Chapter 62: The Caravan
Early the next morning, Axor and his party came to the adventurer's guild in the port area, the hall was still crowded with bustling adventurers, most of them were humans, in addition to you you can also see half-orcs, minotaurs, elves, these rare but not bad relations with humans, as for orcs, drow elves, lizardmen and other bad races, don't think about it, they are not allowed to appear on the realm of Baldur's Gate at all, and even in the wild it is a death match to meet each other.
Axter ignored this group of adventurers, and no one dared to dismiss Axter like Axter when he first came, because the battle with the Blade Warriors was too thrilling, and now almost all the adventurers of Baldur's Gate knew that a half-elf boy Juggernaut suddenly appeared in the Adventure Guild, and he would not easily provoke him.
"Hello, please add a member to our Scarlet Frost Adventure Team, her name is Doris." Axter politely said to the reception lady at the front desk, but saw that the other party did not raise his head, compared five fingers, and Axter also threw the two gold coins into the other party's hands with great familiarity.
"Okay, and you're now a D-class adventure team, because you've completed the commission of the Thousand Needles Forest, and this is your mission reward." The receptionist smiled at Axter, then took a bag of gold coins from the counter and placed it on the table.
"Uh-okay." Axor reacted at this time, although he was the one who "caused" this war, but he forgot that they were still an adventure team, and he must have taken over the task by default, Axor advanced the money bag, which was enough for 50 gold coins, which was also a lot of wealth, and his adventure team was promoted to D-level, as long as they rose a level to C-level, then they could make their own adventure team logo medal, although this thing has no magic effect bonus, But it is a status symbol, adventurers with this medal can almost enter and exit major cities, and will be treated as the lowest nobles, after all, almost all the people who can reach the C-level adventure team are professionals above level 10, and the strong are privileged wherever they are.
Leaving the Adventure Guild, Axter and they went to the grocery store to start a new round of procurement of materials, and now their "family background" is gradually getting richer, Axter also spent 400 gold to buy a medium-sized space bag, the secret method store is almost everything up to the grade of the town, there is 10 cubic meters of space inside, relative to the size of a civilian living room, for Axter and others at this stage, except for the corpses of some large monsters, almost everything can be loaded.
In the morning, Axter's own deflated space bag was stuffed again, but the corresponding bulging wallet dried up again, and Axter finally spent 1000 gold coins to buy four horses of the Divine Horse, and his original horses were stored in the Joker and Artist Tavern in Belgost, and Axter had no intention of getting it back, anyway, these horses had poor gravity and could not travel long distances, and Axter also decided to let them retire and spend the rest of their lives in carts or ploughing fields.
Located on the westernmost side of Baldur's Gate, at the end of the Lion's Road, Candlefort is built on a high cliff next to the famous Bay of Sword, where a large number of Warsaw fishmen and pirates live, robbing all merchant ships that come and go.
Axter did not go on the road alone, but found a caravan that was going to Candle Castle as a guard, Candle Castle is not not in contact with the outside world at all, the food and some daily necessities they usually need are purchased through outside merchants, and Axter values this, after showing his D-class adventurer badge, they reached an agreement with the caravan, Axter and others are responsible for guarding the safety of the caravan on the road, and this caravan that only belongs to the Merchant Alliance is responsible for bringing Axter's several people into Candle Castle after arriving at the destination, In this way, Axter and they don't have to pay for a cheat book that is worth more than 1,000 gold coins and is not available in Candlefort.
When the time of departure at noon came, the whole caravan began to move at a rapid pace, and the men climbed into the cart, but drove the cattle and horses forward.
And Axter they walked on both sides of the caravan, responsible for guarding the safety of the goods, the Merchant Alliance is one of the great chambers of commerce of Baldur's Gate, and the only one that can be as famous as it is the Seven Suns Chamber of Commerce, the goods they transport are very valuable, naturally it is impossible to invite only one adventure team of Axter, and another mercenary group with 40 people has also been hired, and there are experienced wanderers and rangers between them, who are responsible for pathfinding in front.
The work of the guards is not just to follow the caravan, only the experienced adventurers and mercenary groups will be hired by the merchants, especially the scouts who lead the way in front, they are definitely old fighters, they are responsible for detecting whether there are dangerous monsters nearby, what is the condition of the road, whether the caravan's trucks can go over, whether they need to fill the pit or take a detour, these are all the duties of the guard, but the security near the Baldur's Gate has always been very good, so this trip will not be very difficult according to everyone's imagination.
"Brother, look, what are those things?" Lavis sat in Axter's arms, now Lavis is almost nine years old, but the little girl still can't ride a tall horse due to her size, the little girl snuggles in Axter's arms, and her cute big eyes look at the beautiful scenery near the Lion Road, although it is almost winter, but near the Baldur's Gate is still a late autumn scene, golden wheat fields grow on both sides of the road, and the breeze blows, like golden waves one after another. White dandelions fluttered untracked under the clear blue sky, up and down like mischievous elves, and butterflies with golden and brown spots fluttered across the wheat fields, and it was these butterflies that Lavis was referring to.
"They're golden sleeved butterflies." Axter thought for a moment in his mind and remembered that his 173 points of knowledge [geography] allowed him to know almost all species. "They like warm environments, and although they are brightly colored, this is a sign that they are highly toxic, and if people inhale the powder they spill, they can go into a state of shock, but they generally don't like to attack people easily unless they are frightened."
"Yo, yes, I can't see that you still know a lot about the creatures of nature." Doris listened to Axter's eloquent talk beside her, and couldn't help but show a curious look, even her own druid didn't know the living habits of this butterfly, a purebred warrior actually knew so much, she instantly had a feeling that she had lived to a dog in the past few years.
"Hehe...."Axter sneered and didn't say more, in fact, the living habits of the golden sleeve butterfly are all his own casual nonsense, if he really knows so much about these partial knowledge, then his knowledge [geography] not only has to break through 300 points, but also must have the skills of the student [biology] to support it, of course, Axter will not tell Doris about this.
The caravan walked all morning, and then stopped at a lake, it is impossible for an ordinary caravan to walk all day, not to mention people, the livestock pulling the wagons can not bear it, these cattle and horses are ordinary and even old, but they have to pull hundreds of kilograms of goods to walk, their limit is at most half a day.
When they reached the first resting place, the men of the caravan got out of the cart and untied the cattle from the cart and let them go to the lake to eat, while some of the special men set up wooden racks and pots and began to prepare lunch.
Compared with the caravan insiders, as the caravan guards are much more miserable, because they are responsible for the security of the perimeter, they can not enjoy the hot broth, they can only take out the dry black bread from their arms to satisfy their hunger, and those in good conditions can eat dry jerky.
"Hey, hello, I'm the head of the Mercenary Regiment in the Land of Warriors, Rakchel." Just as Axter was munching on their bacon, a middle-aged man suddenly walked over and stretched out his hand to greet them.
"Hello, I'm Axter, the leader of the Scarlet Frost Flame Adventure Team." Axter also politely stretched out his hand and shook hands with the other party, the Mercenary Regiment of the Land of Warriors is a small mercenary group, not famous at all, at least he has not heard about these mercenary groups in Baldur's Gate during this time. But since the other party took the initiative to show favor, he was not that kind of pretend. Forced people.
"Have you ever been to Candlekeep before? I've always heard that it's a sacred place for scholars, but it's a pity that our mercenary group only glances at the castle at the door a few times every time we do a mission. I didn't go in on my own. After saying hello, Lakchel sat straight on the soft turf and chatted with Axter.
"Of course we haven't been there yet, but we're going to go in and see it this time." Axter looked up at the sea of trees in the distance, and the blue sky and the golden wilderness formed a clear intersection in the sky, which made people feel refreshed and happy.
"Hehe, then you must be prepared with enough wealth, I heard that the expenses are very large." Rakchel said with a smile as he took a jug from his bosom, unscrewed it and took a big sip, the smell coming out of it that Axter knew was inferior liquor.
"Thank you." After taking a sip, the other party handed the flask to Axter, who was not polite, and took a large sip with his head tilted, this is the way of communication between warriors, although Axter does not like to drink, but he will not refuse the kindness of the other party.
"I'll go see how we're going, and we'll work together more on the way." After some time, Rakchel took his leave and returned to his party, and the caravan was apparently rested, and began the afternoon journey again.
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