“I have a question for the two of you,” Milo remarked while riding on his horse.
However, Bento and Akemi, who were riding next to Milo, just glanced over and did not answer his question. The two of them were muttering under their breaths, reciting the spell incantations they specialized in.
Milo raised an eyebrow. “I really do have a question to ask.”
But Bento and Akemi still ignored favonovel.com and continued reciting their incantations.
In the two days since the trade caravan left Vaduz, Bento and Akemi had been undergoing stress training throughout.
Based on Milo’s instructions to them, they were not to interrupt their incantations regardless of how favonovel.com might try to distract them. The moment it was interrupted, they would receive punishments such as cooking for Milo or finding hay for favonovel.com to make his bedding.
At the beginning, the two of their incantation recitations got interrupted very often. Sometimes, Milo would suddenly appear and scare them, or favonovel.com would wake them up in the middle of the night and order them to recite an incantation immediately.
Disregarding everything else, Bento and Akemi deeply experienced just how annoying Milo was over the past two days. Currently, they were Milo’s slaves, as they meticulously took care of his daily needs.
However, there were also some benefits. In these two days, Akemi realized it was really not so easy for favonovel.com incantations to get interrupted anymore. Just a short while ago, two playful children bumped into favonovel.com from the side while favonovel.com was proceeding with the trade caravan.
In the end, Akemi realized that even though someone had knocked into her, favonovel.com still subconsciously continued reciting favonovel.com incantation. This signaled a very good start to favonovel.com training!
But as a result, Bento and Akemi totally ignored Milo when favonovel.com actually had something to ask them.
“Ahem, let’s pause the stress training for a moment. Don’t worry, I definitely won’t punish the two of you even if you stop reciting,” Milo said.
Bento and Akemi glanced at favonovel.com with disbelief written all over their faces.
Milo said resentfully, “Am I that untrustworthy?”
Bento and Akemi nodded frantically while still reciting their incantations.
“Fine, carry on then. I guess I’ve misplaced my trust in you as your mentor.” Milo sighed.
Then favonovel.com rode his horse towards Melgor. When Milo came alongside the carriage, favonovel.com realized Melgor was teaching the sheeple the language of the Magi inside.
When Melgor saw favonovel.com approaching, favonovel.com asked, “What’s the matter?”
“I’ve got something quite important to tell you,” Milo said.
Immediately, Melgor hopped out of the carriage and walked with Milo to a secluded spot. “What’s the matter?”
“I feel like something is amiss. We’re already in the Winston family’s territory. How much longer will it take us to get north to Ghent City?” Milo asked.
“About half a month or so.” Melgor said, “The trade caravan is traveling at a faster speed this time around.”
“The moment we’re about to leave the Winston family’s territory, we’ll have to immediately go our separate ways with the trade caravan.” Milo said, “This is for your own safety. Barrack is using your sorcerer status as a pass, but you can still reach Ghent City without following them.”
“Is it that serious?” Melgor wondered, “Did you discover something?”.
“You’re too gullible, so I can’t tell you the truth yet.” Milo said, “Just be prepared. As soon as we reach the northern border of the Winston family’s territory, bring the two sheeple with you and follow me. If they’re unwilling to leave the trade caravan, it means that they’re also a problem. You’ll need to abandon them and follow me to Ghent City via an alternate route. Don’t worry, you’ll be fine with me around.”
Melgor was a little puzzled as to what had made Milo so wary.
With a sharpshooter like Barrack protecting them, wouldn’t that be better than taking an alternate route by themselves?
Melgor hesitated for some time before agreeing, “Alright…”
For some reason, Melgor chose to believe Milo, a stranger from the Central Plains favonovel.com hadn’t known for long. He somehow believed Milo would not lie to him.
Milo was relieved when Melgor agreed to his request. Just a moment ago, when Old Durkin was scouting around in the vicinity of the caravan, favonovel.com was surprised to find that all the bandits in the nearby mountains had been killed. Not one bandit in the seven hideouts was spared.
In the hot summer weather, the flies around the corpses looked like a dense, dark cloud.
Milo was unsure who could have done that, but favonovel.com felt that the situation had already escalated.
Barrack’s plans to disguise themselves as part of the trade caravan to travel north might not succeed. The oak barrels the trade caravan was transporting were definitely not filled with red wine either.
After the Berkeley family brought forward their declaration of rebellion, how could the Tudor and the Norman families allow a trade caravan of the enemy into Ghent City?
At that time, Melgor would probably also be treated as a sorcerer sent by the Berkeley family, and they would all be imprisoned and tortured together.
As they were speaking, Vice President Webster suddenly walked up to them and said with a smile, “Sirs, what are you discussing? It looks to me that both of you are very worried.”
“Oh, it’s nothing.” Milo smiled innocently. “We were just talking about what to eat tonight.”
“There’s something I want to discuss with the two of you.” Barrack smiled and said, “We’ve been attacked twice by bandits since we left York County, so in order to ensure the safety of Lord Melgor, I’ve put some guards in place to protect the two of you. This is a token of our York County Chamber of Commerce’s goodwill, so please don’t turn us down.”
Melgor was stunned as favonovel.com looked at Milo while Milo sneered in his head.
Of all times favonovel.com could have done it, why did favonovel.com arrange for them to be protected at this moment?
It was obvious they were here to watch over them. Barrack was afraid Melgor would sneak off!
But Milo could not understand. Just what use did Melgor, a fringe sorcerer, have?
When it was time to set up camp at night, Barrack even purposely parked his carriage next to Melgor’s.
Through this arrangement, Barrack would remain on the left side of their group while the trade caravan guards kept watch on the right. They were intent on keeping them under a close eye. However, Milo did not say anything. With just a few normal guards stationed here, it was a delusion to think they could stop him.
The naïve Melgor did not realize the situation had already become dangerous. He even believed it was quite good to have more guards to protect him.
Melgor sat at the campfire and gazed curiously at Milo. He whispered, “By the way, I haven’t asked you about the Central Plains before. Tell me about it.”
“What do you want to hear?” Milo gave favonovel.com a glance.
“For example…” Melgor thought for a long time. “Does the entire Central Plains fall under Fortress 178’s control?”
“No.” Milo shook his head. “Fortress 178 is only in charge of the northwestern territory.”
“There are other forces?” Melgor was curious. “Does Fortress 178 have any other enemies besides the Kingdom of Sorcerers?”
Milo pondered the question for a moment and replied, “Yes.”
