9 Wagon Tales (1/2)
Walking around for about 10 minutes, I tired to find where the escort was. At some point, I gave up and tried going back to the Guild but I got lost doing that too. Deciding to swallow my pride, I asked everyone I could to actually find the escort area. Another half hour later I finally did reach it and saw a lot of wagons.
Around the wagons where a couple of people wearing heavy armor, mage like robes, and other fancy looking gear. Walking up to one of the heavily armored people, I asked who was the main person who we're exporting so I can talk with him.
Contrary to the first couple of adventurers I met, this person was actually much nicer and gladly pointed me in the direction. In the direction he pointed, there was this slightly overweight guy who was talking with someone else and filling out some paperwork. Before going over I look at the paper I had to see what his name was and found out that it was Nalik. Heading over to him I asked questionably, ”Nalik?”
Looking over at me, he waved away the other guy and went for a handshake.
”Are you here for the escort mission?”
”Ah, yes I am. Name's Eric, nice to meet you sir”
”Yes yes. Anyways, the pay is three gold pieces and maybe some more depending on how much you help out during the escort. Now may I see your adventures-card so that I can see where I should place you?”
Quickly reaching into my pocket to get my card, I stumbled slightly and dropped it. This gave him a bit of a chuckle and he went down to pick it up. Upon seeing all of my status he dropped it in shock.
”W-W-Why is a magic swordsman doing a quest of mine? That class is legendary!”
He yelled the last part a bit too loudly and made a couple of people turn around to see this ”legendary class”
Trying to shush Nalik, I said ”I wanted to see the world and the best way to do that and get some money is to do some escort missions”
Seeing him calm down slightly from my response, I also quickly asked him to keep myclass a secret and put me into the magicians category if possible. He hesitated a bit but agreed in the end.
Sending me over to where the magicians where, most of them greeted me very kindly except the one person. She said that since she has a legendary skill, class, and a noble title, she was above all of us. Sadly she didn't mention what her class or skill was. Had to be something with magic though as she was a wizard, I didn't feel like checking.
We all talked and had some fun talking about lots of things but at some point the topic moved to magic theory. I avoided most of it but one thing caught my attention. There was apparently a theory that there was summon above the lesser gods who made all magic in existence. That's why only a couple of the gods could actually use magic.
This caught me in surprise because who would've guessed that they could be so very close to the truth and stand next to the god who they're speaking about. Sadly, half way through the discussion, we got cut off and had Nalik come over saying that it was going to leave soon since they've filled up with enough people.
We left shortly afterwards and went through dozens of different parts of the city until we eventually got to the outer wall. There the guards did a quick check of everything and everyone. The check took up about five minutes but everything went fine and the guards found nothing wrong.