The price was settled, and Grant was clear. He had not expected Shevell to accept the price. He had offered a high price because he did not want to go through McCaber's Grove, but the old man had accepted it and the risk of crossing the gorge was all right. Pulling another map from his arms, covering Shen's, Grenn began to explain. "There is no complete map of McCabe's Canyon, of course, but after all these years, people have gone into places where the forest is not too deep. Simple maps are still available. The terrain has changed a lot from the gorge to the forest, so the deep boundary of the forest is not definite." Grenn pointed to the West side of the forest and rowed along the straight line that represented the river until the solid line became dotted. "Turn left along the river and you'll enter the forest. In about three hours or so, the bed will be so thick that it will completely cover the river. Luan Zhuo, my deputy commander, a Tumen, will look for traces of the dark river, which will lead us on. But, "Grenn ran his hand over to where the dotted line had disappeared," hopefully, in about half a day, we'll reach the point where the river ends, and then we won't be there. We can only provide accurate navigation in about half a day, and then we can only go from maps that were made more than a decade ago, which is difficult."
"That's enough." Abel stood up directly. "Half of our adult Arcane masters will come with us across the canyon and a few technicians. The others will split in two, half to meet us as planned, the other half to take the family's children back to Epi, where we can't put them in danger. Mr. Grant, I need fifteen men from you. Can you protect our technicians?"
Grenn nodded and left the carriage to arrange for men.
"There are two more problems," said Gordon when Grenn had left. "The beds are corrosive. We need Arcane boots to keep us from falling into the beds. And secondly, what about Alan? '
"I don't need to do extra, now there are five pairs spare, the technicians count as three, need to make 20 pairs temporarily. If you don't go to bed, we will try our best to get out in one night. As for Alan... ' Shen spoke slowly like he was thinking, but he was giving Abel time to think. Alan had been a treasure to the elders, both with his compound spell and his accidental use of psionic power, but now Alan was an embarrassment. Alan was a guest of the family, but he was always an outsider, and unlike Shen, he was able to hang out with the family. Safe enough, Alan should follow the crowd back to April, but what would an outsider do? We can't let the children of the family get so close to an outsider. Who knows if there will be any accidents, with no one strong in the family, we really can't let a destabilizing factor outside. But a diamond in the rough thrown into battle? I'm afraid not.
"He's coming with us," Abel decided after a moment. "I don't think it's going to be particularly dangerous. The greatest danger is when you're defending yourself against unknown attackers. In the second place, we can never mix a stranger we have only just met with a family child so unguarded, so he will be safer with us. I will have Mr. Grant send a special guard along the way, and I will keep an eye to protect him. As to whether he will go or not, I will persuade him."
When everything was settled, Shen went to the camp to wake them up, and Grenn quickly returned to the front of the wagon, saying that the men had been organized and that there would be a brave man with a big reward, and that it would not be difficult.
When the important people arrived, Abel announced the discussed plan: "Things have changed. Some of us need to be diverted to McCabe's Grove..."
An hour later, Abel had everything in place, and everyone got their assignments and worked through the night. And our poor Mr. Roeder, still bewildered, had no idea what was going on.
Mr. Nurkokin of Sekwibo was beaten up and screaming for help. Though Alan was not a religious man, he wanted to shout, 'God, the Goddess of Order, that's a great Arcane!
All right, we were talking about a detour, but now we're running across McCabe? I don't want to go gurgling! But Abel could not hear the roar in Alan's chest.
Three days on the road to support Secowibo? Oh, my God, we can't even beat Sekwibo and we're not even making any noise, so pack your bags and run!
Alan's thoughts represent the thoughts of almost all normal Arcane, but the Deco family is the big family of Epyi, in the All Insolari platoon, and Abel is no longer part of the common Arcane, can the Arcane city council can work together on the mission, can it be ordinary people?
Alan felt close to tears, how do not want to go to the fungus forest, more do not want to participate in the war of Secowibo, Abel can only talk with Alan alone.
'Mr. Abel, can't we just go? We can't beat Sekwibo when he's been hammered into shrimp!"
'Don't worry, Alan, we're just going through the motions. Sekwibo is no fool. He must be gone."
'Shall I go back to Epyi? What a terrible place!"
Abel sighed. If he was selfish, he thought it would be an option to send Alan straight back to April. He judged that Alan would not commit a crime and that he did not look like a man who would run away, but as the man in charge, he could not tolerate potential risks. For the time being, however, the journey was more tense than dangerous, and as for the subsequent battle at Sekwibo, it was highly probable that it would not exist, for Nurkokin, being conservative, would have chosen to retreat after such a fuss. It was quite possible that Alan had been frightened by the phrase 'gurgle', and would be all right in a couple of days.
'Ellen, tell you what. I promise I'll have the Sellsword protect you for the next few days, and if there's a real danger, my Arcane protection will be directed to you." Abel had made no use of it; it had been in his plan with Shevell.
When Alan seemed ready to say something, Abel grabbed Alan's right hand and pressed their storage bracelets together. In an instant, Alan sensed a lot more in his storage bracelet.
"I've got you a full set of auto-guards that activate if you get hit too hard. Shoes are special Arcane enchantment equipment, not only can resist the corrosion of the bacteria blanket but also can quickly release the 'wind power, the spell scroll is also given to you. There are the blueprints for the Enchanted boots, the moon crystal you need, and a voucher for fifty Sekwibo gold coins, which any Epi bank can exchange. It's a family benefit."
Surprise after surprise fell off their arms, cruel happiness directly hit Alan dizzy. Full protective gear? A shoe or an enchantment device that can be actively released and recharged? And the design drawings? And a blue moon crystal? In a daze, Alan looked at the contents of the bracelet with an arcane eye. The moon crystals were three times the size of the one he had bought, and then Alan was even more dazed. How on earth can you do so many things? If nothing else, the ore alone would have made Alan save for a long time, and the rest would have taken the whole of the Roddells' estate to sell. As for gold coins? What is that thing? Dirt!
Sugar coating, commitment, special protection, Abel a set of combined punches hit up too strong, poor ghost Alan really can not carry ah, so much money! Alan felt for a moment that it didn't matter what the gurgling of the fungus was all about. He was covered in money. More than a dozen people protect me, see how you gurgle mud!
Abel, too, had overestimated Alan's vision. He thought that a young Arcane who could work out compound spells should not be in a poor family, though not as rich as the Deco family. So they must come up with a little sincerity, to impress just become guest Qing Rodel, to say the least, although these things are not cheap, but also the family can mass production, and calculate the cost is acceptable, so sent out is even for the future investment. This stuff won't matter when the compound spell works, especially since a lot of it was meant for Alan. But it happened, it happened, Ellen is a noble from sen chain than the degree of hazel gave a little insight but very very poor boy, a coke baked wheat cake can make him half a day, on a small piece of blue SPAR can give it more than ten years of savings to pay almost, landlord's silly son, just on linguistics talented...
By the time Alan got out of the first car, he was filled with a sense of unreality. For the first time in his life, Alan felt he was worth so much. Even as his reason warned him of the danger, Alan kicked it out of his mind. Horse eggs, little man is rich! The only problem is that you seem to be involved in something that is not in your dimension...