Having heard Ian yelling, Riley gave up on the street vendor’s foods as if he was yielding. He blocked his ears and looked at the direction that Peruda was walking toward.
‘Wait a minute. That direction is?’
Peruda and others from the Magic Tower were headed to the number one place that nobody should set foot on, towards Lower Solia.
“He is headed to Lower Solia?”
“Judging from the direction he is walking toward, I think he must be.”
Ian said it with a serious face. Riley sighed again and started to walk first.
“We are going to just watch from the back, all right?”
Riley thought that running into Rebethra would not be good, and running into Peruda from Magic Tower would not be good either. Riley mumbled while trying to stay unnoticed. Ian nodded.
“Yes.”
Peruda was tumbling through his walk. As Riley and Ian anticipated, Peruda and the others from the Magic Tower were headed to the pathway that lead to Lower Solia.
“We are from the Magic Tower. Please step aside. Excuse me. We will be passing through for a moment. Please open the path.”
As if there was an urgent matter, through the Main Plaza’s incredibly hectic crowds, Peruda had been pushing people in order to walk forward. It seemed he concluded he could not allow any further delay. He bit his lips and put forth his hand.
“Everyone. I am sorry. I have to get through.”
From his raised hand, green vines that looked thin like strings came out and made their ways through gaps between people.
“What is this?”
The green vines got through the gaps around people’s waists or arm pits. When Peruda made another hand gesture, they slowly moved to the side.
“Uh? Uuuh?”
“What is this?”
Pushed by the green vines that made their ways around people, the people that tightly filled the Main Plaza were pushed aside to left and right.
“I am sorry. We will pass through.”
A pathway where a person could barely go through was made. Peruda started to walk through the path in a hurry as he apologized to the people.
“Uh? That man is?”
Peruda and the others from the Magic Tower ran through the pathway in a single pile. The people who were pushed aside started to mumble with their eyes wide.
“That’s Peruda, isn’t it?”
“That newbie Head of the Magic Tower?”
“Where? Where?”
“Huk. It really is him.”
Instead of getting past people, Riley had been following Peruda by going from roof to roof. As if he was surprised, Riley wiggled his eyebrows as he looked at the situation from above.
“… That is?”
As for Ian, as if running on the roof felt awkward, Ian uncomfortably stood behind Riley. Wiping off the sweat on his forehead, Ian responded to the question that Riley had.
“That is a plant type magic. I have seen it just once before, so I know about it.”
“Plant type?”
“Yes. From what I know, only those who were born with that as the innate type can use it… I didn’t know Peruda had that innate type.”
“Hm.”
Riley brushed his chin as if he was thinking he just learned something. He jumped to another building’s roof, and Ian, surprised, tumbled and followed suit by throwing his body to the next roof.
“E… Excuse me, Young Master… This is something only assassins would do…”
“Ian, please. It is not like we are going to become assassins by doing this. Anyway, if we went down, it will be just more bothersome because we will bump into people. We might lose sight of Peruda?”
“Ugh!”
“Now that the path is open, they are definitely moving fast. We need to stay close. Follow me.”
Having noticed Peruda and others were running at a faster pace, Riley made another leap and threw himself to the next roof.
“Ian? You said we should follow him.”
“I… I understand, Young Master.”
Perhaps Ian suddenly felt motion sickness. He felt dizzy looking at the ground far below. He gritted his teeth and followed Riley.
“Excuse me. Please move out of the way.”
Leading the people of the Magic Tower, Peruda arrived at the entrance that connected the Main Plaza to the Lower Solia. He then had the people gathered there to move out of the way.
“Is it starting from here?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
The entrance leading to the Lower Solia had stairs.
It lead to the basement. The place beyond the stairs was dark. The place was hard to see, and horrible stench was coming from below.
Sewer, trash, homeless, excrement, and dead bodies that are not mentioned with ease… All sorts of dirty things of Solia were gathered there. It was obvious why it reeked.