As the morning sun rose from the Eastern horizon, Gustav and his group had already awake. Without wasting any more time, entered deeper in to the forest. Today they were trying to find a clue about the dungeon.
Though none of them had ever seen a dungeon, they knew it dungeons have multiple floors. Each floor has different monsters. So they were searching for the passage to the floor. If they could find such a passage, they would be 100 percent sure about the dungeon.
Carefully, everyone move forward. They encountered different E ranked beasts. Without wasting a moment they would attack it and kill it quickly. They stored the body inside their space rings. Unlike goblins or kobolds, these beasts' body could be used to make leathers, weapons or as meat. So they collected them without wasting.
Slowly they came near the region where the passage to the underground floor was. They watch the passage from a distance without daring to enter it.
'Who knows what rank monsters are inside it. But this just proved our guess correct.'
Signaling to others, Gustav didn't wait any longer and retreated.
"Lets go. We have found our proof. Let's bring this news to the king."
Soon all of them began returning to their kingdom.
What they didn't know is that Raizel has followed them outside. He maintained a distance between them. On his way, he used 'Map Expansion Crystal' to add the uncharted territory to his dungeon.
But soon, he was notified of failure as he reached outside the forest.
[Failure! Due to this land already belonging to a kingdom, you are unable to add it to your territory.]
"What! I can't add other's land to my dungeon. This just wasted my dream to have a major source of DP."
You see, before following them, Raizel had a bold idea. He wanted to convert all the territory under the kingdom to his own. This way, everyone living inside would generate a large amount of DP.
To add these lands he had bought many crystals. But DAS just poured cold water on his dream.
"Why didn't you inform me earlier? I wasted my precious DP for buying this much crystals."
[You didn't asked before.]
Listen to DAS's reply, Raizel wanted to hang himself. Calming himself he thought 'It's not like I can't use these crystals. Oh well I will use them later. Now let's see what my first visit to a civilization has in store for me.'
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Gustav and his team reached outside the forest. They started running towards the nearest town Duskban which was 30 km from here. As all their members were Tier 1 and Tier 2, they had more stamina and physical strength than commoners.
After an hour and half of running, they finally reached Duskban. It was a small town 110km away from the capital of Antesia kingdom. They decided to take a rest for an hour and search for a better transportation.
As they had 10 new members joining their team, they hadn't brought their own mounts. They planned to buy better means of transportation for the whole team.
Now a days, their kingdom has imported mana base vehicles from a neighboring kingdom. These vehicles use mana crystals to run. These vehicles were very expensive to buy due to their limited number.
Their kingdom had established a research division to create their own means of transportation.
But right now, they use carriage driven by horses or F ranked beasts. They were planning to rent horses to travel to the capital. They could reach the capital by evening if everything went alright.
After an hour of rest, they managed to hire 15 wind horses. These horses were F ranked beast and were famous for their speed. Though they had to pay for an hefty sum, they were very satisfied with the deal. Now they were confident, they could reach the capital in three hours.
Without wasting any time, they started their journey towards the capital.
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After three hours of travel, they finally reached Siam, the beautiful capital of kingdom of Antesia. Unlike Duskban, this was a large city filled with many different shops and people from all over the kingdom. Being a newly built city, there was no wall surrounding it.
The city itself was beautiful. Streets were clean, different shops were selling various things on each side of the road. Houses were built sparsely. Different species of flowers and trees were planted on both sides of the street.
People were busy with their own day to day life. It was lively. If you look towards the center of the city, a gorgeous white palace could be seen. The palace was home to the royal family. Most of the important buildings were inside the palace. Guards with golden and silver armor could be seen guarding the place. They were the Imperial Guards.
Security of the capital was maintained by City Guards. They wore black armor to signify their identity. They maintained the law and order of the city. As there was no wall to protect from any invasion, 1/3rd of the Antesia Royal Army was placed in the city while the others maintained security through out the Kingdom.
Gustav and his team mates verified their identities with the city guards. Dismounting from their wind horses, they began to walk towards the direction of the palace. Their destination was the Adventurer Guild inside the outer section of the palace.
They were once again checked and verified by imperial guards. After that, they quickly went towards the adventurer section. Without wasting any time they quickly reported their completion of the mission to the receptionist.
"Alena, we have completed the mission. But what I found there, I want to directly inform it to the Guild Master." Gustav said to the receptionist Alena.
"Is the news that important?"
Gustav nodded with a serious face. Guessing the importance of the matter, Alena didn't delay them.
"Wait here. I will inform the guild master."
Alena went inside the office of guild master.
"Master Brandon, Gustav and his team have returned from their investigation. They wanted to deliver their report directly to you."
Alena bowed respectfully towards a young man of mid twenties with blonde hair. The said young man was Brandon Denver, a peak Tier 4 fire mage. He was one of the founding members of the kingdom. After establishing the kingdom he choose to open and head the Adventure Guild to facilitate the operations of freelance adventurers.
This guild was directly under the supervision of the queen. Brandon answered to her. Though the kingdom didn't impose any type of limitation, it was not outside the rules of the kingdom. At the time of war, every adventurer was required to protect the kingdom. Other times, they were free to do whatever they wanted within the rules.
Brandon had used the idea of adventure guilds in bigger empires to build one in the kingdom.
"Oh, they didn't tell you anything?" Brandon stopped his paper works and looked directly at Alena.
"No, master Brandon. Gustav was very serious about this. he explicitly said he wanted to inform you directly."
Brandon thought for while and said "OK, send him in."