Kate did not press the matter.
Eileen had certainly experienced a great deal during the five years she had been away from her.
There would still be plenty of time for her and Eileen to be together later.
After this problem was resolved, it would not be too late to ask Eileen then.
“Eileen, let me support you. Hold on to me tight.” Kate held Eileen’s arm, wanting to pull her toward herself.
But the moment Emir saw that, she immediately became unwilling. “What are you meddling for, you barbarian? Don’t hurt Eileen.”
Emir refused to let go.
“Who are you calling a barbarian?”
“I’m talking about you. You don’t know how to control your strength. I still haven’t settled the account of you injuring Aura!”
“You still have the face to settle accounts with me? I haven’t even said anything about that stupid dog of yours covering Eileen in injuries last night!”
The two of them started arguing again the moment their words failed to agree, and Eileen, caught in the middle, was pulled back and forth like a noodle.
Neither was willing to let go.
“Um… Miss Kate, Miss Emir, Miss Eileen she…” Atia saw Eileen being yanked back and forth and was genuinely worried the two of them would accidentally tear Eileen in half.
She wanted to warn them, but the two were arguing too heatedly.
Where would they find spare time to listen to anything Atia said?
Eileen shook her head, signaling Atia not to waste the effort.
This was all a sin she had brought upon herself…
But in the eyes of Lucen, who was walking while bracing himself against the wall, this scene was a different kind of scenery altogether.
Hold on.
They had all gone weak in the legs from that scene just now, so why was the treatment this different?
He also wanted two beautiful girls supporting him…
The group walked out of the dungeon.
Fortunately, the thing Atia had worried about did not happen.
Although Emir and Kate argued fiercely, they also constantly watched their strength, and they did not turn Eileen into a bisected Eileen…
Perhaps considering that the influence would not look good, Kate, who had argued with Emir the whole way, could only reluctantly let Eileen go.
Outside the dungeon, a carriage had already been waiting for some time.
Emir first helped Eileen into the carriage, and Atia followed close behind.
Kate stayed outside assigning tasks to Mordin City’s high-ranking officials waiting by the carriage.
During that interval, Eileen finally had the chance to ask the question she cared about most.
“Atia, were you not afraid at all just now?”
“Miss Eileen, do you mean the Blood Pact of Silence that killed Lawson?” Atia asked.
Eileen nodded. “You looked like you didn’t even react a little.”
Atia revealed a bitter smile. “I got used to it a long time ago.”
“Huh?” This answer was not what Eileen had expected, and even Emir developed a sliver of interest in Atia.
“Um, Miss Eileen, don’t misunderstand. Let me finish first!” Atia noticed the two of them were shocked and hurriedly explained. “Our merchant caravan did almost every kind of business. When some of that business involved unspeakable matters, everyone in the caravan had to sign contract magic. But there were always some people who didn’t believe the consequences, or who let something slip after drinking… A merchant caravan that only made money through proper business could at most scrape by with food and warmth. If you wanted to get rich, you had to walk through some unspeakable gray areas.”
Once Atia put it that way, Eileen could understand.
As the saying went, the higher the profit, the greater the risk.
Many people mixed up in that trade would generally sign contract magic with the caravan so they would not risk exposing themselves.
From Atia’s descriptions of the merchant caravan she had stayed with before, it had not seemed like a particularly proper caravan either.
A situation like this was not incomprehensible.
“Why hasn’t that barbarian gotten in yet?” After listening to Atia’s explanation, Emir immediately lost interest in her.
Right now she only wanted to find a place as soon as possible and cling to Eileen.
Eileen also found it strange.
Hadn’t Kate said she was only going to make arrangements?
How was it that they had already finished listening to Atia and she still had not come?
But the next second, Kate opened the carriage door.
At this moment, however, her face was incomparably grave.
Eileen immediately realized that something major had happened.
“Eileen, Mia has been abducted by the Demon race.”
After resting for a night, the disrupted magic power inside Mia’s body had recovered most of the way.
That was also thanks to Lucen taking out his Advanced Healing Potion at the critical moment.
Otherwise, with last night’s injuries, she would have needed at least a week to recover fully.
The weather in Mordin City was very good today.
The sun had only just risen, and the dazzling morning light pierced through the clouds and shone straight from the east, draping the city in a coat of snow-white brightness.
She originally could have rested a little longer, but the heavy burden on her shoulders left her with no mood to rest at all.
She tidied up simply and left the room.
The moment she stepped out the door, Mia ran into Lucen, who was likewise at the doorway and preparing to go to work. “Lady Mia, you’re setting out this early?”
After Kate and Atia left, the three of them had simply held a small meeting and settled today’s plan.
In principle, they should first have checked whether any members of the Demon race were still hidden in the dark inside Mordin City.
But after seeing the citizens’ condition last night, they had still decided to temporarily set that plan aside and let supplies enter the city first.
Mordin’s citizens had had their grain cut off by Lawson for so long that their health was extremely poor.
Delaying the entry of various supplies by even one day could cost dozens of lives.
Too many citizens had already been sacrificed during this period.
They absolutely could not keep watching innocent citizens pay the price for Lawson’s private desires.
But because Mia had already been assigned an even more important task by Kate, they could only leave Lucen and Declan to carry it out.
“Mordin City is some distance from Stuarts City,” Mia said. “You and Declan will each watch one of the two city gates today. You must ensure that the vehicles transporting various supplies enter the city first.”
“Understood, Lady Mia. But you could rest a little longer. We have Ignis. Even without teleportation magic, we could reach Stuarts City very quickly,” Lucen said.
He was very worried about Mia’s physical condition right now.
Although Mia had taken an Advanced Healing Potion last night and her injuries were certainly no longer a problem, a healing potion could ultimately only heal the flesh.
It could not stabilize the disrupted magic power inside Mia’s body.
If the magic power inside Mia failed to stabilize completely, using teleportation magic—which demanded an enormous amount of magic power—under those circumstances would inevitably cause irreversible damage to her body.
“This… all right. I wish Lady Mia a safe journey.” Seeing that Mia was determined to leave, Lucen did not say much more.
Relying on just the few of them would not be enough.
They had to request aid from the Royal Capital immediately.
“I’m already fine. Mordin City still has a huge pile of problems waiting to be handled.” Mia held her staff, and after a chant she directly tore open a rift in the space before her that led straight into the void, then vanished before Lucen’s eyes in the blink of an eye.
“Tsk… this teleportation magic is really convenient.” Lucen clicked his tongue again and again, but a layer of gloom had already covered his eyes. “I just don’t know whether your speed can compare with mine.”
He rose onto his toes and lightly stepped down.
The shadow under his feet suddenly flickered at high speed as if it had a life of its own, and a thread of black magic power seeped out from the shadow, flying toward Stuarts City at extreme speed.
At the same time, somewhere in Stuarts City.
That thread of black magic power landed precisely in someone’s shadow.
“Emir has defected, Mia is coming to Stuarts City intending to request aid from the Royal Capital, and that woman named Eileen… Heh. It seems this matter is more interesting than I imagined.”
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