Our trip to the west region was completely normal, our base is located in a three-story commercial building that belonged to a trading company before being bought by Gold Cruise, which is a front trading company used by the kingdom's army for missions. important.
We're here not doing anything special other than waiting for Raven's plan to start working, my time was so busy with Mia that every spare moment she has was spent training our synergy as a duo.
Surprisingly I've felt in the last few days that I've been training with Mia; I've felt that Jordan is a little unhappy with the time I'm spending with Mia. The idiot wants to spend time with Mia he can just spend time with her. Dumb goat.
During the week I not only mastered the sign language Mia mentioned for me to use on the battlefield, we had plenty of time to know the limits of each other's abilities and practice working together. In terms of teamwork, I was learning to be her assistant when she modified a complex training arrangement.
Mia said she doesn't intend for me to be a basic wizard to be my entire role on the team, but learning to be one was the first step in learning to work with other rune crafters. It's not complicated because it basically helps lighten the burden of the main craftsman's work, the more tasks she has to do with her mana the easier she can focus her focus on solving the flow of rune arrangements.
I'm basically a stapler for Mia for the first few days, but it got better after she realized that I can keep my aura steady and without creating even a fluctuation in the rune array's mana for a long period of time and also, I don't confuse her mana with mana of the rune set.
According to Mia this is already a big progress on my part, it seems that it is difficult for a fighter to be able to differentiate between their partner's mana and the mana of the set. It seems that this is because a fighter is usually so used to their aura but not the mana of other mages.
Mages don't seem to have much of a problem with this as their mana is always different from the environment and someone else's mana is simply a new type of energy for them, and when they are working with a fighter a fighter's aura is quite simple to mana difference, a very clear advantage.
But also, to the advantage for warriors, we don't have to worry about affecting our companions' mana unless our aura hits the mage's aura directly, but mages have to be much more careful because if their mana is too close, they can negatively affect your ally's mana which makes it difficult for mages to work as a duo.
There are a lot of minutiae to working in pairs on something that needs as precise control of your main energy as modifying an already created rune set. During the week I managed to gain an understanding of the tactics Mia uses as a rune crafter on the battlefield.
Apart from the fact that she has the same function that I had in Ana's unit, which was to disarm the alarms and prevent the rune arrays from activating when invading the enemy base, she used several runic arrays already prepared for the unit's defense.
I was surprised that she is actually quite good at creating alarms to prevent the unit from being ambushed by enemies easily, even though that's not her specialization, but I had a negative impression of her when she told me that she doesn't use traps to deal damage like I do.
I always thought this was a very important type of rune arrangements to study even if you don't intend to use them, like any field of study you can choose from in the rune field, but when that field is quite popular and it can explode you in pieces deserve you to spend time studying him no matter what area he or she doesn't like this kind of runic arrangement.
But obviously I didn't say it to Mia's face, that wouldn't be productive, but I figured she wouldn't look at me weird when she found out I liked to blow up my enemies. Her words were that this battle method was too rustic for a rune craftsman, I thought she was joking more when she didn't laugh when I laughed at her comment, I realized she doesn't like bombs.
I think her stance against bombs is because she is a lightning element mage, as a mage she takes great pride in her magical abilities and as her lightning element is famous for having great destructive power, using a bomb would be the same which means your magic isn't enough to blow your enemies away.
Quite silly in my opinion, but she's my boss so I won't talk or ask about it. At least she didn't try to forbid me from using or creating my bombs, it would be a very bad move to do so.
During the week I'd been focusing on my rune abilities Raven had set her trap and as I was with Mia a good part of the day, I'd overheard them arguing about it. Obviously, I didn't spy on them Raven just didn't mind my presence; she trusts me after all.
Her plan wasn't all that different from what I'd speculated before, she actually used the intelligence team to spread the necessary rumors about goods that Akin's group might be interested in. She hasn't even left a rumor about materials containing the element of death and fire being made, she is attracting Akin's interest by using the most common products that they have already purchased in small quantities because there are not many available.
Most of them are from the element of death, but a few from other elements like fire, earth and shadow. Raven's tactic is a lot more elaborate than I thought, she is taking every step very carefully so that Akin doesn't suspect that the trade group led by Raven or Tina which is the false name she is using now is an army trap.
During the week Raven was able to sell some resources to an intermediary who passed them on to Akin, this was all supposed to be a hidden transaction but the intelligence members watched it all from the shadows. After Akin bought a few times from Tina he decided to contact her directly to buy a large number of resources illegally.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend this meeting, but I stayed several buildings away guarding the public tavern where Tina found Akin's right hand man, Jared who appears to be a member of Akin's tribe, he also has scales with almost the same coloring as the ones on the back. from Akin.
During this he finds Tina who was accompanied by Ana and Sara who had their own disguise so that no one can connect them with their real identities. The negotiation was quite lengthy as Tina discussed the price of basically all the materials Akin wanted to buy from her, but all of this was in order to make her disguise more convenient.
Anyone who knows a trader in a difficult situation who won't try to increase his profit, it's not like Akin could have another trader with the same number of available resources that Tina had available. I wonder if all the profit from these transactions really goes to the army, I wouldn't be surprised if someone tried to siphon off those gains, but I doubt it's Raven as she shouldn't care if someone else does.
She is focused on using Akin to catch the cultists, Raven has always been a calm leader and was not too hasty in her decisions, but she now has a more 'straightforward' and 'direct' attitude despite her using a well-crafted plan. and having not even taken a reckless attitude, she is still well-intentioned when arguing with Mia.
She really is in elimination mode; her complete focus is on completing the mission and that scares me a little. I was surprised when I saw the 'set' set for the first large-scale exchange between Tina and Akin, an abandoned building I found of smuggled materials, but the part that impressed me is that not all the goods in the warehouse go to Akin.
And among the 'goods' already sold to two open boxes of mine with materials that contain the element of death and fire that the cult that is associated with Akin wants, they are hidden but still in Akin's field of vision when he arrives to buy the materials from Tina who by the way isn't here, the one responsible for the exchange and Mia or her current guise Kime a red-haired brunette, she really enjoyed her transformation from a pale skinned blonde with blue eyes for her cover.
Intelligence members are really good at disguises, all the products used to create Kime's appearance don't contain an iota of mana in them. The plan is for her to let Akin see the stories and when he wants to buy, she will deny the purchase saying the story has already been sold, but she can try to get him more if he is willing to pay a price well above the market price. by the materials.
I doubt Akin won't accept as the bill will be handed over to cultists who are in dire need of these materials. I'm really excited for the exchange as I will be in the warehouse, myself and three other gray core warriors will be the cheap 'workers' who will move the contraband.