Chapter 185 38. "Walking Alone"
Annan was wrapped in a warm and thick coat, and the hand holding the reins of the carriage was tucked into his sleeves.
Just as the cold of winter did not freeze Annan’s enthusiasm, the boring journey did not dampen his expectations.
Recalling the companions on this trip: Gray Wolf, a somewhat lonely middle-aged businessman, with an aphasic boy about the same age as Martin; Astolfo, a knight who admires and wants to become a knight in Bethal City A girl from the retinue; and a business girl with weather-beaten skin.
Annan's character is a young man who wavers between a businessman and a bard. The feathered clothes borrowed from Andrew Luna are packed in a suitcase, so the secret will never be revealed.
This time it was not like being taken care of by Aunt Susan and her family in Pinglin Town, not like being involved in the conspiracy whirlpool in Breeze City, nor like the anxiety of returning to Osulund. He even took off his mage robe - the trip to Bethal City will be a real adventure in another world.
This is Annan’s own adventure!
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An ordinary afternoon, a little earlier.
After the excited Annan left the city lord's palace, Olmedo waved to call the servants in the distance: "Francois and the others are here too, right? Let Dina go find them and tell them... …”
"Annan is going to abandon you."
Dina, who appeared in front of Francois, Dela, and Lorna, told them that Annan was going to Betar City and found an excuse to lie to them.
No wonder Annan suddenly ran back just now, saying that there were some things to deal with in Breeze City, and asked them to return to Xingyue Bay first...
"You can rest assured to let Annan go to Betar City by himself?"< br>
"Otherwise, what can we do..." Francois felt like taking care of the naughty boy for some reason, "Then Annan's safety will be left to you."
"Actually, it's you." Dina opened the wooden box she brought, "I'm proficient in makeup."
Ten minutes later, a rough man and a lively girl stood in front of Dina .
“Be careful not to reveal your secret.”
Dina reminded them. Because of the alien order, Dai La is no longer in disguise and will not follow Annan.
“I don’t need to speak.” The rugged man spoke in Lorna’s voice.
"I can disguise my voice." The lively girl said crisply, "What should I do with these things that are going to be sent to Xingyue Bay?"
"Leave it to us, there will be some caravans going to Xingyue in the next few days. Bay."
Francois said nothing more and checked the luggage to be sent back to Xingyue Bay - the figure curled up in the suitcase was revealed as it was opened.
Bang!
The "girl" pressed the suitcase with a look of horror.
Dina and the "man" looked at her from afar.
“The lock of the suitcase is a little rusty!”
Francois, who had restored his voice, had just finished speaking when Martin got out of the suitcase: “I know what you are doing, take it with you. Me alone.”
“You don’t know.”
Everyone from Breeze City to Xingyue Bay knows about Cousin Annan’s reputation.
"My cousin is going to Bethal City without you. You want to pretend to be someone else and follow him. What's so hard to guess?"
The rumors are wrong... Francois, who was thinking this way, considered fainting. Martin——
“You want to knock me out?”
Now Martin doesn’t look stupid at all, he is even shrewd. Francois had no choice but to agree to take Martin with him: "But the secret must not be exposed."
"I know that if you are discovered, you will definitely send me back. I am not stupid."
The next day, Lorna, Martin, and Francois joined Annan's team as a lonely businessman, a mute boy, and a knight girl.
......
As a new night fell, three carriages stopped at the empty camp on the roadside, lit a bonfire, and boiled snow water. After several days of traveling, the five of them got to know each other well.
The down-and-out princess from a neighboring country complained that the road was getting harder and harder to walk. This is what the business girl called herself during the first day off. She said she was the princess of the Tatooine Empire, but she was killed by the evil queen. Slander was driven out of the home.
The Tatooine Empire is the most powerful country in the Allen continent, and it did not even have one after 500 years of the Saint Laurent Calendar.
“Because we are almost arriving at Bethal City.” Knight girl Gemma said. As for why the road near Betar City turned bad... I can only say that this is politics.
"Are you a wanted criminal?" The princess pretended to be elegant and rubbed her calf and asked Annan, "Why are you always wearing a hood?"
Annan really has no need to hide his head and tail anymore, but in the past Just in case: "Do you know "Fall of the Mage Tower"?"
"What is that?"
Annan didn't answer and looked around at the other people in front of the bonfire.
"What is the fall of the Mage Tower?"
"What is the Mage Tower?"
It seems that there is no danger of exposure... Annan lifted his cloak: "Just wanted to Avoid some trouble..."
It's just that the effect is not as good as Annan imagined. Perhaps the cold wind these days has made his face rough and he is wearing a bloated coat. Only the princess stared at Annan without blinking. After being awakened, she tilted her head duplicitously: "I just looked at you twice because I thought you were similar to a prince..."
Annan took some powder from the bag and sprinkled it on himself and others.
"Why does this smell like spice..." The knight girl choked and pinched her nose.
“Because this is pepper.”
As a price for not being so far north, Bethal City not only has ratmen, but also vampires.
The smell of pepper is too much for a vampire's keen sense of smell, but there are some risks - ogres like it.
After dinner, they returned to their carriages to rest.
The campground returned to silence, and the night got deeper and deeper, at some point. Two shadows lingered over the camp, ominous whispers torn apart by the wind.
“There is a band of adventurers here…”
“They have pepper…”
…
In the early morning, they resumed their journey and passed a village in the morning - on the map this village was only a few dozen miles away from Bethal City. They were almost there.
But when passing through the village, they found that the villagers were preparing to burn a beautiful lady to death.
"Save me! They say I am a devil and want to burn me to death!"
Before Annan and the others did anything, the villagers surrounded the carriage with farm forks, axes and other agricultural tools. : "They are the devil's accomplices...burn them to death!"
The princess was frightened, but the boy was still sleeping.
A wooden spear passed in front of Annan crookedly. They were forced to fight back, and the knight girl rushed out first, followed closely by the lonely uncle. As professionals, they are responsible for solving the villagers. When Annan wanted to be a hero to save the beauty, he was horrified to find that the torture rack was empty——
Annan was preparing to activate the magic ring and release the low summoning spell, shouting to remind the knight girl and the lonely girl Uncle, let them stop fighting and exit this weird village.
This journey is beginning to look like an adventure, Annan thought.
Then they speeded up, and finally, on the fifth day of departure, Betar City emerged in front of them.
What surged in Annan's heart was not only expectation but also pride - Gema would never have imagined that he would run into Betar City.
(End of this chapter)