Chapter 101 - Eat my Dust

It was the next day. Today was the beginning of the weekend so Cecil and his party had no classes.

At the moment, Cecil and Ainz were currently at the Ironforge smithy. The two were checking out and making adjustments to the carriage that their party had bought yesterday using the money they had earned from the quest.

"Hey... Cecil... what're these rings, iron balls and spiral things for?"

"Those? Well just make sure you put them together the way I showed you! It'll help stabilize the carriage so they won't shake so much. Although magic can help, but there's a limit to our mana and needlessly using mana to stabilize the carriage just doesn't sit well with me."

"Oh...okay. As usual, you come up with the weirdest of things... by the way, since I'm doing this... just what the heck are you doing?"

"Rune engraving... of course we could swap if you want."

Hearing the foreign topic, Ainz groaned, "Ugh, never mind then."

"Hey you two! We're back!!"

Hearing the familiar voice, Ainz yelled back, "Great! Now come help me!"

Velicia came over and glanced at what Ainz was doing, she was a little intrigued seeing him fiddle around with the wheels of the carriage.

"What can I do?"

"Uhm... here, can you put this and that together like shown on the paper? Should be easy right?"

Ainz handed Velicia a piece of parchment and she took a look at the drawings on it. She could see that it was a step by step drawing on how to put together the contraption that Ainz was currently working on.

It looked pretty easy so she sat down and began helping him.

Lucia came over to Cecil and said, "We retrieved the additional rewards from the monster materials. It's a total of 117,600 credits. Big Sis Mimi helped negotiate with the guild so we were able to get more!"

"Really? Well, we should thank her with something the next time we visit the guild."

"Absolutely!" Seeing Cecil busy with engraving runes all over their carriage, Lucia offered to help.

Fina also helped out since she was somewhat familiar with rune engraving. The runes they were engraving on the carriage were something that Cecil created and called 'air conditioning' and 'heating'.

Once again, it was something incomprehensible to the group, but all they knew was that the runes engraved in the interior of the carriage functioned to cool or heat up the carriage's cabin.

There were also defensive runes that Cecil had already finished engraving all over the exterior of the carriage.

Cecil was adding some convenient features from Earth's vehicles onto their carriage. Cecil also had Lucia and the rest keep some of the feathers from the demon hawks that they had so that he could create some cushions for the seats inside the carriage.

The group quickly finished their modifications of the carriage and had lunch.

"So, what quest did you guys pick out?"

"It's a low-tiered platinum ranked quest. Should be easy, it's only a monster subjugation quest. The monsters are the Armamite Golems in the Alka Mountains. It's a bit faraway but, with Silver we can probably arrive during the night." Lucia replied.

"Did you already buy our supplies?"

"Fina took care of them all ready."

The girl in question was currently carrying pet form Silver in her arms. She was eating and occasionally feeding Silver.

When she heard her name, she raised her head and gave the two an 'okay' sign.

"Alright, let's get this over with then. We have to get back before the school day when classes start again."

"Okay~"

The party quickly finished their lunch and boarded the carriage. The interior of the carriage was really luxurious. It was also the largest 6-wheeled carriage that was available for purchase, so the cabin space was almost the same size as their dorm bedrooms.

It was spacious enough for everyone to sleep together side by side on the floor.

Cecil added a small modification and raised the ceiling of the carriage a level higher. He added some boards to the top where they could store their excess luggage that didn't fit inside their spatial rings. It also acted as a separate sleeping level.

This was where the two boys would be sleeping. As for the girls, they would be laying down their heads on the floor of the carriage once they spread a futon over it.

Cecil fastened the modified harness over Silver. Once it was firmly secured, Cecil leaped onto the driver's seat and told Silver to head out.

"Alright Silv! It's your first adventure with the party so let's set off!"

"WOOF!"

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A suspicious group of people were currently tailing behind Cecil and co.'s carriage. Cecil of course had already long sensed them, but he honestly didn't care. It's not like they could keep up with Silver's speed once he began dashing out into the open road.

Unlike the domesticated monsters that were pulling their cages, Silver was a unique monster that could use high tiered spells and combat skills. Not to mention Silver was intelligent enough to understand human speech and he could somehow communicate with Lucia.

So, if they did try to chase after them, their speeds wouldn't be able to keep up with Silver's and if they did force the issue, then their carriages will have first broken down even before Cecil would feel the need to do anything.

Once the party's carriage had exited the gates of the city, Cecil smiled and told Silver, "Alright Silv, let's have these pests eat our dust! FULL SPEED AHEAD!"

"ROOOOAAAARRR!!!"

Silver roared in response. A large green magic formation appeared under him and a large gust of wind began to blow all around his body. Silver lunged forward and shot off into the distance dragging the carriage behind him.

Cecil was caught off guard and he was sent stumbling backwards into the carriage's cabin from the driver's seat.

"UWAAAHHH!!! OUCH!!"

Cecil had hit the back of the carriage after being thrown into the cabin. He then looked around at the rest of his party.

It wasn't only Cecil who was exclaiming in surprise, everyone inside the carriage was also startled at the abrupt acceleration.

"LIKE I SAID. THERE'S NO WAY HE'S JUST A DOOOOOGGGG!!!" Ainz screamed while tightly holding onto his seat.

Eli was stably sitting on her seat. When Silver had abruptly accelerated earlier, she used her wings to stabilize and hold her body firmly in place. Veli was also wrapped inside her wing so she was sitting stably as well.

Oddly enough, Lucia AND Fina were leaning out of the carriages cabin and poking their bodies out on the driver's seat, screaming and laughing happily.

"NAHAHAHAHAHA~"

"KYAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

The two were enjoying the wind blowing in their faces.

Far behind them, the group that was trailing the party had stopped just outside the gate and were staring dumbfounded at the carriage that was now far off into horizon.

Just how in the heck were they supposed to complete their missions if they had already lost their targets right from the start?

"...let's just head back?"

"But..."

"You wanna follow that? By the time we finally see them, they'd probably be already on their way back to the academy..."

"... damnit... this is SO unreasonable!"

*sigh* "Tell me about it... let's just head back and report to the president that we couldn't chase after them. They got a modified carriage and the humongous monster wolf with them..."

"Tch, fine..."

The group could only head back dejectedly. It wasn't only them. But, many similar groups who were lying in wait could only turn back at the unreasonable sight of the carriage that, in only 10 seconds, had disappeared far off into the horizon.

There was one person however that didn't want to give up. It was a male fat tigerkin with black fur. He was wearing heavy plate armor and was shouldering a mace and shield. He was pulling on a stubborn land basilisk that had large backpacks mounted on its back while shouting,

"Y-young Miiiiiiiisssss!!! Please waaaiiiitttt!!!"

The fat tigerkin jumped onto the land basilisk and urged it forward, but it only thrashed about which caused the fat boy to fall off its back.

"GAHACK!"

He glared angrily at his mount and yelled, "I'LL FEED YOU TO THE BIRDS IF YOU DON'T MOVE!!!"

The basilisk only snorted in reply, and then it began walking off into the distance. This caused the boy to fume with rage. He chased after his mount and jumped onto it once again, only for it to thrash about once again and throwing him off its back.

The duo continued on this way until they disappeared into the horizon, heading in the same direction as Cecil's carriage.