As we left Matty’s dungeon, I instinctively looked to the west. Celeste reached out and grabbed my arm, stroking it soothingly.
“Miki is in that direction,” I stated a fact that we both knew.
I still didn’t know exactly where she was, but she was sowhere in Dioshin. Unfortunately, Dioshin was generally hostile with Aberis. This stemd from Aberis’s tendency to enslave the citizens of Dioshin. After the war against the Demon Lord Aberis, the country had grown a tendency to favor human supremacy. It seed like Prince Edward was working toward undoing a lot of that, but after twenty years the damage was already done.
“It’s okay, Master. I’m worried about Miki as well.” Celeste told . “What’s the plan?”
“The n ntioned Miki’s family. It might have nothing to do with them, but it might be sothing involving them. Either way, as I understand it, the foxkin are close to the border, so they would be a good first stop. At the mont, I’m not able to portal into Dioshin, and even if I could, I don’t know where her family is.”
Anyone could draw a map, but the maps of this world were made by those with the calligrapher job, which I had. A calligrapher infused the map with magic, giving it an imprint of the mana from the location being drawn. This is sufficient that when I look at such a map, my Map skill would update with the details from the map. Just because I could see it on a Map didn’t an that I could target it with a Portal. Perhaps there were high-level maps that were created with enough detail that such a thing was possible, but in general, a location needs to be within range of my mana sense, which was usually about as far as I could see.
I could find a drawing of the basic layout of Dioshin, they weren’t sufficient to give more than a basic understanding of Dioshin. There was no such place called foxkin village or sothing obvious like that, so I couldn’t guess where they were. Heading over there now would just be asking for trouble.
Sure, if Celeste flew up into the sky, I could probably get a distant view and make several kiloter-long Portal jumps, like I had once done while dealing with the bandits in southwest Aberis. I might even be able to get past their border this way, but if I wasn’t careful, they’d see Celeste lifting and co to suspect sothing.
“What do we do then?” Celeste asked.
Celeste had once been impulsive and childish. Since her evolution, she had grown much more even-tempered. I missed her youthful naivete, but as the only party mber I had recovered thus far, her steady and reliable nature helped keep my heart calm. I had lost everyone, and saying I was going to get them back didn’t an I wasn’t worried about them. I reached up and stroked her head with my finger where she was perched on my shoulder.
“It’s not a problem.”
“M-master…” She grew flustered as I rubbed her, her incandescent wings fluttering.
“We know soone who knows about Dioshin,” I explained. “We need to talk with him.”
It had been a while. It was ti I spoke with Figuro once again.
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