Chapter 162: Arriving In The City

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We moved through the skies inside of Fuyu until we reached the skies above the large town below us.

I decided to tell Fuyu to move back a few more meters because god knows what kind of crazy Magus there could be there, so I didn't want anyone to find out our method of transporting.

"We are here…" said Benladann.

"Indeed. I really want to explore the Dungeon and see how it is, while also hunting down monsters and getting Rank 3 Mana Cores if possible… But I wonder if it will be that easy to get inside? For the moment, we might as well try…." I said.

"Hmm… Well, we can also buy new food and spices in the way! Right?" asked Benladann.

"Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that… We might as well grab some food and other things… Well, we have to investigate things thoroughly. We won't know what might happen next," I said.

"Yeah!" said Benladann.

"Hm, are you planning on bringing all the kids? We are already a big group, if we are even bigger we might awake suspiciousness…" said Draugann.

"Well, that's why you're staying in here, grandma," I said.

"Eh? But I want to go to the big city! I want to drink some booze!" cried Draugann.

"Sorry, but you'll stay here. Tomorrow we'll come back in the morning to bring you with us and some of the kids, they are many, so we have to take turns in between… Got it?" I asked.

"Sigh… Okay…" sighed Draugann.

In the end, we decided to go to the town with a small group, the family of the hunters, who will welcome us in their home, me and Benladann.

The town seems not as guarded, although there is a gate, the gate is the one that leads to the more "high class" streets. There are a lot more houses around it, which also have markets and farms where the common folk that produces food for the rest of the town and the sect members reside.

…Actually, they reside outside the walls, meaning that if there is a monster tide, all these people will die quickly, and will probably serve as a distraction for the monsters while the rest of the people inside the walls prepare for battle.

Or maybe I am overthinking it too much?

Anyways, because there is a big town outside the walls, which is barely guarded, there seems to be some shady stuff around, such as a slave market… And a market where they sell robbed things.

But there are also nice markets that we want to go to, such as the markets of vegetables, fruits, cattle, meat, eggs, and more!

So when we saw that there wasn't anyone around, I used Camouflage, Conceal Presence, and Wind Camouflaging Coat all at the same time. And through these concealing winds, I covered everyone else as I descended from the skies in the shape of a dragon.

After that, I transformed into a pure Ice Giant without any dragon-like appearance. Benladann had a little horn, but the hunters said that there were some old Ice Giants that grew ice horns around the Sect. it seems that high caste Ice Giants have grown horns as they grow, and as they develop their cultivation…

"We live around the outskirts… our house might be around the first streets… It is not a bad place, and our neighbors farm all sorts of veggies."

It seems that even in these ice land many plants can grow, people here plant rock salt, permafrost carrots, charcoal potatoes, and other types of strange magical vegetables that grow in these mana-rich snow-covered lands.

The cattle monsters also feed on them, such as the Ice Buffalos, whose females produce very delicious milk, which they also make into cheese and yogurt, Frost Cockatrices that were domesticated until they were not able to attack with petrifying gazes, whose eggs are as big as watermelons, ideal for ice giant's enormous sizes, and they also seem easy to raise. I should probably buy a few of these animals and take care of them inside Fuyu. This way we can get better milk and also eggs.

"I am a bit nervous…" sighed Benladann.

"Just stay at my side and it should be fine. Let's have fun looking around," I said.

Benladann nodded timidly as she touched my hand with hers. I quickly grasped her fingers and tightly held her hand with my own.

She felt more relieved as we held hands, although the people will most likely think we are a couple…

Well, not like I mind.

Benladann smiled cutely as she averted her gaze from me, touching her hair nervously while getting all red… She's so cute.

We walked into the town slowly, going through the main road, some people were walking back to town as well, we even saw some people carrying large loads of things through large carriages.

Some of them were being carried by just other ice giants, although other people with more money employed Ice Buffalos or the rare Frost Horses, who were immense horses reaching up to almost four meters of height with three sharp ice horns over their heads, they were big and packed with muscles, the ideal horse for ice giants. But it seems that they were rare around these lands, so they were quite costly to have and take care of.

The people were all ice giants. I have hoped to see another race amongst the many there were in this world, but it seems that this region was very ice giant-centered.

Although Draugann had once mentioned having seen beast-kin and ice elves, they were more secluded races that lived far away.

With such a big amount of ice giants, I would guess that it would be hard for these people to be able to get by in this place, the discrimination might be big, especially if we put the size differences, a small beast-kin wouldn't be able to communicate properly with an ice giant unless they were to crawl over their shoulders or scream very loudly for them to hear them…

When we reached the town, we were greeted with something unexpected…

"This is awful…" sighed Benladann.

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