Kajus sat in a prepared tent with Grinda, they were not used to long travels so they needed the rest of the day to rest unlike Geoff and Aron who seems more used to this kind of life.
They sat there on a bench eating bread with cheese, the food in the town was sparse and the only surplus of food they had was from the caravan they arrived with which was bread,cheese and milk.
"Ive been curious Grinda, you said you where from a rich family and you are adept in magic how come you choose the Condottiere's as the clan to join?" Kajus asked with a soft voice.
"well its kind off hard to say but long story short and with details left out, i've wanted to distance myself from my family and to become more independent, my family holds a high position in many clans... actually all top clans, except this one."
'all the top clans?!' Kajus couldn't even imagine the size and strength of her family, they must be filthy rich and with power enough to hold their riches.
"i see" was the only thing Kajus could respond with.
"I've only seen you ever use that magical water blade of yours, don't you have any other cool spells?" he said in probing sense
"no, as Aron said before spells are rare and my family only got me this one, the reason why university is so expensive is because spells are so rare and incredibly expensive to buy"
Kajus only nodded and quickly finished his bread, he stood up and went outside for some fresh air.
He walked up to a man with bright silver armor and a two handed long claymore on his back, the man had long blonde hair with a blue cape, he looked incredibly royal and reliable.
'this must be someone high up into the clan I can probably ask him for some tasks to do'
He began to walk towards him where there was a large table, the table was in the middle of 2 tents outside on the grass field. Him moving towards this man garnered several glares from the clansmen around him
'why are they suddenly glaring at me' he wondered
The clansmen around him where suspicious of this man walking towards their captain, this man was tall and burly with a big scar on his right side of face, he looked battle hardened and they have never seen him before.
"excuse me i am a new recruit and i was wondering if there is something you want me to do"
Kajus said to the man in the cape standing looking down on the large wooden table where a map has been laid out. The man looked up towards Kajus with friendly eyes
"Hello recruit, no there is no need I heard from Geoff what the two of you have been trough so treat this day as a small brake" The captain said with kind eyes.
Kajus wanted to object but he couldn't resist this mans aura to disagree with him. He stole a look at the map and saw several cities nearby he has never heard of and a bunch of red marks on the map
' those are probably orc camps' Kajus thought.
"thank you sir" Kajus said while walking away from the table towards the tent he just inhabited.
After 2 hours chatting and with Grinda and doing nothing Kajus got bored so he took his sword, bow and a quiver full of arrows, about 8 arrows in it. He walked out of the tent towards the border of the city.
'I might as well walk around a little bit'
He took a scroll towards the green hills east of the newly established town, he stood on a hill and looked back on the town, from here he could see just how small the town his clan was helping build was; it had 13 houses surrounded by tents with spikes facing outwards forming a circle. There was several poles that had been placed to keep the several horses still working as a stable, they had a big cooking pot outside one of the tents that served as the towns cafeteria and there was a large horse type creature positioned near the south side of the wall. The horse like creature was twice the size of a normal horse and it was pale and white, it looked magical 'I wonder whose steed that it, probably someone from the noble family that has gone here early to check on construction'
It was far away but he could faintly see a man besides the horse creature, the man had a blue cape and long blonde hair. 'was that the captain i spoke to before, there is no way a normal noble could own one of those now that i think about it'
What he was looking at was a mutated horse variant that has been breed with magic to fight in wars against foreign threats and they are not bought but are given to exceptional people who has a strong battle record and has proven ones might in the war or other similar scenarios.
He was stunned for a brief moment but quickly shaked himself awake. Kajus continued walking towards the empty field of grass until he spotted a ominous tree that stood on its lonesome. The tree had no leafs and it was charred at least it looked charred, it was black with only a couple twigs, the tree was large but desolate. He walked towards the tree and stood side by side of it and expected the area ahead.
What he saw made him freeze.
On the hill from the view point he got besides the tree the first thing coming into his sights where a large mountain, his view was obstructed before so he could not really notice it. Underneath the mountain was a camp, that camp had 1 large building in the middle and several smaller huts riddled around that large building. In this camp where many green dots, the green dots moved around the camp in a chaotic manner like the where preparing for something.
The sound of a large eagle could be heard from above making Kajus flinch and look up, he saw a huge eagle the size of a small house circling above him, on top of the eagle you could see a gray orc looking at Kajus. The eagle only circled him and didn't do anything else.
Kajus started running towards the camp to warn them about the impending danger that was about to befall his clansmen.