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After the outing to Venere, we started moving to the Wang capital, but now we are gathered in Lapitilica's carriage to reconfirm the security system for the next five days.

"So it's still the second and third night to be careful"

"A call from the guards in Venere said that the tavern where the clan” Haku (Eng.) "was based had become a stuffed shell. In the story of the captive man, at least about 10 people, including the leader of the acacia, have gone missing."

You said you were coming alone from the Dark Alliance Cactus.

And watch out for the suspicious threesome.

"You are the ones who change their appearance and show that Lord Shaft has seen through. I have delivered a letter to Lord Siegfried at the Guild Outpost in Venere."

"Helpful. Dear Lapitilica, I used to hear from an acquaintance that there was no magic to change my appearance, but what about the truth?

To my inquiry, Lapitilica thinks with her finger on her chin. As the three ladies of the magical guiding aristocratic landlord, who asked her nothing else, her knowledge of magic should be twelve together.

"I've never heard of magic that affects the sight, hearing of unspecified people, changing their appearance, including when I was in the School of Magic and when I was working in Camellia (Southern Ka)"

"Even in a general guild, I've never heard of a threesome who becomes someone else and enters into different places. Maybe the upper echelons are grasping it."

"I feel like the three of you present at the dinner party should consider it separate from this assassination of Lapitilica. Of course, I'll be vigilant, but there's no reason to eat in our seats together, even though we don't get anything on that spot."

"I agree with the captain, I feel that all three of the guys the General Guild was chasing are different in some way. If you're the same person as the threesome who abandoned the merchant escort, it's hard to assume that the mask, even if different, doesn't look at me and think anything of it."

Regarding those threesomes, there was a certain vigilance, but there was agreement to consider them separate from the raids. There are too many things I don't know, and I'll contact where I need to report them, and I'll leave the rest to you.

Our job as escorts is only to escort Lapitilica. We must not misplace the highest priority.

Take a short break, and from the cabin, me and the captain will come down and split into your podium and horses. From here on out, be vigilant and chat with the captain.

On the first and second nights of the start of the journey, nothing went by. Other nobles who stayed in Venere also travel to the King's Capital to attend the ball to be held in the King's Capital, but those with noble titles are allowed to travel by the Transfer Magic Formation.

Since the transfer magic formation was brought out of the labyrinth (A), and can only be moved in one way to (B), which simulates the formation, two sets of transfer magic formations will be required to be able to reciprocate.

The operation of the magic formations is also mainly used for the transport of supplies, where fuel resources such as spices and food products, including salt, which is a necessity, and oils and demonic stones consumed in daily life, are transported.

Royalty and titles are essentially allowed to be used as human mobility, and if they are part of a commercial guild, they can be used with supplies by paying royalty fees.

Other adventurers and the public are subject to restrictions on their use, and frequent movements of people by the transfer magic brigade will be inconvenient in administrative operations.

Using this transferring magic formation, the titled nobles moved, so only Lapitilica coincidentally took advantage of the carriage to travel to the king's capital.

On the second day rest stop, the merchant squad heading to Venere was also camped, with a considerable number of people for the night, but we were the only ones in the third day rest stop.

Perhaps obstructionist work had been added to other merchants and carriages so that they would be alone in the berth before and behind them.

"I'll be on watch tonight without sleeping, it doesn't taste good to be set on fire by a stables that put horses in. Let's split the horses in small numbers and disperse them so they won't be cheaply eliminated."

Copy that, I'll arrange it right away.

At the instruction of the Commander, the escorts gather the horses connected to the carriage and connect and disperse them to the pillars of the berth and nearby trees.

Place escorts to surround the rest stop, and I'll be on guard around too, but so far I can't hear a light point or a moving noise. Eventually the sun fell and the gentle breezy resting place was engulfed in the darkness of the night.

Set a fire to the set-aside bonfire installed around the berth. The lights inside the berth are secured, but the difference between light and darkness causes darkness to sink deeper into the surrounding darkness.

I switch to NV (Night Vision) mode on the Kevlar mask lens, and I keep a patrol guard while I monitor my surroundings.

There are no suspicious noises around, the darkness of the night that only sounds like less words conversation or walking by the other escorts, or the sound of bonfire firewood cracking, is getting darker and darker, thicker enough to be seen in my eyes looking around in NV mode too...?

Dark Mist! The enemy is coming!

I heard one of the escorts screaming. The surrounding area is instantly wrapped in black mist, and you can't even secure a vision a few meters away. Switch from immediately NV mode to FLIR (Infrared Thermography) mode.

Beyond the fog of darkness, we saw the guards to the right and to the left.

"Mage crew blow the fog! They'll be here in a minute! Prepare for battle!"

It's the captain's voice. Indeed, covering your sight with darkness is to keep you from being seen approaching. These foggy raiders should be attacking...

I'm going to the tent where Lapiterica and Ashley are resting, and I'm going to take a look inside first.

"Are you all right!

The two men in the tent were lying on the ground, holding their own bodies trembling as they vomited roughly in their breath. He woke up to the noise outside and seemed to be already ready to move, but he seemed to have this ill health while he was dressed, wearing light armor and robes halfway through.

"Sha, Lord Shaft......! Is Lapitilica safe?

A captain's voice hung on my back as I ran over to the two of them and didn't know how to deal with this unusual illness.

"Looks like we both suddenly vomited, poison?

"It's a sorcerer's killing. From the wind, the more powerful, the more poisonous smoke was shed that caused severe illness"

"Is there a magic interference type poison or no antidote?

"No! This poisonous grass is only for the Knights of War, the crusade of the big bandits, etc., but it is also a sin to be allowed to use, possess, and cultivate. The antidote must be returned to King's Landing or Venere."

"What happens when there's no antidote?

"If the magic holdings are small, they will not die. But in general, it is poisonous to those who call themselves magicians, depending on the amount they inhale, yes, they don't last a day..."

From here, both the King's Capital and Venere take two days by carriage. No, more than that!

"We're from the west! Number's 11!

Eleven light points emerged on the map on the lens of my mask.

"Captain, you two, please."

He blued his face, carried the two trembling bitters to the bunk of the tent, and asked the captain to nurse the two.

"Wow, okay. I can, not so much, but the thief who entered the tent, or I'll make sure to stop and show him."

Out of the tent, it seems that the black fog has already subsided, but instead I see a light purple smoke flowing, is this the sorcerer's kill? Looking around, the battle has already begun.

He who inhales poisonous smoke and stabs his slender long sword around the neck of the fallen guards. Someone who is cured by relatively mild symptoms but is clearly chopping up a guard with a short knife who has lost movement. who is even kicking the belly of a guard in a robe who appears to be a fallen magician.

To the sight, he grabbed the grip of Smith & Wesson E&E Tomahawk, nauseating in a different way than Ashley and Lapitilica and hiding in the overcoat.