BXBX NOVEL Chapter 79: Travel To Betrum
"There should be two more people," one of his subordinate from the look of it, replied.
"We are here," two more people, a male and a female arrive from the east. From the look of it, they have be running.
"We sorry for the delay, but here is the item you asked for," the male walked towards the subordinate before handing them a crystal.
While the others did not notice it, he could tell it have some powerful mana. Though he wondering what the use of the crystal is, he put it aside as the merchant began to call out to them.
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Unfortunately, traveling in a group mean he could not use the system space, aside from maybe getting more notification and learning how many LP and MP he manage to gain.
With him unable to use it, it likely skyrocket, though it is already a lot before as he did not spd any LP during his two weeks before the beginning of the travel.
He do wonder what he should do, aside from keeping an eye out for threats. After all, there is little to do than watching the scery and reading the books he bought. He sigh, hoping it would not be that boring.
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Unfortunately, he is wrong. So very wrong.
"This is boring," the person next to him, another advturers, yell out what he also thought. It had be 3 days and things have remain boring. He wanted some excitemt though from what he heard, Advture Guild oft sd advturers on routine cleanup on the road, clearing it of monsters.
It is another of the more lucrative missions, the one requesting it is usually the officials of the kingdom to allow caravans to travel smoothly and help the economy.
"There is nothing we can do about," Alros said with a distraught tone. If not for the fact he did not want to expose himself, he would have flown away and pass through the border already.
Unfortunately, subtleties is needed so he have to accept thing as it is.
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"Bandit attack!" one of the caravan\'s guards yelled. While most people would be despairing of such thing, for the advturers, and mercaries they all have the same thought.
\'Finally,\'.
"Half guard the caravan and half will gage!" the leader of the defce, a retired advturer roared. The others nodded, preparing to gage with the bandits.
It did not take long before the caravan hired hands began to slug it out with the bandits. Unfortunately, Alros is not part of the group battling against the bandits, having be put in reserve due to him being a D-rank and his inexpsive.
The only good thing is that he can watch from a safe distance and learnt of what the advturers can do. Most of them used orthodox weapons, like swords and shields, spears, bows and arrows, and some used lest orthodox one, from a whip to ev a morning star.
As he observed the battle, he ssed two people coming in close. Considering the battle is not over, there is no doubt there are bandits.
He quickly head toward the source, before spotting the two bandits. "Let\'s get close and grab the merchant. With their boss life on the line, we can get a lot of loot," one of them said as they making their ways into the caravan.
Alros quickly get behind them, before striking one with a spear. The struck bandit looked in disbelief at the spear piercing his chest, his eyes slowly dimmed as it lost its life.
The last one leap away before rushing towards him, a dagger in his hand. With his spear stuck in the bandit\'s corpse, he would have to resort to his claw before. Now, he have other method to protect himself.
Alros took out a dagger of his own and gaged the other man with it. The two began to go back and forth, as the bandit, while having more experice with the weapon, did not have Alros\' strgth and speed, while Alros lacked the experice with the weapon, prolonging the gagemt.
As the two fight, the battle was heard by the remaining guards, who ld their hands. With people on his side suring them, it did not take long before the bandit is subdued.
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"So, do you there are any other threats in the area?" one of C-ranks asked, as they rest from the fight. The bandit had be handed to one of the merchant\'s subordinate, who have dellish glare as he looked like he was about to flay the bandit alive.
"Not sure, but they should be done getting information out of the bandit," they did not say what method as everyone knew there will be no good fate for the bandit now he was in the hand of the terrifying man that is the merchant\'s subordinate.
Soon, two people tered the campsite, both being the merchant subordinate and the veteran advturer. The advturers and mercaries looked at the two with some anticipation.
"There are no other large bandit groups, but there should be smaller one. Unless they worked together, they will pose no threat to us," the veteran advturer said before quickly telling them to rest.
Alros hope that the veteran advture did not just put them at the mercy of Murphy\'s Law.
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Surprisingly, there is no other attack, the caravan moving smoothly in their journey to the border, which they arrive to in the 6th day of the journey.
"So you will be leaving us now?" the veteran asked several advturers that also have the same inttion as he did. They nodded, seeing no problem with it. After all, they have sign an agreemt with the merchant and for having their paymt half of what the others get, it is a good ough exchange.
"In that case, good luck and hope you don\'t die," the veteran said his farewell to the part of the group before heading back to the merchant, already planning on finding other advturers or mercaries to make the trip back.
Alros let out a slight sigh of relief. Of all the people in the caravan, the veteran is the one he most wary off. Pushing the thought of the man aside, the demon quickly look at the border town with a smile, already looking forward to what the small nation south of Astor Kingdom has to offer.