The Diary of a Middle-Aged Sage’s Carefree Life in Another World: Volume 4 by Kotobuki Yasukiyo

Author:Kotobuki Yasukiyo [KOTOBUKI, YASUKIYO]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2024-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8: The Old Guy Heads to the Ramaf Woods

All of the mercenaries who’d be going to the Ramaf Woods had gathered together at the mercenaries’ guild.

From there, they’d boarded carriages and joined up en route with the vehicles the academy students were in. Overall, there were some forty carriages heading to the woods, making for an impressive caravan.

These carriages had been borrowed from farmers and merchants living nearby, so each had a different capacity. And the larger ones were being used to carry rations and the like; there wasn’t enough space for everyone to ride at once. So the students and the mercenaries were all taking turns, alternating between walking and sitting in a carriage, as they made their way to the Ramaf Woods.

The carriages that the students rode in were protected by two platoons of knights, who were also here to help protect the base camp. Inside the woods, though, it’d be up to the mercenaries to guard the students. The mercenaries would also be teaching the students how to harvest materials from the wild and how to get them by taking apart defeated monsters; that was another purpose behind the camp.

The combat training would last for four days, though adding on the time required to get to the woods and back would make it about a ten-day trip.

But of course, spending a whole three days alternating between walking by foot and riding in a carriage could get pretty tiring. So some of the less fit students inevitably ended up running out of stamina partway and, ultimately, giving up on the training camp before they’d even reached the woods.

This camp was intended to raise the students’ levels, but it was also a practice run for if they needed to be mobilized and sent to the battlefield in some future emergency. Any who pulled out on the way there were considered unfit for real battle, and had points deducted from their grades for having failed to get in shape beforehand. It could be a real sticking point for the more research-oriented students.

Croesus was one such example. He’d been walking for two days straight by now, and he was at his limit.

“Uh... Hey. Croesus? You okay there?”

“I’m...managing. Somehow. I don’t know how much longer I’ll be able to last without getting on a carriage, though.”

“Yeah, ’cause you’ve got no stamina, huh... Sounds like we’ve still got another hour before we swap, though.”

“We have a lot of carriages here, but the basic ones borrowed from farmers only have so much space for people to ride in them. I’m not entirely confident there’ll even be space for me.”

“You sure you’re not just gonna collapse before then anyway? I told you to get some exercise in before we went on this trip, man...”

Croesus had no response.

Usually, he spent all of his time holed up in either his bedroom or the laboratory, researching day in and day out.

Of course he was going to have less stamina than the average person.

“I wish I’d never become top of the class.

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