110 Thanks after disturbing his sleep? (1/2)

The convoy, in the meantime continued through the forest unhindered. There were some magical beasts here and there, but the mercenaries easily took care of them.

Ozul would occasionally wake up and check on the situation before going back to sleep.

Raven didn't really need to drive the carriage; the horses just followed behind the ones in front of it. So she had enough free time to train.

But the progress was slow since she needed to concentrate on controlling her mana. She was an End Stage rank-5 mage, and she just needed a little push before advancing to rank-6.

However, that little push was something that she would have to strive for herself. Despite being just a little push, it required a lot of hard work, talent, and a bit of luck.

Her mana core had already been stabilized, and it would increase in size once she pushed through this last step, declaring her as a rank-6 mage.

Being a mage required great focus. Though there were many mages in the world, it was only because the early stages of mages were manageable and did not require many resources.

Once in the later stages, unless one was born with immense talent, advancing required the use of expensive resources.

The mages first had to incorporate the mana with their mana core walls while controlling the mana inside the core to push outwards to increase its size.

It was a tedious process, and with a single mistake, the core walls could form cracks because of a sudden forceful push.

On the other hand, if there were not enough force pushing the outwards, the walls would become rigid, and it would require more than double the efforts to increase the size.

And if they couldn't do it under a certain amount of time, the walls would turn so rigid that after a certain period of time, it would become almost impossible to advance without any pills.

Not only did it require complete control over the mana but also peace of mind.

Blaze at this moment was at the Mid Stage of rank-5. He was also on the brink of a breakthrough. But unlike Raven, he couldn't concentrate enough in this environment. So he was focusing more on his body like Ozul had advised.

They traveled nonstop until it got dark.

”We will set the camps again!” Clive shouted when the convoy approached another area with relatively fewer trees around.

Ozul also heard the shout and woke up from yet another nap. Following others, Raven parked the carriage near a tree and gave the horses some hay that Irvin had brought together with the carriage.

When Ozul got off the carriage, she wasn't as surprised because she had noticed that he was acting this way earlier this morning as well.

This time it didn't take long for them to set up camps as they had stored them in their Spatial Rings in a prepared form.

But just as he was about to, he saw something troublesome from the corner of his eyes.

”Heyy!”- A silver-haired girl seemingly ran towards him while shouting.

When Ozul saw the situation, he put his prosthetic hand on his face and faked a yawn before he turned around and went inside the tent. Just as he had got in, he suddenly peeked his head outside and ordered Blaze, ”Don't let anyone in.”

After that, he went back in, leaving Blaze to deal with the predicament.

Clara had been waiting for this moment for the entire day. And when she saw that Ozul was free and not resting either, she hurried towards him, turning a blind eye to the huffing Venessa behind her.

But just as she had shouted at him, she noticed that he yawned and went back inside his tent.

'Is he going to rest? But I wanted to talk with him!'- Clara thought before running faster.

The sight of her running shocked the other mercenaries, but when they noticed the direction that she ran in, it contorted all of their faces in jealousy.

Unfortunately for Clara, since Ozul did not want to have a chat with her, she had no chance at all.

Blaze stood guard in front of the tent with his head held high. He wanted to appear as stubborn as he could after realizing why Ozul had suddenly ordered him not to let anyone enter.

When Clara approached him, he just held his hand in front of him and said with a heavy voice, ”You cannot enter, Miss. Youn- Ahem! Ozul has informed me not to let anyone enter. He is having a rest.”

Blaze kept his icy demeanor even when he was accidentally going to call Ozul as Young Master again.