Good day! This is Ren.
Its been around ten days since we left the royal capital, but we hadnt arrived in the next town yet.
We were currently staying at a random campsite for a few days. If I rember right, it would take another four days to go to Mubarro from here. Its actually not that far away.
Hey, we werent rushing at all, so lets go slowly! Unlike when we ca to the royal capital, I moved lazily at the sa speed as the caravans of other rchants. As for our movent speed itself, I went together with a group of caravans when going to ONeill in the winter before, so I got this. Theres no problem.
Then if youre asking what we were doing in this kind of place, then I can answer that we were preparing many things Well, you could say that we were training. Myself included.
Our original plan was to stay in a village on the way and take on requests when needed, but there were quite a lot of rchants coming and going to the villages near the royal capital. With many adventurers, too.
Even if we had many things to prepare, I didnt enjoy being seen by so many people. Hearing that, Arisa ca up with the crazy idea of staying in a random campsite for a while And the thoughtless also agreed with it, so we decided on the majority vote and put it into practice.
That being said, spending many days in a campsite on a large hillside road would make us stand out. Instead of actually using the campsite, we were camping a little deeper in the forest near the campsite.
Specifically, I stored the trees into my [Storage] to make a small vacant lot. Then I used earth magic to make a simple house next to the carriage.
It was a simple one, so I didnt put too much thought when making it. We used the simple bed in the carriage as it was. The golem horse didnt need this, but I made so kind of tent to cover them. That could also serve as an excuse when soone saw us.
The floor plan was a living room with a corridor to the carriage instead of the bedroom. The toilet was at the left end of the corridor. The doorway to the stable was right next to the toilet. There were tables and chairs for als in the living room, and benches to relax at the corner of the room. Also, you could also go to the kitchen and the bathroom from the living room. Since I could go out directly from the living room this way, I also made an entrance door just to be safe.
Its quicker if I took out my house, but having a house of that size suddenly appear would cause a ruckus. Thats why we settled down like this.
Eh? It still stands out? Well, youre right But renting a house in a village and doing my preparations there would make stand out even more, so I had no other choice than doing this I guess I also choose this after considering my comfort as well.
I said we were preparing a lot of things, but it was mostly mastering our party cooperation and making new equipnt.
First, the party cooperation. This was actually the biggest problem To be honest, the difference in fighting ability between Lily and Arisa with Norn and I was too different.
Lets look at Lily and Arisa first. The cooperation between them was perfect.
Arisas strong forte was competing with speed, but she was also skilled with swordsmanship, so her blows werent light at all. She could easily decapitate an orcs fat neck.
Behind her, Lily secured her safety with barrier magic and supported Arisa with attack magic and auxiliary magic. Both of them seed to be the cautious type of adventurers, prioritizing their safety above all. Their policy was not to overdo it. Thats great.
Then, lets go to Norn, Bell, and I.
I was completely a rearguard1. What I usually did was put Norn and Bell in the vanguard and make a long-range attack after taking a distance behind them. Its possible to carry out mobile combat by riding on Norn just like when I was fighting the giant, but I would only do it when it was an ergency. To tell you the truth, participating in a battle was too much for , so I didnt really want to do it.
Well, our fighting styles were basically the sa, but our annihilation power was different.
We once tried to show each other our battle against random monsters, but if we fought together, the monsters would be annihilated by Norn, Bell, and . Lily and Arisa wouldnt get any experience out of it.
We decided that Arisa and Bell would be the vanguard. Lily was in the rearguard. Further back was as a backup and Norn as my escort. Since thats how it went, Lily, Norn, and Bell trained cooperating with each other.
The reason I didnt train? That was because of my low self-defense ability. Norn beca my escort to make up for that, but I didnt want to be in danger during training. Thats why I was absent.
I made an excuse that Norn had to move around to follow up during the training, which would leave having no defense. The truth was, Norn hated putting in danger.
Norns overprotection had increased since that incident What the heck happened to Norns title, it changed to Rens Guardian. I was happy and thankful, but also felt a bit complicated.
Also, there were a few other reasons First, we were at a party, but also not. I think calling us a clan was more suitable.
Clan was a large-scale party where multiple parties gathered2.
A typical adventurers party usually comprised four to six people on average, up to eight at most.
However, the larger the number of people, the more different the field of expertise would be. The advantage was we could adapt to various situations. Having over ten people move together would make things complicated, the operation would change. Usually, clans like that would group teams according to the request, and so mbers could take a rest when the clan was taking a request they werent good at.
Well, there were cases where a party with around six to eight people had to work separately according to the request, but with many people, it would be better to register as a clan than becoming one party.
That way, the guild would have it easier in managing various difficult special requests, large subjugation, diation of such jobs, and more. Thats what Lily heard from her older sister, who was a guild staff.
Lily also learned a trick from Salena. That becoming a clan might be a thod to deceive our rank and age difference during registration.
In our case, the rank difference between Lily and I mattered little, but my age was less than thirteen years old. Thats why we couldnt take subjugation requests if I joined a party.
However, we werent forming a party of three people, but a clan with three people; as a solo, Lily and Arisa as a pair. That way, they could take subjugation requests.
Apparently, when so parties have differences in rank between the mbers or unable to take requests because of age restrictions, they will take this thod. Its not very common, though.
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