3 Episode Three: Escape the King's Capital in a Carriage

Leave the inn after breakfast.

Then he went to the boarding carriage stop and checked the price and departure time.

The price is one gold coin, and it seems to take about four days to get to the city along the border.

We still have time until departure time, so in the meantime we decided to procure four days worth of food and a weapon in case anything happens.

Of course it's not a good idea to use Taste and Online Supermarket in public, and you shouldn't use the item box because it could be noisy if it was also a rare skill.

I bought a leather bag with water, dried meat, black bread and a slightly larger knife.

Now we're ready.

All you have to do is get in the passenger carriage and leave this King's Capital.

Besides me, the passengers in the carriage had a family of four, a pedestrian old man and a young couple and their two children, and a woman in her mid-30s or so.

Then there are four adventurers on the convoy escort.

After the boarding carriage left, I talked to the old pedestrian sitting next to me for a bit.

"What are you going to sell to Keelus?

I go in from an unusual story.

"Oh, you got the soap from a certain handler. I was thinking of buying it from someone I know in Keirth."

Oh, soap. You have it in this world, too.

So, if you ask me carefully, there is soap, but it still seems to be something the aristocrats use.

When they sell it to nobles, they say one soap makes about three silver coins.

Instead, when I came up with the item box story, I found out that I was hiring that kind of skilled person to be a nobleman or a grand chamber of commerce.

It is said that there is about one in a thousand people with the skill of an item box, but its size seems to depend on magic, which meant that nobility and the Great Chamber of Commerce would never hire you if you didn't have an item box the size there.

"No matter how small they are, they're going to go in about three times as many carriers as I have right now, so from what I can tell, I'm just jealous of having the skill of an item box."

That's what the old man from the pedestrian said and laughed.

I see you don't have to have the skill of an item box.

If you set the item box to be skilled but low in capacity, you might have no problem using it.

"If you're going to be a merchant, you can be very successful with your appraisal skills."

I was able to find out about the item box, so I'll put the appraisal thing into the conversation.

"Ah, that's a dream for anyone who's a merchant. However, he has appraisal skills that are about as brave as those summoned from different worlds that come out of the Miga. I think appraisal skills are the skills a merchant should have, not a brave one. Appraisal skills, it's a dream of what we do in business. Even if I don't have appraisal skills, I wish appraisal demon props were more popular. It's also rare from ancient ruins. Hey, it's expensive enough for your eyes to pop out, so you can't possess it unless it's a country or a guild."

Oh, good. Is the appraisal skill the only skill a summoning brave man possesses?

Besides, there are appraisal magic tools.

But this doesn't even seem like something that's super expensive and can be owned by individuals.

Ancient ruins, the point is, they seem to rarely come out of places like dungeons with a lot of difficulty, so they don't seem to be many.

I'm glad you asked.

Now I know I have little risk of being appraised.

As we talked about it a lot, I found that the old man of the pedestrian was also trying to get to the neighboring country.

My old man's been whispering about it just here.

"This country stinks of kina lot, too. I don't have a family, but I'm lucky I'm single, so I thought I'd leave this country early. Rumor has it, the nearby border may be sealed off."

A border blockade? Seriously, this country sucks.

I'm glad I just cut it off and moved.

Goblins and werewolf demons emerged on the road to Keelus (after all, it was demons because it was a fantasy world of swords and magic), but the escort adventurers crusaded at risk, and the boarding carriage went well.

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Upon arrival at Keirth, he headed to a boarding carriage stop to a neighboring country that the pedestrian old man had heard about.

"You're lying..."

The stopover was marked with the sign 'Stopping boarding carriage service'.

What do you mean, it's stopped?

An old pedestrian said the border would be blocked nearby, so that's it?

But if we were supposed to seal the border, the city wouldn't be so calm, would it?

For now, we're gathering information.

You'd be traveling to all sorts of countries with your stomach together. I went into a dining room with lots of adventurers.

I sat in the counter and spoke to the pair of adventurers who were just next door.

"May I have a word?

"Whoa, what can I do for you?

"Actually, I just got to this city, so I wanted to hear a lot about it..."

I just called the clerk and asked the two of them for ale.

Then, the adventurer told me a lot about "you know what I mean" in a good mood.

"I see. The suspension of the boarding carriage is to prevent a population outflow outside the country"

"Oh. If the population decreases, the number of soldiers and tax revenues will be reduced for that matter. That's about it now, but it could be a border blockade one of these days. The kingdom of Marvel is going to tear up the war even though this country is fighting with the demons."

"Well, it's only a matter of time before it's a war."

The two adventurers told me to rap because of the booze in.

The demonic kingdom faces the north side of this country, and the Kingdom of Marvel is a country facing the west side of this country.

What I'm about to go to is the kingdom of Fanen, which faces southeast.

We're going to leave this country early, too.

"I'd rather be hunting demons than waging war. You should get out of this country early."

I want to leave this country early because there's nothing I can do about it, even if there's demons on the road that are a little stronger than ordinary people.

I thought this was troublesome, but when I saw the adventurers, I thought it was fuzzy.

I guess I should ask the Adventurer Alliance.

It'll cost you money, but I can't help it here.

Leaving this country anyway is a prerequisite before the border is blocked.

I've decided to ask the Adventurer Alliance to escort me to my neighborhood.