"Rumble, rumble."
Amid the constant rattle of wheels, carriage after carriage sped down a secluded path, kicking up clouds of dust.
This mighty convoy looked just like a merchant caravan. There were people dressed as merchants and plenty of goods. Anyone who saw this scene on such a remote road would surely assume that some merchants were heading to a nearby town to conduct business, or that a large trading company was transporting important cargo.
Unfortunately, it was all a disguise.
The people dressed as merchants were actually knights.
The goods were merely food, camping supplies, and other items for traveling through the wilderness.
Lamigium's escort team traveled disguised as a merchant caravan. Even Beren, who rode a magnificent steed, had thrown on an outer robe and posed as a merchant's guard. Only the adventurers remained as they were, without any disguise at all.
That was because commissions to escort merchant caravans were extremely common in every town. Even adventurers traveling alongside a merchant caravan was perfectly normal.
Therefore, the adventurers alone did not need any disguise.
However, Lyon, Magray, and Eudice were all holding battered sheets of parchment as they followed beside Shien, looking as though their lives had been turned upside down.
"Is this really a powerful Magic Item capable of defeating a level seventy-seven demon criminal?"
Lyon held up the tattered parchment in his hand, his face full of suspicion.
Not only Lyon, but even Magray kept turning the sheet over and over, examining it several times without finding anything extraordinary. As for Eudice, who came from a Magic Item merchant company, her eyes were filled with incomprehension.
"This is just a piece of scrap paper, isn't it?" Eudice said uncertainly. "I can't sense any magic from it at all, nor can I see any precious materials