The day of departure came.
After I finished parting with the group that stayed behind, such as Blacksmith-san, Sisters-san, Alchemist-san and Doriane-san, I concentrated on the ≪ External Training Field ≫ for a moment, and I finished things, such as confirmation of several plans and a headcount.
Since the preparations had already been done, we rode several large skeleton centipedes separately one by one.
There is no air route with dragons this time, even if choosing the land route by large skeleton centipede might be a little bit strange.
However, there is a reason for this.
Obviously, the air route using dragons is faster. It is possible to travel in no time. I might not hesitate either and use the air route if it was only a few people.
However, a lot of dragons are needed if moving approximately 3,000 people at a time.
As expected, if dragons of such a number moved in one the direction at the same time, the neighboring monsters which sensed their presence might be frenzied. Or perhaps I should say, I am almost sure of it.
Though it is safe in several cases, a fairly huge dragon is necessary when carrying several numbers. Thus, a huge dragon is such a high-level existence of high-ranking kinds that, excluding very few exceptions, it is a threat equal to a natural disaster.
Realizing it is similar to a large-scale typhoon that passes in the vicinity or a large earthquake occuring, it flies by practicing magic principally from the wing, even at times which it cannot check the comparison visually or at most fly, it is very difficult to conceal all the enormous magical powers that a high-level dragon kind scatters at the time of flight, increasing the chances that they will be sensed.
To begin with, since a high-ranking dragon kind of that level has such a greater sense of a powerful existence compared to a group of lower class dragon, meaning that if there are few numbers of them could cause the same effect. ~
So that being the case, the reason goes with moving with the land route.
They're easy to be concealed in this case because it doesn't casually scatter magical power, there are fewer of them if I compare their influences.
However, it was planned that the main battlefield of the [Holy War] would be on [ The Sacred Fire Mountain of the Oni's Howl ] which I owned before hand after using [ Dungeon Plunder - The Underworld Oni's Howl ], since it takes too much time if I go by the normal land route.
Thus, it is convenient to head to the place that is geographically nearby to shorten the time it takes to reach Labyrinth City ≪Aquarium≫, where [ The Waterfall basin of the Water Oni's Howl ] exists.
Just in case, to decrease the possibility of being discovered, as much as possible, by someone nearby or far away, before reaching Labyrinth City ≪Aquarium≫ , I went through the places where the public eye won't notice large skeleton centipedes, which is a condition to let me execute [ Hiding ] in forests.
Though the route took a detour, the large skeleton centipede's terrain traversing power was all there.
They ran through without care even if it is the forest, a valley, or if there is a monster's den on its path, and I was able to arrive at the Labyrinth City ≪Aquarium≫ at midnight.
After I did some sightseeing, I entered quickly by showing [King recognition promissory note] from the princess tomboy which was accepted by the soldiers who are guarding the entrance.
As expected, there were less crowds of people around since it was already late.
However, since I can hear the cheerful laughter from the tavern, the eye-witnesses that come alongside the entrance of [ The Waterfall Basin of the Water Oni's Howl ] increased, so I let members on break get into [ The Waterfall Basin of the Water Oni's Howl ] quickly.
Afterwards, I moved to a deserted place in the surroundings, then we transferred to an isolated space in the 49th floor that I developed beforehand and at once prepared a warp gate that, with one step through reached the other side in an instant.
Knowing the possibilities to come, the space that I prepared beforehand is widely comfortable, and even if there were these many numbers, I was able to afford some more.
Since I am going to take a rest here today, I fixed myself a bedroom where I tried cooking a dish or something to pass the time.
Since I had done the drill training, it's easy and there is no trouble to instruct everyone.