After talking to Blair, Ryan put all his mind on how to design his first magic item, but the more Ryan thought about it, the more headache he felt, he can now make traditional magic items such as accessories and rings on his own, and he has found enough inspiration from Shaina's dress, and has a preliminary understanding of making magic robes, Ryan wants his first work to be perfect, but he doesn't want to make something too plain.

In such a contradictory mood, Ryan and his party had unknowingly arrived at the western border of Senate's sphere of influence. After declaring independence, Senate recaptured the city of Sek, which has become the political, economic, and military center of Senate's power.

Due to the very important location of this city, the most convenient way to get to the imperial capital from the land is to go to Seke Castle in many important cities in the south, such as Freedom Heaven and Mochizuki Castle. After Senate broke away from the empire and declared independence, the first thing he did was to send troops to defend the north-south communication artery, blocking the land connection between the imperial capital and the southern lords. The imperial capital lost the important port city of Sunrise City in the north in the war with the orcs, which made the imperial capital lose the passage to the south by sea.

The current imperial capital is facing a very embarrassing situation: nominally, the imperial capital is the center of the entire empire, but in fact, the important cities in the south are on their own, and the imperial capital's decrees can only take effect in the area within a radius of thousands of miles under the jurisdiction of the imperial capital.

This is also the situation that Senate wants to see the most, after all, he is fighting against a country with the power of a lord, if the empire still has the prestige it had when it was founded 200 years ago, then even if Senate has a million troops under his command, he will never dare to act rashly, and if you want to blame it, you can only blame Fernando's children and grandchildren from generation to generation, which makes Senate's family slowly rise.

When he learned that Mochizuki City had sent a magic exchange group to the north of the Imperial Capital, Senat's first thought was that something was wrong, could it mean that Mochizuki City and the Imperial Capital had formed an alliance? He immediately sent quite a lot of scouts to find out the information in this regard, and at the same time sent additional manpower to defend all the possible roads from Mochizuki City to the Imperial Capital, so as to prevent Blair from leading the group north.

Master Blair and the Magic Exchange Group tried not to enter Senat's territory as much as possible, but the geographical location of Sennat's sphere of influence was so good that Master Blair had to take the entire Magic Exchange Group around in a big circle, which also gave Sennat enough time to mobilize troops to intercept them.

Master Blair has long known that Ryan is in fourth place on Senate's wanted list, and above him are Catherine, Luke, and Orondo, and Faras is Luke's daughter, Ryan's experience in Mochizuki City can't be concealed at all, Sennat may have made up some kind of determination, right?

The closer they got to Senate's sphere of influence, the more cautious Blair and the Magical Exchange became, and they released enough scouts that several high-level mages unleashed their "Magical Vision" every day to detect every move for kilometers around the Exchange Group, and traveled differently day and night.

Since the entire magical exchange group was riding in a carriage with the same device as Ryan's, the physical exertion of the horses pulling the cart was relatively small, and the whole group did not need to be in good road conditions to keep moving at high speeds, as long as the horses could run up to a place where the road was wide enough for the carriage to pass.

"Stop, stop!" shouted several men dressed as servants on their horses, and with their efforts, the entire speeding convoy stopped. Master Blair walked out of the carriage, and the men dressed as servants immediately jumped off their horses, knelt on the ground and said, "Master Blair, there is an ambush ahead!"

"Oh, what the hell is going on, you tell me carefully. ”

"Yes. In the canyon about 60 kilometers ahead, we found an unidentified army, well-groomed and well-equipped, numbering about 4,000 men......"

When these people reported the situation to Master Blair, the high-level magicians in the surrounding carriages all gathered around, but Blair, as the leader of the entire magic exchange group, did not speak, and the others naturally did not say anything. After the men dressed as servants finished their reports, Master Blair did not hesitate to recite a large number of magic spells.

Under the effect of magic, a simple map slowly appeared in front of Blair, this map was still very rough when it first appeared, only some simple lines, and with the casting of Master Blair's spell, this map became clearer and clearer, and after the entire magic was completed, the terrain within thousands of miles around it was completely presented in front of everyone.

"Wow, that's amazing, can this be?" said in Faras's whisper in Ryan's ear, "If we could do this magic, it would be so convenient to travel in the future." ”

"Shhhhh ”

Master Blair carefully checked the map, and he spoke: "Two of the three lords near here are attached to Senat, and the other has an ambiguous attitude and has not broken away from the rule of the empire, but he has long been secretly connected with Sennat, otherwise it would be impossible for him to have only 2,000 garrisons at the junction with Sennat's territory, which is simply a wide open door, waiting to tempt others to fight him." ”

"The only one who can send 4,000 elite troops is Senate. Moreover, there are several places where the terrain is very dangerous to the north, and if there is an ambush in Senate, it will inevitably choose to attack here. If he lets us pass through this mountainous area, there will be endless grasslands in front of us, and we will also approach the imperial capital, and there will definitely be someone on Luke's side to pick us up, maybe the Royal Knights. ”

Master Blair spoke his thoughts, and everyone present did not speak, but looked at Blair intently, waiting for him to give the order. Master Blair was not modest, and after careful consideration of his words, he said, "We will go another 10 kilometers and we will be here." Master Blair pointed to a certain part of the volley map in front of him and said, "There is a large clearing here for us to rest, and all our scouts immediately center on it, carefully scouting every move in the vicinity of twenty kilometers, and absolutely avoiding a sneak attack by Seckert." ”

"The place where we are about to rest is very good, it is a mountain, and there is only a path for a carriage to walk, and even if Senat tries to sneak up on us, he will not be able to deploy his forces in a hurry, and will only be our target. Speaking of this, everyone present laughed, yes, the person who can stand here, the worst strength is Mayne-Elber, the senior magician, and among the other members, there are 11 magicians, and 3 great magicians, including Master Blair, if Senat really wants to attack, I'm afraid it's not necessarily who bullies whom?