Chapter 57 Into the mountains. (1/2)

Roland was one of the first new arrivals but he wasn’t the last There were other people that wanted to travel in this large caravan gathering Luckily the cart he was using was stocked to the briroups This saved hi travel co at the back end of it, so he also didn’t need to talk or look at the coachman This was the perfect spot for so with these people

While sitting and waiting he glanced outside, he noticed so He could see so various types of armor

Roland was already so profession He could already spot some areas that were unkempt chinks in the armors, old leather belts that were about to snap, and even badly made runic weapons

He had a sory He wanted to go grab some of those weapons and correct the runic structure Such an act would give out his profession and he wanted to avoid that

After spending days on the train without working on anybored He didn’t think he would bethisthat interested hi runic items was his only pastime

Other than the adventurers he could see other travelers arriving They all varied by looks, age, and even by their race The caravan was slowly getting filled up with people and soon they would be leaving

Roland took note of how est he had been part of yet There were even more people here than when he went on that expedition to the ht their own guards along, so there was sohtlyit was easy to speculate what class they had Most of them as alere holders of the warrior class

Most of them looked older, thus Roland believed that they should be at least tier 2 It was nore but just like him, some people leveled up faster If he continued his old pace he thought he would be at the L25 cap within the year Now eon and farh infors Roland leaned back into his carriage He wanted to practice his mana reinforcement skill while he traveled He couldn’t reet ers around it would be unwise to remove his armor His mana shi+eld enchantments couldn’t activate on their own quite yet He wanted to develop a rune that would repel weapons and attacks on iure out the minimuht activate while he was running, while when too high it would be useless

He had one technique that he wanted to try but he neededthe i components deeper into the metal With this when a sword pierced into it more than a millimeter it would set off the defensive measure

It would also need to ith blunt force, like hits fro the metal more than it should also set it off The probleravity

He couldn’t have it activating if he juh spot and it turned on when he landed With his increased stats he could perforth was already above any grown man from his old world

It would be quite hard to develop soot attacked from the back For now, he only kne to produce simple runes that activated on impact or on a tis but he didn’t have full control over it He was still limited to the hardware and could not affect the software yet

‘Wonder If it will be possible when I reach tier 2”

He rubbed his chin while thinking The biggest drawback of his debugging skill was that he couldn’t see inside the co at a motherboard, he could insert what parts he wanted but was li the processor and hard drives that he knew off but he couldn’t affect the software in them When he achieved that step only then he would feel like a true runesns he felt the carriage that he was sitting in jolt forward They were finally setting off, he could see soe birds that looked like giant chickens They were lankier and their legs had sharp claws than regular poultry

This journey would take at least a week as they would be doe cities There were e huration circles and some even set up their own territories If they arrived in a new one that sooblin tribe established battle was inevitable They had a lot of adventurers with theroup should be able to defend theht

He was only a traveler and not affiliated with the guild for now so he wouldn’t even need to take part in the skirmishes It was better to lay low, the abyssal cult could be following him now or later If he stuck out too es around and they clearly saw hi a fire arrow spell that time

Roland looked to his side where he had the weapon that he created He could pretend that he was a mana warrior with it With the addition of his blacksth to ic attacks that caer

He heard the people talking and they finallyin was just a simple one whichinto the lotus position he closed his eyes, his mana exercises continued as he needed to increase hison his new skill would prove a challenge On the flipside, this would help him train his willpower and concentration

The trip continued through dirt roads, he could see the city he was in vanishi+ng in the distance after a few hours They drove through soht dawned on thele with the others, he becary The traders responsible for this expedition set up caons were positioned in a circle around the campfire, they would act as cover if soed attacks

Roland gru his hood over his head After a life filled with solitude, his linguistic skills started suffering He had beco people and hiding froers without a reason became harder

He sloalked over to the ca up and it sot closer hisup so he followed suit and placed hi the confines of the large wagon that he secluded himself in, Roland was finally able to see who else was here There was a mix of races, mostly ones that he had seen before but most of them were humans like him

Nearly all of the people here were merchants and peddlers Besides theuards There also was a family with a baby which caused hi for someone like the to find a better place to stay as he did

There was another odd thing that he noticed Most of the guards were sticking close to a peculiar wagon It was longer than the rest and he could see that it had some iron bars at the end Was there so?

He also noticed a peculiar sy it somewhere before, he strained his head and finally recalled where he had seen it

‘Slave traders?’

It dawned on hi that symbol burned into their skin It was a triskelion symbol which was a shape with three-fold rotational symmetry This one was circular in shape with three dots on the inside of the triskelion spirals It was a universal slave sy card of slave traders

This world was one of war and strife Things like slaves existed like any other things There were various types of them, some of which were, war slaves, criminal slaves, and debt slaves

Criminal slaves were people that were as the name stated, criminals There wereon the severity of their crimes they would be sentenced to a life of slavery