After another week of travel we had arrived in a small rural village, they were independent and did not trade with other cities, they were all retired Adventurers and their families.
It was easy to spot a retired Adventurer in this place because of scars, missing limbs, or their Auras too strong to be ordinary people.
I was relieved that everyone seemed able to cause common language in this place, in most villages or small towns we passed many are not able to speak common language so I have to let Elsaris and Lilian take care of everything because they know the Demon language.
What made me very happy was to see the variety of food they grew in that village, each family grows something different, many of these foods were things we already had, but there were things we didn’t have.
I made a seed exchange with them as they don’t care much about money here because they live isolated.
After that we went back to our smooth ride, I changed from the carriage to a ride on Ragnar by land, I must say it was faster and more exciting.
Ragnar moved through a forest better than a Wolf, he could even run over the calm trees, his ability to maneuver with movements in all directions was a lot of fun, I can move like that myself, but it’s always fun to see the someone else do it.
As I ran there was always someone running beside me to talk to, whether it was Diana riding her Family Wolf or Vanessa on a Nightmare Horse.
I took the opportunity to talk to Elsaris and Lilian about this Kingdom we are going to, this time I wanted to know more about the dark side of the Kingdom.
One of the things he was interested in was how the ruler of that Realm’s criminals was chosen, but Elsaris replied something that Lilian later confirmed with more details.
It seems that the leader of criminals changes every 50 years, but whoever chooses is the current ruler, according to Elsaris they always evaluate the most competent, favoritism by friends or family always ends in death, and the chosen one must have the ability and respect of other criminals to occupy such a position.
I was a little surprised that criminals followed a culture that takes skill and reputation, I always thought only cruelty and money were worth it to them.
I think my knowledge about criminals can be very biased because of the crime movies and TV series I watched in my previous life, at least before I entered the hospital never to leave.
I had already seen a map showing where this strange Kingdom was, it is on the coast and has only one port capital city, I am interested in knowing this place.
The name of this place is the Vartry Kingdom, and it looks like we can leave the mainland from there even if we need to.
The trip lasted another 1 month crossing this continent, in the middle of the way we still had to change our direction to go as far as possible from a war happening, I didn’t want to get involved and I left. ｂ𝚍ｎｏ𝚟ｌ.
Another month on the road was very good, I stopped at a big lake to fish, then I found out that it was not a lake but a giant slime that tried to devour me, my luck he was Grade SSS and I just had to freeze him with magic high level ice, it didn’t kill him right away, but my partner after that blew the ice to pieces.
I also passed a dungeon of fire whose entrance looked like the gates of hell, of course, I didn’t go there, with my luck that could really become the gates of hell.
But the most amazing thing was a floating mountain, it was an amazing thing to see, for a moment I thought about stealing the whole mountain for my Dungeon, but decided against it when I thought of nature’s retribution for such a drastic change in the environment of the area.
It took me a while to realize that it wasn’t a mountain, it was a Lower Catastrophe Grade Golem monster, it was floating because of the magic of more than 16 mages nearby, they were sealing the Golem.
I stopped and watched next to Orion the monster being slowly crushed by the mages, the reason it looked like a mountain was because it was shrunk from being crushed.
It looks like they’re using some kind of gravity magic and some kind of shrinking barrier, to be all using the same magic this way they must be using a magic ritual.
I continue to sit for the next 20 minutes watching the Golem being completely crushed and its body turned to gravel.
When the Golem Core appeared, I pointed at it and nodded to Orion who went flying, within minutes Orion came back with a core being swept away by a flow of blood.
I saved the Golem Core to give it to Nicolas later, he’ll be put to better use.
I’m sorry for the mages who worked hard, but I couldn’t miss this opportunity and I leave resuming our journey, after 4 more days we arrived early in the morning in the capital city of Vartry Kingdom.
The first thing I noticed was the solid defense of the defensive walls and the strength of Grade B and above the guards in the surroundings.
But all this was diverted from my attention when I saw something amazing, right over my head and heading towards the city was a ship as big as the one I have kept inside the flying Dungeon.
It was a flying ship, I was completely blown away and I’m sure my jaw dropped to the ground I was so shocked.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t on high ground, so the Flying Ship disappeared behind the city walls, but I was still shocked.
Soon an idea started to form in my head, a very fun idea.
“We’re not going on a Floating Ship!” (Nix)
“How do you know what I’m thinking?” (I)
“It’s basically written all over your face.” (Nix)
“But it looks like a lot of fun, imagine the landscapes we would see…” (I)
“Riding a ship on the ocean with you nearly leads to death, I don’t want to find out what kind of horrors traveling with you on a Floating Ship can cause.” (Nix)