Lellia entered the guest room and bit her lip anxiously.
When she asked the innkeeper she had met on the stairs, she learned that recently the Temple has been conducting a massive search to round up alchemists.
It started from cities favorable to the Temple, like the Count's territory where the pilgrimage site is located, but the problem was that the Temple had placed a large bounty.
Mercenaries and hunters alike all flocked there. Because of that, even ordinary people were being taken away, like what happened earlier.
No wonder—she felt like she finally understood the reason for the strangeness she had sensed when entering the territory.
The inspection to enter the territory moved quickly with the line shrinking rapidly, but getting out the other side took quite a while.
Since many of those entering were mercenaries seeking the bounty, they were let in relatively easily, while those leaving were tightly controlled.
Lellia felt an unbidden tension rising within her.
'I must leave as soon as dawn breaks.'
Though she didn't possess the same power as the alchemists of this otherworld, in the eyes of others, she likely wouldn't appear much different.
Lellia kept only one medicinal pill for emergencies and placed everything else into her inventory.
After that, she ate the meal the innkeeper had left at her door, washed briefly, and fell asleep.