A Familiar Name

"So, how does it look?"

"Not good, My lord." Baiter shook his head.

After setting camps throughout the city to host the soldiers and themselves, Ashton had sent his team on a special mission. Their task was to check the number of mines that had been completely excavated around Livan. Sadly, the result wasn't what he had expected. 

"All mines within 5 kilometres radius have been thoroughly mined." Virgil hopped on the bad news train, "Not a single gram of Effium was found inside those caves. Whoever was behind it, most have received help from a talented Mineralist or an Alchemist."

"Thoroughly cleaned huh... well that makes it easier to find who was behind this shit. As there aren't name people with such talent." 

Although Ashton was smiling, in his head he had already thought of a hundred ways to kill the person responsible for this shit. Deep down he knew the situation of Livan sounded too good to be true.