In the Wilds's Mountain Forest valley, when you raise your head, you can see the towering peaks in the sky with no direction. If you lower your head and try your best to catch them, you will often accidentally get scratched by weeds and dead branches.
If these three hundred people hadn't all been wearing multiple layers of animal skin armor and were surrounded by a hundred heavily armed knights, they would have died on the road long ago.
"Edward, where did their mounts come from? They look taller and more powerful than our pack horses, but they are shorter than the war horses."
Next to Edward, a muscular and thin man couldn't help but look at the mounts under the knights with shining eyes. He couldn't help but swallowed hard. It would be great if he also had a mount.
A knight with a mount is a knight.
"Call me Trade Officer-sama."
Edward straightened his clothes and gently wiped away the mud.
This is the trophy silk and satin captured by Lord Ryan in the war. The master generously gave some rewards to Edward. After asking for a lot of time, he found Frozen Earth Territory's wife with the best craftsmanship and knitted a dress that was more gorgeous than the mud legs.
He looked at the horses under those knights and was very envious, but unlike his companions next to him, he was knowledgeable.
"Don't ask blindly about the lord's abilities. Maybe this is a war horse captured in the war."
"Apia Where are those Catfolk? It's been so many days, but I can't find any of them."
Edward was a little angry, and the lord ordered him to continue teaching those Catfolk knowledge on the road. As a result, those Catfolk were doing well. Except for surprising him by suddenly appearing every evening, he could not see anyone at all other times.
"This... I don't know either."
"It is said that they are very powerful, it is better not to see them."
The dogleg said that he was also a little frightened by the Catfolk assassins who suddenly appeared and disappeared.
"This is not possible. The extremely great lord said that if I can proactively discover those Catfolk on the road, he will give me a blessing as a reward."
Hearing the word "blessing", the dog-legger next to him opened his eyes wide in disbelief. He subconsciously wanted to scream, but was immediately covered by Edward.
"You were selected as a reserve!"
The dog-legged guy stared at Edward, feeling abandoned.
"If you have the ability, go and find it. I will tell the lord when the time comes, but don't yell. There is no complete road in this damn place. The roads under our feet are all provided by the Andara Kingdom and the Bilder steward."
"If we provoke the powerful Magical Beast, we will all die. Please keep your voice down."
"I don't know how the Bilder butler brought people into the Andara Kingdom. Hey, if I had this ability, I should be able to get closer to Lord Ryan."
Edward sighed, the dogleg next to him kept rolling his eyes as he looked at the surrounding environment.
"I don't believe those Catfolk don't shit."
"Remember, if I find it, you can tell the lord and bless me."
Only one meter away, Apia was sitting on a stone, listening to Edward's voice. Although he was sitting on the stone, his whole body had actually merged with the shadow cast by the tree above his head. His body swayed with the swaying of the tree's shadow in the breeze.
Around him, there were thirty Catfolk assassins, just like him. In fact, they were always in all directions of the two Edward. The open ground was always crowded with dozens of people.
Apia didn't plan to tell the teacher. He was worried that the other party would not be able to sleep and would not have the energy to teach them the next day.
He looked at his fingers and thought about the information he heard on the road. They would be able to enter Andara Kingdom in about five days.
There will be someone to help them. What this team will transport is not only the second batch of weapons for Grand Duke McReynolds, but also some specialties of Frozen Earth Territory. Baron Ryan wants to open up a trade route to the Andara Kingdom, a trade route not known by the empire.
But there is no road at all in this barren mountain. According to Baron Ryan, there will be a road after the transportation team goes back and forth a few more times to clear away the wild beasts on the road or Magical Beast.
Apia took a look at the carriages. Each carriage was terribly heavy. Many times they even needed the knights to dismount and help in order to move forward smoothly. Sometimes he wondered whether the person in this team was responsible for pulling the carriage, the knight or the packhorse.
If it weren't for the fact that some good roads would appear intermittently for the carriage to move forward smoothly, he doubted that these pack horses would be needed at all.
The power of knights is still very strong, especially the knights in this team, each one is Formal Knight.
These are the one hundred most elite people of Frozen Earth Territory. Having followed Baron Ryan through those brutal wars, Apia always remembers the warriors who charged and fought wildly against the barbarians under the flag of Rhino Horn Mountain.
At that time, they did not have mounts.
Thinking of his mounts, Apia wrapped his cloak around him. He felt a little strange that the knights' mounts seemed to be able to detect them.
They were not ordinary mounts. Apia was shocked as to where Ryan had transformed these war horses. When those knights rode on the war horses, their strength increased to a higher level.
Frozen Earth Territory's secret was only partially revealed to him.
Apia thought this way, and then he understood the reason. His loyalty has not yet been fully recognized.
"Maybe this mission is the key."
Apia held a piece of paper in his hand, with the names of more than a dozen nobles on it, but there was no name of the destination of their team this time, Grand Duke McReynolds.
"According to what Edward said these days, it seems that there is a big conflict between Grand Duke McReynolds and Andara Royal Family."
Apia looked at the names of the nobles on the note. Some of them relied on the Grand Duke, while others were still loyal to Imperial House.
"Thirty Catfolk assassins are still too few. Maybe we should think of a way."
Apia was thinking. He didn't even realize that he couldn't think before. He only had to obey Count Weiss's orders and didn't care about unnecessary things.
Five more days passed, and when the entire team was exhausted, a sharp eagle cry suddenly came from above their heads, but the sound was richer than that of a goshawk, like some kind of beast on the ground.
Harrington at the front raised his head, his sharp gaze under his visor stared at Griffin flying and hovering above his head, and his palm slowly touched Beast Bow behind him.
What they didn't see inside the Griffin Mountains, they saw when they left Griffin Mountains.