Travelling

The carriage pulled away from the castle, slowly departing. The castle grew smaller and smaller with every passing moment.

"Tell me, why do we have to use the slow traveling method? It will take us weeks to get to the empire," Dawn said, and everyone else nodded in agreement.

"Yes, exactly what I want. You don't start building a reputation when you arrive at the empire; you start on the road, the journey there. That's where it begins.

I can assure you that we will go through some insignificant towns that will try to cause us issues. We'll meet mercenaries, thieves, and robbers—a lot of people we will enjoy meeting.

There's also the fact that there are monsters in the forests, and they'll probably attack us from time to time. We'll take them out.

Then we'll find a way to make sure people hear about it, and it slowly starts reaching the empire long before we even arrive.