When night fell, Julius lit the bonfire, illuminating the surroundings of the Ingenious.
They looked like they were still in the wilderness, but in fact, they were already in the city of Nicaea. In this darkness, they were not the only ones.
When the bonfire was lit, Julius also noticed that other places on the lakeshore were lit up as well. It was as if there was a tacit understanding. In this dark night, many places were lit up, as if the ground was covered with stars.
Looking at the light, Julius guessed that there was a hotel for people to stay in. He missed the warm quilt and soft mattress — at least, something softer than the floor and the carriage.
In winter, the nights became colder, and there was a cold wind with water vapor blowing from the other side of the lake.
If it were not for the warm bonfire, Julius felt that his mood and state would be terrible.
At least he had prepared the basic necessities, and Romuona was sitting opposite him. He did not want her to see him in a bad state.
The two had finished their dinner and now sat facing each other, the silence between them.
Julius did not know what to say, so he decided to talk about the strange things that happened earlier in the day. "Do you remember the two carriages that passed in front of us in the afternoon?"
Nicaea was a bustling city, and there were many carriages passing in front of them, but Romuona knew what Julius was referring to.
Only strange things were worth talking about.
"Those two carriages?"
Julius nodded.
"Indeed, it gave people a strange feeling."
Romuona said. Her eyes were fixed on the bonfire, and her eyes were slightly squinted. She looked sleepy and lethargic. "A conspicuous person walking on the road may only attract attention for a while, and it won't be too strange.
But if a group of conspicuous people walk together, the feeling will be magnified a hundred times … It's like a circus. It's really interesting. "
When he was in the village, Julius already knew what a circus was because a circus passed by them.
In the King's Castle, he saw how the circus performed because the tickets were not expensive.
"You also think it's strange, right?"
"What do you think is strange?" Romuona thought for a while and asked.
This made Julius a little confused, but he thought for a while and replied, "Everyone is strange?"
Romuona stretched out her finger and pointed one by one. "Two casually dressed knights, a listless mercenary following the carriage, a skinny Coachman who looked like only bones, a woman in a white robe, and a very fat man in the carriage … at least from his face, he does look like a ball."
"You look very carefully." Julius sighed.
Romuona just shook her head and did not feel proud because of it. "It's not because I'm too observant, but because they are too conspicuous … No matter what, a mage and a warrior mixed together, and each of them seems to have the strength of a Silver rank. No matter where, such people are very conspicuous."
Julius rubbed his eyes, and his face showed a relieved expression. "I see … This is why they look so strange.
I just feel that it's very strange and uncoordinated, but I can't tell that they are all … warriors and mages? "At this point, Julius felt more and more strange." Is that an adventure team?
But in this place, is there anything worth taking the risk to obtain? "
"Adventure teams are not the only ones who go to ruins, dungeons, or mazes to obtain treasures." Romuona said. "There are also people who rely on hunting daemons to make a living." Although Romuona said so, she had other thoughts in her heart.
They were just strangers, strangers who had nothing to do with them and did not seem to be important. However, if one had the ability to observe carefully and use some useful knowledge, then one could see some things that others could not see — just like the things that Julius could not see.
Romuona had a pair of good eyes, and she also had a pair of knowledge that matched her eyes very well. It was all that she learned when she was educated as a noble, or when she spent the days in the church at the cape.
Those people were very cautious, and they did not have anything that could identify them, so they looked like ordinary travelers or adventurers. However, Romuona saw more than what others could see in that moment of contact.
The face that flashed past in the carriage made her judge that the person in the carriage was a fat man.
On the woman's white robe, there were no strange patterns or patterns. It was just a robe — but she saw a pendant hanging on the woman's neck. Although it was hidden in the robe, the style of the chain made her think that it was undoubtedly a cross.
Coachman was very thin, but his hands were a little abnormally big, and blue veins were protruding. It was not just a pair of hands that worked hard, but a pair of hands that were used to hold weapons.
There were too many strange things.
At that time, Romuona just so happened to have the leisure to pay attention to everything around her, but Julius' mind seemed to have been sucked away by the lake. This was why he only had strange feelings and did not observe carefully like Romuona.
In terms of eyesight, the two of them were about the same. Romuona's eyesight was better. Additionally, she was able to obtain more information from her observations. This was something that Julius absolutely did not have.
What puzzled Romuona the most was not the fact that those people had formed a circus. Rather, it was why they were hiding themselves.
No matter how she looked at it, those people were deliberately hiding their identities and strength.
This did not look like a circus or an adventurer's team. As for travelers, they would not be so deliberate.
They were strangers that she had only met once. However, there were still some things that Romuona could not figure out.
There were too many illogical things, so much so that she could not ignore them.
However, someone had disturbed her thoughts.
Something swam over from the other side of the lake. It left the water and came to their side.
The two of them placed their hands on the swords placed beside them. However, when the light from the flames illuminated the figure, the two of them sighed.
"Can you not scare people like this next time?" Julius said to the shadow that came over.
It was a shadow with several tentacles on its body. Those tentacles were ready to move … If it was not illuminated by the light of the bonfire, the water plants on Lulunaka's body would indeed scare a lot of people.
Lulunaka came back with water plants all over her body. Her soaked body was constantly dripping water, and the ground under her feet was wet.
Even her head was covered with water plants. It looked like she was wearing a large headscarf.
"Good evening, the two of you.
I will be very happy if there is something to eat after work. "