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While Lynch was underground in the garrison, conducting a "mother recognition ceremony" that would make the very soul of an ancient Legend tremble...
「Meanwhile.」
On the outskirts of the Angelo Mountains, more than a hundred miles from Lakefront Town as the crow flies.
A party was steadily forging a path forward.
At the head of the column, Catherine Adela rode a brown warhorse. She held a kite shield in one hand and a heavy sword in the other, her vigilant gaze sweeping across the gloomy forest ahead and to her sides as she advanced.
She had changed into a slightly lighter suit of Scale Armor, over which she wore a deep blue battle surcoat embroidered with the words "Ninth Battle Battalion." Her short, golden hair fluttered gently in the forest wind.
Behind her were over a hundred elite Soldiers from the Ninth Battle Battalion's First Company.
