Chapter 244 - The Wanderer and The Little King

When Cecil entered the large store that was more of a warehouse, he was immediately greeted with the sight of various sized carriages and wagons.

The shop clerk immediately noticed him since currently there were no other customers in the shop.

"Dear customer, what can I be of service today? Would you like to buy a carriage or a wagon? Or do you need maintenance on one?"

"I'd like to buy... a wagon," Cecil replied. He looked around and saw that a carriage wouldn't be suitable for their long travels. A wagon would be much more practical. They were larger and Cecil could do some large modifications to it and make a mobile home for his party.

He reminded himself that Serilla still wasn't used to traveling yet. She'll adapt, but even then he wouldn't want his 2 girlfr—ahem, 2 companions to feel uncomfortable throughout their journey together.

He had basically dragged them away with him so he needed to make a semi-permanent home for them. Sleeping out in the wilderness is fun and all, but he wouldn't want to experience that for days on end since he didn't even know where his parents were in this giant world.

The store clerk nodded happily and began leading Cecil around.

"Then please have a look, or do you have any specifications?"

"I need one that can be easily modified, can be pulled by a wolf-type monster, and has substantial room in it to hold some cargo."

"Ah, we have some already in stock or you can also have one custom-ordered, but it will take time," The clerk replied.

Cecil only replied that he'd just buy one that's already been made. While looking through each one, the salesclerk was incessantly talking and giving him the usual sales pitch that any salesman worth their salt would do. It was a little annoying, but nonetheless helpful.

He quickly picked out the largest wagon available in the store after he inspected the craftsmanship and materials used to create it. He was both satisfied AND surprised to see that the wagon he picked out was actually made from A-rank monster materials.

It was very expensive, but to Cecil and his party who regularly hunted S-rank and above creatures, money was but a number.

Once he paid, the shop clerk asked if he wanted the shop's delivery service to send his wagon over to whichever place he was staying in. Cecil declined and just straightforwardly pulled the large and heavy wagon out with a single hand.

On the road back to the inn, he felt strange gazes directed at him. It was odd to see a lone beastman pull a wagon behind him with one hand, even if it was brand new. Cecil had forgotten to take Silver with him and left him together with Yuna and the girls.

"Ugh, what was I thinking not bringing Silv with me...now look, I'm the one pulling the wagon...a Cecil-drawn wagon... Heh," He chuckled at himself. The boy wasn't bothered with the peculiar gazes people were giving him. They couldn't see his face since it was covered by his cloak so why did he need to feel embarrassed?

It took him an hour or so to arrive back at the inn the party was staying at since he couldn't actually rush along the street while dragging the large wagon behind him. Once he arrived though, Cecil immediately pulled the wagon over to the inn's back lot and began modifying the wagon.

He pulled out all the necessary tools from his spatial ring and began inscribing the runes he had done for the Little Kings' carriage on the wagon. His runes had went through a substantial improvement so the runes he was carving onto the wagon was more advanced than the ones on the Little Kings' carriage.

"Hmm, maybe I should name it this time around. Let's name it, the Wanderer, just like our party's name, and the previous carriage shall be called the Little King! Ah, I should have carved out its name somewhere before I left..."

Cecil took about half a day's time to finish inscribing all the runes he wanted to put on the Wanderer.

When it was deep into the evening, Lucia and the girls had arrived back at the inn. They looked around inside to find him before going out to see whether he was at the back lot.

"Ah! There you are Cel!"

"Oh, hey you guys...how'd it go? Were you all able to find something?" Cecil asked as he did the finishing touches to improve the wheels, axle, and etc. It took another hour or so for him to finish.

Everything became easy to modify ever since he gained the knowledge of an artificer. Cecil had even installed a small Magi-tech air conditioner inside of the wagon's interior.

He had closed off and sealed the interior of the wagon by bordering up the opened spaces with high quality wood that he had bought along his way to the inn. The only way in and out of the wagon's interior was through the wooden doors that Cecil had created which he then reinforced with runic arrays.

One could also break through the windows that Cecil installed on the wagon, but he made sure that they were triple-reinforced by his runic arrays. He even took the extra mile by actually inscribing spatial runic arrays inside of the wagon's interior.

These runes were the ones that took him the longest to finish and they enlarged the interior's space by 4 times the original space it had.

When the girls opened the door and stepped inside, they couldn't help but marvel at the large space inside the wagon that was disproportionate to the outer appearance of the wagon.

"Cel! What's this? What did you do?! There's so much space inside!" Lucia began hopping around and asking in excitement. Even Serilla wasn't exempt from expressing her amazement and awe.

"D-darling...how did you do this?"

The two girls were looking around in amazement. The interior was still empty, but the space inside was large enough for the party to actually put in furniture in to decorate the place.

He looked proudly at the girls and explained.

"I inscribed spatial runic arrays inside the interior. It took a while for it to fully function, but now it seems that its 100% up and running. I have to thank foster mother for giving me her spatial runes and arrays. Now we have a 'mobile' home!"

"Wow~! Our very own home! Yay~" Lucia cheered.

Serilla walked over to Cecil and hugged him tightly. "Thanks darling~"

She had long since noticed his thoughtfulness and knew that she had played a major part in creating this 'mobile' home for their party.

Cecil patted Seri on the head and said lightly, "We'll be using this guy for a long time on the road. Since you're not used to traveling and sleeping in the wild, I just thought to make it more comfortable for all of us since I have the means to do so."

Serilla embraced him even tighter and began to gleefully rub her cheeks on his. Lucia smirked at the two and began looking around while picturing something in her head.

"Hmm, we can even put a small kitchen in here~"

Cecil nodded at her words. He patted Serilla's head once more before going outside. It was getting dark, but he still thought that it was time for them to continue on their journey.

"Let's eat and shower at the inn, then we'll head out right away. On our way out, we'll buy up the things we need to decorate the wagon's interior."

"Okay~"

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After their meal and shower, the party was now in their new 'home' and slowly making their way out of the city. Silver was pulling the wagon while Cecil and the girls were on the lookout for home appliances and decorations for the wagon.

Lucia quickly found a portable stove and other portable kitchen appliances and immediately bought them up. The party also purchased a thick large rug made by Elurian fur, a large B-ranked rodent-type monster that was known for having the softest fur in Alterna.

It was a luxury, but since the party could afford it, Cecil directly bought it. They also bought up 2 long couches that would substitute for the wagon's benches, 2 tables, a few chairs, and some other stuff. The party also bought sufficient blankets and pillows, Cecil even allowed the 2 to buy beds for everyone.

Actually, they only bought 2 beds, a small one for Yuna and a medium-sized one for the two girls. Cecil said he could just sleep on the couch, but the girls obviously had others plans for buying the bed.

The space was large enough, and the party could all fit and sleep comfortably inside the wagon. After buying up a couple of more stuff, the group quickly finished their shopping and made their way to the city's gates.

The guards of course gave them weird glances since they were heading out when the sun was setting, but they didn't move to stop Cecil and the rest after they showed their platinum-rank identification.

Once they were out of the city, Cecil had Silver rush out for an hour or so before stopping. He had bought a couple of wooden boards earlier and wanted to make partitions inside of the wagon.

He separated the left and right of the carriage into the kitchen-dining room and the bedroom, while the center would act as the main area where they would sit around at, it was basically the living room. There was also the lavatory situated here.

Cecil of course had to remodel some of the wagon's interior to create the drainage, but for now he would just partition an area out and finish the remodeling tomorrow morning.

He also created a large partition at the top area of the carriage where they could store some cargo. It was unnecessary since the party had spatial rings, but Cecil didn't want the wagon to look all empty inside.

Sure, they did have a lot of portable kitchen appliances and whatnot, but the interior of the wagon was BIG. It was 20 square meters in size so it was practically a small house...or apartment.

It was larger than what Cecil had intended it to be, but since it was already like this, he couldn't do anything about it and decided to just go for the extra mile. The kitchen-dining room area was big enough for Lucia to comfortably move around in. The bedroom area was divided into 2 spaces, one for Yuna and the other for Lucia and Serilla who were going to be sharing the medium-sized bed.

Cecil would just sleep in the center area on the couch or on the carpet floor. But like what was mention earlier, Lucia and Serilla had other plans in mind. They'd drag the boy to their bedroom no matter the cost.

Once the sections were created, Cecil pulled out all the monster materials that the party got from the previous quest and began storing them up on the upper storage area. He already had Lucia cast cleanse to remove the smell, blood and dirt off of the materials.

He could have sold them earlier at the adventurer guild, but they had quickly escaped from that place and didn't do so.

The inside of the wagon was also brightened up by Cecil's magi-tech invention that was practically Earth's light bulbs.

He didn't want to use light stones since they were expendable items, but he did have a large one placed in the center section of the carriage. Cecil wanted to have the awesome feeling of turning off the light with a snap of his finger when he was going to bed.

Once the modifications were set, Cecil gathered everyone into the center area to hear the information that they found about the humans.