The town of Vumar was twice as large as Norad Town that it almost seemed like a city. They arrived in the town at around eight in the morning and after spending a huge amount of time with the town guards reassuring them that the Dire Wolves were summoned animals that wouldn’t hurt anyone on command, they managed to find and rent rooms at an inn at around eleven in the morning.

After they secured their rooms, they all stayed in the common room to eat lunch but after that, they all went their way. Anton’s father would probably do some business. Devon, Frederick, and Colin went their way and Anton had an inkling that they would continue with their plan of finding a brothel.

Lucas and Nemina locked themselves in their room and would probably reenact their honeymoon when they were younger.

Anna, Lunelle, Ramona, and Belinda went somewhere after telling everyone that they would look around and shop.

Anton went by himself and started purchasing some art sculptures made of wood and metal that he could enchant and sell once they reached a huge enough city. While purchasing some sculptures he overheard a sad but expected news. Leminthor the city near the Holy City of Tiande and the merchant city of Ruandelle had fallen to the Undead Coalition’s attack.

Now the only cities remaining in the south that were still holding on were Tiande and Zalnothel. Anton’s good mood that he was feeling because of the expectant feeling of adventuring in the large town of Vumar disappeared. He thought of the people remaining in the Oak Sage manor and his two tutors and wished they would escape as well once Zalnothel fell. He hoped that Zalnothel would endure but based on the situation, there was a good chance that the powerful beings in the city of Zalnothel would probably escape and leave the citizens to the mercy of the undead.

Anton wouldn’t fault them if they did something like that since he didn’t have the moral high ground to judge since he did the same thing.

Every city that the Undead Coalition conquered would allow them to grow their armies and based on what the archmages told him before he left, the powerful undead beings would be able to use the population of the conquered cities as sacrifices to increase their rank and their power.

That meant that there was a huge chance that it would be a good idea for them to truly escape the continent by traveling the ocean.

He decided to return to the inn immediately and when he arrived there, everyone was there already.

“I was about to send someone to look for you. I’m guessing that you’ve heard the news that Ruandelle and Leminthor had fallen?” Anders asked.

“It would be best for us to proceed with our journey. The Undead Coalition is becoming truly powerful with every village, town, and city they conquered and I have no hope that Tiande and Zalnothel would be able to repel them,” Lucas said grimly.

All the women looked highly worried and the twins even began crying.

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“Even though Homura is very far from Zalnothel, It’s not guaranteed that the Undead Coalition would stop once Zalnothel had fallen to their undead grasp,” Nemina said.

“Is the undead going to conquer the whole world? Are we going to become undead too?” Anna whispered but everyone still heard her.

“To truly escape, we might have to cross the ocean,” Anders said softly.

Anton’s father said what he was thinking but he didn’t add to it since that was a very difficult choice to make and it would be better to ask that again once they reached a coastal city.

“Do you still want to stay here or do you want us to leave immediately?” Anders asked everyone.

“I think it would be best if we leave. We can purchase necessities along the way. It would be better for us to reach Homura as soon as possible and then check the situation once we’re there so we can plan our next step,” Nemina said.

Everyone agreed with her so they began moving. The women carried their things from the room they rented back to the two carriages and Anders talked with the innkeeper about canceling the rent.

Before they left, Anton watered the horses with mana water and healed them using his three auras and he also healed everyone in the group to make sure that they would have the energy to continue their journey.

They were on the road again when the time reached three in the afternoon. Anton felt sad that his family and his friends' planned activities for their stay in Vumar town weren’t realized but all of them were truly afraid of the undead. He felt that Undead Coalition would become a trauma or an inner demon for all of them even once they managed to escape far away.

They only stopped when the night was dark and cold. Everyone prepared their tents and they ate the food that they already prepared and retrieved from their storage items. Anton also assisted everyone by casting the Cleansing spell on everyone so they didn’t need to take a bath.

They didn’t ask Anton to show Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess TV shows since no one was in the mood. Anton knew that it would probably take a few days before everyone adjusted their frame of mind.

Anton summoned his three Dire Wolves, five Spirit Wolves, and five Ravens to guard them while they rested.

The next day after breakfast and after doing their business, Anton cleaned everyone again using his Cleaning spell and they continued their journey. It was very early, not even seven in the morning yet but everyone was filled with worry and wanted to get far away from where they were as soon as possible.

During the next seven days, they passed around two villages and one town. They purchased what they needed from that town and villages and moved on immediately after three or four hours. Anders still purchased some broken weapons and armor since they would need coins and he planned to sell them in Homura.

Anton still repaired everything they purchased as soon as possible since he truly didn’t want them to accumulate and spend an ungodly amount of time just doing repairs.

Every couple of days or so, Anton also made sure to heal everyone including the horses using his Meditation, Prayer, and Vigor auras to make sure that everyone was at their peak. Because of his cleaning spell and the ability to repair everything till they’re brand new courtesy of his Diablo II system through Charsi, even though they had been doing nothing but traveling, they still all looked fresh.

Drinking and Bathing in mana water also made sure that they not only felt healthy but looked healthy as well.

When they left Vumar town, they finally adjusted their minds and reconciled on the fact that the Undead Coalition conquered Leminthor and Ruandelle so they went back to watching the TV shows they currently watching but all of them decided that they should avoid letting others see the show.

All of them were still a bit paranoid of the undead knowing their location through the gossip that might occur because of the shows even though they knew in their mind that their little group would probably be considered as ants by the powerful undead in the coalition.

Finally, after weeks of travel, they saw the sights that calmed them a bit. The walls of the city of Homura.