Vol 3 Chapter 3 (1/2)
V3 Chapter 3
⌈The wasteland town Buranbeina⌋
Before long, a town built atop a shway came into view A stone wall surrounded the town and I could see the roofs of several box-shaped buildings peeking over the wall from here Unlike other cities I’ve been to there was alave off was more sturdy than impoverished
I’d say the town looked
The only patch of greenery in the reddish landscape was around the hill There was an area of farmland around the town and there were barely any peopleit Coh human silhouettes around to properly maintain them
“Let’s stop for a bit and ask for some directions”
“Well, it looks like the road started to lead north before we noticed……”
I didn’t really notice until now, but the direction of the road had changed substantially It was easy to lose sight of your direction when you follow aroad without a compass
Without expressing a bit of my impatience, I turned off the road and headed towards the town
The toalls were five h and uards
The large front gate ide open with only a single guard standing watch When he noticed us the guard straightened his shoulders and stared in our direction
When we reached the guard I extended
“I know it sudden, but there’s soet to a city called Lanbaltic, does the highway lead there?”
The guard looked puzzled ather up and down Ariane’s true form couldn’t be seen since she had hidden her face with her cloak’s hood
When he was finished, the guard looked back at me and answered the question
“No, I’ve never heard of a place called Lanbaltic around here Of course, I’ve never left this town so I only know of nearby villages……”
The guard looked embarrassed by this and started scratch his head
Even in the n country and expect to iet directions a remote town
“Hum, we’ll have to ask for directions in town then How much is the entrance tax?”
I asked the guard that question as I reached for the leather pouch tied to ed us to pass
“There is no entry tax for this town Not enough people visit such a remote town to make an entrance tax profitable Oh, but there a s”
The man chuckled a little and welcomed us inside
“Welcome to Buranbeina”
We thanked the guard and set foot inside the town
Despite being so early in the , there were a lot of people inside the city walls, cos were box-shaped and crowded together The narrow gaps between the buildings created a complex maze of backstreets and alleywaysThanks to the pieces of cloth hanging on the multiple clotheslines it was difficult to peer into the depths of the maze
In thetown,around Adventures were filtering into their respective inns while people with far towards the gate
After walking against the flow of the crowd for a bit we cah a group of housewives, Ponta caught the scent of so her tail
Ponta was staring at a street stall that was eh not all that large, the beans looked si
She was probably hungry because she didn’t eatout from atop my head the stall vendor noticed us in the h
“Hey, mister How about it?”
“I’ll take two servings”
The vendor said “Anyti voice as he took a wooden cup in his hand and scooped the beans into the leather pouch
When I was about to ask for directions to Lanbaltic the stall owner chiht up a topic of his own first
“Mister, are you here to hunt the Sand Wyverns?”
The question caused me to remember the Wyvern attack for before
“No, are Sand Wyverns appearing frequently in this area?”
“Oh yes Recently they’ve started to stray froe numbers and carry off a number of cattle”
That h their number must have been nearly halved…… However, instead of an at around the toith smiles on their faces
“The situation sounds serious, but it doesn’t seem that way……”
When I looked at the surrounding shoppers while speaking, the vendor started to laugh
“They are sensitive to sunlight, so they usually don’t fly around that much around this time of day It’s rare for them to attack between daybreak and sundown Groups of adventurers have come here in pursuit of Sand Wyvern leather……”
“Ho, for a shopkeeper you seem well informed about monsters”
When I offered him a compliment, the vendor waved it off and handed over two pouches of beans while laughing
“A monster researcher just happens to live in this town, that’s all Thanks to his guidance the dae done to the town has been minimized Ah, that’ll be three sok”
“Such a talented person live here-, oh, I only have silver coins”
I handed over a silver coin The vendor handedthe conversation in a lower tone
“Furthermore, the researcher is one of those rarely seen elves”
Ariane stepped forhen she heard that