"Not at all, Ms. Kaltsit's guest is naturally my distinguished guest—a few years ago, I was still a greenhorn aspiring to be a big merchant, but if I hadn't happened to carry Ms. Kaltsit, I might have already become a dried bone in a bandit's den."
Cannot bent down and bowed slightly to Goki, showing him considerable respect.
"What's more, Rhine Lab isn't some local tyrant like Mama John who can only throw her weight around in Tikaronto; her influence is evident to all. As external specialists for Rhine Lab, I naturally show you respect."
Goki's current identity is an external specialist for Rhine Lab; the legitimate identity granted to him by the Director will provide him with many conveniences.
Cannot's respect was heartfelt, and not just because of the two points mentioned above.
Initially, Cannot merely thought that this man and woman were city dwellers taking advantage of a business trip for Rhine Lab to use their authority for personal gain, hoping for a publicly funded tour, completely unaware of the dangers of the wilderness.
After all, besides Mr. Goki being somewhat taller, Nona Skadi was simply too delicate and beautiful, so beautiful that if normal bandits saw them, unless they were interested in men, they would definitely want to take her.
To dare to travel with such a beautiful and delicate woman, he was most likely a naive young man.
If it weren't for Ms. Kaltsit's entrustment and Rhine Lab's identity, Cannot wouldn't have paid them any mind at all.
However, just two days ago, when this small caravan, ostensibly with just over ten people and four or five vehicles, was attacked by a band of marauders.
The attackers were mercenaries from Kazimierz; Cannot knew that it wasn't about looting goods, but rather that some of his competitors in Kazimierz were unhappy with his smooth business and wanted to cause trouble for him.
But before Cannot could call for the guards secretly following in the distance to repel the attackers, he saw his two guests rush out.
Mr. Goki weaved back and forth through the arrow rain of crossbow bolts, unarmed, directly choking the Sarkaz mercenary's neck with his bare hands and slamming him unconscious to the ground with brute force.
And Nona Skadi was even more outrageous; her running speed was faster than the vehicles, and with just a gentle slap, a jeep was easily flipped over.
A mercenary group of nearly twenty people was easily wiped out by these two lords in less than two minutes—this was a display of strength only top mercenaries could achieve.
Now, he held these two great figures with two hundred percent respect; in front of Mr. Goki and Nona Skadi, his own hidden minor skills truly amounted to nothing.
"The accompanying Calamity Messenger reports that to our northwest, near the plain below this plateau, a small Calamity cloud is forming. There's a fifty percent chance it will dissipate during formation, and the other fifty percent chance is that it will form a Rank 4 Calamity thunder-sandstorm."
Cannot reported to Goki seriously, as if he were the leader of the caravan.
Similar to Originium contamination levels, Calamities are also divided into five Ranks.
Rank 5 Calamities usually take the form of heavy fog or torrential rain; as long as the Originium dust mixed within is properly protected against, it will not harm the human body.
But once it reaches Rank 4, Calamity clouds will affect people on a physical level. In the wilderness, thunder-sandstorms are the most common form of Calamity.
Sandstorm weather mixed with thunderstorms will use lightning Spells similar to Ifrit's, as well as sandstorms mixed with large amounts of Originium particles, to destroy anyone who dares to enter.
If it were a land ship, it might dare to venture into a Rank 4 Calamity, but it would also suffer some losses; Goki's caravan need not even think about it, touching it would surely mean death.
And looking out the window, the wilderness sky was still clear, showing no signs.
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