Chapter 444: Journey Part 2 (1/2)

The group continued their journey, going through Syria. Luckily, they managed to reach their destination one hour before dark.

Setting up the tent, Arnaud asked Kai. ”Can I see the route? I mean, we are going to Iraq and Iran. It's a vast area if you ask me, so it's better to have a route.”

Kai took out his device and opened the map. He showed him the simple one.

”Hmm…” Arnaud furrowed his eyebrows. ”So from your map, we will cross southern Iraq until we reach Kuwait. Then we will return to Iraq through the second bigger city, Basra, before making our way to the capital Baghdad and reached far to the north to the city of Erbil.”

”Yes. I'm sure you don't mind having this kind of schedule since it's the perfect one to reach northern Iran… What is the city name again…” Kai nodded and thought for a moment.

”Tabriz. From there, we will go with a vertical zigzag to search all the areas until we reach Teheran and Isfahan.”

”Yep. We will go northeast after that until we reach the border between Iran and Turkmenistan. Only at that time can we go all the way to the south while following Afghanistan and Pakistan's borders before running near the Persian Gulf to go back. If we don't find it by that time, then this mission will be considered a failure.”

Arnaud contemplated for a moment and asked, ”Do you actually know what you're dealing with here?”

”Yes, but I won't say anything about it unless we find them. I have a friend that tells me they are here.” Kai nodded. He wondered what Arnaud would think if he knew the informant was someone who could destroy the entire EU Base with ease the moment he was provoked.

”I understand. Although there are flaws in some areas, I think this is the most effective way to find them.”

”Don't worry. My ears have a five-kilometer radius, so we should be good enough.” Kai nodded, assuring him that this expedition had a good chance of success.

”Alright. Since you have a vision already, I'm going to follow you through this course.”

”That's good enough. With our speed, how many days do you think we need to cross this route?”

He looked down with his hand on his chin, falling into deep thought. After a while, he opened his mouth. ”With my calculation, we need around three weeks if we only need to run. Since Roselyn has started getting used to your current pace, I think it will be a month if we need to handle those beasts.”

”Is there any powerful magical beast in this area?”

”Some powerful A Rank Magical Beasts. As for the S Rank Magical Beast, we have found one in Sudan, one in Kongo, and one in Zimbabwe. On the northern side, there are three across all of Russia's territory, two in China and one in India. Unless there are new S Rank Magical Beasts, I don't think we will find them.”

”That's good, but don't say that too obvious, you know. It's going to appear.” Kai shrugged. ”I mean, even my holiday got disturbed by a sudden appearance of an S Rank Magical Beast.”

”I know, I know. I won't say it again.” He shrugged. ”Though I'm sure there are still many intelligent beasts in this area, so it's not like we are going to have a good time.”