Chapter 260: Payment in One Hand, Goods in the Other
Half an hour later, Leon and Johnny, having regrouped, arrived at a highland near that woodland. Just as Johnny had said, his people had already been stationed here for several days.
After resting at the encampment until close to noon, they finally saw a carriage hurrying over from the direction of the woodland, covered in dust from the journey.
Johnny raised his telescope and looked twice before reminding him: “They're here.”
Leon stepped forward to stand shoulder to shoulder with Johnny and also raised a telescope to confirm it.
He saw a skinny horse, pulling an open flatbed cart reinforced with iron plates.
The driver was a tall woman with her face covered and a hunting rifle slung across her back, while Dorothy herself, wearing a dress and a headscarf, sat on the cart with a small suitcase placed by her feet.
It looked as though Dorothy had come to the transaction without much protection, but when Leon observed more carefully, he noticed a black shadow relentlessly chasing behind the carriage.
It was a dog, looking not much different from the kind of household dog that farm families liked to let run behind carts.
However, Leon still remembered that the dog's true form was the Manticore Dorothy had modified into a Chimera. That thing alone had enough combat power to wipe out a small squad of rigorously trained knights.