Chapter 40: Ch 40: A Sudden Attack

Trista and her team were eating their dinner together a little distance from Rein's group. As Rein was eating with his lovers, it was evident that he would like some privacy. So Trista was trying to give Rein just that.

He had been a great help in this escort mission and she wanted him to relax a bit at least when it was time for dinner. By doing this she also had the intention of showing her good side to Rein.

But just as the Golden Reverie started eating, Jack's cat ears suddenly twitched. Almost immediately Trista also looked toward the south direction. She immediately shouted - "Enemy attack, get ready for a fight everyone."

Trista was truly a very competent leader. As soon as she noticed the sign of an attack, she immediately gave the most logical orders and made everyone ready for battle. But even she was taken aback by how prepared her enemies were.

A sweet smelling gas suddenly filled the surrounding and everyone except the adventurers immediately fainted. Even though the servants traveling with them were not very powerful, as servants of a noble they had decent resistance to drugs and poison.

So this gad which was able to knock them out almost immediately was definitely very strong.

Trista did not have an affinity for wind magic but she had a very powerful magic tool which was capable of creating a power gust of wind. So she tried to use that to blow the gas away. But the enemy also had mages who were capable of using wind magic and they nullified her magic item.

The other members of the team had already started fighting. Sara was swinging her large hammer around like a twig and was facing off against three black robed people who suddenly attacked her.

Scheger was using his water elemental magic to create a large water barrier which was defending against the mages of the enemy side while also preventing the warriors from gathering together.

Kaguya was currently making some kind of prayer while Jack was protecting her. Very soon five magic circles appeared behind her from which a fox, a chicken, a tiger, a snake and a dog appeared from the magic circle and attacked the enemy.

The Golden Reverie were quite a good team and they were able to quickly get the upper hand in the battle even with the magical gas trying to affect them.

Not only that but their enemy had quite a lot of numbers in their favour which was making it difficult for the Golden Reverie to maintain their advantage.

Their enemies were all dressed in black robes while wearing different kinds of masks to hide their identity. Normal masks were useless for powerful individuals as they were able to see through it with their senses.

But as an experienced scout like Jack was unable to see through the masks so those were definitely magic items.

Currently Trista was feeling very torn. She wanted to become closer to Rein, if not lovers than at least friends. But from the looks of it, not only was he way stronger than her, his lovers were also more impressive than her. So for the first time in her life, Trista was feeling small.

She felt like she was not worthy of associating with Rein with her pathetic amount of strength.

She came out of her depressing thoughts when Rein called out to her and asked her if she wanted to interrogate these attackers together. Trista composed herself as this was not the time for her to daydream and became serious once again.

Without the Conquerors helping them, only Trista's Golden Reverie alone would not be able to solve this situation and probably would have lost their lives.

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After a thorough interrogation where Tasha did most of the work, they were able to get a very good idea about who was targeting them. The group that attacked them were from an organisation called the "Funny Mask". Their name might sound weird, but this organisation was truly quite powerful.

The Funny Mask was a secret organisation that had its roots in almost all the nations of this region. This organisation also had a long history but very little was known about it.

But one thing was for sure and that was the fact that they had been responsible for doing many hard underground jobs that were extremely hard for anyone to complete. From assassination to stealing, this group was capable of doing anything with enough money offered.

Their current employer was a noble of this nation called Marquis Jonar. He had a hostile relationship with count Borrs. So when he was able to find some of his enemy's family members, he put a bounty on their head and tasked the Funny Mask to get rid of them.

As for why a renowned adamantine rank adventurer like Mehejar was working for them, the reason was simple. He was doing it for money.

As an adamantine rank adventurer, he recieved a secret mission, where he needed to just keep an eye on members of the Funny Mask to see if they were performing well or not and he only needed to intervene if they were ok the verge of getting wiped out.

So he thought it was quite an easy job with extremely good pay. That's all.

After organising all the information, they decided to speed up their journey. After reaching their targeted destination the security of the nobles would fall on the soldiers stationed there and that did not need to worry about it.

After that was decided, everyone decided to finally take a break to get ready for the next day.