With Elora floating ahead of them, they started moving slowly across the courtyard, towards the Ashcroft manor. Elora's figure was glowing softly, as she used her expertise to carefully search for any sigils along the way.
Occasionally, she would fly down, and her figure would light up as she disabled some trap or warning sigil. She made sure that no alarms would go off anywhere, as that might even spoil their later plans.
Behind them, the guards that Erik previously knocked out had already woken up but remained to guard the place as if nothing had happened. Which was understandable, because, in their mind, that was true.
Elora simply sealed their memory of getting knocked out, before waking them up again. They were just first-rankers, after all. To them, it was like blinking; except, their blink lasted five minutes, but neither of them realized that part.
