As soon as her decree came out, not only those young people moved eastward, but also many mercenaries, like sharks smelling fishy smell, gave up their original employment mission and ran to Darauma. Compared with the fixed salary of escorting the caravan, , or war is more interesting. Although the risks are greater, the rewards are also great.
Some caravans even gave up going north and headed east with their goods - their goods were naturally related to the war.
As a result, the caravan going north had a huge gap in security, and had to hire a large number of new people, including Gavin, who was of unknown origin and had a goblin slave with him.
Gavin's employer is an independent moon elf businessman named Adri Levi. He owns three carriages of his own. In addition to Gavin, he also owns a female coachman named Velon Tohar. .
In other words, Gavin was hired as a coachman, not as a guard as originally expected. As for the goblin warlock Vic, he was completely added in and was not included in the scope of employment.
Gavin didn't care much about this. He mainly wanted to go north with the team and didn't care about the disparity in wages between the guard and the coachman.
What's more, the driver was Vic, and he didn't even drive the carriage for half a minute.
Not long after leaving Tesselburg, they joined a large caravan consisting of twenty-five carts and eight independent merchants, heading toward Baldur's Gate along the trade road.
The Trade Road can be said to be the largest and busiest trade road in Faerûn.
It starts from Calimport in Calimshan in the south and reaches Illuskan in the north. It passes through Tethyr and Amn and connects a series of famous cities such as Baldur's Gate, Waterdeep, and Neverwinter. , it can be said that it runs through the entire West Sea coast of Faerûn.
On average, they can encounter a roadside inn every two hours, and every hour, they can encounter a small or medium-sized caravan or above, even in remote and desolate places such as the Xingxuan Mountains, the Broken Tooth Mountains and the Cloud Mountains. They didn't encounter too much trouble. Monsters and gangsters were nowhere to be seen.
It's possible that they didn't show up because their team was too large and it was inconvenient to attack.
More likely, it is because this trade road is so important. The surrounding countries and cities attach great importance to it and clean it up regularly. No monsters or gangsters dare to attack here.
Even if Gavin and Vic run alone, the risk factor on this business road is not high.
Joining a caravan also has the advantage of joining a caravan, at least it is not easy to get lost.
It can also avoid unnecessary troubles. At least when passing through those big cities, the merchants of the caravan will take the initiative to deal with local snakes or merchants. The situation outside Dalauma City will not happen again.
Another very important point is to become familiar among the merchants. These merchants who often travel outside are notoriously well-connected. As long as you do well in this caravan, you can find new ones in the next city. It's not difficult for the employer. The section from Baldur's Gate to the Rocklands is the most difficult, and Gavin is preparing for this.
With this in mind, after joining the caravan, Gavin seemed busier than anyone else.
After a while, he rode up to the front and explored the road ahead.
After a while, he disappeared into the wilderness, and when he came back, there was either a deer or a pile of food roots behind the war horse, which basically provided a meal for the entire caravan.
After a while, I chatted with other merchants in the caravan for a long time, ranging from goods to local relationships, from the North to the Weihong Sea.
After a while, they discussed combat skills with the caravan guards.
There will always be his presence among the night watchmen.
Over the past three days, everyone from the businessmen to the guards praised Gavin highly, and the relationship was very harmonious. No one disliked hard-working people, especially hard-working people who had just the right sense of proportion.
His employer, Ms. Adeley, is a taciturn person who doesn't care about Gavin as long as it doesn't delay things.
Another deep impression Gavin left on the people in the caravan was that he was a typical training maniac.
He can run fast, but he will never jog.
If he can jog, he will never walk.
Although he can walk, he will never ride in a car or ride a horse.
Even if he is riding in a carriage or riding a horse, he will definitely be practicing other things, such as squatting and pushing up on the carriage, practicing spearmanship, archery, swordsmanship, etc. while riding a horse.
He used his actual actions to explain what it means to make rational use of every minute and every second.
Those above are what outsiders can see, and what outsiders can't see. Combined with these trainings is the psychic's self-hypnosis.
Gavin believes that this self-hypnosis is definitely the first magical skill in the early stage of the Psion, at least for him.
Most of the repetitive physical exercises do not conflict with his memory excavation, and are even complementary to each other.
Because the main consciousness is doing other things, it is not very sensitive to the passage of time. When you finish one thing, you will find that an hour has passed and your body has completed more than an hour of running at an average speed, or thousands of sets of push-ups. .
As long as he makes reasonable use of this, in the long run, Gavin will be able to do both magic research and physical exercise without delay, thereby improving his physical fitness. After all, he is not an adult yet, and his body has not yet been fully formed. In his previous life, he was 1.7 meters tall as an adult. 8. It is still the result of being a slave who has been suffering from insufficient food for a long time. If you have enough material in this life, I believe you can still make a jump.
Gavin did not follow this caravan to Baldur's Gate, but diverted to Naskel City in the north of the Cloud Mountains. Under the introduction of his new business friends, he joined a caravan as a traveler. The caravan starting from here will follow the Ur trade route, cross the green fields, and head to Ximen City on the north shore of Long Lake.
What really made Gavin choose this path was that he remembered the hometown of a priest friend from his previous life, which was in Green Nest Village in the green wilderness.
At this point in time, she should still be an intern in her hometown church. She might have a chance to get acquainted in advance. It would be best if she could join her team. An adventure team without a priest is not a good adventure team.
Although this pastor friend has some minor problems of his own, his character is absolutely reliable. Based on this alone, everything else can be ignored.
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"tie!"
There was a crisp crash.
"Sir, Madam...is there anything...is there anything...that can...be able to help you..."
The slender figure lying on the sacrificial altar jumped up and stammered quickly. His eyes had not yet been fully opened, his consciousness was semi-drowsy, and there was still a trace of clear liquid at the corner of his mouth that had not been wiped clean.
The only thing that responded to the girl was the cold wind outside the window.
"tie!"
Another crisp crashing sound came from the large window not far away. A small branch of the oak tree outside the window was swaying gently with the wind. From time to time, it came and knocked on the window, as if Saying hello to the girl priest playfully.
"It's you...it's you...making trouble again." Anna rubbed her big eyes angrily, "Be careful, another day, I will saw you down and burn you as firewood."
But coupled with her soft voice and fleshy face, her intimidation is greatly reduced.
