"Gondor?" Grand Duke Ocrean Yaso raised an eyebrow uncertainly.
"This is Rohan!" The old man steering the boat looked at Grand Duke Ocrean Yaso with an exasperated expression.
"..." Okrian-Lujin raised the map in his hand and pointed out their approximate current location to Grand Duke Ocrean Yaso.
"We ended up in Rohan?" Grand Duke Ocrean Yaso's mouth twitched.
"..." Okrian-Lujin clenched his fist, then finally let it fall helplessly. After all, his own mess had sent the two of them fleeing north in a frenzy. If he had not stupidly insisted on seeing the Black Evil Tower in Mordor, they would have entered Gondor by now.
"Yeah! Outsiders, don't tell me you don't even know where you're going?" Shock flashed through the old boatman's eyes.
"We wanted to visit the Kingdom of Gondor. Can you take us downstream from here? I'll pay you double!" Grand Duke Ocrean Yaso said as he pulled out several Gold Dragon Coins.
"Are you crazy, or am I?" The old boatman was unexpectedly a second-tier mage. Magic surged through his hands, and the boat immediately picked up speed.
"We can pay more!" Grand Duke Ocrean Yaso hurriedly said.
"This isn't about money! You need to understand that ferries on the Anduin River are scarce to begin with! Vast numbers of magical beasts in the river attack ferries! Only ferries enhanced with magic can cross the Anduin River like this!" The old man pulled up his hood with a helpless sigh.
"Crossing with warhorses is difficult enough... let alone drifting on the water for days! If you provoke aquatic magical beasts, you might be fine, but this old man will definitely die!" The old man's face darkened helplessly.
"This boat uses third-tier Stealth Magic Array Patterns! Ordinary magical beasts will generally ignore the boat passing