After two days have passed, I head to the Laughing Raven, Sarah notices me wondering at the entrance looking for Alexa. She calls out to me.

"Hey Ren! Alexa has already signed you and her up to join the caravan heading to Halo City. That place is very dangerous with a bunch of random power leveled monsters lurking around Dungeon Valley. There is five separated Dungeon masters that continuously fight each other for territory. There was a report ten years ago there were originally 7 masters."

"Oh, I didn't know that, Alexa told me we can make some serious coins there, I have been wanting to get more skill proficiency lately. With all my stat boosts, I feel that I can run away for my life if needed."

Sarah just looked gloomy when I mentioned 'run away', maybe I should've said I could be them all no matter what, like an idiot?

Angry red lips Alexa walks in behind me, and says "So you're finally here? What have you been doing these past two days? Goofing off at the Tailorshop with Clyde? Messing around at the orphanage with Petra? Sneaking to the church to see Mia?"

I roll my eyes at her, she's obviously upset with me ignoring every time she try's to come see me. She knows I collect damaged clothing from the church, deliver repaired clean clothing from the Tailorshop, and eat free breakfasts at the orphanage just to spend time with everybody I got adopted away from.

Her belligerent attitude keeps making me mad and uninterested in her, no matter how cute she is as well. "So, who contracted a couple of rookies to escort a caravan? Surprisingly Abe said I could go too... Same with Edna. They looked like they are happy for extra income coming in."

Alexa looks upset again with me ignoring her question, "Honestly, I want to like you, but just can't. Sir Alex the Jailor recommended to the merchant, Oliver Plume, to take us along as an investment to future great adventurers. Oliver readily accepted since as a community, we are all investing in each other to grow and develop."

A strange man with a feather logo embroidered into his vest appears as we are talking, with Sarah observing the conversation not know how to include herself. With this as her chance, she speaks up to the strange man. "Oh Mister Plume, these two are the up and coming adventurers Sir Alex told you about. My sister Alex, and the Tailorshop boy Ren."

Muster Plume looks me and Alexa up and down, trying to gauge how competent we are. "So you two are the ones, according to your gear, the girl is the better choice of an investment, and you boy are the risky one, you look like fodder."

Oh wh-what? Did he call me, the Soldier of Fortune, fodder? Okay I can see what he means with me just having generic villager clothing with a dagger equipped to my belt with no prep bag for the trip. "I heard you are providing for us, as well paying us two silvers each to take you to Halo city?"

"Correct boy!" Mister Plume says, "I am bringing our speciality feathers for writing and arrows, as well, our famous product of blank badges to sell. The idea that someone has a prepared badge that can be re-used after being killed was our idea. Understand how amazing our Family products are!"

I guess it is amazing in his perspective, but I want to get going on this trip already. "Can we go already?"

"Watch your tongue boy! I am your boss in this contract, be grateful I even accepted you two in. But yes, I came here to get going in haste!"

Why not just say, come on let's go? Unless this was an unneeded interview that had to happen, so he could trust us... Anyway he led us to our seniors that would be travelling with us.

Jim, and Robin Stain, the Stain family are a bunch of mostly mercenaries/adventurers. While the Hubble's deal with how farms and politics work. Sir Alex, I found out, was a Stain family member that fell in love with a Hubble family member, as to why he was a town guard.

Jim and Robin waved at us and started walking a fast pace of us ahead on the road. Their job was to scout several minutes of us to be able to report any ambushes that might, and clear monsters from the road.

Even though I should've actually trained for real with Alexa, I felt like I could handle whatever destiny brings us. Do adventurers regularly scout ahead to report dangers? My gut says trouble is going to happen.

I roll my magical die and got the bunny girl Izzy to appear, "So half a month you say, but with this skill with the lowest odds to meet, gets you to maybe help?

The pink haired and eyed girl smirks, " Yea I am big on free will, and by getting me from a dice roll deserves my time." She then winks at me and frowns at a frowning Alexa. "So you are his teammate huh? Maybe I can encourage the ogre to go somewhere else besides of sleeping on the highway you are travelling down hmm? Or I could encourage another ogre to appear and see how your luck skills work out?"

I too frown at Izzy, I know for sure now she is planning events that will happen to me.

Izzy points at Alexa, "You stay behind at your tavern, Ren doesn't need you unless you want to fight two ogres?"

Really? Jealous over me who isn't a god of a stat, and threatening a girl to stay away from me who I don't even care about?

Alexa looks shocked, "You wouldn't, would you? Never mind those ears and eyes tell me who you are easily. The bored luck goddess of the three. Why are you all different species even though you are sis-"

"Don't say it Alexa!" I cover her mouth remembering what not ask, from Mia the priestess. Their species!

"Three, you're getting three ogres, see you never again girl!" Izzy dissapears in a pink glimmering shine.

"Well, three ogres huh, and we can't even warn Jimmy and Robin too." I say.

"Seems like it." Mister Plume surprisingly responds. "Alright let's go, the scout would easily spot the ogres regardless of a goddess saying it's coming for us. We can retreat back for security, if needed.

We take off, after three uneventful hours we camp for three hours and head off again to Halo City.