Fairy Tail: I want to summon Baron Nash

In the north of the Kingdom of Fiore, the weather is even colder than in Magnolia.

The snow in the wild has not melted yet, and there are footprints left by small animals such as hares and mice.

Occasionally, you can see some relatively tall dead grass sticking out of the snow, and the small circle of snow around it always melts a little faster.

There are no sanitation workers to spread snow-melting agents on the main roads here, and no one comes to clean them up. The snow on the road has been compacted by people, livestock, and wheels, and it is hard.

People with a little childishness can slide on it, but be careful not to trip over the raised areas on the snow.

On such a road, two big green crabs walked one after the other, and their claws crushed the hard snow, leaving small pits, which seemed to have good anti-skid performance.

The crab in front carried two people, and the one behind was pulling a flatbed cart.

That was Erza's special cart for loading luggage, and it was tied upside down on the top of the carriage on the way here.

Since going further might be dangerous, Erza and Rhode asked the two drivers to go back in advance.

The remaining distance would naturally be hard for the crabs.

It was close to noon, and the sun was quite strong. After traveling outside for a long time, my eyes would always feel uncomfortable.

Erza took out two pairs of sunglasses, which she wore when matching different swimsuits and beach clothes. She just happened to lend Rhode a pair.

It was good to have something to use at this time. Rhode didn't care about the style, but secretly made a note to prepare a pair of sunglasses in the future to prevent snow blindness.

In order to avoid being too conspicuous, Rhode didn't let the two crabs take them all the way to the town, but walked the last short distance.

——Although Erza's calm appearance of dragging a luggage cart was already very conspicuous.

"Hello, which hotel in town is better?" Rhode stopped a passerby and asked for directions.

Passersby couldn't help but look at them a few more times and replied, "There is only one hotel in Morninggroy Town. You can see it if you keep walking along this road."

"Thank you."

Then the two of them went their separate ways. Erza went to the hotel to book a room and store her luggage, while Rhode went to the tavern in the town first.

The environment in the tavern was a little dirtier than the guild, and the table looked greasy, but it was not as noisy as the guild.

Rhode looked at the environment and sat down at the front desk: "A glass of beer."

The bartender poured the wine quickly: "500J."

So shady! As a semi-professional, Rhode is quite familiar with the price of beer. 500J can be used to drink three glasses in the guild.

This is just a comparison of the marked price. If you calculate the profit, you will feel that this place is even more shady.

Rhode took out the money and put it on the counter, picked up the beer and tasted it, and he didn't think it tasted better than the one in the guild.

"Are you from outside?" The bartender was like a talkative person and took the initiative to talk to Rhode.

"How did you tell that?"

"Feeling?" The bartender smiled. "Actually, there aren't many people in the town. If they were from here, I should have some impression of them."

"Then you have good eyesight. I'm from the south. Are there any places with nice scenery nearby?"

"There's snow everywhere in this season. If you ask me, it's the same everywhere." The bartender looked indifferent, like someone from Xi'an introducing the lousy Big Wild Goose Pagoda.

"If you insist, you can go further north in summer. The beaches there are nice, and there are places where the mountains and the sea meet, which is quite interesting."

A guest in the tavern shouted, "Hey, Bob, don't hurt people. Is the north a place to go now?"

The bartender called Bob replied, "I didn't ask him to go now!"

Rhodes asked, "What do you mean you can't go to the north?"

"Because there have been many cases of missing children in the northern towns of Manjusaka and Poppy, and some of them have killed people because they were blocked."

"Someone died?" Rhodes became nervous. This matter was not mentioned in the intelligence.

"I heard it happened yesterday. The child's father must have died." The bartender shook his head, looking a little regretful.

Rhodes frowned and continued to ask: "What do the security team and the army say?"

"What else can I say? Those who do this must be human traffickers. After catching people, they hide in the mountains, or simply go out to sea.

When they sell people to the Kingdom of Seven or the Kingdom of Bosco, what can the security team do to them?"

The bartender was quite resentful about this: "It's all those people's fault. Now we don't dare to let the children go out alone."

"It's very hateful." Rhodes nodded. It seems that ordinary people don't know the inside story and just think they are more brutal human traffickers.

Rhodes sat in the tavern for a while, listened to more fragmentary information, and then left.

Some guests watched him leave and asked, "Hey, Bob, you told him so much, aren't you worried that he is a human trafficker?"

"Do you think he is?"

"Human traffickers don't write the word bad on their faces."

"Who knows, maybe he is a wizard who came to investigate, and the bad guys were arrested as soon as he came."

"Hahaha, who would come to a dirty country tavern like yours with such a powerful wizard!"

...

Rod went to meet Erza, and she also got similar news from the hotel owner.

"We can't delay any longer, those guys can do anything." Erza didn't want anyone else to be harmed.

Rod nodded: "Well, let's set off now to investigate Manjusaka and Poppy Town."

"Let's split up, it's more efficient, but..." Erza hesitated a little. Before they set off, the president said he hoped she would take care of Rhode.

Rhode thought for a moment, if he delayed any more time, other people might get killed, so he nodded: "Okay, I'll be careful.

So, I'll ask Worm to follow you. If I find an enemy, I'll summon Worm away. If you find an enemy, let him go back by himself."

"Okay, be careful." Erza acted decisively and took Worm with her.

Rhode hurriedly reminded: "Don't be impulsive. If you find an enemy, try to follow Plan A. If it doesn't go well, change to Plan B."

I don't know if it's an illusion, but he always feels that after coming here, Erza is not as calm as she was on the road.

Putting aside his doubts for the time being, Rhode found a clothing store, bought a few cheap clothes, scarves, hats, etc., and dressed himself up a little before setting off for Poppy Town.

When you go out alone, you have to protect yourself and try to make yourself look inconspicuous.

After setting off, we should also let the crab patrol in front and behind, and be more cautious when we arrive at Popi Town.

Popi Town is the town where someone died yesterday. Erza believes that the Black Magic Cult will not go there again after such a big incident.

Then the more dangerous place today should be Manjusaka Town, so she chose there.

However, Rhode was still a little worried about the situation in Morninggroy Town, so he left a small razor-beaked bird nearby, which was not very costly, and then left with peace of mind.