CHAPTER 4 – Journey I
All Characters who are being summoned into another world.
Alvin Gray – Black Hair and Black Eye with glasses, has INDIAN origin, 5'11'', rarely comb hairs
Sakura Shinzu – A teen Idol from JAPAN, have pink dyed hair and Brown Eyes, 5'8''
Emma Pearl – A CHINESE origin girl living in Canada for the last 2 years. Black Hair and Black Eyes, 5'9''
Cho – Hee – A KOREAN girl with the same age as Alvin, currently studying, Brown Hair and bit brownish eyes, 5'10''
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"Welcome, are you guys also accepting this escorting request as well?"
A voice called out to me from behind, A party of four-person, where two were boys and two girls was standing behind me and the girls.
The guy with the big sword on his back introduced himself as Nick. He said "Nice to meet you all, I am the leader of this party, we have also accepted this same request"
He again introduced his party member, The guy next to him is Ryan, the girl next to Ryan is Amber and lastly, the elf girl next to him was Lily.
He said, "Other than lily we all are close combat users."
I also introduced ourselves, it wouldn't be polite to ignore him. I said, "We all are close combat."
At this point including us and them, there is a total of nine people already so I wonder how many people can take this request. So, I asked him, "so how many people took this request?"
He replied, He confirmed with the receptionist that only ten adventurers can take this request.
So, only ten adventurers can accept this request then we need one more person.
If it's only ten then why did nobody accept it before us? I asked Nick about this.
He said, "well, four silver coins are quite low for high-rank adventurers, on the other hand, it's quite a good deal for low rank or beginner adventurers but just as dangerous."
"Dangerous?" I asked!
Nick replied, "Well, you see escorting requests such as this where adventurers are required to escort the requesting person in long distance. Beginners' adventures don't have enough experience to keep traveling and also fighting when it is required, it wears them down so much."
He again said, "I would have also avoided this request but as a rank D adventurer I think it's not such a bad idea to accept this request."
So, he is a rank D adventurer. Most probably his part members are also the same as him. Wonder what's the average level for rank D adventurers. Should I ask or not?
Well, for now, Let's just go for it, either way, it will be good to get some experience as we go on this journey.
After accepting the request, I and the girls decided to just hit the road along with everyone.
Sakura asks about the duration of our travel which was translated by Cho – Hee. Well even I don't know the total duration of our journey but it might at least take around 5 days,
So, I told her that "Around 5-7 days, I am sure, it should be very tiring till next week."
Before leaving for request. I told girls, "no matter what don't tell your real level to anyone, if you have to tell them then just tell an average level like everyone. There will be no good to tell others our high levels but low adventurer rank"
Cho – Hee said, "You might be right, even adventurer guild didn't check our levels while registering. Most likely They will ask it once we started ranking up."
I and the girls reach near the city gates where Nick and his party were waiting for us.
Nick says to the merchant, "Now we have everyone, let's just get going."
As nick says that merchant asks me "How are you guys are going to travel? On foot?"
I suddenly realized that I didn't purchase any carriage or even just horses, how did I forget about it?
At this point, I was thinking of just buying a carriage from somewhere nearby but Ryan from Nick Party suddenly says, "we might be able to adjust, leader it will be a good idea for us to move together."
After listening to that Nick nodded and replied, "Yeah, why not just join us?"
Cho – Hee suddenly pulls me back and says, "wait, are you really sure about this? Let's just buy our own horses. "
Looks like Cho – Hee doesn't want to share a carriage for some reason. I looked at Emma and Sakura looks like they agree with her. In that case, I will just buy a carriage then. I also want to keep my guard up even if they are friendly toward us.
Maybe I also want to keep my privacy or just want to avoid becoming a part of a large group.
I just say, it's alright to Nick, and went to buy a carriage for me and the girls. It will be good to just buy a normal carriage because there is no reason for us to buy some extravagant carriage and waste our money here.
As I started searching nearby for carriages with horses, I was wondering can I even buy them near the city gate? I saw few merchants and adventures selling out their carriages and horses as their works are over or they have done with it.
Isn't it convenient that they sell near the city gate?
I bought an average carriage from a merchant who was selling his carriage but it cost me eight silver coins, I think it's still cheap because I purchased a double horse carriage.
Well, I and the girls don't have much luggage, so it's good for now! But who knows when we might need it?
I came back to the city gate with the newly purchased double horse carriage. I never ride a carriage or a horse, to be honest, but somehow, I'm able to handle this carriage. That's a surprise.
I asked the girls to enter the carriage and told the others that we are ready to go now!
Nick's carriage is in front of merchants whereas our carriage is in the rear of merchants. In this way, the merchant and his merchandise are protected in middle.
As we were traveling slowly, Emma who was sitting behind in the carriage with Cho – Hee and Sakura suddenly speak, "Hey Alvin, it's our second day in this world. I just wanted to thank you for taking responsibility for everyone and helping each other."
Cho – Hee speaks right after, "Now that you mention it, the time we wake up in those bandit's ship, you were calm and knew what to do. We might have to face more trouble without you."
As I was handling the horses, I looked behind and said, "you know there are too many fantasies and isekai novels, I just happened to read a few of them. We should worry about how did we get here."
Cho – Hee, and Emma chuckled a bit. Sakura started to get curious, she asks Cho – Hee to translate for us. After translating Sakura says, "it's not right, it's hard for me to understand I want to also be friends with everyone."
Well, eventually our language barrier will get less with every day.
(*A gentle afternoon breeze flows around carriage*)
"What a gentle breeze, let's just relax a bit," I said.
After that, I said, "Let's relax for a bit in this gentle breeze, soon we might have to make a stop with everyone when it will be starting to get dark."