Just as Onean predicted, the Skycourt Kingdom's mercenaries were unwilling to accept defeat, and that very same night, they were up to no good again. They were felling trees to build a path to replicate the mountain path that had been destroyed, and by the time Erwin and the others rose up into the sky on the airship, they discovered that the Skycourt Kingdom's mercenaries had already sneakily completed around a third of their makeshift path.

"These people just don't know when to give up, do they?" Erwin murmured to himself as he looked at all of the moving people and flickering torches at the foot of the mountain.

"Hold on, what are those things that they're holding in their hands?" Chase suddenly asked.

Even though they were able to see a lot further from their vantage point on the airship, it was still impossible to see exactly what the Skycourt Kingdom mercenaries were doing due to how dark it was at night. All of a sudden, the torches were quickly snuffed out one after another, and in what seemed like no more than the blink of an eye, the entire scene had been plunged into darkness.

"What just happened? Why did everything suddenly turn dark?" Larwood made...