Chapter 425 - Broadcasted to the city (1/2)

While Ray had gone off to do his own thing, Slyvia and the others were busy looking for a place to stay. The empire offers free accommodation to all the guests, but due to them coming a little earlier, there was no such thing for them at the moment.

The group had been walking around for a while after putting their carriage away, knowing full well it would bring them too much attention. When they had pulled up in it, people were already starting to ask questions.

Now walking on foot, the city felt far larger than it did before, and they were in the main area. There was still the outer part of the cities as well.

”Come on!” Kyle complained. ”That's like the fifth inn we have walked past already are we ever going to stop.”

Usually, the others would tell Kyle off for his remarks, but honestly, both Martha and Harry felt the same way. Although they didn't do much, travelling in general was exhausting and they didn't understand why they needed to stop at a specific inn.

”Alright, this one!” Slyvia said. She had been staring at the inn markings for a while and finally found what she was looking for, a wolf with a scar above its right eye.

After entering the inn, the others were just happy that they would finally get some rest. They would want to have a good sleep before doing more exploring. They already felt like they had been walking for two hours.

The others decided to sit at a table, and ordered some food, grabbing a quick bite to eat. While Slyvia went to the counter to grab everyone's keys. The others started to wonder why she had selected this inn in particular. It looked no different to the others.

But there was a reason, for their group wasn't the only one to arrive early to the event. For later on in the day, she was to meet her brother. He had made it clear to select this inn in particular, giving her instructions beforehand.

'I hope everything is okay?' Slyvia thought. 'Judging by the contents of the letter he sent, it sounded like something quite urgent was going on.'

After paying for the rooms and grabbing the keys, she went to sit down and join the others at the table. In truth, she felt a little sad. She thought maybe on this trip she would have been able to spend some time with Ray, and the first thing he had done was rush off like that.

If it was going to be like this, then it would just be the same as when she was in the city. With Ray dropping by for a few moments before he wondered out again.

”I wish things were like they were back at the academy.” Sylvia mumbled, and Martha had managed to catch what had been said.

”Don't worry about him too much.” Martha replied. ”I think once this is all over, you two will have all the time to spend in the world together.” Delivering a wink at the end.

For some reason, Sylvia always felt awkward when talking about her love life, or at least feelings concerning Ray. Here she was complaining that she didn't get to spend time with him, when Martha couldn't even see her apparent boyfriend.

'You are a strong girl.' Slyvia thought.

The food and a few drinks had arrived on the table however Kyle's attention was more focused on something else. The empire seemed to have some things inside the inns that he had never seen before.

Up on the ceiling were quite large black rectangles. There wasn't just one however, there were several that were placed all across the ceiling in odd locations, allowing a person to see one from any angle.

”Excuse me?” Kyle said as he called over one of the pretty ladies that was serving them. ”Do you mind telling me what those are?”

”I guess you guys aren't from around here, are you?” The server replied. ”We call them picture shows. All the taverns and inns have them, and even some of the richer nobles. Whenever there is a big event going on all of the Picture shows will display them.”

It sounded quite interesting, but the technology just seemed to advance for Kyle to get his head around and the server could see this.