He meant it, he was distressed due to his son going missing, but anger was embedded in his heart as well. If he doesn't kill the person that was behind the capture of his son, he was gonna leave him half dead the person would just wish to die.
"We are gonna search many wildernesses. We'll divide ourselves into groups, each group for a certain territory". One of the warriors voiced out.
All the knights and warriors just stood there listening and giving suggestions, Ethan was among them. And by now, they had already divided themselves into groups and shared the territories they were gonna base their search on.
And now that they were done, they began heading straight to the communities they were to search. Each of them was with their scabbards with swords in them, and they were ready to search to the best of their capabilities.