The morning rose at the capital of Ashendar kingdom. 50 horse carriages rallied out from one of the entrances of the kingdom. Traveling southwest towards the great forest of Fiora.
An army consists of high-ranked adventurers being led by Kito in front of the caravan.
In one of the carriages, Roshan sighed as his gaze dwelled at the person with him chugging a huge bottle of booze while singing an unfamiliar song.
"I thought you have a party of your own?"
Derus put down the bottle he was holding and rubbed the beer leftover on his mustache. "I have, but the wagon is not enough to fit us all, it's great that there are only two of you in this carriage." Derus put his muscular arms over the shoulder of the person sitting next to him. "Isn't that right? My lass, Levy?"
Levy who was spacing out looking outside immediately nodded. "Uh... um. I agree."
Roshan leaned his back to the side of the wagon. "How long before we reached the Wyvern canyon?"
"If we don't encounter any hindrances while on our way, more or less 2 days. But don't fret much, before you notice it, we're already there." Derus answered while shaking Levy.
"Derus, did you bring water? I'm thirsty."
"Water? Yeah, I got it there at the corner, next to the bottle of my new favorite booze, the Mind breaker."
"Which one is it? Both look the same. I think both of these contained booze."
"No! What do you think of me, you little bra- okay sniff it first just to be sure."
"It has no smell."
"Then chug it up, my lass, it's water."
Roshan veered his face outside. "It's gonna be a very long... long journey."
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As the night comes on their trip, the caravan stopped at the huge grassland at the edge of the wilderness. As the moon shone, the adventurers set their campfires and tent.
The sound of string guitars and tambourines were all around the place along with the voices of the adventurers.
Roshan took the last bite on the boar meat on the stick he was holding as he silently stared at the people with him in front of the campfire.
"Let's try another song, Derus." Kito strummed the string guitar he was holding.
"Bring it on! Now sing with me like it's your last!"
Along with them were the 6 members of Kito's party and 5 of Derus's, singing with them.
Roshan walked out from them and walked towards the wilderness.
Upon reaching the trees, he jumped to one and sat at its branch while gazing upon the dark forest. The loud sound of celebration in his back and the pure silence in front of him occurring simultaneously.
"This guild is full of ridiculously energetic people."
He unleashed a slow sigh as the bright moonlight shone at him. His gaze darted on the wandering wolves nearby.
"Now that I realized it. Ever since I came out of that cave, I've never seen even one of my siblings hanging around, even in the forest."
[Due to the continuous killings of monsters in these areas, the monsters have no opportunity to get stronger and possess a large amount of mana. Resulting in small mana generation, the thin amount of mana impeded the Nature Spirits to be born.]
"I don't have an idea that my species is that delicate. Does that mean, if I don't have my Mana entity, I'll definitely have a hard time casting my skills? Because I'm drawing mana from my surroundings."
[Hypothetically, if you came out of the Fairy dungeon without your skill [Mana Entity] your body will start to weaken after 4 days due to the lack of enough mana to sustain your well-being, and eventually, will die.]
"Wow, that's terrifyingly tragic. Is this world really hate us that much? I feel like everything about our species is basically just us dying as soon as possible."
He turned silent and stood up. "You're already sober?"
The person he was talking to jumped on the tree he was in and stood on the other side. The light coming from the moon reflected on her red face and sleepy eyes. "I'm accustomed to drinking you know? It's just the booze I accidentally drank earlier is tasteless and stupidly strong, that's why I had to take a rest."
"It is certainly strong, you only gulped a cup and you're already rolling inside the wagon."
"Now I know why they calling it the Mind breaker." Levy chuckled as she scratched the top of her head.
Roshan sat back at the branch. "At the meeting, he said that this is a huge mission, then why there is only 7 Class A with us, it would be more beneficial if all the Class A will come with us."
"Because the other 3 are currently occupied with their missions."
Roshan's face shifted in her. "3? Do you mean there are only 10 Class A in the guild? And 7 of them belong in a single party?"
"Yes, there are only 10 Class A in our guild and about to become 9, because of Kito's incoming promotion to join the ranks with the other 4 class S of this kingdom."
"I see." Roshan looked up.
Levy sat on the branch and hung her feet into the air. "Mission like this where you can boost your status is significantly rare, it's a good thing that we're picked to join."
"Yeah, much better than picking up some flowers and harvesting vegetables."
Levy chuckled. "You really hate those quests aren't you?"
"You 2, lad and lass! Go down there and join us here! We're having a good time here and you two are there talking about your distant future?"
Both of them looked back and found Derus waving at them while holding a bottle of booze in his hand.
"If you don't want to drink I have water in here, as a matter of fact, I've already given Kito some while we're singing."
"I see, that will explain why." Roshan stood up and jumped out from the tree. "At least he's not dead."
Derus looked back at Kito and found him lying on the ground. Derus sprinted towards him and pulled his arm. "Kito, my lad! Damn it! I shouldn't have put the booze and the water in a completely identical bottle!"