Leaving Blackmoon Region

Linetta couldn't be sure if their aunty commissioned people to assassinate them on the road to the capital.

It was just a blind guess that they couldn't confirm.

However, if the wagon thief party had been a group of assassins, they would have caught up to them in the underground cave if they were truly their targets.

After all, their abandoned wagons near the streams were enough tracks to prove that they had taken refuge in their underground shelter. Despite that, the thief party took a wagon with the most valuable carcasses and went ahead.

However, suppose the thief party was assassins. In that case, they could have deemed it unfavorable to assassinate their target in the underground cave.

After all, there was only one entrance.

Furthermore, the unfavorable positioning would easily expose their presence before they could come close to their targets with stealth.