I grew up in the southern region, witnessed and caused problems in the eastern and western regions. This test turned out to be a beautiful reason or opportunity for me to explore the regions of the kingdom, I hope that my journey through the northern region will be marked only by the trinket of killing a little dragon.
This region is actually colder, even though we are still close to the central region of the kingdom, the climate here is already a little colder. The further north we go, the colder it becomes to the point that snow covers the area around the mountain ranges for much of the year, these ranges that serve as a natural barrier to the kingdom.
And in a funny way it turned out to be a great natural wealth for the kingdom that hasn't been explored much and the reason for that is the mountains themselves, thanks to this natural barrier and the fact that the animals and magical beasts that live in the mountains don't leave it, they have become the defense that prevents any kingdom that borders them from attacking us.
The northern area of the kingdom has been less developed since the foundation of the kingdom even though there is a lot of wealth here, but this is justified because the royal family had the wisdom to focus the development of the kingdom on the defense of the kingdom which unfortunately has many neighbors that do not, I really like the kingdom that was founded by a mestizo son of a slave who makes a red path paved with several bodies.
But this is not something important now or useful for my current reality, killing the little dragon was a mission that Nótt and I didn't have the privilege of being the first teams to take, we were the third name on the list of groups that decided to choose this one. mission.
When we left the tent and split up to gather our team, I was surprised when Nótt declared that we didn't have much time and ran off. The part that surprised me was not her being in a hurry but the speed when she ran away, she wasn't slower than the speed I had before advancing into a gray core when I didn't use my aura or elemental energy to run, and she wasn't relying on a magic tool for that speed.
A mage has an improvement in his physique when his core gets stronger, but this is a very small improvement. It seems that Nótt must be a mage who has trained her physique, this took me by surprise because even though I noticed that she has an athletic body her clothes which have a very practical style to fight for a mage, but are still baggy on her body.
Vali, who was the only real close combat mage I've ever met, wore an outfit much closer to leather armor than Nótt's outfit which is basically entirely fabric with just a few leather parts like the boot, feel, and leather armbands. dark leather.
I can even see her struggling with this outfit in an effective way as her outfit doesn't limit her movement, but it doesn't seem to be made to resist packing and cuts even though it's made from a level three material. A battle mage usually wears light armor of hard and light leather to have an extra layer of protection, they may not compare to the thicker leather armor that ends up being heavier that warriors use to protect themselves.
I'm very curious to find out how Nótt fights.
It only took us a few minutes to use the matrix and go to the northern area of the realm, but before going I asked the examiner who controls the matrix if we were the third team to use it for our destination.
I received a more direct and sincere response than I expected from the examiner, our team was the first to go to this location today, when my team was surprised by his response, he simply added saying that he was not paid to keep this a secret and he didn't give a damn if the students tried to kill themselves far from the camp.
This is a guy who likes his job.
We didn't have much time to get to know each other better as that would be a waste of time now, with the momentary advantage we got from being the first ones out of the camp we decided to make the most of it.
I didn't even need to discuss this with Nótt when we left the military base she already pointed in the direction where we can get several level two mounts, it looks like she or someone on her team knows this city.
On the way there I started reading the contents of the scroll I received after accepting the quest to slay the little dragon, with the rush of before me or Nótt didn't try to read the scroll. I went straight to the part of the map that showed the direction the dragon was last seen and the region he might be living in, but this will only be right if the location of the dragon's last attack was close to his house as it should. to be.
When leaving the city, we need a direction and now we have one, not close or far from our current position. With good tier two mounts we should be able to make that distance in two and a half days, but that's just getting to where the dragon was last seen.
I have no idea how much time we're going to have to spend finding the trail of the dragon and then there's the time we're going to spend going to the hideout and slaying the dragon. If we're lucky it'll only take a few days, but I doubt tracking the dragon will be easy—I don't think he'll leave a trail of fire wherever he goes to make my job easier.
When I finished studying the map that has few details, I was grateful for the sight of ten big horses, this is a new species for me. They don't even have a clear deformity to their body, but they are very robust, strong legs and thick fur.
They come in many colors, but the predominance are light colors. These level two horses have a considerable amount of mana concentrated inside their body, but not an elemental energy. If I were to play them simply for their mana, I would say they are at their peak level two and are quality animals a little more mana they should evolve into a level three magic animal.
I can't say I'm disappointed with the mounts as we're not in a place with many options, but I think these ten horses should be strong enough to drag the dragon's entire body and any loot we find in its nest.
"These are the best mounts I could get right away, even though the other groups are more patient and very difficult to get level three animals or level two magic beasts.
The horses we have are the best mounts available, their speed is not the highest, but your mage can take care of that, Ulric, their strong point and their strength and stamina they can run all day so get ready for lunch mounted just let's go stop to rest for the night.
"Can you handle this, Zephyr?"
"I can, but to last all day I can't spend my mana on anything else, so I'll be useless in combat."
"That's not a problem, you have nine companions to take care of this and protect you. Remember the focus is on keeping the acceleration constant throughout the day, speed and side effects, I doubt horses like to run at a very high speed."
In a few more minutes we were out of the city gate and heading northwest, with a circular formation around Zephyr a gust of wind covered the horses and their speed increased by an impressive fifteen percent.
I'd expected Zephyr's magic to get a ten percent increase, and it's pretty hard to keep such an unwary in such a large area for so long. I think I underestimated Zephyr's capabilities, he said he was focused on support spells and he just showed that this effort paid off.
Finally in time I read the rest of the information on the parchment, an interesting read. The dragon should be in the middle of level three, it should take a few more years before it can advance to a young dragon around twenty years old for that.
This is great news; the dragon isn't very strong if he's so young it's only when they reach the threshold of level three that his fire breath as this is a fire dragon reaches its full form.
The dragon's breath power and area are much smaller when he is still incomplete, but it's a pity that his scales have already started to mature at this age they shouldn't cover his whole body, but he must have already achieved a good defense in some areas of your body.
After this important information, there is not much more useful information about the dragon, just speculation and some records that may be useful. He's a fire element dragon and they don't think I'll know that the dragon has resistance to fire attacks and weakness to ice and water, idiots wasting ink and my time.
The slightly cooler weather in the north is really pleasant to travel around, I hope I don't even have a bad date until we reach our destination.