After secretly exiting the city, Matheus quickly made his way over to the nearby forest. He found a few people waiting for him with a packhorse.
He quickly paid the people and took the horse away. Matheus had asked one of the servants in the city lord's mansion to hire someone to bring out his packhorse. Since he wanted to leave anonymously, he obviously couldn't leave through the front gate with his horse since the guards stationed there would have to check on him.
As for going through the construction site, Matheus was the one who had supervised the rebuilding of the walls so he knew the layouts of each site like the back of his hand and knew when to move once the guards had switched between their shifts and breaks.
So sneaking out through the large openings still being repaired was a
