Breaking through the blockade of the noble forces, Liens and his group continued to steadily walk towards the Outer City gate.

Along the way, the commotion caused by nearly ten thousand people walking attracted the attention of many hidden civilians.

Although they were also in the South District, they did not choose to seek refuge with the Adventurers' Association because they feared that the Adventurers' Association might be besieged by both factions.

They merely survived on previously stored food, while hiding from the searches of both the noble forces and the reactionary forces.

The former would capture them as cannon fodder for the front lines, while the latter would directly harm them and then drag them to the front lines; neither was what they wanted.

So, after learning of the Adventurers' Association's team's objective, many chose to join.

Benjamin and his group did not refuse, only reminding the newcomers to maintain order and obey arrangements.

In this way, the original team of nearly ten thousand quickly surpassed ten thousand and continued to grow, and the length of the team also became longer and longer.

This was why the noble forces were unwilling to let the Adventurers' Association take people away.

The number of people in the city was already reduced, and now another group was being taken away, group after group; if everyone left, what would they manage?

Due to the increase in numbers, Benjamin and his group were forced to rearrange the security personnel's positions, as they still had the significant challenge of the wilderness ahead.

During this time, a few individuals also took advantage of the chaos to leave the team; Liens noticed them and knew who they were but did not intervene to restrict their departure.

Because the Outer City gate was in the South City, although the large number of newcomers slowed the team's pace, the team of tens of thousands still reached the city gate in a short amount of time.

And the city gate had already been opened for them early on.

"Sir, hello, um, um, the Earl asked me to deliver a message to you."

Looking at the massive team of tens of thousands, the city gate guard nervously walked quickly to Liens, carefully speaking to Liens.

"What message?"

Liens knew what the Earl wanted to say, but he still prepared to listen to the guard's report, as this guard might be punished if he didn't complete his task.

Yesterday morning, he was very active in answering his questions, so there was no need to make things difficult for him again.

Seeing that Liens was willing to listen to him, the guard breathed a sigh of relief and immediately said, "The Earl said he hopes you will not participate in the Kara City battlefield. If you want better gains, go east and participate in a larger battlefield."

"That's all, Sir."

After the guard finished speaking, he respectfully stood aside, waiting for Liens's response.

Liens did not give a reply, only waving his hand to dismiss the guard, then signaled the team behind him to continue forward.

"Boom boom boom ~"

Watching the snake-like team pass through the city gate section by section until the "snake head" disappeared from sight, the guard quickly went to the city wall, took out the wooden plaque on his person, and began to report the situation above.

"Officer, the Earl's message has been delivered to Liens."

"How did Liens respond?"

"Liens said nothing."

"Is that so, I understand... In the future, the guard strength at the city gate needs to be reinforced. Some people will come over to take over the city gate guard duties later; you just need to follow their command then."

"Okay, Officer."

The guard breathed a sigh of relief; although strengthening the city gate's guard force might make it difficult for them to slack off, at least they didn't lose their jobs or get sent to a more dangerous place.

... ...

After exiting the city gate, the terrain became much more open, so Liens and his team changed their formation accordingly.

From the initial long snake, it became a relatively wider rectangle, trying to shorten the front-to-back distance and reduce the team's reaction time after encountering a Monster attack.

Among them, the old, weak, women, and children were in the middle of the team, while the strong and able-bodied young men were on the periphery of the team.

Benjamin still walked ahead, leading the way, while Liens flew above the team, constantly vigilant for dangers around the team.

He was very strong now, and maintaining long periods of flight was not difficult for him.

The sun slowly rose, then slowly set.

During this time, the commotion caused by tens of thousands of people moving inevitably attracted the attention of Monsters along the way.

Some Monsters, seeing so many people, immediately turned and fled, while some Monsters were more ferocious, unable to resist baring their fangs at the sight of so much weak, plump prey.

And as for these Monsters, Liens naturally took them out with a sword qi from a distance before they could even get close to the team.

He also made the edible Monsters into jerky and gave it to the civilians below, making it one of their rations.

It was also because of this that many people who had not truly known Liens finally realized that the person in the air was their hero protecting them.

"What is this?"

Liens sensed some special things gathering towards him, and quite a lot of them.

Because he wasn't sure what they were, he didn't let them get too close to him, and just as he was about to study them, a gaze suddenly caught his attention.

"Hmm?"

Liens instantly entered a battle state, gazing sternly at the source of the gaze. In the distant mountains and forests, he saw a blurry, gigantic existence, which gradually disappeared.

"What's wrong?"

Sensing the change in Liens's aura, Benjamin immediately flew to his side and asked seriously.

"Tell everyone to be careful. I just saw a powerful Monster in the distance, and I can't be sure if it will threaten our team."

Liens said sternly.

Hearing this, Benjamin's brows furrowed, and the expression on his face became even more serious; after all, something Liens called powerful must be a Monster comparable to the second rank.

"I understand. I'll go down now and tell everyone to be more vigilant."

"We'll reach our destination soon. I hope no accidents happen on the final stretch."

Benjamin sighed, then quickly went down to tell the people below to be vigilant. After a while, once everyone was ready, the team set off again with a tense atmosphere.

Fortunately, the worst outcome did not happen; the powerful Monster Liens sensed did not appear again, as if the blurry existence he had seen before was just an illusion.

At dusk.

The massive team finally arrived at their destination before the sun completely set.

This was a remote town, somewhat similar to Hughes Town.

Similarly remote geographically, similarly close to the Monster Forest, and similarly a magic ritual.

"Won't there be any problems arranging so many people in a place like this? And this town can't accommodate so many people, can it?"

Liens frowned slightly and asked Benjamin.

"Mr. Heier seems to know something about this place?"

Benjamin looked at Liens with some surprise.

"I once stayed in a similar town, so I know a little about the situation here."

Liens nodded in response.

"In principle, this place shouldn't have so many people."

"But the ritual here was originally for the protection of civilians, so the standards have naturally been relaxed."

"As for the issue of capacity, they have long stored a lot of food here."

"And from what they mean, they seem to want to take advantage of this to see the changes after the ritual expands, so that it can be applied to larger cities in the future."

"I know Mr. Heier might resent their idea of using civilians, but everyone actually doesn't have many choices. It's good enough to live stably; what does it matter if they're used a bit?"

Benjamin looked earnestly at Liens. He did not hide their thoughts from Liens, just as they knew his character and did not choose to hide it from him.

This world, in the end, respects strength, and ordinary people naturally don't have many choices.

He couldn't resist, and he couldn't even say what was wrong with what they were doing, because they were indeed actively saving Life, just doing a few extra things.

So he could only do his best, use his meager strength to protect more civilians.

Just like when the war broke out, he unhesitatingly chose to gather civilians who needed shelter, trying his best to help them survive the war.

Liens looked at Benjamin, who was looking at him earnestly, and then at the cheering civilians. He seemed to understand something, then turned and silently left.

"Remember to tell the Association to transfer the money to me quickly."

A sentence was left in the wind, and the young man's figure disappeared with the sound of his voice.