Alex didn't want to leave the woman at baron Howell's home; it was too risky. If anything happens, it will take him several blinks to get there. He needed the women to be close so he could act quickly and in a safe environment where they wouldn't be on edge all the time.
'Anxiety can make people do crazy things, like sending out signals to their own killer.'
Alex blinked back into the healer's apartment; this was the perfect place for the women. The apartment/office was soundproof, so the women would not be on edge all the time.
Alex weld the door shut and damage the lock mechanism with black lightning, then placed the sign on the door "out on an adventure." This would ensure that no one came to the door, and if they did, the door would not open. It would give the women enough time to contact him and him enough time to remove the women or kill the intruder.
Alex then entered the void and went to get the women. To his surprise, all the women were up, seem like they were too afraid to sleep. Alex didn't come out yet, he went and check his surroundings. If there were any knights around, he would have poisoned them, but the area was clear and quiet. Alex exited the void inside servant quarters before blinking inside the hidden room. The women weren't startled as they usually were.
"Ladies, I have some good news! I found you an apartment where you won't need to worry about someone coming for you. For three days, you will stay there, and I will return you to your husband on his arrival. Once you are there, you could sleep until your heart is content. Give me your hands; it's time to leave."
The women sigh in relief at Alex's words; what they really wanted was to sleep. They gave Alex their hands, and they were off to set up some traps. Alex knew that there was no way the knight captain would give up searching for the women, or the quest would have said to protect the women for one day. Alex was taking the women to the west side of Saint Rothen. He was going to play a game with the captain called "Startle the fuck out of everyone!"
Anything on the west side of Saint Rothen was expensive; shops, homes, apartments, hotel rooms, food, even use of public bathrooms cost money. The people in this area were highly greedy too. But the west side of Saint Rothen was stunning; the establishments here were owned by nobles from other kingdoms.
Alex appeared in front of a five-story hotel with the women to rent a room on the top floor for three days. Alex wasn't loaded with gold, but he had looted enough to finance a small army.
The women were baffled; if this was the secure apartment Alex meant, then they were disappointed. But they didn't say anything.
The hotel attendant took them to their room; he didn't find it odd that Alex wore a mask since many nobles liked to keep their identity hidden. Before the hotel attendant left, Alex instructed him to send word to the knight fort at precisely at ten a.m. of his location, description, and the women he was with.
The hotel attendant didn't understand what Alex wanted, but Alex paid him more than what he charged for a room and more than he got paid a week. And told him if he did, Alex would pay him again on the second day to do the same thing. But this was a lie! Once the hotel attendant was gone, Alex took the three women and blinked to another hotel and did the same thing. The only difference was the time the hotel attendant would send word to the knight fort. Alex repeats the same action three more times; he was determined to keep the captain busy.
Once Alex was done, he carried the women to the healer's apartment. They were exhausted, and so was he. Alex explained to them that this was where they were staying. They could make as much noise as they wanted since the apartment was soundproof, and he placed a couple of concealing talismans, so they did not need to worry.
The women were happy to see such a sleek apartment with a gorgeous bathroom, kitchen, and bedroom. Alex didn't pay any attention to them as he was busy consuming potions. Before leaving, he informed the women, no matter who knocks on the door, "do not open it," and it would be rare for such an occurrence.
Then Alex was off to make preparation for tomorrow night.
Alex blinked from the healer's apartment to an ally near the adventurer's guild; within the ally, he opened a rift and enters to change his clothing to those he used to register as an adventure, but this time, he did not equip his bow and arrow. There could be knights around, and they might be oversensitive towards such gear. Alex exited the rift with a dragger tuck in his pants and made his way to the adventure's guild. Once in the guild, Alex asked the receptionist for a map of the forest around Ash kingdom; he needed to hunt and capture a couple of wolves, ogres, and goblins. Alex paid the receptionist, took the map, and went to a table within the guild to study it before leaving.
The thirty-six towns and cities in the kingdom of Ash were arranged to form four rings, and the major capital of the kingdom of Ash is at the center. Saint Rothen town is one town that makes up part of the last circle, the outer ring.
The towns in the outer ring were not closely stuck together. There were villages, open space, and forestry that would take a horse two to eight days and nights to travel. On each side of the kingdom of Ash are two forests, the elegy forest and whisper forest.
The elegy separates the human and the beast kingdom. While the whisper forest separates the elves' kingdoms from the human kingdom.
Within the elegy forest, there are monsters such as trolls, goblins, wolves, kobolds, ogres, ten feet spiders, etc.
The whispering forest housed elves, pyxis, dwarves, half-breeds, and other mystical creatures. The towns in the outer ring were close to both forests. Alex's destination was the elegy forest.
After memorizing the routes, location, and sighting of monsters, Alex exited the guild and blink to the closest gate. There he showed his adventures card to the guard and fled the gates towards the elegy forest.
With less than three hours remaining, Alex was using blink constantly. With his eyesight able to see 1km ahead and his blink ability to move 1km, Alex was able to arrive at the periphery of the elegy forest in twenty blinks.
Before entering the forest, Alex drank a mana and stamina potion. He was planning to hunt wolves for their testosterone and capture orcs and goblins.