The Hunt

Once the hole had filled itself in, with Vance's magical assistance, the floating base began to move forward.

"""""WOAAAAH!!!!!""""" The girls exclaimed in shock at the sudden movement of the base.

"Like I said girls, the hunt begins. It seems those fellows have made it to a base. Whether it is the main base or not, we'll have to find out on our own."

As he said this, the base began accelerating much more than it had been previously.

"Man, it's not even been a full day and all this is happening? I'm bloody exhausted. As soon as we get these fucks, I'm going straight to the bed."

While Vance complained about his exhaustion and how hard he works, the base got closer and closer to the location of the targets. Approximately a hour later, the base was above where Vance felt their souls.

"Underground? Again? Y'know, soon I'm going to get real tired of going into caves and shit to deal with bad guys. Maybe I should make a skill that instant captures everyone in the cave. Maybe. Hmm."

As Vance pondered this, he began to observe the surroundings for any movements or anything that would give away the position of the enemy base.

"Why am I even bothering with this? I can just teleport to them no?"

Saying this, Vance used his magic to make himself invisible, and then teleported to the two soul markings. As he appeared, the first thing that Vance did was to check the surroundings for enemies.

"Huh? There's no one here? What the fuck..."

Vance noticed that the people that he had marked were all dead on the floor, brutalized.

"The fuck happened to them? This... This can't have been done by a human."

They were on the floor with blood all over. Their arms were severed and their legs were bent in strange ways. Claw marks were visible on their throats and it seemed like something had attempted to eat the bodies.

"I have to find out what happened here. After that I can temporarily bring them back with Necromancy and find out everything they knew."

Saying this, Vance began to use his magic and made an illusory image of them lying on the floor, bloodied. The image then began to go in reverse. A group of creatures that Vance didn't recognize walked into the room backwards in the scene in front of him. They then turned around and seemed to spit out pieces of the men. They then reverse clawed their throats, after which the men seemed to be in agony. The beasts' claws moved, reattaching their arms. They reverse broke the men's arms and then faded into the dark, leaving only the men who seemed to be tired.

"Well shit. It seems these lads got pretty unlucky... Wait, are those things still here?"

Saying this, Vance began to hear a faint growling coming from a dark corner from the cave. Soon the growling became louder and started to come from all around him. All around Vance, the unknown beasts began to circle and come closer to him.

"Well... This is quite a predicament."