"Since that is the case, he might try to buy time by incriminating you of something else," Orcis said. "This invasion can be one of them… even if no one saw Rain, the investigation will take a while, and in the meantime, the sea emperor will make his move."
"Indeed… in the end, our best option still is to find the prisoner and ask them to confirm who was behind the kidnappings," Branden said.
In the end, Rain felt like he just wasted time on the invasion, but at least he confirmed how much the enemy was prepared. The group soon began to fly again, even while Rain was healing himself. The bombs weren't as powerful as a dragon breath, but it still burned his skin quite a bit.
While he was doing that, Rain wondered if the enemy would have killed the last prisoner already. Considering what had happened, he could only think that Joanis was quite cunning, so he should have predicted that they would look for the prisoner and blame him for the whole situation.
