OBS Chapter 441: Other paths
Chapter 441: Other paths
The next day, the group began to work early in the morning. After packing their things, Rain passed his forearm and shin guards to his sisters.
"You can use them while Lotto makes the new ones, who wants to keep the spear?" Rain asked.
In the end, no one raised their hands, and while she was better with earth magic, Rain gave Dana the spear since she was the oldest.
"This division is a bit unbalanced when you don't have any weapons, are you sure that you will be fine?" Roan asked when he saw that Rain was the only one who was going to guard Branden, Esmeralda, Orcis and Lorene, he wondered if his son was getting carried away.
"If anything happens, the best soldiers are with the king and Joanis," Rain explained. "Everyone here can use magic boost now, so if anything happens, they can run before I can do anything. I find it hard to believe that at this point in time I would mess things up, though."
"Alright... just be careful," Roan said after a long sigh.
Rain and the others had to use the underground route for several reasons. The first was to gain time since they just had to use a bit of water magic to make a boat move in the direction that they wanted, they could carry a ton of stuff with them.
The other was the fact that Rain wanted to keep expanding his tunnels... they were too useful to move large groups of people and stuff without being noticed. To steal stuff from the enemies as well when necessary and to surprise them when a fight breaks out.
That being said, everyone aside from Rain felt a bit odd while moving underground since they didn't have any idea how much was the distance that they had covered. At the same time, Rain began to dig the tunnel toward their destination while they were there... the fear of everything collapsing was there. Even though Rain was using everything with magic alone.
Taking huge chunks of the walls and then reinforcing them to avoid making the whole thing collapse.
"I guess they will be my targets, then," Rain thought.
The group wondered how and when Rain was planning to do that... he said that he didn't want to cause unnecessary deaths, but it was unlikely that those individuals would be unguarded.
Regardless, it didn't take long for the group to be seen by the guards of the town. They stood out like a sore thumb because they didn't have horses pulling their wagon, after all. In any case, the guards eventually got in their way... while sweating bullets.
"We have come to sell weapons and armor to the specialized shops of the town," Branden declared. "Is that possible?"
The guards looked at each other, unsure of that... They knew Rain, and they knew that he didn't need weapons, and the town was actually needing a lot of them since they were sent to the war.
"... You aren't part of the usual group of merchants that visits our town, so we will have to keep escorting you during the whole time," one of the guards said.
"That will be fine, thank you," Branden said while smiling.
Rain wondered if there were no traces not of civility inside him... because he thought that the whole exchange was a waste of time. If they didn't want to let the group enter, Rain would force them to stand down. He also thought that pretending that they had to be diplomatic with those that send soldiers to kill him was also a waste of time.
At first, the group didn't draw much attention since few people had seen famous figures like Branden and Esmeralda... still, the soldiers that surrendered in the previous battle began to spread rumors about them... despite that, the merchants who wanted armor and weapons readily bought them them thanks to the thirty percent off.
"Stop here... I want to check this building," Rain suddenly said.