Chapter 56 Joining the caravan. (1/2)
Roland’s head hit the unevenof the train he was riding on His eyes were hurting as he couldn’t sleep well in these kinds of conditions With the addition of the stress of riding alone to an unfamiliar location, it only added to his sleeplessness He had also spent three days riding this blasted train without being able to stretch his legs
The scenery continued changing while they journeyed deeper into the south part of the kingdom The snow started to vanish with tirass
Roland noticed that this kingdoe climate cycles One part of it could be covered in snohile another would have s hot weather This was ic that affected the climate in odd ways
Thanks to this the journey wasn’t that chilly This train didn’t have anything like a central heating system It was more or less just iron and wooden carts, some of the s let the cold air in if not closed correctly
Regrettably, thiscouldn’t take him to his final destination The time to depart cae trade city si on only stopped at these types of cities They transported goods to specific parts of the kingdom where then they would be taken further by merchants in caravans This was also the next part of his journey, finding a merchant caravan towards the port city
“If I reo to is called Luden I’ll have to pay and go as a tourist…”
Roland thought back to the ot rid of his adventurer card If he still had it he could probably just take an escort uild Every caravan with merchants placed ate travel expenses
The htly reduced Instead, they got free food and even soot tired
He didn’t worry too much as he did have a hefty sum of money with him This would even be a better way to travel as no one would expect him to risk his life to defend the caravan
If so he could just escape while the adventurers and guards faced off against whatever was attacking them They would be disposable meat shi+elds that he could use to cover his escape
Roland hopped down fros The train station was kind of siard but it looked to be in worse shape He didn’t see any people from the church of Solaria like last tihed the pros and cons of getting a new adventurer card in this city He decided against it as this train had a direct link to the city he previously lived in It would be possible to get his new id froet a new one directly at Dragnis Island, there had to be a guild at Albrook That would be one of the first things to be built after a new dungeon appeared
While walking away fro in his abdoer He had only taken simple rations that he didn’t like that h quality either
When he was a few hours away from this city he decided to wait He would rather not eat for a bit and get some freshly made stew here than eat ather I ht have to take a break in this town for a few days”
Roland continued toward the city It was the middle of the day so the restaurants would still be open Smaller cities didn’t have those around that much as the inns the adventurer’s lived in were used for such services
The quality of the food suffered when the locale was used for everything After living in this world and having eaten bland food for so long, Roland was slowly getting fed up with it He was even willing to pay a bit extra if he could get sos in this city were mostly constructed from red bricks This was the do cabins appeared
After living in this world for so long Roland was able to distinguish between good and bad restaurants How good the food would be could beof the establishment was
Previously he just entered the closest one available and took whatever he could get Now on the other time, he took some ti
‘This one looks fine, shouldn’t be too expensive either…’
He pushed the door open to aThe moment he entered he could shtly He could see soular co that an adventure would wear
The biggest telltale sign of a bad restaurant was a large number of drunks Rowdy adventures also mostly visited the cheaper diners Most of the hardenedoff bandits didn’t care about good food thatand then visiting the red light district where they spent most of their money
In about half an hour his dishes were ready and he could finally eat He used this chance to ask the staff about the location of the adventurer guild Even without his adventurer card that was the place to go if you wanted some information
People that formed caravans actually wanted h rooe Some of them would even postpone the journey before all the free spots were filled out This helped with paying for the adventurers that protected the caravan quite a bit It was also quite cheap as the people oods
Roland covered hiswith a small tip He wanted to take care of his business as soon as he could He wouldn’t want to be stuck wondering through the night searching for an inn to stay
Even with the general inforuild was, it would take him some time to find his way He didn’t really want to spendsoon
Roland decided to use a coach to get around this problem The streets were crude but the ride didn’t hurt his posterior all that reeted by a plain-looking adventurers guild in a large brick building There was no dungeon in the immediate area here either so the adventurer levels would probably be low
On the inside, it had a siuilds that he had seen before The people ere running things here probably decided on keeping all the buildings the saent
Keeping a fauilds probably saved a lot of ti the adventurers confused when they traveled to different guilds They would auto if it was kept the same
There was the usual s bar in the back He could see adventurers talking at the round tables This brought back so days
Roland started spacing out, soures superi adventurers The only thing that snapped him out of it was a person behind hi the door, move…”
Roland snapped back into reality and looked at a group of men He didn’t answer and just stepped to the side while the person that called hi away
‘Aood old days?”
Roland asked hi towards the notice board Would he find anyone pleasant to ithin the new city? There would probably be new adventurers flocking there to hit it big He wasn’t planning on taking a passive backline position though
He had seen first hand how lie class actually was When soed to close the distance you were a sitting duck