The players set off at dawn the next morning to return to Scarlet Castle. Transporting a large quantity of supplies from here would take two days and three nights, which had the players furiously complaining about how hardcore and realistic the game was about this sort of thing.
Why not just open a portal and send everyone straight back to the main city?
That would be so much better!
Instead, they had to waste time on the road.
Fortunately, there were still scattered gnolls roaming along the way, so they wouldn't be left with nothing to do. They could kill a few and earn some points to pass the time on the tedious journey.
However, the Wolfsbane brats captured last night had already been sent back to Scarlet Castle ahead of them.
Since the matter was of great importance, Baron Kudel of the Hunt had escorted them personally. Before the first rays of dawn appeared, the prisoners had already been delivered to the Blood Eagle Gallery.
Murphy and Triss had received word in advance.
But the person who came to take custody of the prisoners wasn't either of them. It was Lady Lainia Galanod Cappadocia, the Silver Bow Knight and commander of the Blood Covenant Knights stationed in Transia. Her expression was icy.
Clearly, Murphy had played a little trick.
He didn't intend to appear in person and accuse the Blood Covenant Knights of the Wolfsbane Clan's sinister plot to collude with gnolls and overthrow Scarlet Castle. He knew that the truth only mattered when the right people uncovered it themselves.
And the young Bow Knight was more than happy to play "interrogator" for the occasion.
Judging by the chill radiating from her, she clearly had "some issues" with the Wolfsbane Clan's involvement in Transia's affairs at a time like