Jia Xiu's group set out once more.
Oren said Karaga City was not far away.
Having successfully survived the "terrifying" earth tremor left him exhilarated. Although the main reason was that the runestone he had brought was large enough and he himself had contributed nothing at all, that did not dampen his excitement.
"I survived an earth tremor! No one has ever done that—at least, no one in our city has. I hope the Pursuers didn't encounter one. They're all good people."
"They were sent to hunt you down," Mia said from the side.
"Lord Divine Envoy, that was merely their duty. It had nothing to do with personal feelings. They pursued me so diligently and even dared to shoot arrows at you, my lord. Though that was very offensive, I believe that sense of responsibility and courage is precisely what the city-state needs. I hope they can be forgiven," Oren explained earnestly.
"We never blamed them in the first place."
Jia Xiu answered, realizing that although Oren came from a different plane and a different race, he exuded the exact same aura as the "second fool" sons of noble families back on the continent.
They would recklessly do things on a whim without considering the consequences, causing enormous trouble, yet they were not bad people at heart.
Which raised a question: between these spur-of-the-moment types and genuinely evil people, which were more dangerous?
"Thank you for your mercy."
"I want to know, are the earth tremors you experience very frequent?" Jia Xiu asked.
"Frequent... I suppose not that frequent. We hear about them several times a year. There may have been fewer when I was young, but recently, we've heard about more of them," Oren said as he recalled. "But those are all reports from the major city-states. No