The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

After coming back with the client, Trista was very surprised to see Rein there. She had a very impactful first impression of Rein with his great strength surpassing his own rank. So with that and Rein's extremely handsome face, it was impossible for Trista to forget about him.

Rein also greeted Trista respectfully. Technically they were at the same rank and showing respect for someone like Trista was the right thing to do.

Even though Rein knew that he was stronger than her, but that was mostly because he was born as a genius with dual affinity and inherent special abilities. So, for Trista to reach this height without those was truly something she should be respected for.

It was very normal for strong individuals to not put weaker ones in their eyes. It was not considered something rude and was common sense for this world. There were very few people who went out of their way to show respect for someone weaker.

That was why, Trista was very surprised when Rein greeted her with true respect. But that just made her rating for Rein to go up. Even though what Rein did was uncommon, Trista liked it so her score for Rein went from 50 (almost stranger with positive feelings) to 80 (love interest).

But now was not the time to think such silly thoughts for Trista, so she decided to introduce the clients. For this mission, even though it was mentioned that they needed to escort a family of seven, that did not include the number of servants they would bring.

So all in all The Conquerors and the Golden Reverie needed to actually escort a total of 25 people with 7 main clients and 18 servants.

With this number of people to protect, now the number of hired adventurers was looking quite right. Trista also told Rein about the true identity of the client but asked him to keep it a secret from his team members.

But Rein just said he had nothing to hide from his lovers with this kind of thing and he was also confident that his lovers would keep their mouth shut.

When Rein was saying all the Trista got a glimpse of Rein's immense love for her lovers and that made Trista's heart skip a bit. But soon she regained her composer and decided to tell Rein about the identity of the client.

Their client was actually a count family and the people who they needed to protect of the day were parents and offspring of a current count who was getting threatened by some of his political rivals, so he had to send his close relatives away in order to protect them.

They had been living in the city of Joum for quite some time, but after the Adventure rank ascension test, this city had become more bustling, so they were not completely safe in this city anymore.

That was why they were going to a different city called Manni which was quite remote and was under the jurisdiction of the count's friend. So it was a safe place.

After Trista was done explaining all the situations to Rein, she then asked him to take on the role of the overall leader. Even though two teams were working together, they needed an overall leader to work properly. And as Rein was the strongest among them, Trista recommended him to take the role.

Rein had no problems with that but Trista was still more suitable for that job as her team had more members and would need her leadership to work better. On the other hand, both Stella and Tasha did not need any orders from Rein so Rein being the leader of not was not important to them.

They were going to do what they wanted to do and would not listen to any orders. So Rein explained that to Trista and after thinking about it for sometime she decided to just lead her team while leaving Rein's group to do whatever they wanted.

Trista was quite a good leader as this was the best possible decision she could make in this situation.

Rein did not get the chance to meet with any of the clients as they were trying to maintain as much secrecy as possible, so their journey started just like that.

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A total of five carriages were travelling together. In the most luxurious looking carriage, which was in the middle, their main clients were staying. The carriage at the very front was the most common looking one that was prepared for the adventurers to travel.

But Rein and his lovers were not very comfortable with traveling in a carriage with strangers, so Rein took out a carriage from his inventory for their travel as the client had only prepared a single carriage for all the adventurers.

So the Golden Reverie were going to protect the front and The Conquerors were taking care of the behind. This was a solid formation that was taking care of both sides and was also removing any needed for Trista to commend the Conquerors.

The journey was quite peaceful for the first half and they all had a lunch break in a meadow area. But when they were getting close to the city where they were planning to rest for the night, Seven bandits suddenly appeared with weapons drawn.

But not before all of them were captured quite easily by only Sara and no one else needed to take any action.

They spent the night in a good quality inn and then again took the roads early morning the very next day. With their current speed, it would take them four days to reach their destination. It was quite a slow speed by Rein's standard, but he and his lovers were not in any hurry, so it was fine.

The previous day was quite uneventful as they were only attacked by a single group of bandits, but the second day was completely different. Since the start of their journey, they were attacked for 7 times and the number of bandits attacking them was also higher.

So this time even Rein's group needed to take action.

As the numbers of the bandits were too high, this time it was not possible to carry all the bandits to the nearby city, so most of the bandits were killed.

When the adventurers just finished dealing with the 7th bandit group, suddenly a loud screaming sound came from the central carriage followed by the sound of crying.

Trista went to check on the client, as only she was allowed to see their faces.

Actually Trista had some connection with the count himself so he was willing to trust Trista with the safety of his family, that was why she was responsible for maintaining the connection between the client and the adventurers.

After coming out of the carriage Trista informed Rein that a little girl had witnessed the scene of the adventurers slaughtering the bandits and now she was scared. So Trista was requested to stay with the little girl to give her the feeling of security.

So she was requesting Rein to keep an eye on her team while Jack was going to lead them temporarily.

Even though Jack was not a bad leader, but the difference in leading ability between Trista and Jack was quite large and the response of the Golden Reverie was a step or two slower than normal.

Probably they were not used to this, they made a major slip up and one of the bandits for the 9th bandit gang was able to get closer to one of the carriages and almost killed one of the servants. Rein came to that servant's rescue or it would have been a disaster.

After that incident, Trista came back to take the lead once again as she could not allow something like that to happen again. But that girl was still scared. So someone needed to take care of her.

So Trista requested Rein to do it as in just a day Rein was able to gain trust from almost everyone of the group including the nobles and the adventurers. So they were ready to let Rein see the little girl.

Yes, without Rein the strength of the security would go down but Rein was just too strong, so his absence would not create much of a problem with Stella and Tasha still there.

And it was also important to take care of their clients mental health if possible, specially for children, as it might make them traumatized for life. So Rein decided to accept Trista's proposal.