Arthur's A-class mission item, which Arthur had never had a clue about, unexpectedly appeared in McGinn's lost cargo.

Arthur was no longer interested in eating and drinking, and only ate a few bites indiscriminately before pulling Joan and McGinn straight to the place where the goods were robbed, and he was even more anxious than McGinn, the real owner of the lost goods.

The place where McGin's goods were looted was on a fork in the road eight miles away from the south gate of the imperial capital, and half a mile further was the official road where people came and went. Even if it is not an official road, there are often people and vehicles on this fork of the road, and the groves on both sides of the road are not dense, which is completely unsuitable for bandits to hide.

Arthur only walked around the site where the van had been robbed, and felt a much richer than usual flow of dark magic elements nearby, which was a sign that someone had once performed dark magic nearby.

"How did they get the goods away?" asked Arthur, turning his head.

When the guards woke up, they found themselves pulled into the grass by the side of the road, and the three musk oxen had disappeared, and they judged that the robbers had driven the cars away. ”

Arthur took a closer look around the neighborhood and found traces of weeds lying down on the side of the road and ruts where three trucks had stopped. Because the cargo is heavier, the ruts are still relatively clear after nearly a day.

Arthur had learned some of the identification and tracking of prey tracks from the hunter Angus, and the tracking along the ruts was only an entry-level level.

Arthur followed the rutted trail until it merged into the official road.

"Why don't you go on?" Joan kept following Arthur curiously.

"The truck went on the official road, and there were too many personnel and vehicles on this official road, and the traces were long gone. ”

"Is this clue broken?"

Arthur held his chin and thought for a while and said, "It's not completely broken." Since the truck is on the official road, it is most likely to enter the city, because if you want to go far, there is no need to take this road, just turn around at the interception point. Assuming that the robbers drove into the imperial capital, it should be estimated that they entered the city just before the closure of the city, and there were very few trucks entering the city at that time, as long as they asked the city gate guards on duty last night, they might be able to find clues again. ”

"Leave this to His Royal Highness, this South Gate Deputy Commander Spence is also familiar with me. Joan took over the rest of the matter and took Arthur and McGinn straight to the south gate of the city guard.

There were 200,000 city guards stationed outside the imperial capital of Arantis, and the commander of the guards, Grand Duke Amaya, was a close confidant of the emperor. There are also four deputy commanders under the capital, each with 50,000 people responsible for guarding the four gates.

In addition to the city guards, the city of Arantis was also garrisoned by a 100,000-strong Praetorian Guard, headed by Prince Gallaher.

In addition to these two largest military forces in the imperial capital, there are also the most elite Imperial Monarch's direct guard group, the Three Thousand Dragon Scale Guard, and several royal archmages directly supported by the Imperial Family. and the military strength of the Church of Light, 20,000 Guardian Knights and 20,000 Punishment Knights, and the remnants of the Knights of Light and the two Knights of Punishment and Guardian are stationed in the Holy Mountain of Light, the holy place of the Church outside the imperial capital.

Hearing that His Highness the Eleventh had come to visit, Spence, the deputy commander of the city guard, personally greeted him at the gate of the barracks.

Spence was in his forties, with a full beard and beard, and he looked like a man who had been in the military for a long time. Arthur couldn't understand how Joan, who had been absent from the imperial capital for a long time, could be familiar with such a general?

When Joan was invited into the camp, she spoke straight to Spence without any politeness.

Spence was also refreshed, and said bluntly: "This is a trivial matter, and I will arrange for the soldiers who were on duty yesterday to line up to receive His Highness's inquiry." But as it happened, the people from the Inquisition had just arrived at the barracks in the morning, and it seemed that they were also tracking down a few people. ”

Both Joan and Arthur were shocked, and the church people moved so fast. In the case that happened yesterday evening, the other party had already found the traces before McGinn reported the case.

Joan knew that this was Spence's kind reminder to herself, and hurriedly thanked: "Thank you for the deputy capital, as long as we don't want people, we won't conflict with the people in the church." ”

At the end of the conversation, Spence laughed and the matter was over.

Spence accompanied Joan to tea and chat in the tent, while Arthur and McGinn were in charge of asking the soldiers on duty yesterday outside the tent.

As Arthur had speculated, three beast carts had entered the city when it was about to close last night, driven by three young men and women who did not look very old. However, the soldiers on duty did not pay special attention to the specific physiognomy of these three people and the direction in which the beast cart went after entering the city.

After finding this clue, Joan said goodbye to Spence and returned to the imperial capital.

Standing inside the south gate of the imperial capital, McGinn was still at a loss, "Even if you know that the robbers have driven into the city, how can you find three trucks with inconspicuous characteristics in the great imperial capital?"

"The delivery truck and musk ox belong to you?"

"Of course, the size of our family is with our own fleet and guards. ”

Arthur smiled confidently, "That's easy, let's go our separate ways." You go home and find a few things commonly used by musk oxen to pull the cart this time, and I will go back to the post house to ask someone for help. ”

Qiong on the side understood, "Are you looking for dogs? There are a few in my palace." ”

Arthur laughed, "I'm looking for a helper who works better than a dog!"

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On Nancheng Hotel Street, three young men in coarse cloth clothes were hiding in a small restaurant on the corner of the street, finding a table by the window and gobbling it up.

The streets are bustling with people, and few people give a second glance at such a humble little shop, except for diners.

The tall young man facing the door wiped the grease stains on his mouth with his sleeve, "It's still the imperial capital, and the food in any small shop is ten times better than in the countryside!"

"Nalu, you can settle the account of this meal in a moment. The small young man sitting with his back to the door suddenly answered.

"Why should I pay the bill?"

"If it weren't for me, the Black Star Magician Laboratory we've been looking for for so long would have been the first to be reached by that mercenary group? If it weren't for my strategy, would we have been able to get out of the city so smoothly?" the little man asked one after another.

"Jackie, you just use your brain and mouth, the person who really does it is me, you are the one who knows how to take advantage if you don't work, and you should settle today's account. The louder he spoke, the louder he became, causing the two tables of guests next to him to look sideways at them.

If the people of the Church of Light were to hear the conversation between the two people, I am afraid that the entire church would be mobilized. Blackstar is one of the most powerful dark mages in the last millennium, known for summoning terrifying creatures of hell, and Blackstar has used the massive number of hell creatures it summons to wipe out all of a duke's army.

"Don't quarrel with the two of you, I'll settle the account, and we'll leave quickly after eating." The girl sitting on the side of the two of them spoke in a hurried tone, and her eyes swept in the direction of the door from time to time. The girl was average-looking, and there was no decoration on her face, so she was inconspicuous in the crowd.

"Rorty, why are you in a hurry?" the two men said in unison this time.

The girl named Rorty lowered her voice, "We are operating behind the family's back, Uncle Chiro has warned us that we are not allowed to move and enter the city without his permission, the city has been too dangerous recently!"

Naru frowned and said, "Although the most important summoning blades, magic notes, and magic potions are all in hand, what about the remaining things that are worth thousands of gold coins?

"What then?" Rorty also worried, a few thousand gold coins was a great fortune for these young men, "Why don't we go to Uncle Chiro?" ”

Jackie immediately stopped, "No, Uncle Chiro will kill us if he knows that we have entered the city without permission." We'll stay one more day, and I'll have the means to get those stuff out. ”

"I heard that the buyer of that batch of goods is very powerful in the imperial capital, don't you two burn yourself because of those things?" Rorty still had a worried face.

Jackie smiled confidently: "Don't worry, no one can find what I hid." ”