Chapter 132 Journey to the wasteland 5 (1/2)
early next morning a portal opened in a plaza in king's city, which attracted some attention from the few early risers there were around, soon Mars, Victoria and the girls stepped out of the portal right before it closed
”well then let's head to the west gate”
”sure... but why are we so early isn't first at 9 the caravan leaves?”
”well Chloe that's because I like to be early”
”...fine”
Mars, Victoria and the girls walked through the morning city and found several merchant caravans lined up in a plaza waiting for the gates to open, there was also several merc's around waiting with their assigned caravan
”now what was it again.... ka something”
”it's the Karven caravan Mars”
”oh thanks Varvei, let's find the Karven caravan”
after asking around for a bit Mars and the girls located the Karven merchant caravan, the caravan was made of several carriages that was drawn by giant lizard magic beasts, as for their names and class Mars could not care less since they weren't for 'eating'
”are you guys mercenaries?”
Mars turned and saw a little girl around 10 years old, she wore a white one piece dress and had green hair and eyes, Mars squared down to match her eye height and gave a nod
”yeah, we are here to protect the Karven caravan”
the little girl gave a nod before she turned and yelled
”DAD!”
soon a middle aged man with green hair and eyes arrived, he had a avage build
”what is it sweetheart?”
”theses guys says they are here to protect us!”
”oh I see”
the man looked over Mars and the girls before he gave a approving nod and reached out his hand to Mars
”my name is Karven, I'm the leader of this caravan and this is my daughter Eliza”
”nice to meet you, my name is Mars, I'm silver ranked and this is Chloe, Elsa and Varvei they are all steel ranked”
”oh a silver ranked at your age, that certainly is impressive! I am very glad to have you on board Mars... since you guys are so early why don't you all come into my carriage and enjoy some tea while we wait for the time to hit 9?”
”sure why not”
Mars and the girls joined Karven and his daughter in the main carriage, while it was a little cramped with so many people in the carriage it wasn't really a problem since Mars was used to sticking close to the girls, the time passed with Eliza talking most of the time, she seemed to have taken quite a liking to the girls and over the cause of a hour she went from calling them by name to calling them big sisters.... eventual the time arrived and the group left the carriage and Karven walked around and introduced himself to the other mercenary groups
”hey kid, we meet again”
Mars turned and saw a mercenary was calling out to him, it was a demon man with pale horns and black eyes, he wore leather armor and carried a spear, Mars looked at him for some time until he recognised him from yesterday's farce with the other mercenaries that tried to take the request form him, this demon man was one of the first to begin clapping when Mars had beat them up, Mars gave a smile and reached his hand out to the demon man
”it's not kid, my name is Mars”
the demon man also gave a grin and took Mars hand and shock it
”my name is Casper.... do you mind if I ask what your rank is?”
Mars shook his head and pulled out his sliver tag
”I might be newly promoted but I'm still silver”
”oh, that makes us the same rank”