The Magician of Sound

The group continued their journey, going through Syria. Luckily, they managed to reach their destination one hour before dark.

Setting up the tent, Arnaud asked Kai. "Can I see the route? I mean, we are going to Iraq and Iran. It's a vast area if you ask me, so it's better to have a route."

Kai took out his device and opened the map. He showed him the simple one.

"Hmm…" Arnaud furrowed his eyebrows. "So from your map, we will cross southern Iraq until we reach Kuwait. Then we will return to Iraq through the second bigger city, Basra, before making our way to the capital Baghdad and reached far to the north to the city of Erbil."

"Yes. I'm sure you don't mind having this kind of schedule since it's the perfect one to reach northern Iran… What is the city name again…" Kai nodded and thought for a moment.

"Tabriz. From there, we will go with a vertical zigzag to search all the areas until we reach Teheran and Isfahan."

"Yep. We will go northeast after that until we reach the border between Iran and Turkmenistan. Only at that time can we go all the way to the south while following Afghanistan and Pakistan's borders before running near the Persian Gulf to go back. If we don't find it by that time, then this mission will be considered a failure."

Arnaud contemplated for a moment and asked, "Do you actually know what you're dealing with here?"

"Yes, but I won't say anything about it unless we find them. I have a friend that tells me they are here." Kai nodded. He wondered what Arnaud would think if he knew the informant was someone who could destroy the entire EU Base with ease the moment he was provoked.

"I understand. Although there are flaws in some areas, I think this is the most effective way to find them."

"Don't worry. My ears have a five-kilometer radius, so we should be good enough." Kai nodded, assuring him that this expedition had a good chance of success.

"Alright. Since you have a vision already, I'm going to follow you through this course."

"That's good enough. With our speed, how many days do you think we need to cross this route?"

He looked down with his hand on his chin, falling into deep thought. After a while, he opened his mouth. "With my calculation, we need around three weeks if we only need to run. Since Roselyn has started getting used to your current pace, I think it will be a month if we need to handle those beasts."

"Is there any powerful magical beast in this area?"

"Some powerful A Rank Magical Beasts. As for the S Rank Magical Beast, we have found one in Sudan, one in Kongo, and one in Zimbabwe. On the northern side, there are three across all of Russia's territory, two in China and one in India. Unless there are new S Rank Magical Beasts, I don't think we will find them."

"That's good, but don't say that too obvious, you know. It's going to appear." Kai shrugged. "I mean, even my holiday got disturbed by a sudden appearance of an S Rank Magical Beast."

"I know, I know. I won't say it again." He shrugged. "Though I'm sure there are still many intelligent beasts in this area, so it's not like we are going to have a good time."

"Don't worry about the intelligent beasts. We can deal with them easily. The problem will be our supply. Because we don't have a truck since we are going through a place with hard terrain, we have limited water supplies."

"Ah, now I see your true plan. You are planning to get water supplies from all these areas, right?" He pointed to a few areas.

"Yes."

"Well, we will see whether they are pure or not."

"Agreed. For now, I don't think we have a problem."

After agreeing to him, Arnaud handed back Kai's device before asking, "Do you happen to have an idea of selling your information to the Union? We can grant you millions if not billions depending on the information."

"I don't have any information that is worth your millions." Kai shook his head, humbly rejecting the idea. If he truly opened it all, even if they gave the entire EU Base to him, Kai still felt it wasn't enough.

After all, the fact that there were many other magical beasts that could potentially rule the world through military might was priceless.

Arnaud also had the gist of it, but he knew that there was no way he would be able to acquire it unless they dared to pay the price. After all, he only shared this secret with his teacher, even if it was a little. Unless they had the same status as him, no one would know about the information, which only the protector of each race had the right to know.

"Anyway, we will have a long journey ahead, so it's better to think about it instead of mumbling about this useless thing." Kai shrugged and walked away, finding Roselyn preparing the food while Sofia and Jules scouted their surroundings.

Arnaud looked at him with a serious expression before shaking his head.

They continued the night as usual.

When the morning arrived, they quickly packed up their staff and started their journey to Iraq.

The journey went as planned. They killed all the magical beasts in their way. Roselyn managed to get used to Kai's fighting style slowly. Arnaud went around like crazy under Kai's order to kill the potential monsters that would ambush or inform the other monsters and was impressed by Kai's ears.

Sofia just maintained her support for Kai while her grandfather took care of Roselyn since she didn't have much experience in an expedition like this.

However, Kai and the others were unaware of the fact they would meet something out of the ordinary in Iraq.

In a certain place, there were two people, one man and one woman. The woman had long black hair tied into a ponytail. She wore a red hakama while running through the desert. Meanwhile, the guy wore a white one.

They would look like a normal couple, but if one took another look at them… They are…