While they did decide on escorting Vivian’s party back to the Capital, this isn’t something that can be quickly done.
The reason for that is simple. It simply will need to take a good amount of time.
The Ataru Canyon is huge to begin with. For a normal adventuring party to reach the depths from the outskirts, even if they can avoid various obstacles like demonic beast attacks and just counted the travel time on its own, it would still take them several days of time.
The only reason why Shien and Airi were able to get there so fast is all because the two of them flew, and they were far faster than normal people at that.
Add in the fact that Shien and Airi had set out in the evening, as well as the fact that they had ended up encountering a number of incidents when they entered the Canyon in search of Vivian’s party, the time is already past midnight by now.
Given that, as well as the fact that Vivian’s party was exhausted and are unable to move all that quickly, there’s no way for the whole group to quickly leave and return to the Capital.
Seeing the girls all getting more and more tired, Shien finally ended up making a decision.
“Let’s camp here.”
That’s how it is.
Thus, Shien found a flat field within the Canyon with a nearby water source and got ready to have Vivian’s party spend the night here.
Of course, Shien did also worked quite a bit to make sure that everyone will be able to spend the night without worries.
For example, creating a barrier around the area using enchant magic.
“[Enchant – Hide].”
“[Enchant – Banish].”
“[Enchant – Alarm].”
“[Enchant – Isolate].”
Those four enchantments are very useful ones for outdoors camping.
Hide works on the ground beneath them, which makes it so that the area enchanted basically disappears from outside observation. Anyone who looks at it from the outside will only see a dead end.
Banish works on enchanting the rocks around them, making them send out weak waves of magic that disrupts the minds of others, making them unconsciously try to avoid the area.
Alarm is cast on the plant life in the area. If anyone tries to cross the boundary and touch the grass beneath them, then all the plants in the area will start making noise, alerting Shien and the others.
As for Isolate, Shien just drew a circle around their camp and enchanting it with that spell.
With that, the presence, magic power, sound, and even scent of everyone within the camp will all be isolated, making it undetectable to anyone outside.
After finishing all that, the campground is finally safe for everyone to rest in.
Vivian and the others all completely relaxed and directly laid down without being picky before falling asleep, exhausted.
Although there are technically quite a few issues with letting a bunch of delicate beauties like them just sleep on the ground like that, it’s no time to be picky right now. It’s already good enough just having a place to rest for them.
Vivian and the others are also all adventurers. They’re no strangers to camping out, and they’ve had worse at that, so naturally, they’re already quite used to it.
Of course, Shien did still use enchant magic to enchant the air around them with “warmth”, pushing the cold air at night away to provide a relatively comfortable resting environment for the girls.
“You really are good to them.”
Airi personally witnessed all this and ended up commenting on it with a strange tone.
“They’re not your mates, are they?”
Shien rolled his eyes at her. He’s in no mood to humor this overly spoiled girl right now.
Although she really is quite spoiled.
At the very least, when she saw everyone just use a flat field as the campground and resting on the spot, Airi ended up bunching up her cute little forehead before finally deciding.
“I’m going to find a cave nearby.”
With those words, Airi left without a second glance.
Shien didn’t bother with her either.
Either way, no matter what happens, there’s no way that anything could happen to that girl after all.
Thus, Shien decided to just let her run about as she liked.
As for Shien himself…
“Ah… So comfortable.”
Shien comfortably submerged himself into the nearby water source, or a pool in other words.
Yep. He was taking a bath.
“Being able to have a bath even out in the wilderness. This really is quite a luxury.”
Shien half closed his eyes as he enchanted the water within the pool with the “heating” enchantment.
He had to admit, enchantment magic really is very convenient. It’s extremely versatile, to the point where no other magic type can compare.
Even putting aside the fact that there’s a lot of enchantments in total, just a single enchantment can end up having completely different effects depending on different targets and the amount of magic being used.
Take the “heating” enchantment for example. If the target was a rock, then that rock will instantly turn hot. If enough magic is used, then it wouldn’t be unusual for it to turn directly into lava.
Yet, if it’s water that’s being enchanted with “heating,” then it would naturally end up boiling the water, turning it into hot water.
It’s just that one must pay careful attention to the amount of magic being used.
Otherwise, if one ended up overheating the water, then not only will one be unable to enjoy the pleasures of a bath, they may even end up directly boiling all of the water into steam.