The trip to New drifbedd was going to take about 1 week, 3 days to travel there and 3 days to travel back to Dalelry and 1 day to stay in New drifbedd to get more supplies.
Kajus and comp; when traveling with the caravan, they brought lumber, food and water, they also brought 6 people with them excluding people from the clan.
From the clan was Kajus, Grinda, Aron, Cole and Geoff. Kajus and Grinda was without a horse so they rode the carriage
'with those 3 we should probably be safe if we ever get into trouble' 'they are all knights rank after all'
Kajus spared each one a glance when he was stuck in thought.
Cole had rough leather armor with chain mail underneath, he was sporting a long spear, the long spear was mounted on the horse he was riding, he didn't have a helmet which is a little bit sloppy of him Kajus thought.
Aron wore bright shiny armor, 'probably steel or silver maybe' he had an arming sword just like Kajus but Aron also had a large circular shield. The shield is bigger than an average person and almost as tall as Aron ' How could he carry that thing, 'he is a little shorter than me and not even close to my amount of muscle!' Kajus thought
Kajus yelled out "how can you carry that big shield Aron?!"
Aron laughed and said " I am a knight! I am at the peak of human abilities of course i can carry a large wooden shield"
Kajus gasped in surprise, before now he never really had any concept of the knight realm, he knew his father was one and he knew they were a little strong. 'but the peak of human abilities? that's just absurd'
"Hey Aron, who would win in a fight, a knight or a mage?" Grinda asked, feeling cheeky.
Kajus perked his ears
Aron knew that the answer stings but he said it anyways "A mage of course, unless the mage does some stupid shit, the knight has to fight en uphill battle and 9 out of 10 would lose to a mage"
"so even though you are at the peak of human abilities you will still lose to a mage huh" Kajus spoke with an unsatisfied tone.
"Have you ever seen a true mage fight before?"
"no" Kajus added ' I don't know what he means by true mage so better not say yes and lie'
"They can summon fire pits that will cook you alive, they can summon lightning from the clouds above. They can even take control over individuals using charm magic I've heard"
Kajus was shocked, he caressed his scar and thought that he was lucky for not getting fire blown in his face or lightning which would instantly kill him. ' How can you dodge lightning? this doesn't sound fair'
"How come there aren't more wizards and uh magic people then?" Kajus inquired
"To become a MAGE Kajus not magic people, you have to get into university otherwise you won't learn any spells that or you have to have a powerful family which can buy spells from the university" "Wizards are of a higher plane then mages and I've never seen one there are plenty of them in our countries capital I've heard" Aron said
Kajus immediately thought of his sister and her affinity to magic and its flow and how his family did not afford to send him to university, he didn't really want to go to university he thought that school was really boring and it was just a continuation to school where they learned geography, close combat, math and other boring subjects. Kajus liked the close combat class because he could show off but the other classes put him to rest the second he would get into the classroom. But if university helps you learn spells he must help his family get his sister in he thought.
"How much to get into university?"
"about 500 gold for 1 year"
Kajus celebrated in his heart but was also shocked in his heart 1 gold was already a lot of money for him, to put this into perspective a farmer living outside the walls, their normal pay is usually 8 silver if the crops that season is really good, farmers already got their own food produce but they still needed money for tools and the yearly taxes. A baker could make 1 silver per day normally. with 1 silver you could rent a room at an inn and eat 3 meals so it was naturally quite surprising that 500 gold which is 50000 silver would only be enough for 1 year of university.
They continued their journey and suddenly the caravan stopped, Geoff yelled "ARON, COLE! Ready your weapons"
Kajus got off the caravan to peek at what was making Geoff so cautious.
20 meters in front of their caravan near the woods with half a foot into the road looking at the caravan was a monstrosity, the monstrosity looked incredibly vexing and creepy, it was a 2 meter tall beast standing on its legs with its hands upright, the beast had long claws that looked like tips of a spear, the beast looked just like a bunny but a combination between human and bunny. The bunny monster had complete black eyes with white fur, part of its white fur had bloodstains.
It looked really vexing.
Aron Geoff and Cole got into fighting position.
They looked solemn like what they were fighting was strong, Kajus had no idea that this kind of monster existed.
The bunny monster looked around with its cold eyes and started walking towards the three knights. Cole got visually disturbed and made the first move out of fear. Geoff blinked and tried to stop him yelling "LET IT ENGAGE US WE HAVE THE NUMBERS YOU FOOL
It was too late Cole was only 1 breath away from the beast and he stabbed with his spear, the beast faster than the eye dashed into the spear and grabbed Cole's neck, the spear pierced through it but it didn't even seem to damage the beast. The beast applies pressure and its claws dug right through Cole's neck making blood fly onto its snow white fur.
Geoff had an angry look but tapped Arons shoulder to signal to stand still and wait for the monster to engage them.
Kajus was frozen from shock and fear, Cole was no more and if Aron and Geoff could not deal with this monster he as well would be no more.
The monster seemingly unaware of the spear piercing his abdomen took slow steps towards the 2 remaining knights, Grinda had a scared look and quickly started to chant, a blue arch of water flew out of her hands and hit the monster in the right arm. The monster seemed not to notice it, Kajus readied his bow and released an arrow hitting his forehead, the beast dropped to the ground like it was a sack of oranges. Geoff praised in his mind and blessed the 2 new recruits for saving him from fighting that monster.
Kajus breathed heavily, he didn't feel relieved he felt surprised that it was that easy to kill it.
Everyone dropped their guard and looked at Kajus, inwardly thanking him.
Geoff with his sword in hand walked closer to the slayed beast and stabbed it in the chest to really make sure it was dead.
The beast screamed opening its mouth showing ferocious teeth after the scream it didn't move any longer and its life seemed to fade away from its eyes. That secure kill that Geoff did sealed the deal it seemed like it was just playing dead.
Everyone jumped when the beast screamed. They all had terrified looks on their faces 'how can an arrow to the head not kill it?, and it played DEAD! what a cunning beast. not cunning enough tough since it didn't expect Geoff to stab it in the chest after it purposefully died though'
Geoff had haggard breathing and stabbed it again, now in the throat, no reaction.
It was finally dead.