Chapter 28:　Capital City

The rewards for the urgent quest as well as selling the monster cores, each of us managed to get 1 and a half gold plate(15 gold coins). I tried to consult with everyone about going to the capital city that Goemon(temporary) told me about.

“If there’s a chance to enter the government service, then I want to go. This place is only good for a Bronze-rank after all. If I could become stronger and got appointed as a knight in the capital city, I’ll have a secured future.”

That’s right huh. Amyl need to have a secured job first to marry Lelena. He’s working as adventurers while saving money, but I guess it’s normal to choose a job with stable income like a soldier or knight.

Lelena also seems to agree, as Amyl will surely choose to go to the Capital City. Since Claire will always follow me, all that’s left is for me to decide.

To be frank, even if it was called the capital city it only gives me the impression of a tourist attraction spot, so I don’t feel all that attracted to it. Even if you said it’s the capital city of the country in this world, it might be even below one of the local city in Japan. If I really need to find a reason to go there, I guess it’s that I could get stronger there? Well, since I don’t really want to  separate with Amyl after all we’ve been through together, let’s say that we’ll go there together until he’s managed to build a stable life?

“Understood. Then let’s all go there together. Claire is fine with that right?”

Claire nodded with a smile when I asked. Then should we depart to the capital city tomorrow? That reminds me, what’s the name of this country? I’ve never heard of it. When I spoke that question, why is all of them looking at me like that. They all have a dubious expressions.

“…Are you seriously asking that? Here is the Garcia Kingdom, and the name of the Capital City is Garcia. Garcia is also the name inherited by the royal family from generation to generation. I really have no idea what wrong with you sometimes.”

What a blunder. Amyl had treated me like a fool. Well, I do lacks a little bit of common sense but still. I’ll look for a map once I arrived at the capital city, so should I at least learn the minimum about the geography here?

Next morning, we boarded the stagecoach to the capital city, leaving Koper town. Although I only stayed here for a while, I did a lot of things in this town. My guild registration as well as my first quest, as well as my first quarrel against other adventurers. Lets come here again if I had a chance. Fortunately it’s not that far from the capital city. I think it’s about one week with a carriage?

The stagecoach we ride on is not only consist of only one carriage, as normally it consist of two or three. To deal with surprise attacks from monsters or bandits on the journey, there are guards acting as escorts on each carriage.if the number of carriage increased, so is the number of guards. But increasing the number of things to protect will be tough.

When adventurers like us gets on the stagecoach, there’s a discount according to rank. That’s because we’re able to fight if we got attacked by the enemy by chance. The basic fee is 5 silver coins. It becomes 4 silver coins for Bronze-rank, 3 piece for Silver. Gold only need to pay 1 silver coin. Although I haven’t seen one yet, but it seems like Adamantite can ride it for free.

Everything went well towards the capital city. Since it’s natural that it will be safer the closer we get to the capital city, the rate of monsters and bandit attacks had greatly fallen. I got bored with nothing to do. The scenery is basically the same, and my butt hurts since the carriage keeps on shaking.

It can be said that the scale of the capital city is way bigger when compared to Koper town. A lot of people come and go, as well as merchants moving about busily. There’s children taking fees while guiding travelers to the inn, as well as adults raising their voices in the stalls to promote their items. there ‘s not only human race here, as there’s also beastmen and elves as well. There’s also many humans that seems to be slaves who’s walking behind a human that looks like their master, carrying large luggage.

There’s a sense like having come to a developing countries on Earth. Even if it doesn’t give me any particular impression, that seems to not be the case for Amyl. Did he gets overwhelmed by this many people, as he only looks dumbfounded.

“…It sure is awesome, the capital city.”
“You said it. It’s my first time seeing this many people.”
“I-is it alright for me to be in a place like this?”

Amyl acts like how a country bumpkin would, as for Claire, she was sold by her family because they are poor. It’s no wonder that they got stiff.

“For the time being, let’s choose an inn that will be our base.”

All the member start walking again after I urged them to. I guess as expected of the products forming a line on the streets of the capital city, the number and type are way more abundant when compared to Koper town. At this rate, I could expect some rice.

“Is onii-san an adventurer? If you still hasn’t decided on an inn, you should come to our inn.The meal is delicious and the bed is soft. It’s a popular inn among adventurers.”

A child who seems to be a barker for an inn called out to us. Since I’m not sure there will be any rooms for other popular inns, let’s stop searching thoughtlessly. I asked the child to lead the way since there might be no hope elsewhere, a splendid three-story building came into view. The atmosphere is not bad as it gives the feeling of a big log cabin.

After getting the reward from the master of the inn, the child went back to where he came from. This might be their source of income.

“Welcome. Right now only the rooms for two are available. Are two rooms good?”

There’s proper rooms for two people. Just like the inn at Koper, this one charge for the number of rooms and not the number of people. When I asked for how much they charge, it seems to be 1 silver coin for a double bed room. Its considerably higher that the one in Koper, but the current us should have no problem with that amount of money.

As we have decided on the inn, shall we go to the Adventurer Guild to see if there’s any way to enter the government service?