
Travel far enough by train. A day will not be enough to get them to their destination. The option to use a horse carriage is indeed not the simplest option to do and has many troublesome problems. This was their choice of using the carriage, so they did not have the right to complain if they had to face the old journey.
It was late afternoon and almost dark. They stopped in a forest for the night. Extreme enough to be in the forest for an entire night, they were indeed very brave to do this. But because when they're in the woods when night is almost here, how else. They did not have enough time to pierce through the forest before dark and traveling in the darkness of the night was too dangerous. Distractions in the view make the coachman can not see the right way.
“Thank you, yes, Alex. I thought you would just be a burden with us working. At least, you've been a coachman on this trip. Your existence here is not entirely in vain.” Theresa smiled at Alex in front of her.
“Yes. Doesn't matter. Glad to be useful.” Alex replied as well with a smile with thought in mind, ‘Ugh. How can I step down to become a coachman in this place. Was I useless in front of all of them until I became a coachman? I want to take another job.’
Noctis came from behind Theresa, and said, “Come, don't laze around. Yovanca and I will take care of our tent for the night, you hunt down food for dinner. Just a few herbivorous animals like deer or the like won't be a problem for you, ‘ right? You will not get food if it does not work, you know.”
Very strict principle, yes. Not getting food if it doesn't work. If it was a modern earth like this, a 10-year-old girl like Theresa would still not be working. Although it works, it is due to forced conditions or has special conditions. He alone must hunt prey has become something too far to be handed over to a 10-year-old girl.
But Noctis himself as Theresa's teacher knows about Theresa's skills and abilities in combat. Theresa was not very strong in the fight and was more helpful in economic relations. His fighting ability was not very much trained, but that did not mean it was zero. After all the world was also cruel and strength was still needed. Not everything can be done with money and words. Strength and violence are often ways of solving problems that lead to conflict.
“Only a deer, rabbit, or fish, ‘right? Okay, Sensei! I'll finish this before dark!” Theresa immediately disappeared from her place and entered into the thickets without any direction.
He himself did not know where the purpose of this path he took. Anyway he walked through the forest, found the prey intentionally or not, then brought it back. For him the destination is not needed and rather expect a chance encounter with animals. He just needs to remember the way back. A simple thought from him.
Noctis glanced at Alex, then said, “You too. I don't want the two horses to be exhausted or eaten by wild animals as long as we fall asleep tonight. Your job is to look after the horses, Mr. Kusir.”
“Good, good.” Alex unilaterally agrees with Noctis and leaves Noctis alone.
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*srash!* *srek!* *slash!*
In the woods, Theresa makes a difficult journey. The low tree branches and tall grass managed to make his movements slow down several times and he had difficulty in moving. To overcome this, he created a knife using his blood and slashed at everything that was blocking his movement. It's still hard to do but it's easier than ever.
“Hmm... This is harder than I thought, but I cannot compromise against Noctis-sensei,” Theresa muttered while watching the blood knife in her right hand. “Already expected, working as an Adventurer is a difficult profession. In addition to endangering lives due to dealing with monsters and beasts, competition between adventurers makes hunting land difficult and consumes a lot of resources. I was lucky to be the merchant's daughter.”
If you talk about something difficult easy something, actually it is not right to exist. Whether you are used to it or not in doing something. If you never try, of course it will be difficult, while when you have become an expert in the field, then something will be easy. Therefore, this is the reason why learning is difficult.
Learning on your own is trying to incorporate knowledge that is still unknown. If something is still unknown, how can it be easy? But even though learning is a difficult thing because it is not used, at least it can still get used to the learning process. Starting from setting a schedule to discipline, the learning process can still be made easy with us accustomed to the learning process.
“Adventurer is a profession in which one hunts and does the job of request from the union. The requirement to become an adventurer is very simple, which is just need to register. Because of the ease of the registration process as an adventurer, one chooses this profession when not getting a job. The negative impact due to the ease of registration is, the number of adventurers becomes so booming that SDA cannot suffice for all adventurers in this kingdom.”
“New and low-level adventurers who are still unfamiliar with their work mostly fail when meeting wild animals, are not used to facing various jobs, or lose out in competition against professional adventurers. However for high-level adventurers, they had a bright and high-potential future to become bodyguards of noble people. If they could be bodyguards of noble people, they would have guarantees on basic necessities and high salaries. Truly tempting gift for ordinary citizens.”
“Easy registration, wide working possibilities, and can work as you wish. It was only natural that many people intended to become adventurers. But if that's my advice, the Adventurer profession should not be the main job, just used as a side job. The reason is because this job provides unstable income so it cannot be expected.”
“This got me thinking, is it better to join the Adventurers Union? Although I am not active there, I will still do the job and gain some prestige when participating in hunting or assault as well as defense by monsters.”