I've previously stocked up on various potions in Lanya's "Blue Moon," so our supplies are quite sufficient. Buying some food would pretty much complete our preparations.

I also bought some simple gunpowder. Although regular bombs are not very powerful, if you mix in the magic stone powder with other elements in a certain proportion, the resulting bomb can be highly powerful and can even add various negative effects, such as igniting, freezing, corroding, bleeding, and so on. It's quite useful.

As for Bai Yueguang... He mainly bought a lot of grinding stones. It's quite strange, actually. His knife can restore its sharpness simply by using the grinding stone, as long as it's not damaged. I have no idea what kind of advanced technology that is.

Also, his appearance has changed since last time. I don't know where he went to update his weapons.

As for Hei Luoli, she bought countless arrows. Although she claims she can create a bow and arrow using spiritual energy, physical arrows don't consume as much magic power.

Lastly, there's Oyado. She bought around 300 daggers, but I can't figure out where she's hiding them. Although she has a storage ring, it probably can't fit everything.

After we finished packing up, it was time to set off. It wouldn't be acceptable for hired individuals like us to be late, so we arrived half an hour early.

The meeting spot was an open space outside the city. When we arrived, the caravan and dozens of mercenaries were already there.

Looking at the familiar appearance of the caravan, I suddenly remembered the previous transport mission we completed, which ended up leading to an attack on the Ais Empire. I hope we don't encounter such a situation this time, no matter how much experience we have.

I just want to successfully complete the mission. Can't they give us a simple challenge instead of fighting a bunch of humanoids?

Anyway, let's go and report first. We'll figure out what to do later.

"Hello, I'm from the registered Nitt Squad."

"Oh my god! Did you really name yourselves that?"

Bai Yueguang immediately criticized from behind.

"Is it not okay?"

"Well...it's not that it's not okay."

Although he said that, the other party's expression was still strange. After struggling for a while, he spoke.

"It just feels...weird."

"It's okay, it's not something most people care about."

After sending Bai Yueguang away, I turned to the merchant in charge of registration.

He was examining the form in his hand, dressed in plain brown clothes. However, I could see a long sword hidden beneath his cloak.

And his title informed me that this person had the ability of a level 15 swordsman, although a level 40 merchant would be more impressive.

The merchant's name was Sel Touss. After staring at the form for a long time, his eyes suddenly widened.

"Mr. Euphyllis?"

"Yes, that's me."

"That's great! I didn't expect an A-ranked mercenary to sign up. After all, this is just a C-ranked mission, and an escort mission at that."

"We happened to be going to the Witte Empire, so we decided to join along."

"I see. In any case, with you here, I can rest assured. This transport will be much easier too."

"I hope so. I don't want any trouble, so please try to take the normal route. If we really encounter something, I can only promise to do my best to protect, but not a hundred percent assurance. I want to declare this in advance."

"That's for sure, no doubt about it."

"And also, it's best not to tell the other mercenaries that there's an A-rank mercenary in this team, otherwise they might slack off and waste your money."

"You're right, don't worry."

I nodded and went back to Oyado and the others.

"That's probably it, we should be setting off soon, right?"

"But speaking of which, we don't really look any different from the lowest-ranked mercenaries, do we? Look over there, they seem to have really cool equipment."

Bai Yueguang pointed to another small team on the side, consisting of three members: a swordsman in black armor covered in various scars, giving off a rather imposing aura; a mage wearing a blue cloak, most likely a water-based spellcaster, based on his title, "Water's Melody," with a robe made of fabric embedded with mithril thread, and magic stones adorning his shoulders, making it look like a formal attire; and finally, an archer in green leather armor with slightly pointed ears, possibly having elven blood.

The glares of the three of them gave off a fierce and seasoned warrior feel, and their levels were not low either, 26, 28, and 24. However, levels did not necessarily reflect combat proficiency, so their abilities should be higher than their levels.

Speaking of levels, there's Oyado as an extreme example. I won't say anything more.

But Bai Yueguang was right, compared to their impressive outfits, we were just like beginners in our attire. But that's to be expected, as our equipment was meant to conceal our identities, it wouldn't be anything good.

However... I still can't help but think that it would be better to have some stronger equipment for our future missions... But even if I say that, other than the equipment we took from the royal treasury or acquired from the auction, we have nothing else... How can we possibly wear those things? Who knows, one day someone might recognize us and put us on the top of the wanted list.

It's better to find a maze and farm equipment, that's the way to go.

But the merchant from earlier didn't say anything about my attire. He probably thought I was just trying to conceal my identity.

"Don't worry about it, it's just that we didn't farm equipment before, that's why we're in this situation now. Complaining won't do us any good."

"Who said that? Although I did farm equipment, but they were all kimonos and such that wanderers wear, not armor."

"You're right... Most of my equipment is magic robes as well..."

I looked at Oyado, her assassin leather armor was actually a high-quality item bought from [Blue Moon], it looked ordinary but it didn't make any sound when wearing it and it also had a built-in acceleration effect due to the addition of wind magic.

Hei Luoli's armor was the same, I didn't know what element it was, but the dark red scale armor seemed to sacrifice flexibility for enhanced defense.

"Sorry for the wait, we're setting off now. I already explained during the mission briefing that on the first day, we'll be traveling through the night and try to reach the small town three kilometers away from the Duoge Academy ruins by the evening of the second day. Otherwise, there won't be any other resting places nearby. So time is of the essence, let's go."

After using amplification magic to shout from the top of the convoy, Tusu jumped down and went to the front of the troops.

"Let's go!"

...

I really wanted to complain, but I kept my mouth shut.

Do you think you're going to avenge someone? Why are you shouting with such passion!