Arriving at Marcell

After some haggling, Daron finally bought a carriage for 6000 copper. Since he did not have copper with him, he instead gave the man 50 silver, which normally would be only 5000 copper. However, everyone knew that silver was more precious than copper, and if sold at the right timings, could even yield a great profit upon selling them.

They were like bonds that could never fail.

With the carriage and two horses that he bought from that very carriage craftsman; Daron drove out of the city. Naturally, he knew how to drive a carriage, and so he did not hire someone to drive the carriage out of fear of them learning something about the passengers he would soon bring into the carriage.

"As I said, I will be leaving." Daron nodded at the Official Knight that was guarding the gate he had met earlier, before casually strolling out with two muscular horses, and food and other supplies in the carriage.

"Sir! Should we send men to tail that carriage just like all the other carriages?"

"No. That is not someone we should mess with for no reason. He kept his promise of not staying too long or causing trouble. We must also maintain our distance."

The knight at the gate came back to his senses and dismissed his subordinate.

…

According to the plan he had made with Bob, Daron would keep moving towards the South, following the main road all through the day, just in case someone was following him. Naturally, he would be moving incredibly slowly, but not too slow, to make it just believable for anyone spying on him.

After a day of travelling, he would set up camp for the night. That would be when Bob and the rest would catch up and join the carriage.

Thankfully, no surprises occurred, and the group arrived at Daron's campsite one time and unharmed, where Daron quickly stuffed them into the carriage along with all their luggage to make it impossible for anyone to see that more than once person was here.

After cooking some food and secretly passing it into the carriage, Daron sat down and at his food while giving some to Snowy, who was happily liking the bits of food Daron was giving off of his left hand.

The next morning, Daron set off once more towards the City of Marcell.

Along the way, he would need to pass through the territories of another 2 cities, and according to what Bob had said, and based off of the map that Sirious had fully scanned, the group would take at least 2 days travelling on carriage to reach the next city, and another 3 days to reach the last city. It would then take another 2 days to reach Marcell, the only major city in the Xenith region that was ruled over by an Advanced Knight!

…

A week passed by quickly with the group remaining within the carriage throughout, while Daron went to the cities they reached to get supplies and leave without wasting too much time.

Along the way, they did encounter a few beasts, which Daron took care of swiftly without delaying the journey one bit.

However, along the way, the group encountered a magical beast of Rank 1. That may seem weak; however, Rank 1 magical beasts could be considered at the same level as that of a Rank 7 knight.

Bob wanted to finish it off in one move, but Daron stopped him with the excuse of not wanting to expose their existence. In all seriousness, Daron simply wanted to test out his strength as a Rank 6 knight without unsealing or activating Bloodline Inheritance.

After a long battle that lasted 2 hours, he was barely able to gain victory against the boar like magical beast, all thanks to Sirious' combat system.

Another than this magical beast, they did not encounter too many magical beasts since this was the only route that all those going to the capital used, and it was the responsibility of the ruler of Xenith, Marcell to maintain this road that was barely wide enough to fit two carriages side by side.

Marcell was the only 'major' city in Xenith for a reason, and that reason was that the Advanced Knight had been given the title of Baron and had been given control of Xenith, with all the various knights that owned territory here were given to him as vassal nobles.

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"Hey, will they have warrants out for us in Marcell and the teleportation gate as well?" Daron could not help but ask Bob.

"Haha! Kid, you underestimate the power of an Advanced Knight. An advanced knight is the pinnacle of knights and represents the highest form of soldier. Naturally, there are grades above Advanced knight, but there is only a single such person in the entire kingdom of Pierre; a Blademaster. So, unless some mysterious mages come along and directly pressure the Pierre Kingdom, nothing can happen in the city."

Daron simply nodded along the conversation.