbridge handed him the information, he started looking at them at a swift pace . It was about five seconds for him to finish looking at one . The higher-staff of his intelligence agency already filtered the information he was reading . Only the most important stuff was left . It was information about all the duchies, the three human kingdoms, and some major figures on the Holy Continent .

“What’s this? Ten griffins were found in Niyan City at wolf garden?”

Abel was confused by this news . He didn’t think that Niyan City was where the captured would go . He expected them to be taken to the plain of the beastly god, but the information he read must be true .

Abel called Burbridge, “I want Duke Dominic of the intelligence agency here . ”

“Yes, your Majesty,” Burbridge complied .

From what Prince Derek told him, the griffin included both males and females . If he could get his hands on them, they would bring extraordinary benefits to both the Harry Family and the duchy of Carmel . For a huge part of his life, it had been his dream to form a mount wolf squad and a griffin knight squad for the Harry Family . If that dream came true, the duchy of Carmel would have a military that could even match a human empire .

While he was thinking to himself, Duke Dominic came in with Burbdrige .

Abel passed a piece of paper over, “Is this information true, Duke Dominic?”

All the information was already filtered . There wasn’t really any need to seek any further confirmation, but this was different . Once this particular information was reconfirmed, Abel would have to go to Niyan City himself .

Duke Dominic bowed, “Your Majesty, this information was provided by a very famous information organization in the adventurer business . The team consists of experienced adventurers who have spent years doing searches around the orc battlefield . This time, although they were only planning to sell this information to a few of their trusted clients, words got out because of how serious the matter stated is . Within a single day that they’ve got back from their investigation, all of Miracle City started hearing about this . ”

“So someone saw the ten griffins with their own eyes?”

Duke Dominic replied, “That would be a positive, your Majesty . Still, large numbers of wolfriders were starting to appear in the wolf garden . A defensive line was set up about a hundred miles from the wolf garden, and so far, none of the human adventurers are able to breakthrough . ”