Chapter 15: The Start of the Mission (Part 6)

She wished she was as pleased with the client as she was with the mission. When Knight had told them it was an escort mission, Sophia had gotten excited. A C-Class escort mission meant some trouble along the road, most likely bandits and thieves.

None of Team Dylan had expected to be protecting a bridge builder. A drunk one at that who insulted them and didn’t believe that they are capable of performing their duty and protecting him.

Lak Point was a village in the southern part of the Laera Kingdom. It was an island in the high tide and a large land that connected to the town of Treellen in the low tide. Anouk, the master bridge builder from Lak Point was a drunk, slightly miserly, grouchy old man, that disliked everyone but Major Dylan and kept insulting the younger Knights.

Sophia had to repress the urge to strangle him every time he said something along the lines of a girl being a Knight and how she should just quit and find a man to settle down with. Just