Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I’m Bored: Volume 5 [Parts 1 to 7] by rarutori

Author:rarutori
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 3 — Travel, and the Usual Whimsy

After saying goodbye to the baby phoenix and my old home in the Forest Depths, I found myself walking through Pulha again. However, I was not heading east toward Vistcourt at the edge of the forest. After much thought, I had instead decided to point myself south east.

If I headed back to Ludoria, I was sure I’d naturally be drawn back to the capital, and it would probably be a few years before I could pry myself away from it. The Yosogi dojo was just too comfortable for me. Each visit ran the risk of me putting down more permanent roots there.

Not that that was an especially bad thing. I had people there who called me family, so I knew I could enjoy a quiet, peaceful life. But though I had spent only three short years in the Forest Depths, the experience had left me craving something new. I wasn’t interested in settling down, but in seeing and doing something fresh.

One option had been to head in the opposite direction, exiting Pulha to the west. As I mentioned before, the land on the western side of the Great Pulha Woodlands wasn’t technically the western region of the continent. Pulha was positioned more or less in the center of the continent, so the land on both sides of it was still part of the central region. Though they were part of the same region, the eastern and western sides of Pulha were thoroughly disconnected by the forest, making travel between them require a detour north around the harsh mountainous region or south to travel by sea.

The western side of the forest was a chaotic place, a mixture and clashing of the cultures of the far west and the east-central region I was familiar with. For example, the Western religion that taught humans were the superior race, and the east-central religion that worshipped the harvest god and taught that all races were equal fought viciously to claim as many adherents as possible. Some countries adopted the Western faith as their state religion and suppressed all others, while even their neighbors might worship the harvest god, meaning the beliefs of the people could change drastically over even a short distance. Add to that the balance of power between nations and their individual intentions, and the landscape of the west-central region quickly became a complicated mess.

There was no doubt in my mind that if I headed there, I would experience something new. However, that wasn’t quite what I was looking for. While I did want a fresh experience, I wasn’t interested in seeing people at war.

Naturally, people fought each other here in the east-central region as well. Just seven or eight years ago, the region had been engulfed in a huge war brought on by Zieden. The scars of that conflict could still be seen in the growth of brigand and monster populations. But the impetus driving the war in the east-central region had been put down,

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