Chapter 286: Sovereign

Chapter 286: Sovereign

‘Ayteke-Bo’ is the name of the country as well as the name of the city.

In other words, that one city can be considered the whole country, a city-state.Cheêck out latest novels at novelhall.com

Ayteke-Bo is surrounded by high walls, and it seemed that even if monsters attacked, they would be able to stop them from entering the city.

As a diplomatic mission, the Kingdom Mission entered Ayteke-Bo without any special inspection.

The city of Ayteke-Bo is divided into east and west by a fairly large river running through the center.

The aristocratic district centering on the lord’s mansion spreads out on the west bank, and the urban area spreads out on the east bank.

All the inns were in the east bank area.

Nonetheless, there was no such thing as a huge accommodation facility like where the Kingdom mission stayed when they stopped over in the Empire.

While they do have trade with the Empire’s outer cities ... by the standards of the Central Nations, it was quite small.

Even the largest inn could only accommodate about forty people.

Therefore, the Kingdom mission was divided into a total of thirteen inns.

In the beginning, they planned for each country to take four lodgings each for the envoys of the Kingdom, the Empire, and the Union, and the remaining two lodgings were for smaller country envoys...

However, at the will of Hugh McGrath, the head of the Kingdom mission, the Kingdom mission decided to occupy 13 of the 14 houses.

Narrow-mindedness?

No such thing!

That was also for the sake of the Kingdom... it must be... it should be... hopefully...

The manager of the civil officials was Chief Negotiator Ignis, but the escorting adventurers’ manager was Delong, the leader of the B-rank party ‘Coffee Maker’.

‘Room 10’ was also a B-rank party, but ‘Coffee Maker’ was their senior among B-rank parties, and above all, they were one of the parties that had completed the most escort requests among the adventurers of the Kingdom.

Of course, Niels and others in ‘Room 10’ didn’t find any issue with that.

Partly also because the two parties had built a good relationship ever since they teamed up with Coffee Maker for the escort to Whitnash, which was the first escort request for Room 10.

As expected, it wasn’t the same as regular escorting work where the work ended the moment they enter the city. Such as on the way to the Western Countries, when they stayed in Gilsbach in the Empire, they couldn’t consider their work done after entering the city.

They couldn’t know what would happen in the cities.

Regardless of after arriving in the Western Countries, they were always on escorting duty the entire way.

To be honest, Hugh was beginning to think that he wanted to move on quickly before trouble occurred.

However, due to the agreements of the Central Nations, it was decided that they would wait in Ayteke-Bo for the Empire and Union to catch up, so they couldn’t proceed on their own.

“I just heard about it, but it seems that the World Tree disappeared about two months ago.”

“They claim that the World Tree was hidden.”

Priest Etho and Priest Zeke, who seemed to have picked up information about the World Tree in the city, reported that to Ryo.

“Hidden...?”

Ryo asked while tilting his head.

“Yeah. It disappeared overnight.”

Etho nodded and answered.

“The trunk of the world tree is said to be in a forest more than ten kilometers away from here. So, it seemed that adventurers and soldiers were dispatched to find out what happened, but no one has returned.”

Zeke said while frowning.

“Something terrible might be happening.”

Ryo, with a somber atmosphere, pointed out the possibility that it was a serious situation.

For the second time.

However, putting aside the members of ‘Room 11’, the members of ‘Room 10’, who have known him for a long time, weren’t deceived.

“Ryo, you’re saying that with a serious feeling, but...”

“Yeah, he’s still the same...”

“The face of a man thinking about bad things...”

Amon, Etho, and Niels looked at Ryo’s face and commented.

“How did you find out!?”

Ryo was surprised to be pointed out.

The person himself seemed to have wanted to put on a serious face.

Ryo may have difficulty acting serious...

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