Luca looked at Adam's expression and couldn't help but frown.
"What's the matter?" he asked. "What did they see?"
Adam did not reply for a few moments.
The others, especially Leah and her party, felt oddly uncomfortable in that silence. They wondered how dangerous the lands beyond the mountains were for Adam to react in such a manner.
Adam finally turned to Luca and said with a strange look on his face, "Nothing."
Luca frowned. "What?"
Adam finally turned to him and said with a nod, "The path through the mountains is clear."
He then turned to Leah and the rest and continued, "I saw not a single vampire guarding the pass. Not even those ghouls."
He added after a moment of deliberation, "Either the vampires have grown far too complacent, or they possess supreme confidence in their own strength. So much so that they do not consider anyone entering through the mountain pass to be worth their attention."
