The Unfortunates News

"From tomorrows onwards, i want you to provides a space for Ivanna to sits insides the caravans." I state my demand to Mr.Bird.

Ivanna looked at me a little bit confused when she heard it, but in less than a seconds she immediatly knows what my intentions was. She observes the situations and decides to remain silent.

Both Mr.Bird and Mr.Sigt looking at each other after i said it. Not long after that Mr.Bird opened his mouth to ask the purpose of my request, just like i thought.

"Can i ask you at least a little bit about your plan Mr.Jeff...?" He said.

"I cant tell you much but if you can provides it, Ivanna has the ability to feels a humans present as far as 100 steps from her." I answered his questions.

If you tell such a things in 22 centuries humans, you'll be labeled as weirdo or a freaks. But in this worlds, a believes towards such a thing like magics are widely popular. So i try to bluff my ways out.

Of course Ivanna doesn't have such abilities like that. But, we have the tools that can made us believable to have such a bullshit powers. Thanks to WW3, most of the phones that being produced are equipped with heat sensors and mini mapping apps.

Even thought it's a very inferior versions than most that are installed to a modern vehicles or especially our truck, It will still become our advantages.

Since both Ivanna and i have a high end models phones, our heat sensors are pretty superior for a phones. It can detect heat sources as far as 100 meters and renders simple maps from our surrounding as long as we move with a less than 15 km/h speeds.

So the abilities that we have are true, but the magic parts are lie. Thanks to humans civilizations on our earth that we can use our 'magic' right now.

"A....a Magic Users....!!? You can use magic...!!?" Said Mr.Sigt in disbelieves while looking at Ivanna.

"Yes i can. But my magic are pretty weak and make me tired if i use it." Answer her. I am impressed that she can cover my bluff pretty well.

"Like she saids, using magic will tire her out. But it's better that ways since we will know if we get ambushed." I chimed in to continues our bluff.

"I am sorry but our caravans doesnt have any free space right now." Said Mr.Bird.

"No, you have the space Mr.Bird. There are a space that are enough for a person to sits on top of the wooden box inside the caravans that you drives." I said to him.

"Is it enough for you..? wasn't using magic needs more rooms..?" Ask Mr.Bird.

"It's barely but definitely enough for her." I answered.

"If you say so, okay then." he said.

After that, both me and Ivanna listening the talks about all sort of rumours that going around lately. The talks then switches from the roads safety to a market places and so on. The talks last for 2 hours and the three of us goes to the stable after.

There is nothing much going on as we are all just resting after eating our meals. It's pretty weirds for a persons from the 22 centuries like me to see all activities are ended when the suns goes down everydays.

We wake up early in the morning and tidy up our things when the sun are still barely emerges. Our caravans leaves Sobran villages after the villagers done selling their stuff to them.

Surprisingly enough there are more peoples that joined our caravans right now. We depart with 9 more peoples, making this journeys becomes more merrier and probably safer.

From that 9 peoples, only 4 that are men and armed. Only one of them carrying a spears while the other only carry a long staff. They are all has a knife or daggers as their back up weapons thought.

The other 5 peoples that joined from Sobran villages are 3 woman and 2 childrens. One of the kids are probably 6 years old and the other are infant that get carried by their mother.

The people from Sobran villages will join us until we reach the town. Mr.Bird told me that they will work there and probably will not coming back for at least 3 month. Since they need to pays the adventurers to guard them if they want to be safe while returning.

Working in a town will allow them earn three to four times of the salary that are given by the villages chief. But the foods and their living cost are also doubled, so sometimes they return with less moneys than they hoped.

Seeing a woman has to walks for another 2 days while carrying her baby make me feels bad, but this is how the life work here. Ivanna want to let the woman sit insides but i stopped her.

"Hey, still doing fine...?" I poke my head inside the tarp that covers the caravans and ask Ivanna that are now sitting on top of a wooden boxes insides.

"Ugh, It's only been 2 hours but my body are hurt and it's very unconfortable." She said in discomfort.

"Well, there are nothing like a suspensions after all." i said. She look at me with a scornful eyes when i said that.

"I am sorry.... actually, i just wanna check on you because i know it will be unconfortable. I am counting on you so please hang in there, Thank you." I said after realising my mistake by joking about her situations.

"Whatever. anyway, you will hear something from me if something happens from your earphone. So, just do your part." She said with a little bit sulky tone.

"Alright then, thank you." I said before i pull my head and get back to walk in front besides Mr.Bird seats.

I already walk for another 4 hours when i see another wooden gated structures with a pasture fields that has a herd of alpaca-like creature that they called Mbik. The Mbik is obviously domesticated as there are some peoples that herding it.

I can easily guessed that those are Na'as villages. Because in the past 6 hours, we already crossed 3 other settlement and all of them are abandoned.

The peoples that working on their vegetables fields and the Mbik herder noticed our arrivals. Some wave their hands and continues what they're doing. It's pretty different from what i expect, since there are a lot of people welcoming us in Sobran villages.

I ask about it to Mr.Bird and she said that right now are still a working hours for a normal peasant like him and them.

A man that looks like in his late thirties already standing in front of the gates, welcoming our arrival. Mr.Bird greeted him as the man greets him first.

"It's nice to see you in a good health Mr.Bird." said the man with a very respectful tone.

"You too, Alan. What is the bad news...?" Ask Mr.Bird with calm voices.

"Oh, you always can easily read me Mr.Bird." Said Alan.

"Who cant reads someone who always welcomes me before i enters the gates if he has some bad news. It's the fourth time already, hehe." Said Mr.Bird half-joking.

"The bad news this times will be the worst that you may heard Mr.Bird." Said Alan while holding his voices.

I listens to him carefully and activates my mic for Ivanna when he said that. The worst bad news means a worst bad news after all. And in this worlds it could be anything.

"The Sumbuja villages in the far west of the Uuf plains has been burned to the grounds." Said Alan while closing his eyes and turn his head down while put his hand on his chest.

Mr.Bird and all of the peoples on our caravans doing the exact same thing as him. It's seems to be some kind of prayers to them. After that he continues talking.

"I just receives the news yesterdays from our own caravans. Our man said that it was a humans doings." He started talking again.

"Well, Sumbuja was still the part of the kingdoms and they dont have a walls like the rest of us free-mans." Said Mr.Bird.

"But, there are at least a 100 mans that will fight no matter how badly prepared they are." He adds.

"Yeah, that's why most of the corpses are mens and some are womans. They are probably enslaved as there are too few womans corpses and no childrens corpses were founds." Said Alan.

"Our caravans choose to pull an all-nighters walkings to reach our villages without resting. They even cant give them a propers rituals." He adds.

"I think you should thinks to cancels this trips and use your mens to strengthen the defences like what we do." Alan give his opinions.

"No, they will be fine. But could i ask you a favors?" Ask Mr.Bird. Despite being a calm person, Mr.Bird are pretty fearless.

"Of course i will, if it something within my abilities." Said Alan.

"Lend me 1 of your horses or let me buy one. I need it to send 1 of my mens back to the villages. I will pay you when i get back from this trades." Mr.Bird said his request to Alan.

"Of course i will gladly lend you, I will have to respectfully decline your rewards thought. Said Alan to him.

After that Mr.Bird ask one of the villagers to tell both Sobran and Aryz villages about the bad news with the horse that are lended by Na'as villages. The villagers depart with the horses after resting and eating the meals with us.

We depart from Na'as villages after the caravans unloads some goods for Na'as villages. They bought a lot of resins that are the majority product from Aryz villages. Apparently resins are very useful for tools and weapons making.

And because of that, Now there are enough spaces for the woman that carry her babies and the kids to sits besides Ivanna insides the caravans.

The caravans continues their journeys like usuals. Mr.Bird still takes the Uuf plains roads as the other alternative roads are as long and probably as dangerous. We arrives at the Uufs plains just in the times that we planned.

The caravans choose to camps near a rivers that cuts in the middle of the plains. Just across it on the north. I can see a enourmous and tall sillhouette of the Mrana mountains.

It's a places where a short folks builds their countries. From Mr.Bird story, many humans empires and kingdoms over a centuries ago has tried to invades and conquering them but fail miserably.

Their roads are too steep and narrow to musters any big army. And their army are known for their ability to shoots their arrows while riding a horned Mbik that can climbs the most steeps cliffs up there.

So humans learn that it was impossible and choose to trades with them instead said Mr.Bird while laughing that times.

The suns was setting slowly as we camps in the Uufs plains. Right now there are 30 of us in totals. But only 23 are armed and the other are unarmed womans with childrens and one old man that also our leaders Mr.Bird.

It's a calm evening but i can sense some uneasiness from most of our caravans crews. Me and Ivanna already talked about our course of actions if thing go south here. We're very prepared at what this world will throws at us.

But it's better if this worlds decides to not throws anything, at least for this night.