The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 471

Chapter 471 Travel Plans

Karl looked over the wagon with satisfaction. "What is the plan to get us there? Will you just open a portal at the edge of town? Or perhaps at the docks and pretend that we unloaded from one of the ships?" He asked.

"We were going to deliver you just outside of town. You can act as if you came down through the beast nation, or used the trade port at Hitchbird and then had your crew deliver you to the beach. The docks at Hatbury are good for small fishing boats, but not for the sorts of large transport that could be moving a wagon. I would say that you could claim to have come from inland then south from Picheap, but there is no road south of Picheap and both are fishing villages, so a cross-country trek to gather fish makes no sense. You would have taken the goods back inland.

Picheap is a deepwater port, so you could have gotten the linen there, but the route still makes no sense, as Lutonade is right there." The Dragon explained.

"So, we claim to have come ashore on the beach for the safety of the ladies, if we do have to answer questions, and then we get going?" Karl confirmed.

"Stop and grab dried fish in Hatbury. Having some of it visible at the top of your cargo will also make them less likely to attack as you pass Lutonade. They have plenty of fish of their own, even if the fish are cheaper in Hatbury.

Bandits are resourceful, so don't try too hard to hide your team members. They will think that you have something valuable tucked away. I would have the ladies switch to their most tattered robes and get them dirty before leaving. Nobody washes clothes during a journey, the dirt helps insulate against the cold night air." The guard who brought the wagon insisted.

"That makes a lot of sense. We don't want them to realize that it's a pair of high priestesses. Two junior Priestesses with their guards, plus the wagon driver and the security Naga should be good enough."

The guard nodded. "If you have more golems, have them run behind the wagon, to guard from the back. It's standard practice.

Plus your curly one will likely be mistaken for a Spellsword anyhow. They dress like rogues, but they're much more dangerous. It's safer for bandits to assume that the rogues might be using magic."

Karl smiled as he realized that it wasn't just his team that had problems with the common tongue when it came to people as individuals.

"They wouldn't be far from right. Dana did train with the Magic Knights so that she would have better close combat skills than the average mage."

Of course, she also had received powerful blade skills as well. But the beasts had already seen a bit of that during training and there was no reason to tell them that it was a System gifted set of bonuses.

Orthos nodded in satisfaction. "That team composition works out perfectly. Two clerics, two pretend bodyguards, and the wagon team. That makes it much more believable than one cleric with an overpowered bodyguard team.

The church wouldn't shell out the money to get a team that powerful, and they wouldn't rely on a local trade wagon to be the guards for a travelling high cleric. More likely, they would open a portal close to the target and then deal with the response directly.

We're trying to avoid that this time, so neither of our nations is linked to the Anomaly becoming stable."