"So your name , it was leo as far as I remember right ?"
"Yes master ." Said leonardo the wagon driver .
Leonardo like any other of ruth's slaves , called him master but unlike the villagers , he has the same sense of eager servitude as the goblins . Last night he was contacted by ruth wanting leo to pick him up from the house and take him to the capital.
Leo was overly joyed, his master ordering him and using his services ? Nothing could make him more happy than that.
As per the details provided by his master he came in front of ruth's house and waited for his master to come out which didn't happen for a long while, ruth was by no means late but it was leo himself who came a bit too early , too eager to directly be useful and provide to his master.
When his master came out of the house , leo bowed his head in respect . Leo was one of the only few human slaves who kneeled to greet ruth but ruth just denied as it was too over the top and sticked with the bows.
After the day he was enslaved , it was the first time leo saw his master in daylight , even yesterday it was night time and couldn't see his master properly.
Ruth wore a simple black pant and white shirt , the dress was by no means beautiful but it was his face that made things seem that way , ruth's green shaded eyes paired with his beautiful brown hair that were slightly fringed up made him seem like a noble .
Ruth was not poor and could have afforded good and expensive clothing but he had no means to get them in the village and would only be available in the capital and for a good dress he would have to go by himself and give measurements which was impossible without an id .
A good 10 minutes have passed since the wagon started travelling towards the capital , leo was sitting on the front driving the wagon while ruth sat inside the wagon along with gin and that was when he got bored and came outside and sat besides leo and started talking with him.
Ruth wasn't showing care or emotions for his slave but he was simply bored and decided to do what he did but leo on the other hand was surprised and joyed beyond belief , his master sitting across him and even talking to him.
"So how many people live in the city and what are the divisions made because aint no way those noble assholes will live near commoners ."
"Y-yes master , the nobles were against living near the commoners and hence when the city was built 1000 years ago , the capital was divided into three sections .
"Each section is divided by a wall , to visualize it think of three concentric circles , the outer wall or the 3rd wall , middle wall or the 2nd wall and the inner wall or the 1st wall.
"The region between 3rd and 2nd wall is known as commoners district , all the commoners live there , the richer one is the closer they get to the inside , that is the 2nd wall.
"Since each progressive district gets smaller , the commoner's district makes up the largest space of the whole capital , Ignaros.
"The area between 2nd wall and 1st wall is called the noble district , all the nobles live there , with 1star nobles living near the 2nd wall and 5 star nobles living near the 1st wall.
"There are only three 5 star noble families and each of these families play a very vital role in managing the human kingdom.
"the noble district is also where academy is built because a lot of nobles attend the academy and they don't like being near commoners and since nobles are the main source of funds and donations to the academy.
"And the final area , that which is encircled by the 1st wall is called the royal district . Not even low star nobles are allowed to enter that area so forget me a mere commoner even knowing about what lays inside it and how things work in there.
"But from all the rumors and stories heard , the noble district has a very big castle , the castle of imperial family at the very center of the capital city . The castle is said to be surrounded by acres and acres of garden and even private forests where the children from imperial family train and hunt."
"You know , you somehow know more than this guy here ." Said ruth as he pointed his hands towards gin that was sitting inside the wagon.
Leo was again very happy from hearing the compliment by his master.
"So how much more time before we reach the city ?"
"The 3rd wall should be visible in 15minutes and about 5 more minutes after that to enter the city gates , master"
Ruth who got all the info he needed about the capital from leo , got up from his seat and went back inside the wagon as he sat near across gin while looking outside the small window enjoying the fresh air and green scenery which even though living near a forest doesn't diminish the beauty for him.
As timed passed , a blurry gigantic wall was seen from the ruth's window as the carriage moved closer to the city the wall became more and more clearer.
By the time they were only 6 minutes away from the wall was when ruth could finally see the wall in all its glory .
The wall was large , no , it was gigantic , it spread around the whole of capital city as it stood at 30 meters high .
While everything was good and majestic , ruth couldn't help but think of the cliche and common isekai cities he saw in anime .
When they were getting closer to the city , ruth saw that the outsides weren't abandoned but were instead small villages of people while there were many stalls on the side of road made by these villagers to get some money .
The conditions of these villagers wasn't good , the houses were small wooden huts and the people that seemed to live in the villages were all suffering from malnutrition , their bodies were so feeble the bones were visible through the skin.
Seeing the condition ruth compared his village to these villages or more like settlements , these settlements didn't have any land to grow crop on and neither were there any forest to hunt monsters from .
While the forest wasn't close it wasn't out of their reach but they were most probably stuck in a loop , they needed food to eat to get energy for that they would have to hunt but to hunt they would have to go to forest and for that they needed resources which they didn't have .
Seeing the state of these people ruth felt nothing , no sorrow or pain or sadness for them , in fact for once he was joyed seeing them like that , as now just giving them some food for a few days will make them his slaves but the joy quickly died down as he understood that these people can't do anything anyways and would have to be trained later to even make them slightly useful.
And that is the reason they are allowed to stay so close to the wall , because the officials couldn't be bothered to remove these people that will mostly die themselves with time.
While he was pondering the situation in his mind the carriage stopped , the stop wasn't a sudden brake meaning it was planned and as he leaned on the window to look at the front he was many wagons , the same as the one he was travelling in , stopped in line.
Ruth opened the door and stepped outside and as soon as he got out he was they were at the city gates , the gate was large at about 10 meters while being large it still looked small in front of the massive wall that stood above it.
The city door was made fully out of what seemed iron , the gate was large enough for few wagons to simultaneously leave but half the door was closed .
And in front of the other opened half stood more than 10 soldiers , these soldiers wore chainmail armor on their chest and waist . Their dress was most probably a uniform which consisted of red and black . The dress by no means was majestic maybe due to them being just guards .
Even though they were guards each and everyone of them seemed strong , they had their hands on the hilt of their swords all the time ready to take action .
Not bothering to get back inside the wagon , ruth sat near leo as the wagon started moving and soon after 4 more wagons was their turn but ruth's focus wasn't on the wagon as of now but the guards that stood in front of the gate.
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[level 27 , 32 , 24 , 38 , 28 , 30]
Among the 10 guards that stood ruth was able to successfully check the status of 8 soldiers meaning they are weaker than him but there were still 2 more guards that he wasn't able to check status of.
Both of these guards were standing at the back and when I used observe on them , one of them seemed to sense something as he looked at me with a confused gaze but then just got back to his work which probably meant he didn't find my skill usage but me just staring at him which was fine.
"Ohh leo why are you so early today don't you enter late with the academy students ? And these guys seem new here I haven't seen them before especially not with you" talked a guard to leo that was still sitting on the driving seat of the wagon at the front .
"Mas - I mean these two men booked me yesterday night when I went to the village with those officials from identification office . So thats why I am so early and after leaving them here I will leave back again to get those two academy students from the village" leo answered to the guard .
"forget that , how is it going for you max , I doubt anything good happens standing at the door the whole day hehe ." Leo asked max as he giggled at his own joke .
"Haha that's true these guards duties suck if only I could get a women to fu.."
*bam*
Another guard came forwards and just smacked max's head .
"Oooi" shouted max at the guy who just hit him on the head
"Keep your perverted thoughts to yourself and let them pass." The second guard said to max and max nodded and gestured something with his hands.
The wagon moved forward a bit before stopping again.
Ruth was a bit confused as why did they stop when the way is opened but just when he was about to ask leo ,
A green light shined from one of the stronger guys that were standing at the back , ruth moved his gaze as he traced to the origin of the light to find out a wooden artifact , the wooden artifact looked so much like a projector .
In a few moments the light died down and max from behind said "you can now move and next time you come leo don't you dare come here withou…. Ooii"
The guards started laughing and giggling as the wagon started moving through the massive iron gate.
As they passed the gate , ruth saw paved roads . The roads from the village to the city were dirt roads but inside the city these roads were stone paved . There were some designs which ruth didn't understand.
The wagon kept moving for another minute or so before finally stopping ,
Leo bowed his head towards his master and said "wagons can't be taken further inside the city master , I am very sorry but this is the best I can do for you"
"Alright then , asshole get the fuck out and do some work for fucks sake" ruth slammed his hand on the wagon as he shouted on gin for being useless.