The instructor handed over command of the team back to Beowood and Reslin, reducing himself to the status of an ordinary team member.
Both Beowood and Reslin were experienced captains who had carried out missions outside the Royal City, and they quickly assigned tactical positions:
The lantern bearers were in the middle of the team, researchers and scouts in the second layer, long-range firepower, and controllers in the third layer, with close-combat fighters occupying the outermost layer.
Once all the affairs had been arranged, they set forth without delay.
Sword Pass was six hundred miles from the Royal City; they planned to arrive there by the evening of the following day after spending one night resting in the Old City.
This meant they had to cover six hundred miles within two daylight spans.
And they were to do so on foot.
No one expressed surprise. Beowood used a crystal with complex engravings to confirm their bearings and direction, then the march began.
