Episode 50.8 (2/2)

”Shall I come along with you?”

”No. Stay with Eda. Avoid engaging in battle at all cost. Weasel your way out with sweet talk.”

”I gotcha.”

”Well then.”

Lecan opened the window, cast <Concealment> on himself and jumped into the nightown.

He was headed to the eastern rampart. There's a road leading to District Makana and District Holt at the end of the western rampart, while there's nothing at the end of the eastern rampart.

Once he arrived at the eastern rampart, Lecan ran toward the north on top of the rampart wall. There's a steep cliff to his right. A strong gust blew from the bottom up. But the top of the rampart wall is quite spacious, he could gain respectable speed even while being careful to keep the noise down.

At the northern end of the rampart is a forest. There is no rampart to the north of Yufonia.

This forest is connected to the Northern Tower which is located at the north end of the lord palace.

Lecan went in the forest and kept going north for a while before turning west.

He came out of the forest.

And came across a flowing river.

A straight river. It's about 15 to 20 step wide. There are spacious promenades on both sides of the river.

This river is called <Blessing of Coll>. It's a 3000 step long man-made river that carries water from the Holy Lake Guen sometimes as a rapid current, sometimes slowly.

It's made of stone with bridges connecting both sides built here and there. The bridges have soil on top with flowers and grass growing. Seen from afar, <Blessing of Coll> looks like it's flowing while occasionally hiding underground.

Even someone with little appreciation to culture and history like Lecan couldn't help but be in awe of Holy Yufu Kingdom's ingenuity when he saw this.

He recast <Concealment> before heading straight to the north on the promenade.

Although it's not as well lit up as the capital, Yufonia shone bright at night with the lights coming out of people's houses. He went straight to the center.

(There it is.)

(That's the Northern Tower huh.)

The Northern Tower stood tall in the darkness of the night.

It's surrounded by campfires all over its circumference. There are also magic tools placed sparsely.

Then there's the watch guards all around the tower. They must be Peacekeeping Knights and the squires. There's a bit more people at what seems to be the entrance.

The lower half of the tower is covered by mana. It must be the magic barrier. As these knights can't get past it, the barrier should be a physical type.

(Jiza's eyes would pop open if she saw this.)

According to Life Detection, there's around 20 people inside the tower.

Two of which are mana bearers. Meaning one of the them must be Rubianafale.

Is it the one with the abundant mana. But could this bearer of such an overwhelming amount of mana really be that Rubianafale.

Lecan quietly walked on <Blessing of Coll>'s promenade while being careful as to not raise a sound.