But for a party on a sensitive, highly classified reconnaissance mission, this dense commercial saturation presented both a challenge and a perfect tactical opportunity.
In order to get in without attracting attention, they had pretended to be ordinary merchants also.
It was a simple, bulletproof cover story that Yuan had arranged through his administrative channels prior to their departure.
An S-rank arch magus traveling with a regional guild master and a capital master magus would have triggered immediate alarm bells among the count's spies and whatever hidden entities were manipulating the anomalies within the sector.
By masking identities beneath the superficial guise of a wealthy merchant syndicate arriving to inspect a private warehouse, they could move through the gates without undergoing the rigorous mental scans or background checks usually reserved for foreign military assets.
They were just another set of silk robes and iron locks in a sea of trade.
