As Lyle and Harrison discussed their route, they considered the information they had gathered. They decided to take a less-traveled path through the western outskirts of the empire, avoiding major cities and military checkpoints. This route would be longer, and a bit dangerous as some of the places had powerful monsters, mostly left by the Emperor so that the people could fight them in order to grow stronger and gain experience.
The Empire was a large one, and to get through it would take them about 2 weeks, and that was if nothing happened that would make them slow down.
"It's not the fastest route, but because we will be avoiding certain places, we won't have to stop or slow down, which means that in the end, this route will still get us to the other side of the empire the fastest if nothing unexpected happens," Harrison said as Lyle and the others nodded after looking at the map and the many icons placed there by the intel broker.
