69 Killing Inten (1/2)
Van pulled out a hefty wooden structure from his storage ring. He whistled, ”Blackie!”
The giant wolf saw the harness in Van's other hand and tried to run away.
Sha!
Van grabbed Blackie's ruff and dragged him back to the wooden carriage. He strapped the wolf securely into the harness without doing it up too tight and hopped onto the driver's seat.
He turned to Ryan and Delphine, ”Well? Get on!”
Blackie showed a suffering expression. Van turned to the wolf and scolded him, ”Stop acting so pitiful. If this is heavy for you even after I bathed you in body strengthening powder, I will ask some other wolf to come with me!”
Blackie instantly threw away his suffering expression. Instead, he licked Van's palm and acted cute, [You love me the most, Big Boss!].
The other two climbed up and sat in the two seats behind Van and they set off.
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As soon as they left Dragon City, three shadows flashed by the city gates.
”They are going to the Blizzard Plains. Now that they have left Dragon City, it is prime time to deal the killing blow!” One of the people said urgently.
”The client said to ensure the kill occurred outside of Cloud Riverto reduce suspicion. We will wait til they cross the border to Lihnrest.”
”Or even further. The more isolated the place, the better!” The third person said, their voice dripping with killing intent.
The trio nodded. Whatever way they ended up going with, one thing was for certain – that kid was going to die!
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Five days later, the three humans and wolf arrived at the border between Cloud River and their neighbouring country Lihnrest.
Lihnrest was a very large country with a very small population, mostly concentrated at its borders. Due to its large expanse, its northernmost reaches were known for its extremely icy weather and year-long blizzards.
Van realised that they had been on the road for five days already and grew worried.
[If it takes us a week and a half to travel to the Blizzard Plains, it will take us another week and a half to return to Dragon City. That means I only have a month in the Blizzard Plains.]
Van looked around the border town, ”It would be best if we could find a faster form of transport to the Blizzard Plains.”
Delphine pointed to a giant fluffy white creature in the distance, ”I think we've found it!”
The large creature had a pavilion-like structure on it's back. It was being directed by a person sitting on its head.
The trio ended up paying over a hundred silver taels per head for a ride to the biggest town near the Blizzard Plains. It cost slightly more to bring Blackie on board, as the great white beast felt uncomfortable with him on its back.
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They disembarked the back of the great snowy beast three days later.
The town closest to the Blizzard Plains was called 'Pollog.” It had a population of less than 3,000 people.
However, there was a bigger town about two hours away from it which had a larger population of 20,000 people. This town was known as 'Griever's Fort,' and was owned by a distant relative of the previous King of Lihnrest.