Chapter 33: Strike While the Iron is Hot_1

Strike while the iron is hot.

Gaven didn't give Anna any chance to change her mind. At daybreak, they set off, speeding non-stop until they arrived at Bel-Dasc City.

Here, Gaven fulfilled his promise, helping Anna find a suitable caravan to send letters to her parents and teacher, and then he found a caravan in which he could join as a fellow traveler.

This caravan would head north upon reaching Asbray Win, follow the Far Mountain, pass through Horusva across the Sunset Mountain Range, along the Goblin Margins, traverse Tun Marsh, Far Sea Marsh, and the Rocklands, and conclude Gaven's journey of over three thousand kilometers at Tivandun.

This was the shortest of the three trading routes to Tivandun, but also the most arduous and dangerous one. Once across the Sunset Mountain Range and into the Goblin Margins, the dominant force on the trading routes was no longer humans but various monster communities.