Erwin was panting heavily as he sized up the person that he had just dragged out of the secret room. Even though the person's hair was extremely disheveled and their face was almost entirely smeared with blood, Erwin's eyes were sharp enough to tell that it was a girl.

The girl looked up at Erwin with a pleading expression while opening and closing her mouth over and over again to bite at the cloth gag in her mouth. It was clear that she had something to say, but she looked like she was so feeble that she didn't even have the energy to speak anymore.

Erwin hurriedly untied the cloth strip that was gagging her mouth.

"Hurry... My father... is still in there," the girl said in a feeble voice, barely able to string together a coherent sentence.

"There's someone else in there?" Erwin was quite surprised to hear this.

Thus, he pulled out his staff and ventured into the secret room again before taking a look. Initially, he failed to spot anyone else in there, but upon going a little deeper, he saw a middle-aged man lying in the deepest part of the room. Without looking closely, one could easily miss the presence of the middle-aged man like Erwin did the first time.

These Skycourt Kingdom mercenaries are so strange. Why did they choose to tie up that little girl instead of a fully grown man...