The carriage opened and a fine looking women got out. After that she bowed towards the entrance of the carriage and extended her hand to help her mistress to get out. When the fight happened they were both worried and we're even thinking about a suicide. It was better then becoming a sex doll in a camp of bandits. From the carriage Leo saw a hand extended to the women and then I young girl in the age of around 13 got out to see a horror scene after the battle. She was a fine looking girl with green eyes and blonde hair. Her featured were refined and she had a bearing of a true noble. She started to get the womanly curves in the right places. Leo would give her a 8 out of 10 if he would rate her. After she got out of the carriage she got pale as the women before her, but then she started to puke her guts out. The smell of blood, piss and shit that spilled out of some of the dead people around got her a totally different feeling from what she would expect from the books she been reading recently. It sounded very noble to die in battle. Well, it didn't look like it at all now. When she regained her cool the commander of the guards reported to her about the kid that was apparently a mage. The news got her very excited and worried at the same time. She did not know a lot about mages but most of the ones she saw were all stuck up and arrogant. She did not like those people, but she did not want offend them in any way. Getting all her bloodline wiped out was not something she considered doing. She made a courtesy for Leo and said: "Thank you for your help, your excellency! Without it we would all most likely be dead or worse..."
"My name is Elly Shmidt, the daughter of Baron Elen Shmidt." She introduced herself.
"You can call me Leo. I'm not someone's excelency. I'm just a kid. Are you a resident of the Rufus town?" Leo asked.
He did not like all those honorifics.
'Yeah right. A kid in my ass. You can wipe us all out if you want' She thought.
She did not want to get on his bad side because she was not sure if he wanted something from them.
"Yes. My family lives in Rufus town for 3 generations already. I'm very familiar with the town" That was actually what she said.
"That's great. I have a few questions for you. Do the town have any fee or other requirements to enter? What type of guilds do this town have?" Leo asked.
'Does this guy lives under a rock or something? How he don't know such simple things?' She thought.
" You do need to go through a check in the entrance of the city. It has two types of gates. One for nobles and one for commoners. The commoners pay 1 bronze coin for entrance while the nobles enter for free. In term of guilds. There are the adventures guild, the mercenary guild, the alchemy and blacksmiths pavilions. Also there are the mage and merchant associations that can interest you." Elly said.
Leo nodded and said: "Thanks for the information."
After that he started to walk away from the group.
"Wait!" Elly said.
"What is it?" Leo asked.
"Can you accompany us to the city? We are heading in the same direction anyway. It will be safer together. I'm not sure we could defend ourselves with the forces we have." Elly said.
"Sure I can, but for a price. Ten silver coins and I will pass with you in the noble gate." Leo said with a peaceful expression, while grinning from inside.
'What an ass.' She thought.
"Deal". She actually said.
She gave him the money upfront. They buried the guards and continued forward. In their journey they stumbled on many goblins. Leo did not have a problem with them. Once they even saw a goblin warrior from afar but Leo decided to move around it's location to be on the safer side. After two more weeks of travelling they finally saw the city walls of Rufus. The walls were around 15 meters in height. They looked magestic and aciant. Elly was happy about the fact she hired Leo. Without this little guy they would be most likely wiped out on their way. She would manage with ten guards, but after she left with the four of them they were only enough to protect her while Leo killed every enemy they encountered. Ten silver coins were worth less then her life. In the gates the check was brief because of the noble status Elly had. She told the city guards about the bandit attack. she asked them to alert the other citizens and then they finally got into the city. The city looked like a something from the middle aged history. The city looked like it had a population of around 300 to 400 thousand people. The streets were full of merchants, adventurers and hunters that were selling their products for everyone. It was interesting but Leo wanted to get into an inn, wash himself and get some rest. Leo asked Elly about a location of a worthy inn for himself. She told him about an in with the name "Sun Shine". It was located in the west side of the city near the adventurers and the mercenary guilds. The price for living included two meals a day. It sounded good for Leo. He thanked her and every one of them continued with their own path. Elly invited Leo for a visit and he said that he will come for a visit when he got all of his things sorted out. After that Leo went to the west side of the city. He saw very different worlds in the same city. In some places he saw well dressed nobles walk around with an arrogant face you will want to punch. In other parts of the city he saw poverty and misery of the commoners. 'The world don't change no matter where you go' He thought. After a couple of hours walking around the city and asking for directions he saw the sign "Sun Shine".