Winnie and Joshua were confined inside the carriage, unable to move freely or see what was happening outside. Still, the sunlight filtering in and the course the carriage took allowed them to deduce a few things.
Naturally, the carriage was nowhere near as fast as a Mana Sedan. After setting off, it seemed to have headed north before turning northwest.
Its speed also stayed somewhere between twenty and thirty kilometers per hour. It had traveled without stopping since they boarded, only coming to its first halt when the sunlight filtering through the windows grew dimmer and dimmer, until almost no light remained.
"Get out. We're going to rest here for a while."
The middle-aged mage delivered the order coldly, then watched two burly men escort Winnie and Joshua out of the carriage.
Once outside, they discovered that they had reached the foot of a barren mountain. There was no sign of habitation anywhere around them.
As for the road... they had left it behind more than two hours earlier.
Clearly, their captors needed to keep this operation secret, so they would avoid populated places as much as possible. Choosing to rest in this remote wilderness was perfectly natural.
Joshua turned to glance at the completely darkened western sky, then looked up at the faint stars overhead, confirming that it was probably around seven in the evening.
As for their location... by his estimates along the way, they were probably more than two hundred kilometers from where they had been abducted.
Judging by their direction of travel, they should now be approaching the Falk Kingdom's border, or might even have crossed it already.
In this direction, the only countries bordering the Falk Kingdom were the Angelia Kingdom and a small duchy called Assyria.
He had no way of determining their exact