Chapter 272: Back to the Empire (1)
Chapter 272: Back to the Empire (1)
To save Diogres Kolon, Karnak had once again decided to head for the Lacania Empire. And the very first problem he faced was this."What excuse am I going to use?"
Let’s say he put it plainly like this.
—There was a huge clash between two archmages. Diogres lost and disappeared. So we’re going to the empire to save him!
The answer he’d get was obvious.
—Why would you do that?
It made no sense. Karnak and his group lived in the western continent, in the Seven Kingdoms Alliance. Why, then, were they getting involved in a fight between two archmages on the far opposite end of the continent?
He could technically manufacture a reason. Elezar had branded Diogres as the leader of a heretical cult. But from Karnak’s investigations so far, it seemed far more likely that Elezar herself was the heretic.
In other words, if they could rescue Diogres and recruit him, he’d be an invaluable ally in the fight against the cult.
"That said, it still sounds awkward no matter how I spin it," admitted Karnak.
Karnak had indeed become a big name lately, but he still wasn’t at the level where he could claim he was going to rescue an archmage. It’d be like a fox saying it was going to go save a tiger. Granted, this fox was hiding venomous fangs even tigers would hesitate to mess with, but on the surface, no one was going to buy it.
Serati was puzzled. "Why don’t we just go without saying anything?"