154 The lawless city. (1/2)

Since there was no one with Ozul right now except for Clara, he could decide his path and his pace all by himself.

But even when he was almost alone, it was only almost. Clara still held him down to an extent. He had already planned to drop her off as early as possible. For now, he was just stuck with her.

As he leisurely walked his way through the forest, Clara meekly followed behind him. She did not say anything along the way since she was aware that Ozul did not like meaningless talk.

Not to mention, he always seemed to avoid her whenever she tried to talk with him previously.

Ozul was able to feel the awkwardness, but he did not care either way since it was all the better as long as Clara stayed away from him.

”It might take a few days to reach the nearest city. Do you have enough supplies for yourself?” Ozul asked after a little while as he remembered that the girl with him was a young lady of some prominent house. He was at least aware that those people would want her back in one piece.

”Oh, yes! Venessa always made sure that I had everything of need in my Spatial Ring,” Clara replied after getting out of the trance when she heard his voice.

Ozul suddenly turned around and looked from the direction that they had come from with his eyes squinted. After staying like that for a while, he turned back and started walking as if nothing had happened, making Clara curious about it.

'Good. They will never catch up this way,' Ozul thought as he had sensed people rushing in the direction of Fer City. Rufus was with the rest of the people hurrying towards the City while thinking that they might be there.

Only after searching around the city would Rufus realize that Ozul and Clara were nowhere to be found. The most likely scenario at that point would be Rufus ordering everyone to stay in the city for a day or two to wait for them as Ozul would be far out of their reach till then.

The next time they meet, it would only be in Neutral Lands!

At this time, Ozul was walking towards the next city that he had noticed on the map that Clive had shown.

It was supposed to be a lawless city not under any major jurisdiction named Homond City. There was a city lord, but the city lords of such cities limit themselves to eat and get fat while staying in their mansions all day.

Such cities were mostly used by the travelers to rest up a bit or for criminals to take refuge in. So all around the city, there were many new faces daily. At a certain point, the residents stopped minding it since the refugees rarely caused any ruckus because they did not want to expose themselves.

Certainly, when there were criminals taking refuge in such cities, there were people hidden among the masses who looked for such refugees as well.

Ozul planned to stay a night in that city before moving again. However, it would take half a day to reach there.

After a while, Ozul got bored of simply walking since it was what he had been doing together with the group as well. He took out the book that he had strapped to his side and started to read it.

Although he did not care much about all these plants and animals, it was always interesting to read unique information that was mostly classified and not available to the general public.

That is also one reason he had recruited Irvin to establish the organization to gather information. If those people would not leak out any information regarding almost anything interesting, then he just needed to have his own information network.

Talking about Irvin, Ozul also remembered that he needed to check on him after this. He had probably set the ground for things and should be expanding the network as of now.

After dropping off Clara, he would make sure to visit Irvin since expanding the information network was the priority for now.

'As for Raven and Blaze in the meantime... I would think about it later.'

Although the duo was strong enough to accompany him now, they needed to learn things without him. So he was trying to think of something to do with them when he would be away.

Ozul walked all the way to Homond City while contemplating his options. Clara remained silent in her own thoughts along the way.