Chapter 102 (1/2)

Chapter 102: Chapter 102

Translator: Sigma Editor: Sigma

The experienced adventurers were always very rigorous and resolute.

In less than half an hour, three horses came out from the east gate of Golden Pagoda City. Behind them were two horses pulling a carriage, and running toward the southeast along the road.

Ray, Steele, and Liv were riding the horse, and Madame Teague and young Nice were in the carriage. There was a boy, Ranke, who was controlling the carriage; he was one of the young people who had paid off his debt.

Among those young people, few were good at the martial arts, and among them, Zesheng was the strongest. But if he came with Ray, it would mean that these youngsters would lose their leader and could be cruelly killed by the people from the church of the God of Aristocracy. So Zesheng had to stay behind, as well as the few who were good at martial arts.

Ranke was the younger son of that businessman. When he was young, the education he received was very different from that of his brother, who was taught to be a businessman. So he always admired the knight and learned horsemanship, swordsmanship, spear-play, and fast-shoot from Knight Parne from a very young age. However, he was not that talented, and after five or six years of studying, he was still a green hand who didn’t excel in swordsmanship, spear-play, or fast-shoot at all. There was one thing he was capable of: horsemanship.

Compared with the weak knight, Ranke had the talent to be a businessman. He was good at managing accounts, negotiating with others, and authentication. Moreover, he was good at riding the carriage. Even Liv, who was known for her horse riding skills, was not as good as him.

His brother managed to pay off all the debt, but he still chose to go and take adventures with his peers, trying to do more for them. That day when he went to pay off the debt, he actively decided to be the one to negotiate with the people of the church of the God of Aristocracy. After the negotiation, he successfully decreased the interest he would have to pay, and saved his peers a lot of money.

Since the group of young people had gone through hard times recently, they were very happy to see that Ranke had helped them save a lot of money. To celebrate this, they bought some dishes and alcohol and meant to hold a party at Liv’s home. When they heard that Liv would have to leave, they began to discuss—or quarrel—about her leaving. It was Ranke that managed to calm them down, and then decided to come with Liv.

He was indeed good at horsemanship; the two horses he was controlling were proceeding steadily side by side and at the same speed, and Madame Teague and young Nice just felt a mild tremble or shake in the carriage from time to time.

This also had something to do with the wizards there in the Mifata Federation. Since there were many wizards, and most of the roads that connected all the towns were built by magic spells, the roads were very smooth. This was how the roads were built: first and foremost, the soil was tamped, and then covered with a layer of a combination of gravel and clay; then this layer was tamped, thus the roadbed was created. Then the wizard made some hard rocks with a spell, and created an arc-shaped gravel road on the surface of the roadbed, which was very similar to the stone roads in some ancient cities on Earth. However, this was not the road inside the city; rather, it was the main road that connected all the towns in this country!

In the Main Plate, only the Kingdom of Wizards could establish such a magnificent project, since this country had enough wizards of the intermediate level. They could turn all the huge rocks into certain shapes that fit best with magic spells. And this way, they didn’t need much labor.

In fact, according to the rule of the Mifata Federation, if a wizard wanted to make a magic pagoda of his own, he would have to make sure that there was a standard road that connected the pagoda with the whole road system of this country, and he would also need to maintain all the roads around his pagoda.

With so much effort, the transportation system in this country was very smooth. There was no country in the world that could compete with it in this regard.

Things could be much better, though, if there weren’t so many monsters there.

It was getting dark, so they found an open space and rested there. Ray said, “I am going to check if the vicinity is safe or not.” Then he took a sword and a spear with him and went into the wood nearby.

Eventually, the tent was set up, the campfire was lit, the flour and wheat were made into porridge, and the meat soup’s flavor permeated the air. Ray came back at last with blood all over him, and a specially-made thick rope on his hand. There was a beast wrapped in the rope following behind him.

This beast was a bit similar to an ape, but it looked far more ferocious, since its face was more hideous. It also had sharp teeth and claws, which clearly showed that it was never a kind creature. Its strong body, which could even dwarf a wild bear, showed that it had great strength. Moreover, when it breathed, sparks came out of its mouth and one could smell sulfur.

Since Ranke and Liv were still not that experienced, they had no idea what it was. Madame Teague, however, immediately knew as soon as she smelled the sulfur.

“Purgatorized and ferocious ape? No, a huge purgatorized and ferocious ape! They are really difficult to defeat; I am very surprised to see that you managed to catch it alive,” she smiled. “Mr. Ray, you are really a powerful knight!”

Ray laughed and put down the rope, and the ape sat down on its own. Then Ray said, “Thank you for your compliment; actually, this beast is not that powerful, but it is a bit difficult to catch without severely injuring it.”

Seeing this ape, Liv and Ranke were completely stunned. Their own group, which consisted of some green hand adventurers, had only come across a purgatorized and ferocious wolf. Apart from that, there were four other common wolves at that time. They had a big fight with them, and if it were not for the help of some experienced adventurers who happened to come by, at least one person would had been killed.

It was known that among all the animals, the ape was the strongest, and a purgatorized and ferocious ape was so powerful that it would take a group of experienced adventurers to defeat. A group of green hand adventurers were bound to be killed when facing one.

As far as they were concerned, the ape, like the wolf, also liked to travel in herds. Ray must had killed the whole group of apes, which could be seen from the blood on him. He even managed to catch the leader of the group alive, which further proved his incredible power!