Chapter 153: The Road Trip (1/2)

The group travelled down the overgrown road in the saalopolis with The trip was ulti in such a weak area would bother such a large group

Unlike the previous expedition where it took theons allowed theroup didn't stop at the abandoned town, all of the rangers took in the sight of yet another town that they were once fa in, now devoid of any signs of life

"Those darowled Merlin turned to face hie of tears The rest of the rangers on his wagon, including Callisto herself, all had expressions with a mix of ee

Merlin turned his gaze to his surroundings The town see exactly as he had left it during his first expedition Although it see in the town, as Merlin caught a gli its baby into one of the abandoned houses by the scruff of its neck, only to poke its head out froroup a few seconds later

Although they had started their journey westbound, after leaving the town, they beganmore towards south-west Had they continued west for quite a while, they would have eventually co itself from the outside world for a yet unknown reason

So, while looking for a safe location to give their horses and theh rest to continue on their journey, they decided that their safest bet would be Parrhasia

At this point in ti had slowly been shi+fting towards the afternoon Merlin was half listening to several of the rangers talking about their feelings and recounting the memories they had with some of the victims This helped him pass the tiativity brought up at once had started

After alroup could now see a large walled off town in the distance The sight of civilisation helped the ns of life that they could barely ave them hope

Merlin noticed that so soe tea a fast pace seeh he wasn't happy about the choice of forcing thestationary in the wilderness for too long Especially when there were so many horses in one area, which seeet for ravenoushis travels, a red alert box appeared before hie from the devs!]

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And during the late afternoon, the group had finally made their way to the outside walls of the town The walls surrounding the toere thick logs stacked side by side, and the top of each log was sharpened to a point, for stockade

There were several tall structures within the walls that were tall enough to provide vision over the wall, and upon each of these watch toas an aruard There seeates that were scattered around

It seeates that Merlin could see were closed, and it was likely that they mirrored this behaviour on the other sides of the town too

The wagons started approaching one of the walls, and without any words being said to the guards frouards ordered for the gate to be opened Merlin watched as the gate was slowly opened, and the wagons were allowed inside

'They're a bit laid back in regards to safety, aren't they?' Merlin thought to hiood, there's the Despoina cult after all'

Merlin thought of a few reasons behind it, perhaps they were roup's arrival ahead of tinise a few faces in the crowd It wasn't like the wagons had any easily recognisable icons or an insignia printed on them, so there surely had to be soroup's intent

As the wagons drove further into the town, Merlin was too busy taking in his surroundings to notice the wagons co hiht hion, where he saw an ar the insignia of a wolf's head wearing a crown on their arroaned as she stared at the soldiers, "Father's personal ar in otten io so far as to occupy a frontier town as a base of operations while trying to reestablish contact with Charisia" Sheto one of those bloodthirsty advisers he keeps by his side"

The arates leading out of the town Once they had gotten out of the way, the wagons began ain

'I suppose another possible reason they would be less cautious is because they have the king's personal arht be the answer' Merlin thought, 'Although wouldn't they ra's ar si After noticing that Callisto or the other rangers didn't seeht