256 Security Measures of Noa

"Joel, how did your recon mission go?"

At the moment, in Everlight everyone was planning how to deal with the Noa situation as Joel took out a blueprint and some papers and laid them on the round table.

"Noa is just as protected as the Emperor himself, Guardian Reghys, it's not going to be easy to reach him"

"I've never thought it's going to be easy, tell us what you've learned"

Reghys calmly said and looked at the papers and the blueprint on the table as Joel started to explain,

"There are two ways to reach Noa, first, the simple one, deploy all our soldiers and make our way to the castle through two thousand heavily armored Ishikara soldiers and since we have to get the proof of his involvement in his majesty's attack, this is not the best approach"

"O' course it's nae, Joel! do ye think we will stand here an' talk if all out attack was an option? "

Stodemar started sarcastically and ended with a loud shout at Joel.

"Let him talk, dwarf!"

Amaryll yelled at Stodemar as Joel quickly moved to the second option before the elf and dwarf get into a fight again.

"If we have to proceed with Guardian Reghys's plan, we need to go through with the second option"

While he was saying, he rummaged through the papers and ordered four papers on the table.

"After the attack, Noa increased the security of the castle and he only meets the people he wishes, no outsiders are allowed to see him at all and if someone tries to enter the castle, they will face the wrath of three hundred finest soldiers of Ishikara"

"So we have to draw his attention, just like we did it with Hedor, only this time we'll use the Weludin instead of the fire spell scroll"

Arwen said as Reghys nodded.

"Yes, but we cannot go to his front steps and yell we have Weludin, let us in, we must do this without raising any suspicions"

Everyone agreed with Reghys as she looked at Kayako

"Kayako, you said he attempted to concoct Weludin many times before right?"

"Yes, Guardian Reghys"

"Tell me, which store does he buy his herbs from?"

"The majestic furnace alchemists, the rumors say it's run by Teru's cousin"

Hearing the name Teru, a flash of anger appeared in Nabu's eyes as he was the one who beat them to half death while they were in Ishikara prison.

"Are we going there to sell the Weludin?"

Arwen asked and surprisingly Reghys shook her head

"It's too obvious, we have to go there saying we have pills to sell but during the transaction, we'll mistakenly"

She air quoted the word mistakenly and continued

"Let them know that we have Weludin and it's not for sale. If he valued the pill as much as I think, he won't let the pill leave Ishikara before trying to take it"

"Alright, say if it gets his attention, what's next?"

"Then we have to go through four security measures"

Joel sighed while saying this and looked at the first paper on the table

"The first level is the dispelling array and as the name suggests, any magical disguises will be detected by the array and alert the soldiers "

"But we don't have to worry about this since the masks Don gave us don't work using the Life Energy"

Reghys said as Joel nodded and moved to the second paper,

"After the dispelling array, we have to deal with Energy tracers where you have to reveal your cultivation level and if you're stronger than a Peak Great master, you won't be allowed into the castle"

As he said, everyone looked at Benedict considering he was an Energy tracer before he came to Everlight.

"With a few tweaks to the Glimmers, I can make sure that Energy tracers won't find anything weird or your real cultivation level"

Unlike normal people, Energy tracers would have specialized equipment, devices, and spells to detect the magical fluctuations, so even though the glimmer could create a fake magical fluctuation, it had to be modified to deceive the Energy tracers.

"That's settled then, what's the third thing?"

Amaryll heaved a sigh of relief and said as Joel also sighed but unlike her, his sigh was not a sigh of relief but a sigh of difficulty.

"The third array is the most troublesome, the lie detector. Inside this array, you have to take an oath saying that you wish no harm for Noa and you have no intent to do anything that will cause trouble to Noa and Ishikara"

"We can find a way to work around this right?"

Amaryll asked and stared at Reghys but she shook her head as she frowned.

"It's not that simple, the lie detector is an ancient array and if he has that, there's someone very resourceful is behind him"

"Guardian Reghys, this array has to be controlled by someone right? What if we replace that person?"

"Yeah, what if we do that? Control the person who controls the array"

Amaryll quickly asked Reghys and after a few moments of thinking about this, Reghys looked at Joel,

"Joel, tell me you know the person and his schedule?"

"Yes, he's a runemaster from Enarin who's always surrounded by five Peak Great Masters and the only place he will be alone is the guest house of Noa at night for one hour"

"Only one hour, what does he do?"

Arwen asked while Joel seemed a bit reluctant to give an answer to Arwen.

"What is it?"

Looking at all the gazes, Joel swallowed his saliva and said

"Savoring the company of a pretty girl sent by Red lavender branch in Ishikara"

Now everyone realized why he seemed reluctant thinking about Arwen's little fiasco in the Red lavender Mairis branch which damaged the relationship between Everlight and Mairis.

"This time let us handle tha runemaster"

Stodemar haughtily said 

"And what do you do for the beautiful girl? Are you going to put makeup on and play dress up?"

Arrora rolled her eyes and replied to the haughty dwarf defending her brother

"We have"

"I'll do it"

Before even Uncle Dior could finish his sentence, Amaryll said as everyone looked at her shocked. Usually, in a dangerous situation or when a situation required her to leave the Everlight, she would run away as fast as she could and the only place she went was Agoria and Sigalla to check the hotels and tea houses. And that was because Agoria was their kingdom and Sigalla had no dangers to her but Ishikara was a different story.

"Why are you all looking at me like that? That fucker messed with my friend and I want to look at him crying and begging to help when Arrora tears him apart "

"But"

"No buts Arwen, I'll do this, I'm sick of being afraid, let me do this"

Arwen and the others sighed as they knew that she decided to do this and there's no stopping her now. The only thing they could do is ensure her safety and the dwarves would do just that.

"What's the final security measure, Joel?"

Ken asked as Joel placed his finger on the last paper.

"The boomerang spell"

"Boomerang what?"

Grey had never heard such a spell before and looking at Amaryll and Arwen's faces, it was obvious that they didn't either.

" The caster will mark two or more people with special marks, the host mark, and the receiver mark. While the spell is in effect, any harm done to the one who has the host mark will immediately happen to one who has the receiver mark, so during this period, if the host dies, the receiver dies"

Ukita explained how the spell works to everyone in the room who had no idea about it.

"How long does the spell be in effect?"

Grey asked 

"Half an hour"

"So that means we have half an hour time to get the proof we need from Noa"

"Yes, Arwen, it's hard but not impossible"

Even though the plan seemed simple, Reghys knew there are so many things that could go wrong but she showed no doubts on her face, just like Knight. After Knight left Everlight, she became the leader as everyone depended on her for guidance. So just like she learned it from Don and Knight, she appeared to be fully confident in her plan so the people in this room would completely believe in the plan which was the most important thing to successfully execute the plan.

At this moment, she missed both Knight and Don because they always made it look easy to plan and make choices as leaders but doing it herself was not easy, not easy at all. However, she didn't want to put more pressure on Knight by contacting him through Khal because who knew what he was going through in the Elvelon Continent.

"Okay, aren't we missing the important part here? Who's going to meet Noa"

"Don't forget, only two people can meet Noa at a time"

Uncle Dior and Joel spoke respectively.

"Arwen and Kayako"

Since her plan involved the Weludin pill, Reghys had already spoken with Kayako about it, so this wasn't a shock for Kayako. And because she needed a powerful person to be with her when meeting Noa and making him talk, Arwen was the obvious choice.

"Do nae mess this up, Arwen, we will only get one chance 'afore tha half-elf destroys tha place ta tha ground an' put us in everyone's cross air"

Stodemar addressed him by his name and this showed the severity of the matter as Arwen responded with a nod.