Chapter 29 Entering the Mine (1/2)

‘Ember’

Roland held out his hand in front of a bundle of sticks that were gathered in one place He was a e without elemental affinities but he could still learn this spell It used friction instead of fire to ignite The sticks went up in flanome companion tossed a few ht and they decided to camp out in the wilderness They would make it to their destination in half a day's tierous to wander during the night Making a ca would be the best option

Roland and Helci were voted to be the first ones with guard duty The girl was selected because she was a scout and also a newbie, Roland was also forced here due to his young age He was now sitting opposite to the short girl with orange hair

“Did you cut your hair?”

Roland asked while tossing some more wood into the pile It was quite chilly here and even while wearing this long robe he was feeling cold

“Ah, yes”

The girl nodded, she did have longer hair when Roland had saved her that fateful day After she gained some experience she decided to cut it short as it was a liability during fights

“Good”

Roland felt like the two got off on the wrong foot the first time they met He also felt like that as the adult here he should offer her the olive branch The problem was that he didn’t really kno to talk to sixteen-year-old girls, even fewer ones that were fronome

“Thank you…”

“Huh?”

“You know… for saving ather up her courage to apologize She had her head turned the other side while twiddling her thumbs Her voice faint and quiet as Roland barely heard it After going through the adventurer’s lifestyle the half-gnome did have a lot of time to think about her past actions

“Sure, no proble at you back then”

“No it’s fine… you were right I was unprepared…”

The two soed to bury the hatchet so Roland moved on from this uncomfortable topic and shi+fted it to another The two started talking about the adventurer life, Hilci also wanted to kno Roland was able to get his adventurer rank at such a young age He just lied and told her that he was lucky enough to get a eon

The night went by slowly, there wasn’t ot to know each other Hilci told hiave her a recap of his adventurer life back in Carwen

“Coo to a city with a dungeon than to stay here if you want to level up”

“I also had trouble working by ood party…”

He gave her his opinion, if she really wanted to level up going to a city with a dungeon would probably be faster Still, going on simple escort missions was probably safer as you never knehat could appear in a dungeon Sometimes some rare monster variants appeared on the top levels that could easily kill the low-level adventurers In contrast, bandits and the surface level monsters were a lot easier to handle

“You think so?”

The sether andand went quiet Roland went on withthat it would be at least so some bronze adventurers there and practice on the easier levels”

“You sound really knowledgeable for your age… are you really a huirl narrowed her eyes while looking at Roland that wasn’t behaving for his age She even expected him to act more bashful with such beauty as herself But there he was talking norure He never even tried to sneak a peek at her figure like all the other male adventurers He looked to be thirteen so he should have been at that age, this was a hit to her fes are only a ht be really old!”

“Stop talking nonsense Hoould a giant and halfling even copulate?”

There was an actual giant race in this world but they were various types ranging fro number

“See that! That’s not how a brat talks!”

“Oh? Would brat act more like you then?”

“Yes hed a bit while the half gnoirl stared him down She even threw one of the sht with his hand and just threw back at her Before a stick fight could break out another person walked over This was someone from the other teams to switch the and headed back to the tent that the rest of their partyin This was probably the worst part of this journey, sleeping in a sh… that’s arves are…”

Helci complained as even before they could enter the tent they could hear loud snoring The dwarf being a dwarf had drunk himself to sleep This also caused hiirl never liked sleeping next to guys for this reason At least in her old party, there was another girl and she soot to sleep in a tent with her without the other companions

“I’…”

Roland coh the Elf had an aard sitting up straight position and looked to be awake The hu as Dalrak the dwarf They probably both drunk the aids

The talked in, they only had some crude blankets and hard pillows provided by the people from the expedition Helci curled up to the side far away fro was just too loud She then noticed so over towards her which was Roland wrapped up in a blanket

“Hey! What are you doing? Go back you pervert!”

The half gnome was surprised that the youth that didn’t show interest in her looks had co it in but was in reality a wolf in sheep's clothing