"Inspection."
At the northwestern border of the Iris Kingdom, beneath the fortress walls at the only passage connecting the western side of the Northern Wasteland to the rest of the continent, the former bustle had vanished.
The once endless line at the "official" smuggling route was now deserted. Anyone with even the slightest ability to obtain information would not have come near this place during this period.
In fact, it was not just the fortress. Further south, anyone who could flee had already fled. In the event—just in the event—that the fortress fell, those places would be the first to suffer.
Thus, when the guard saw Levis appear, he first froze. After taking a moment to react, he remembered that he was supposed to inspect him.
With a smile, Levis answered gently, "May the Holy Light bless you. I have come here to use this machine to record the miracles that occur here, so that the world may better understand how the Holy Light guides us."
He had still gotten his wish and arrived at the border. Jia Xiu and Juan had not managed to keep him back.
Trying to stop a rather devout believer from pursuing his faith was simply too difficult.
Unless they used unconventional means.
But using unconventional means against an inventor they were working with seemed a little inhumane.
So they had no choice but to let it go.
In the end, they equipped Levis with a top-grade teleportation rune stone. Its predetermined anchor was the large city nearest the fortress, so he would not need to cast a spell or select a destination when using it. He only had to trigger it and flee at once, and it could even resist most anti-teleportation spells.
And to ensure nothing went wrong, Levis also had one of