Back to the Naldir household

"Come Lance,"

Laura beckoned for Lance to come over, and he did just that. Around the house were several guards armed to the teeth, all prepared and ready for an enemy attack. The reason for this was quite simple.

Escanor left for Duan city to get a certificate of nobility for Lance. This certificate would only be given to the children of nobles when they reach the age of 18, signifying them As true Nobles of the Kingdom. With that status, the Octagon church would not dare attack lest they attract the wrath of the nobles of Elnor.

This was the only solution they could come up with right now. Lance had been deprived of so many things because of the Octagon church, they only wanted things to go back to how they were, and the only way to do that right now was with this certificate.

After all, the Octagon church was a very powerful organization. Escanor could not defeat them all.

"Don't worry, they won't attack us. We are safe with your uncle wilder here, and When your dad is back, we will celebrate properly"

Laura patted lance on the head. Lance was 18 now and was already much taller than Laura, but she still thought it was appropriate to Pat him on the head.

"Yh….we will"

Unlike Laura, lance actually wanted the Octagon church to attack. He wanted to Cut them down to size, it has been a long time coming. They had not only ruined his plans for the greatest orgy ever recorded, they made him go through a year of being confined in the Naldir household, not to talk about that b*tch Arian that tried to kill him. There was no way he would let that go.

"Yes we just have to wait,"

And so their wait began, from the middle of the day the clock began running. An hour turned to 2, then 4, and soon it was a few minutes before midnight, And Surprisingly, , there was no attack. This was quite surprising, even in the last minutes there was no attack? If Lance became 18 before they attacked it would still be a problem with or without the certificate of nobility.

It didn't make any sense for them to attack before then.

"That's a good sign, I guess"

Wilder commented, there were two possibilities, it was either they wanted to do a surprise attack or they were no longer interested in pursuing the matter.

Both possibilities were rather unlikely, a surprise attack was impossible. Both wilder and Escanor were seasoned veterans, they would not let their guard down so easily and the Octagon church knew this. As for them not pursuing the matter at all? That was more likely, since their whole operation here was meant as a Roose to steal the Nordic winter spell, there was no reason for them to go any further after already getting the spell.

"Hey look it's already midnight, grab a beer kid."

Wilder snapped out of his state of thought and threw a bottle of booze at Lance. For some reason, he was particularly eager to get Lance drunk.

...

Meanwhile,

Along a dark dirt road in the mountains, three figures cloaked in darkness made their way through. These figures had dirt all over their bodies, presumably from travelling for days.

"Glup"

One of the opened up a bottle of water and began gulping it down her throat rigorously. It even poured down her lips and ran down her cheeks.

"Fucking hell"

The figure removed her cloak and revealed the figure of a woman with luscious curves. On her face was a look of exhaustion that echoed that she had been travelling for days. The forest behind the naldir family household was massive, and it was separated by massive rocky formations, making it hard to pinpoint a particular entry point.

"Do you recognize anywhere here?"

One of the other figures asked, he also looked tired, but just not as tired as the female. Mainly because he was much more powerful than she was, at least that's what it seemed like.

"Umm.....yh I recognize this place…."

Taking a breath of air into her lungs, the female looked around. They had been travelling for days and had lost track of time, now they were asking her whether she recognized a part of the forest? She had been seeing trees for days, every tree looked the same to her at this point.

"Hmp!! Let's head in then"

The other figure in black said. He could see that She clearly didn't recognize this place, either way, they had to scour the area for clues. Else the mission would be a total waste.

"Arg!! I hate this"

The female couldn't help but beat herself up, she was the one that reported this incidents to the church, by all rights she shouldn't have been sent here, but apparently they didn't completely believe her, so after dragging the matter for almost 2 years, now they finally assigned her and two others to actually do something about the case.

That's right, the female in the Cloak was none other than Arian