"Sherry, it's fine. Keep going carefully!" Nalant suppressed his shock and waved to the little girl.
Only after the little girl turned back around did he begin carefully surveying the path ahead.
The reward for this mission had Nalant practically drooling.
But this mission was truly rather difficult.
After all, the path itself clung to sheer cliffs. Given this world's level of technology, widening it would require an untold expenditure of manpower and resources.
Simply chiseling away the rock on the cliff face would be an exceptionally arduous task.
Of course, difficult as it was, Nalant believed this mission could only succeed, not fail.
And when it came to blasting through mountains to build roads, he seemed to possess a powerful tool: gunpowder.
For the rest of the journey, Nalant kept pondering how to complete the mission. Before long, they returned to the foot of the mountain range on the Glory Continent side.
After loading the totem pillar onto a carriage, Nalant immediately led his subordinates back.
Five days later, Nalant's party returned to the location of the spatial rift.
"My lord!"
When Nalant arrived at the entrance to the spatial rift, the guards left behind had just dealt with a batch of more than ten Dark Creatures.
"Mm. How has it been? Has the number of Dark Creatures appearing fluctuated these past few days?"
"My lord, the number of Dark Creatures has not changed. There have never been more than twenty at a time. However, three Death Knights have appeared over the past few days!"
"Fortunately, we have the Sacred Thorn. The Death Knights were eliminated as soon as they appeared!"
"Very good!" Nalant had already known about the Death Knights these past two days, because every time his subordinates killed a Dark Creature, his system automatically awarded him