"Mr. Herag, I am Tinean, one of the officials of the Ruby Commerce Association in Nightfall City. The caravan will be setting off this afternoon; if you're ready, you can come with me," Tinean said.

Herag estimated they would set off within a couple of days, so he was already prepared.

They went back to their room, packed up casually, and prepared to leave.

Reese lingered, taking a nostalgic look at the room, before following Herag downstairs.

"I didn't expect a Great Knight to take on our mission. Honestly speaking, the reward for this task isn't very high, and it takes a long time; usually, someone of a Great Knight Level would choose other, easier missions."

After a few people got onto the Ruby Commerce Association's carriage, Tinean said.

Herag laughed and said, "We're all budding adventurers, the rewards aren't very important, the main thing is to gain some experience and insight."

"I've heard that you just registered to become adventurers, we're pretty lucky to have met you," said Tinean.

Herag laughed and said, "Although this is our first time as adventurers, we will definitely do our best to ensure the safety of the caravan's personnel and goods."

The carriage headed north, arriving at the northern gate of Nightfall City, where a caravan was already gathered.

The team had many personnel, and there were many carriages carrying various goods.

These goods were mostly prepared for the Elf Race of Miracle Valley, who are important customers of the Ruby Commerce Association.

The goods they sold were catered to the preferences of the Elf Race, just to sell as much as possible to them.

Even though most Elves are relatively arrogant and don't particularly like humans,

Elves do make purchases generously and are not picky, rarely bargaining.

As long as your items are good, they wouldn't mind a higher price and would buy directly.

Therefore, doing business with the Elf Race is highly profitable, and many caravans are eager for the opportunity to conduct business with them.

But the Elf Race has very high standards for commerce. Not everyone is qualified to do business with them, and without a certain level of trust, they won't accept your merchandise at all.

Due to the Ruby Commerce Association's long-established reputation and branches everywhere in the world, it has achieved a relatively high level of trust, thus gaining the trust of the Elf Race.

At this time, Radoy was busy directing the caravan's people in handling the goods.

He was personally directing what goods to load onto which carriage and which needed to be handled with care.

He turned around and saw Herag and his companions, then temporarily set aside his tasks and walked over: "Mr. Herag, you're here, that's your carriage. Normally, there's not much to do; the main thing is to lend a hand if the caravan encounters danger."

"Alright," Herag nodded, bringing David and Reese to the side of the carriage.

They were pretending not to know magic to conceal their Wizard identities.

So they carried big bags and placed them inside the carriage.

The inside of the carriage was spacious enough for the three of them to use.

Reese knelt on the carriage, spreading blankets on the seat.

She glanced sidelong at David: "Sigh, no 'world for two' with Herag..."

The caravan only allotted them one carriage, which meant all three had to stay on it.

David seemed to grasp the situation and said, "I... I'll drive the carriage, I won't sleep inside, I'll sleep outside, so I won't bother you."

Reese chuckled at this, "Well, at least you have some sense."

Hearing their conversation, Herag smiled wryly.

Reese was now being somewhat possessive, eager to spend every moment with Herag, naturally not wanting an additional David in the carriage, just seeing him would annoy her.

Poor David went to the front of the carriage and earnestly took on the role of coachman.

The caravan had originally assigned them a coachman, but now that David volunteered, there was no need for someone else.

After three hours, the caravan was organized, ready to orderly leave the city.

The entire team consisted of over seventy people, including the caravan's own guards as well as a dozen adventurers.

Herag and his group were among them, and he was the only Great Knight in the team.

The other adventurers consisted only of three Knight Level individuals, whose abilities were not significant.

However, having a few Knight Levels was enough since it was just escorting a caravan.

A caravan of this size wouldn't generally attract bandits unless one had a death wish.

Besides, it was the Ruby Commerce Association's caravan.

Even if they succeeded in robbing it, the matter wouldn't end there, as Ruby Commerce Association would surely seek vengeance.

This kind of incident had indeed happened before.

In the past, when a Ruby Commerce Association caravan was robbed, they immediately hired many adventurers to issue an unrelenting bounty on the robbers.

Although it cost a lot of money, what they lacked least was money.

Spending some money to establish authority was definitely worthwhile.

After leaving the city, the caravan entered a monotonous stretch of travel time.

Herag activated the environment detection function of Shenlan, constantly monitoring the surroundings.

He needed to ensure the caravan reached Miracle Valley safely, without any additional trouble.

After several days of travel, the journey had been very peaceful.

The Ruby caravan had traveled this route many times before and was familiar with the conditions along the way; usually, nothing unusual would occur.

At night, Herag and the team were having dinner and chatting by the campfire.

In the distance, a few of the caravan personnel were talking about Oberstein.

"Have you heard about what's happening over at Oberstein?"

"Do you mean the news that Magic Master Sifler was captured?"

"A Magic Master being captured?"

"Unbelievable, right? Even more unbelievable is that there are hundreds of thousands of Demon Army outside Oberstein, continuously attacking it. It probably won't hold much longer."

"Hundreds of thousands? How could there be that many?"

"Who knows, it's just like Sifler, the Guardian of the Noen Kingdom, being captured, who would believe it unless it actually happened."

"Luckily, we are far from there; those demons shouldn't be able to reach us here."

"I hope not. I'm keeping an eye on the news. If demons do come, I'll be ready to flee."

"They shouldn't reach here. The border army of the Noen Kingdom is formidable, matching those demons and constantly defending Oberstein."

"Relying solely on human armies won't work; the Elf Race must intervene. If they do, no demon would be a problem."

...

Herag and his group silently listened to their conversation.

What those people mentioned mostly happened one or two months ago, and the situation was likely different now.

The rumor of the hundreds of thousands of demons was exaggerated, as Herag was fully aware it was only thousands.

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