The First Era by Andrew Bardsley

Author:Andrew Bardsley [Bardsley, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-16T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine: Trolls and other Monsters

In preparing for the trip, Ahava collected some items he would need. He also, with his new points, bought a bag upgrade of an additional ten square meters for five hundred points, as he was hoping to have to carry a significant amount of material. Feeling that he could rely on Shulgi, he asked if he would come on the trip. Shulgi suggested that as long as he paid the inn, he would be able to come. Ahava made arrangements to enable Shulgi to come and for this suite to be kept for him. He gave Shulgi some clothing and a weapon for the trip. Shulgi looked at the stolen spear with great interest but said it would be better if he only used the weapon when they were away from the city. He also organized for an agent to look into finding a property for him to purchase when he returned.

On the final full day before leaving, Ahava was taking to Alalngar about his plans. Etum was close by listening in at a discreet distance.

When Ahava had finished making the arrangements Etum came over and said with a bit of excitement in his eyes, “You're off on a trip with some adventures then. Is it dangerous?”

“I really do not know,” said Ahava, “but it could be; that is the reason why I am taking the adventurers.”

“Sorry to be so blunt but I’ll just come out and ask—would you please let me come? It has been too long since I’ve done anything other than study at the college. I need to try myself, and this seems like a good opportunity,” said Etum in an excited voice.

As over the period of training Ahava had come to like Etum and he was certainly good in a fight, he said, “If you want to, I'm ok with you coming, but how will you get permission from the college?”

Etum said, clapping him on the back, “Don’t worry about that; my family has a bit of influence around here. I will be able to get permission.”

Finally the group of adventurers left from the Mercenary Rest early in the morning.

Of course, Ahava had no idea where to search for iron ore. Thinking that their best bet to find ore would be in the cave system, he asked Namzu if there were any caves nearby. Namzu asked the guild. The guild had information from some other adventurers that there was a promising area in some nearby hills that had a natural cave system beyond a waterfall. It was only a few days’ travel to the west of the city. It took the group about two days to travel out of the surrounding farm area around the city and start to move through forest and more wilderness areas with no road or tracks.

Once they were in the forest Namzu and Istar started to scout ahead for any, as they called them, opportunities for gaining more wealth. What they really meant, thought Ahava, was opportunities to get killed.

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