Elysian Heaven smeared a layer of special ointment and pigment over Madam Ross's face, then wrapped strips of silk around her body. After that, she had become a plain-looking pregnant woman with a swollen belly.
Lin Qi dispatched a team of elite men to escort Madam Ross to Vias. As the largest slave trader in the northern Western Continent—and indeed, perhaps the entire Western Continent—Madam Ross operated mainly in the north of the continent. Yet her family's true foundation lay in the southwestern mountains of the Vias Commercial Federation. In those mountains, less than three hundred miles from the Harlan Empire's border, her family possessed a barren earldom.
Once Madam Ross was escorted there, she would naturally use the gold Lin Qi had provided to rebuild from the ashes and establish another powerful slave-trading organization. After all, the Vias Commercial Federation had never lacked mercenaries willing to sell their lives for gold. The only obstacle to their changing careers and becoming slave traders was whether one could afford the gold to buy their lives.
That elite team escorting Madam Ross would remain at her side in the future.
Four Saint-level warriors, two Saint-level mages, one hundred Heaven-ranked warriors, and twenty Heaven-ranked mages—this capable force possessed strength several times greater than Madam Ross's entire family. Even on the Western Continent, few competed in the business of selling slaves. Those truly powerful hidden clans would only purchase slaves from slave traders like Madam Ross; they disdained to dirty their own hands with such dealings.
Therefore, the people Lin Qi had sent were enough to ensure Madam Ross's safety. Even if Arthur came looking for trouble again, they could at least protect Madam Ross long enough for her to escape unharmed.
In return—or perhaps as a gift born of certain feelings too vague