Chapter 17: Saving the eccentric genius

Maggie's POV

It is late in the night, Merle has not returned so I decided to inform Mr Harold of the situation. We quickly made 2 search parties to search for her. The first one had Mr Harold and me while the other had Trina, Steve and Joan.

We were to search from the eastern side of the forest while Trina's group was to search from the western side. As we walked into the night I could sense a familiar mana signature. It was Merle's. When I drew closer I saw that it was Merle's purple stone covered with blood. Usually, Merle never goes anywhere without it. Mr Harold quickly surmised that Merle must have been wounded by an intelligent monster which then kidnapped her. I then got an idea on how to locate her that was by using specific mana search. This is a type of search magic in which you block your mana pathways in your body the absorb the residue mana on the object with the mana signature of the person being searched for and then forcefully emit it to the surrounding when the Mana signature of the same type is found it will resonate with it creating a beacon revealing the persons location. This spell is a type of spell that prevents any use of other type of magic when it's active and it can take up to 10 minutes before you can use magic after deactivating it since your mana pathways need to be restored. I then activated it and immediately I felt a faint presence in the cave and it was getting weaker and weaker. I then deactivated it. After my mana pathways were restored I contacted the other party by using a wind spell known as whispers of the wind. It is a type of wind magic that conveys messages by using the flow of the wind. It is usually restricted to 500 to 2000 strides (0.5 - 2 Km). The message was that we were to rendezvous at the cave since that is where I felt the faint mana signature. While approaching the cave I spotted two hobgoblins at the entrance. Mr Harold then told me that he had performed general search magic and found only the two presence. He immediately activated his quick slash sword art which is just the sword art slash used together with movement magic known as flash step. Within an instant, both the heads of the Hobgoblins were on the ground. I was left speechless since one hobgoblin is a B class monster with a threat level of B while 2 or more are considered to be an A threat. The presence of a goblin king raises the threat to AA yet mister Harold defeated two easily when usually just defeating one requires a C class party for adventurers.

Trina's group then arrived after a few minutes. We then come up with the strategy to deal with any threats in the cave as we were searching for Merle. Mr Harold and Steven were to be the Vanguard. Trina was the Middle guard and Joan was to be the rear guard. I was to be protected by the group's formation in the centre while locating Merle's position. Trina was then instructed not to use fire magic since it would use up all the air in the cave. When I was about to perform search magic, I came up with a more convenient method for locating Merle which was by using mana track. Mana track is a type of non-elemental magic used for tracking but it is not good for long distances. Mana track is done by imbuing an object with one's mana and then placing the object on a specific target thus tracking the mana will give you your target's specific location as long as they are 3000 strides from you. It is a type of magic that was recently invented by Merle. Using the same concept I could track the mana that I lent to Merle thus I was not restricted from using elemental magic and therefore could protect myself and the team from coming attacks. When we entered the cave I could feel my mana that was on Merle getting fainter and fainter. Mr Harold then quickly did general search magic and could not feel any presence, immediately my mana's signal disappeared and then there was a surge of mana felt from deep in the cave. I  concluded that it must be a high-level spell casted by Merle. We began rushing towards the source of the surge but we were stopped by a hobgoblin. I was confused since we could not sense them then my question was answered. The hobgoblin seemed to have a magic staff in its hand. It must have been a mage type. The magic crystal I presumed must be the super rare moon crystal. Moon crystal is a type of magic stone that can reflect magic. This must be what was used to counter the mana search. Mr Harold did not give it room to do anything. The hobgoblin was left beheaded on the ground. We started running straight towards the source of the surge, as we headed further the cave seemed to have less and fewer hobgoblins but more and more goblins. No one in the group hesitated to destroy them all. We finally reached the source of the surge but found a horde of hobgoblins surrounding  Merle and some other women. They all seemed to be in a daze. Some of the hobgoblins had already stripped the women of their clothes. The women all seemed to be under a confusion spell. Suddenly one of the women sprang up with her weapon at hand rearing to fight. She seemed to have a berserker type skill since her body was emitting a violent aura, and her mouth was frothing with rage. The woman then started fighting the hobgoblins which were surrounding her. Mr Harold spotted a mage type hobgoblins with a staff made of demonite. This Hobgoblin seemed to be the one that had cast the confusion spell on the. He used flash step and off he went with the mages head. With the death of the mage's head, I could see that the women were recovering but the Berserker knight did not seem to be stopping she had already defeated many of the hobgoblins. She was now one sidely beating up the Hobgoblins king. She overpowered and defeated him. The woman then turned her sword towards us and started attacking us but before she could do any harm Mr Harold stopped with a sword art known as mana cut. It's a sword art that completely stops mana flow in the body of the target. Merle now awake explained the predicament in which the women she was with were in. She then showed us the Mithril she had found and said to us excitedly that she would come back for it later after the mission was completed. 

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