"Someone is attacking your convoy, who is it" Alexia happily asked.
Seth's mouth twitched for a few seconds, but in the end, he answered,
"Irene"
"Oh, she had a change of heart and realized how much she loves you" Alexia chuckled.
"So what is going on now" The cute blond teen excitedly asked.
"Don't care: Seth answered about to close his eyes and nap but this was not meant to be.
"But I care."
"Seth I care, tell me what going on" Alexi cried jumping on Seth's chest and screaming into his mind. She was like a child menace.
"Alright," Seth said, sitting up and looking at the situation happening outside.
"Yahhh, do your best to describe what's happening outside," Alexia said coiling herself into Seth's arms.
"Now I know what you spend all your time doing," Seth thought, saying goodbye to any thought of privacy he had ever imagined himself having.
….. Minutes earlier…..
A group of 7 people had just left the thick coverage of the forest and were now traveling a grassy plain, every one of them on alert as they move as quietly as possible.
Located in the middle of this group was a particularly large blue beast with thick limbs, a long snout, and boasting the cultivation of a rank 1 beast.
Under the control of the people surrounding it, this beast traveled silently, hardly letting out any sudden qi spike or loud sounds that could draw attention to the group, and attached to this beast was a larger than normal wagon which it pulled along
"Increase your pace, we have to get out of this plain as fast as possible, it leaves us too vulnerable to an attack" the voice of Milli sounded, the woman positioned at the back of the group.
After she spoke, the group silently increased their pace, treading the plain as fast as they could.
"Would have been faster if a beast flew the box away" Milli thought, a twinge of envy growing in her when she thought of Master Tundor and his followers.
As non-combatants, there was no reason for them to follow tag along with them and be liabilities, so immediately after the master was done inspecting the black box, he had left, being ferried by a flying beast back to the city.
As for them who transported the black box, flying was not an option. With Zuroc still being a real threat, the chances that a flying beast carrying a large package would be spotted and brought down was nearly hundred percent, so the black box had to be transported by land.
Thankfully they weren't expected to carry it all the way to the city as that would have been nothing but a suicide mission.
Lady Minuha had given them a location for a rendezvous, and from their current position the location wasn't far, this was a thought of relief for Milli.
Her eyes moved over to the carriage and irritation and anger couldn't help but bubble in them, but while it was sad that she couldn't properly punish the perverted man, she took solace in the fact that Minuha would deliver a gruesome torture to the man.
Several minutes passed since Milli's warning when all of a sudden she gave out an order
"Stop."
"Possible enemy attack"
After her words, Miili began looking around with caution, her eyes narrowed as she swept her soulsense, around, trying to find the enemy, but unlike what she expected the enemy did not sneak or charge her, Rather she came out from the forest the group had just left and jogged up to them.
"Irene, what are you doing here?"
"Looking for you guys," Irene said with a smile like all was natural, cocking her head and looking at the carriage behind Milli for a while before turning back to the woman.
"How has he been," Irene asked.
"Though we can't gleam anything due to our inability to see into the box, from the fact that the box trembled since the journey begin or showed any sign of taking damage, we've determined either he hasn't tried to escape which is unlikely, or we severely overestimated his strength."
"Well, that is what Master Tundor propose before he left."
"So what about you what are you doing here," Milli asked.
Though Irene had half-heatedly answered her question the first time, Milli had no choice but to fully answer Irene's.
Faced with a level 9 mortal while just being a level 7 mortal herself, Milli had to exercise caution and be polite at all times.
"I came here to release him" Irene flatly said and then continued.
"Don't go trying to use that illusion artifact, you know there will only be one outcome if you resist."
To Irene's words Milli let pit a deep breath and looked at Irene.
"Do you want to go against Lady Minuha, she represents the princess, you'll be going against the entire kingdom for just one man."
"I love that man."
Hearing Irene's words was dumbstruck and confused but in the end, Milli shook her head knowing there was no hope for the woman.
"Take your men and leave, fighting me is just asking for a massacre" Irene offered.
"I am no traitor, men attack" Milli roared her dagger in hand and lighting all over it.
….
With Milli being the only level 7 cultivator and the strongest at that, wiping out the group that had attacked her couldn't even be called a chore.
Irene left the dead bodies behind her and moved toward the carriage which definitely contained Seth only to stop and look at the one man who seemed to have popped out of nowhere and was now standing in her path.
"You could have showed up earlier, no need for them to have pointlessly sacrificed themselves.
"They are soldiers, they know their duty." The man spoke, his aura quickly spiking.
"Where does Minuha have the guts to send out a level 9 mortal to accomplish her personal goals, doesn't she care for the City's defense," Irene asked, unsurprised by the man's appearance or his cultivation level.
"That's not for you to worry about" the man said, lowering his posture, and then charging Irene.
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