章 863: Suspects and Theories (Part 1)

"My thoughts exactly. No matter the answer, I'm ready to bet we're not going to like it." The Baroness nodded while showing Lith a map of the Kusha Route that went from Zantia to Jambel.

The Kusha Route extended for hundreds of kilometers, passing through the biggest human settlements in the area and connecting them to the nearest Gates. It allowed the local merchants to move and sell their goods with the rest of the Kingdom.

It was enough for a single city along the route to fall to leave thousands of people without the means to contact the authorities. The Baroness had marked with red dots all the sites were caravans had disappeared and had associated each spot with the date they had been reported missing.

"That's a lot of ground to cover." Lith was familiar with the area and by cross-referencing the Baroness' map with his own stored inside Soluspedia, he noticed that a couple of mana geysers were relatively close to the sites of interest.