Roland wasn't in a hurry to leave. Since the players varied in distance from Mory, they agreed on a time on the forums to meet in the woods on the eastern outskirts of Mory within 10 days.
Currently, more than a hundred players had signed up, but Roland estimated that only half would make it without a hitch.
This was not the modern world, where one could drive hundreds of kilometers by car on the highway or take a high-speed rail or plane and arrive in a few hours.
This was an alien world with extremely primitive transportation. More importantly, apart from the ranges where humans moved about, there was also dangerous no man's land between cities, crawling rampantly with wild monsters and magical beasts.
Diseases, weather, and emergencies, these could all make people disappear on the road.
Travelers and merchants could make a lot of money because they were fighting for it with their lives.
