We can see two caravans that being pulled by two horses each. Yeah, this worlds has a horse that they called 'Mohr'. This time i am sure 100% that the creatures that i see are horses.
In this worlds horses are treated very specials, especially in this villages. They somewhat whorshipped it as a creatures that can bring a prosperity to their homes.
Mr.Aihan said that a draft horses like this villages have is priced around 20-50 silver coins each. And a horses that are used in a war or warhorses cost about 150 to 500 silver coins.
'so a horses like that are as expensives as a brand new mid-class family cars huh.' i thought to myself as we walk closer to the caravans.
There are already a lot of peoples that are gathered in front of the villages gates. Some of them still hauling crates and goods inside the caravans and most of them are just chatting to their families.
"Good day to you Mr.Jeff and Miss Ivanna." We heard some familiar voices greeting us.
"Good day to you too Zirko, is there something that we can help right now?" I greet him back and ask him if they needs more helps to haul their goods insides the caravans.
"Nah, We're almost done and there is only some smaller boxes anyways." He answered.
The man that greets us are Zirko, he is a 20 years olds man with a wife and 2 kids. He has a sincere and helpful personalities. He is also a villagers that have the closest relationship with us. It's not exaggerations to call him my good friends in this worlds.
Today he will come as a caravan guards with us. like all the other villagers that work as a guards in this villages, Zirko has other jobs as his main jobs. His main jobs are hunters.
Zirko works as a villages hunter with all of the man in his families. From his brothers, cousins, uncle, fathers and his grandfather has hunters as his main professions. Right now there are 13 active hunters that are also works as a villages bowmens.
"Btw, how many peoples that will comes to the town with us?" I ask Zirko as i see a lot more armed spearmans than their usual morning guards.
"Hmmm...With both of you there will be 22 that are goin in totals. But only 20 of us are armed." Said Zirko after thinking a little bit.
22 peoples to transport a goods that weight around 1 tonnes or less sound insanes to both me and Ivanna. It will be really ineficient and expensives if we do that in our worlds.
"Umm.....does this means we have to walk for a 3 whole days Mr.Jeff...?" Ask Ivanna while looking at me.
"Unfortunately, it seems yes would be my answers." Answer me while looking at both of the caravans that are full of boxes and has no space for a humans to sits.
"Ugh this will be sucks, i am not applying for another military drills." said Ivanna a little bit grumpy.
"Well, nothing can be done about it. it seems we had to go back to our training days once again." I said while frowned.
I also think that we can sits inside the caravans like in those fantasy games. But the reality are very harsh for us. Walking for 3 days each back and forth, carrying all of this weight are very rough for us.
Our cargo jackets only are already around 7 kg in weight. with our guns and backpack full of waters, dried foods, medicine, a box of ammo each and blankets for the night. The weight that are distributed to our bodies are around 18 kg.
With the polearms in our hands, the total weight that we carry are exceeding 20 kg. We are weighted down almost as heavy as fully equiped soldiers.
"We're All Done Loading And Ready To Go...!!!" Someone yells from the caravans to inform us all that all the cargo are already in.
We see Mr.Aihan comes from the crowds and walk towards the caravans. He then started giving some small speech and lead to recites a prayers with all the villagers so the caravans can have a safe journeys and comes back safely.
He walk to us after and said to take cares and prays for us before we departs. Mr.Aihan obviously wont be coming with us to our trading journeys because he is the villages chief.
Instead the caravans will be leads by Mr.Bird who are a veteran traders from this villages. His name are pronounced Bird in english but i am 100% sure that he had no correlations with bird from our worlds.
The caravans started to move after Mr.Bird giving us commands to move as he drive on the first caravans. The horses pulling the caravans move as slow as a humans walking speeds.
We all march along besides the caravans. We all looks like some rag tag mercenaries with the equipment that we uses. The villagers militia carrying a spears and shields while both of us carrying the 'Billhooks'.
Billhooks is the name that i founds while browsing offline wiki about polearms. it's a weapons that originated from farming tools. The ones that i and Ivanna holds are a proper military of it.
It has a cleaver-like blades to slash with a curving sharp end to hooks the oppenent closers. It also had a long pointy tip to stabs the oppenent. So this weapons are basically a mix of cleavers and spears, making it very effective and deadly.
Even if you cant slash or stab your oppenents, this more or less 3 kg weapons are heavy enough to injures oppenent just from it's blunt forces.
"Ugh...this weapons are heavier than i though after walking for sometimes with it." Said Ivanna as she walks.
"Couldn't agree more with you, at least the air in this worlds are nice." I responded to her complains.
I see the watch on my hands and we only walking around 1 hours. I can see why Ivanna complaining because i can already feels the unconfortable feelings on my right shoulder as i leans the billhook on it while walking.
But the air in this worlds feels really greats. It's feels fresher even when you compared to the wildlife sanctuaries air on our worlds. If only we did not carry 20 kg weight on our bodies. It would feels like we're just enjoying a field trips.
We decides to just bear with the weight that we carry on our bodies. Enjoying this walking trips and talking with the villagers. Chatting and joking while marching, this trips getting more easier to bear with as the times goes on.
We cross a small forest, then a grasslands, and then small forest again, and grasslands again until Mr.Bird decides to rest on the empty fields near a small river around the grasslands beside the dirt roads.
"Mr.Atli and Sa'am, please bring the horses to the grassland over there and guards it. I will bring your tea and meals when it's ready." Said Mr.Bird as soon as the caravans are parked and he untie the horses.
Mr.Bird are one of the elders in the villages that everyone respect. He is already around 60 years olds, but still had the energy to drive the caravans monthly trips. His positions in the villages are like that one senior section chief that everyone respected.
As soon as the caravans are parked, the villagers started to find a spot to build a campfires. after that they arrange stone and some small twigs to made the campfires. they did not use a lot of twigs because it will only be a short break.
It's already 1 PM when i see my watch. We're already walking for a straight 5 hours but the trips wasn't as bad as i though even thought i really need a break right now.
I sits near campfires as i watch them making it while my though wonders.
'What will happen to us in this supposed to be 1 weeks trips that we do without our trucks.'