The Devil Tears: Lord of the Night
Arc 1 Chapter 3: Leaving the city

...Go leave the City...

The next morning Luciel and Liz went to the South of the City of Elea as directed by Caravan Master Thomas on a piece of paper he gave to Luciel. They then approached the two Caravan Guards.

“What do you two need to do here?“ a Caravan Guard asked Luciel.

“We want to follow the Caravan you are controlling mr.“Luciel then gave a piece of paper to the Caravan Guard.

“Hmm... Rhine City, Ludwig take them to his horse-drawn carriage.“

“OK, follow me“ Luciel and Liz then follow a Caravan Guard who thought – thought was still a teenager.

“Master guess – guess how long it takes to travel from Elea City to Rhine City?“ ask Luciel.

The Caravan Guard then turned his head somewhat angrily.

“Hey I'm not that old and this year I'm only 16, you can call me Ludwig,“.

“Sorry but my nun at the orphanage always told me to always be polite to the older man, Ludwig,“ Luciel replied.

“You have a good teacher while I have since childhood only learned from the father of – the drunkard.“ Ludwig pointed at the Caravan Guards who were having breakfast near the horse carriage.

"And to answer your question, usually on the way we will rest 2 times during the day we rest for 3 hours and night and continue when the sun rises again, we will also pass through the city to pause for traders to buy supplies and trade, suppose we will arrive in the city of Rhine on the 11th day of the fourth month,” explained Ludwig.

The calendar on the Asgardian continent began when the Alliance sealed the Demon King 732 years ago, and had 12 months of 30 days each and the humans on the Asgardian continent had no concept of weeks.

“This is your horse carriage, put your – things here and if anyone is missing talk to the Captain of the Caravan Guard he has a tall stature and strange mustache,“ said Ludwig.

After Luciel and Liz put the goods – their goods the first bell rang and the caravan group was preparing to leave the city of Elea.

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The caravan followed by Luciel and Liz had a group of about 60 merchants, 30 drivers and had a bodyguard of 50 people. Some large trade unions could have their own private soldiers to guard their caravans, but the Maburg trade union was only a regular trade union and could only afford to hire mercenaries.

The mercenaries had a society called Merc. Merc provides mercenary groups request – requests from nobles and merchants, as well as, but it is different from Guilds which are the organizations of the hunter guilds that have strict requirements to become a member because hunters deal a lot with monsters.

“So we are in a continent called Asgardia.more precisely in the Kingdom of Bavaria which is ruled by the Bavarian dynasty, which is, founded by a Bavarian paladin wielding a holy weapon called the Aegis Shield that even Demon Lords find hard to break through.“

A sacred weapon is a weapon used by the hero who has the blessing of Goddess Juliana, a supreme goddess to the majority of humans on the continent of Asgardia.

“Royal residents belong to the Aryan race who have the characteristics of brown, blonde and red hair, they use the Aryan language where people – people of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Grand Duchy of Bradenburg, Kingdom of Swabia, and the Holy Empire of Isenburg use.“

Luciel explains to Liz about the language and teaches Liz to read Aryan during the trip.

“Then every citizen when entering the age of 16 where a person is considered an adult, they must have a residence, and, otherwise they would be considered as illegal and would be placed by the nobles of – as half slaves which the nobles would choose whatever their occupation.”

Liz's face became grim when she heard Luciel's explanation

“How do we get a population of Ciel? “

“ We have to pay 1 Gulden and pay 80 ral annual tax for residents of the Kingdom of Bavaria,“ explained Luciel.

After 3 hours of travel, the caravan will pass through a bridge between the cities of Elea and Alemania. On the bridge there is a military post and there are – river transportation services. Kingdom strongly keep tight point – important point connecting city – royal city.

“I used to live in Baden with my Mom,“ said Liz.

“But when my mother died, the slave collecting syndicates took me and forced me to work for them.“ Liz recalls – times of gloomy time while at the shelter.

Hearing that, Luciel changed the topic

After passing the Caravan bridge then continue the journey to the Alema Forest

“Hey Liz try to smile often when talking to someone later.“

“ Why? “ Liz doesn't understand why Luciel arrived – arrived asking for it.

"That's what the sister taught the girl – girls in the orphanage, she said if you give a sincere smile to others, it will make the person who received it more excited in doing something. We will often interact with many people because we need others as well to thrive.“

“Alright, I'll try," said Liz.

After 3 hours of travel, they arrived at a large forest.

“This is Alema forest, the largest forest in the kingdom of Bavaria “

“Isn't the forest Ciel's dangerous place? “ Tanya Liz seemed to remember a bad incident

“ Be on standby we enter Alema Forest, many monsters nest here “ the chariot driver reminds Luciel and Liz.

The expressions of the Caravan Guards looked more serious than usual. Place – places such as forests, valleys and alleys are very much inhabited by monsters because it is far from human settlements. Monsters are creatures brought by demons from the demon continent when attacking Asgardia and not a few of them are experimenting with humans and elves who create DemiHuman and Dark Elves.

After two hours of entering the Forest a Scout approached the Caravan Guard Leader

“ Captain there seems to be a horde of goblins around here, I found a female corpse while doing surveillance around the Caravan and judging from her wound – wounds most likely she was killed by the goblin “ Scout it reported its discovery to the Captain of the strange mustache Caravan.

Goblin is a body like a human child but some have bodies like adult humans. They usually kidnap humans and eat their catch. They nest in caves – caves, forests, and valleys that are rarely inhabited by humans.

If they catch a woman then they will hold her captive and force – women to give birth to their – children. Goblins usually hunt at night but if we approach their nest then they will not hesitate – to attack.

“it looks like we are approaching the goblin nest, we will move forward and make a defense perimeter about 20 meters away from the entourage “ the Caravan Guard Captain ordered his men.

When the Caravan entered deeper into the forest area, suddenly heard the sound of – strange sounds in the bush area – forest bushes. Appeared are 3 green-skinned creatures and ash from the bush – shrubs and grinning.

“agubugbu.“

“grrraaa.. aghhrrhhahr.“.

Then began to appear many goblins around the Caravan.

“Prepare, we lure them out and do not separate from the members,“ orders Roland

Goblins mostly use their claws as weapons but not a few of them also learn to use sharp weapons that they can from humans.

“ grrrrhh raaaa! “ the goblins began to storm the Caravan troupe.