My wild Berries

"Jack visit us some time OK. We will promise to study hard from now on…" the kids were giving their goodbye to jack.

Jack was all tears looking at the other kids. He does not know when he will see them again or will they even be able to meet again.

"Just grow up well you guys, once you have grown tough, I will come back and get you guys."

Jack thought about something, then he added "I promise you guys that I will come back someday. And once I come back, I will be bearing a great title. You guys can serve me if you like"

The kids who were about 1-3 years old had eyes that were shinning due to Jack's promise "Is it a title of the king just like the bedtime stories you tell us?"

"Yes, yes, come back as a king we will be serving the majesty" the other young kids nodded their heads.

Jack has a grim expression. These kids were very demanding. The older Kids were all laughing at Jack. Who told him to be so friendly with everyone that they are all rooting for him. Noah was just quiet at the side only watching the people say their goodbyes to each other. He has not gotten close to the others and does not really care.

A black cat with wings suddenly leaped out of the orphanage door and went directly at Jack. It is holding something in its mouth which looks like a ring.

Jack recognized the cat as Arch's familiar which is the succubus cat.

The cat went flying to Jack and handed him the ring and then went back to the orphanage door.

Jack looked at the ring which he put in his right middle finger. Jack knows that it is a space ring. It was made from wood, with a simple design, and it barely shows the white gem from the top.

This is really a good quality space ring, it is made to be unnoticed. Jack did not expect that Arch and Suzaku made this last night just for him.

Jack knows that he cannot open this until he has any mana to use to bind it.

Jack went to say his final goodbye to the kids and departed.

He was very certain with the terrain and already knows what to do.

He first went to the Windshore village to buy a horse that can carry the luggage they were carrying with the cost of 1 silver jumong. He also went in to pack some dried meat for the two of them which cost about 50 copper jumong enough for 10 days of travel.

In the end, from his saved money that was given an allowance by the great elder which was 20 silver jumong only 18 silver and 50 copper jumong was left. The currency in this new world was like in the game on earth. 100 copper for 1 silver and 100 silver to one gold. After gold comes mana stones. 100 golds for one mana stone. This was the most precious for all mages.

And lastly, the most important item which is always needed to travel long distances, the beast saliva incense. This is always used by commoners to travel in beast infested areas. The beast incense was usually gathered by mercenaries during their beast hunt.

Usually, it was divided into three classes which were the A, B and C class. Which corresponds to A having the saliva or urine of a lvl 30 above, while B was gathered from lvl 20 to 30, and C for lvl 10 to 19.

Jack went to buy one A class which cost 5 silver jumong, 2 B classes for 6 silver jumong and 3 C class which cost 3 silver jumong. This beast incense, once the lid was opened would start the time of its consumption which was about 5 day's each. This has reduced his pocket money to 4 silvers and 50 copper jumong.

Jack was usually fetched by a carriage sent by his great-grandfather when traveling from Edensburg to Windshore and vice versa which will take about 7-8 days depending on the weather.

This time it's an unplanned travel and they must spend around almost a month's time walking. They must go from village to village to stop and replenish their goods. Jack really has no problem with the idea, but the looks of Noah is certainly going to cause some trouble when found by slave traders.

Jack calculated the travel expenses and does not know what to do.

Jack can't also afford to ask some pocket money to Arch and Suzaku because of the financial problem of the orphanage. The orphanage only operated because of Suzaku's smithing. Arch is basically a bookworm who also help Suzaku run the Orphanage and does not earn any money.

Jack was smart. We can see from his stats that his intelligence is high so why can't he find a way in a situation that he lacks money.

Jack made his own plans and from 12 in the morning they started their journey going south-west of Windshore.

Jack has already known most of the geography of Philippi especially the places near Windshore and Edensburg.

He has tried his best to know more about the geography of the world from Arch, but arch did not give him any answer only telling him that he does not need to know these for he will surely just stay in the Roan kingdom for all his lifetime.

The kingdom which Jack was staying now was a small kingdom with 2 dukedoms and few other minor places connected to it. The dukedom of Philippi is one of the two which was being governed by duke Belfore of Roan. Based on what Arch has told him.

But this data was about a hundred years ago when Arch was still young traveling to the central city of the dukedom which is Benefezil Archilum City.

The dukedom of Philippi has 3 city, 8 towns, and numerous village's that appears and disappears through the passage of time. But of course, there are also bigger villages that will soon become a small town like Baspal port village in windshore which will soon change into Winshore town.

According to Arch there are too many kingdoms in the world which he himself has not known yet. He even told Jack that there are other kingdoms composed of an entirely different race just like the Elven Grand Sanctuary kingdom to the west of Roan. Which Jack was sure that it is where Noah's father came from.

They went a little farther than they expected from Windshore village they have traveled to Irubin forest. They searched out for a cave which was the only way they could keep warm for the night because they cannot even afford a tent this time.

Jack and Noah had found a small cave opening and started to gather woods for them to start a campfire. They pulled the horse in the cave with them to keep it safe from the beast of the forest at night.

Jack opened one of the class C beast incense which he then laid near the cave entrance. They both entered the cave and started unloading their stuff from the horse.

Noah was able to find a good spot in the cave to sleep in, which was a small clearing inside the cave. Then they started the fire near their rabbit fur bed.

Jack proceeded with cooking their dinner. Jack planned to cook the dried meat with water for it to expand. Jack knows that this is basically dog food in earth's standard but what can they do if there is not even a salt to make it taste better. All of this meat was preserved through smoking or drying in the heat of the sun.

The two ate waited until the meat was boiled.

Jack took some sticks to poke the meat in the bowl to check if it's already soft.

Jack looked at Noah and smiled "It's already soft Noah, come let's dig in"

Noah who was sitting in his rabbit fur approached Jack, and was watching the Red slightly brownish meat being skewed by Jack.

Jack who was all smiles took the skewed meat and offered it to Noah "Here try some"

Noah looking at the meat moved his head toward the meat and took a small bite.

Jack was taken aback "Hey! You take it, I will not feed you, you know"

Noah smiled at Jack and took the skewed meat.

Jack also took his part and started eating. But he found out that it tastes worse than it looks, how can Noah bare to eat something like this. He can barely take his cool eating, always wanting to throw up.

After eating, Noah got his bed closer to Jack's.

Noah was looking at Jack occasionally, expecting Jack to speak first.

Jack was quite bored getting some wild berries that they have picked in their way to eat.

He noticed Noah's gaze and stopped midway in his leisure feasting.

Jack pick some of the berries and offered them to Noah "You want some?" Jack smiled and added "They taste really good, I don't know what these are, but they are sweet, except for the fact that its seed is 80% of the entire fruit I will just eat the seed along with it"

Noah looking at Jack moved near Jack to get the unknown Berries. "Thanks, they are really sweet. I think these things can be used as sweetening like sugar" Noah smiled.

After an hour Jack and Noah are suffering there…

Now Jack noticed what he has done wrong. The fruit's seeds are...

He tried to leave the cave but it's dangerous, but he can't also leave Noah, he must take responsibility......

The end

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