Dididi...
Suddenly, I heard a communication prompt in my earphones and quickly took them out to wear.
"What's going on?"
"Brother, we and Grandpa Dunst have already eliminated those invading enemies."
Oyado's voice came through the earphones, it seems that the new wave of invaders has been dealt with.
"Then Prince Sera decided that we should leave Nightsteel City now and continue our journey. After all, it's too dangerous for us to stay here any longer."
"I understand, we have arrived at the hotel gate."
After saying that, we both pushed open the door of the hotel and what appeared before us was a hall full of corpses.
And besides the mercenaries, there were also the bodies of some guards wearing armor with royal insignias.
Oyado and Aliyah were standing beside them, talking to the old butler, Dunst.
"Oh, you're back, I suppose you know who is behind this incident?"
"Yes, it's the Shelden family, the bounty in the black market should still be available."
"I see, so it's a struggle between them. By the way, the dispute over the magic crystal mine rights is about to begin... Prince Sera, are you ready to depart?"
Suddenly, Dunst looked towards the direction of the stairs. I turned my head and saw Prince Sera slowly walking down the stairs.
"Yes, let's go. Madol and Lema, you two will ride in the same carriage as Fir. We will leave Nightsteel City at the fastest speed."
"Yes, thank you very much..."
The two from the Marshal family thanked Prince Sera one after another.
Well, it's already rare for the prince to do this much. As a member of the royal family, he shouldn't lean towards either side in the disputes among noble families, as it would be detrimental to the position of the royal family in the future.
Openly supporting one side would only complicate the conflict.
So the prince chose to ride separately, right?
It's really... I'm clearly not good at protecting people...
"Understood, Miss Madol, Lema, you two come with me to another carriage. All you need to do is stay quiet."
"Stay quiet?"
Both of their faces were full of confusion.
"That's right, just stay quiet."
I mysteriously smiled and then looked at Dale.
"Ah, we need to use that, huh... Alright."
Dale helplessly shrugged and wrote something for me.
"Remember to make someone else pay."
"Yes, yes, yes."
They're all greedy fellows who were led astray by Lanya.
-------------------Vehicle loading--------------------
Inside the carriage, a green and white glowing sphere slowly rotated in the air.
As these green and white particles spread out, a thin film covered our carriage, and if you didn't look within a meter of it, you couldn't tell there was a carriage beneath this film.
Yes, this is magic optical camouflage developed using light-based magic and wind-based magic together. Although it has its flaws, it's almost perfect.
As for the shortcomings...
It consumes too quickly. Basically, we have to change a large-capacity magic crystal every hour. Based on this efficiency, we will burn through a magic crystal worth 500 gold coins before reaching the next city.
And that's a conservative estimate. If any unexpected events happen, the consumption might be even higher.
"Are they chasing after us?"
Miss Madol on the carriage asked timidly.
It seems that after seeing the bodies in the hotel, the faces of these two young people have been pale, as if this kind of thing has never happened to them before.
Well, as aristocrats, they should have adapted to this kind of thing earlier.
Look, Bai Yueguang, Hei Luoli, Taishi Xi, and Aliyah are playing cards next to each other.
Ms. Mary and Fran? They are discussing the invisibility device with Dale. It seems that Fran is very interested in it, so Mary and Dale started chatting with her.
I always feel like she wants to use this device to develop something even weirder, but I don't really care.
Because of this device, we have been traveling along the outer side of the main road since leaving Night Steel City. Along the way, besides encountering two squads of mercenaries, we haven't encountered any other pursuers.
Of course, they just passed by us directly, and we parked by the roadside, so we weren't discovered at all.
They did take a risk and checked the prince's carriage once, but they didn't find anything.
Generally speaking, it is completely acceptable to refuse such a search of the prince, as it implies insult.
However, in order to cooperate with us, the prince accepted the search.
In any case, this operation has been quite helpful for us.
Anyway, we won't be discovered for the time being, but that's also the problem.
We left Night Steel City through the front gate, so there's no way we can disappear out of thin air.
Therefore, the search teams have become more and more numerous, and our travel speed has slowed down. After all, we have to stop whenever someone gets close to us, otherwise they are likely to see through our disguises.
But my small map can't see the entire area. Right now, the reason we can avoid being discovered is because of the stealth airship silently hovering behind us.
I hope everything goes smoothly.
"Stop the car, there's something strange approaching!"
Dale suddenly yelled from the front.
The carriage immediately came to a stop, and after a while, a strange engine sound passed by us.
This sound... I looked at Dale, and Dale nodded.
"Wait a moment, I need to go out, otherwise, we will be discovered soon."
"Discovered?"
"Yes..."
I looked at the others next to me and sighed.
"The other party has started using an airship."
