-Dad, why didn't we inscribe me at or own town. Or just sent a letter about it? (Venir)

-Our town? haha! That's no town, only a few houses clustered together. (Dan)

Truthfully Venir wanted to be nice to Dan, he knew that his hometown if it could even be called that was very small.

Only teen houses was clustered together at the town and only five at the outskirts including his own home.

Before being reborn he did live in a minor city and that place had several thousand more people clustered together. With houses and apartments, you didn't even have to walk far before seeing a store.

In his new life, his town didn't held even one "real" store but he didn't mind it that much.

But it did happen now and then that he started to miss small things, like a toilet with toilet paper and flush-able water.

Ice cone at the summers and a bookstore close to home.

It was all trivial things in the long run.

In his town they mostly traded items with another and a few copper coins, rarely silver and never gold. Although this world used money it wasn't used that often in minor towns on the outskirts.

One gold coin was hardly ever seen. If they did it was pretty much useless because they didn't have enough things to trade for it among themselves.

Lastly there where the Adamant coin and it was usually only used by high nobles, kings/queens and rich merchants. None in Venirs town had seen one and did not care to even dream about ever obtaining it.

(The currency is 100 copper to a silver: 100 silver to a gold: 100 gold to a adamant coin.)

....

-Venir, you will probably be chocked of the size of this city but it's in truth to be told only a minor one. Yet it have two blacksmiths, several stores and a small keep! (Dan)

Clearly Dan was very proud to be a watcher for the city even thought he didn't earn much and it could be potential lethal if bandits or some monsters where to attack.

-Why do we need to go to a city? It is because its there we have an appointed mage and it's apprentices from the kingdom. Only they can registrar ones name officially. (Dan)

-It's not complicated, only a few drops of blood is needed but it needs to be fresh. Therefore we need to meet them personally.(Dan)

-If we were of higher rang then we could have asked them to send one to us, but that is impossible, so we need to go there and do it like everybody else. (Dan

-But don't worry my son! With me here you won't come to harm under our journey and we got our trusty steed to carry us. He might not look at it, but he is fast when he wants to. (Dan)

Dan was chuckling and seems certain, but Venir was skeptical. After reading about wild animals Venir know it was not uncommon that wild animals sometimes would wander off and attack people even on the roads.

Pento, the horse was not exactly young either. He might been a great warhorse once, but his glory days where long over. Now he was pretty scabby. If you listened closely over a long time you could even hear him letting out air.

'His prime days are clearly over and we are two riding him. If we meet a dangerous beast he would clearly not be able to run away.' (Venir)

Even thought Venir was worried Dan seems very relaxed and even happy. Scanning the surroundings for any danger.

...

Under the first hour of riding nothing happened other then Venir feeling his left and soon right button cheek falling numb from all the riding.

-Dad, I need to pee... (Venir)

Venir said in a low pleading voice and didn't dare tell him he needed to stretch his legs because he was unused to riding. Dan would surely make fun of him.

-Alright but stay close to the road. (Dan)

Walking off to the side and taking a long breath while smacking his own button in hope of waking it to life again.

Good thing is father was feeding his horse Pento at that moment. Dan would most likely have smirked at the sight of his soon smacking and rubbing his own butt.

While he was busy rubbing his butt Venir notice in the corner of his eye something glimmering between some trees.

'Shiny!' (Venir)

It blinked twice and a growl could be heard while it slowly walked out from its hiding.

The animal was two meter in height and resembled a wolf, but the differences was that its teeth that it soon showed more resembles a sharks. It had not two eyes but two on each side of its head and its fur had a metallic tint to it.

The light seems to be reflected on its black fur in a sickening way whish made Venir stand frozen in place.

He was close to pee himself at that moment and know that he was done for.

-Idiot son! Steep back! (Dan)

A flash could be seen and Dan stepped between them with his sword held high. For some reason he blinked at Venir with a bright smile.

-Look how it should be done. (Dan)

He walked forward, slowly and let the demon wolf initiate the first attack.

[Woosh!]

[Slash!]

Dan parried the wolfs sharp fangs while at the same time slashing at its left paw. The sword sunk in and made a deep flesh wound. A metallic sound could be heard when the sword passed through its thick fur.

It all happened in a flash, very gracefully.

-You first got to slow a beast down as soon as possible when they are faster than yourself. (Dan)

Dan said aloud and then with a very flashy move went in for the kill

[Woosh..]

[Slash.]

[Slash.]

[Slash!]

It all happened so fast that Venir only could stand there dumbstruck and watch how cool is dad in fact is. In just a moment the demon wolfs head was cut off.

What he didn't know was that Dan was overly flashy in his moves. He had wounded the beasts front leg to make it easier to show off. He wanted to make his son see him at his best. It worked until....

-What do you think of your dad now? hehehe! (Dan)

Standing over the giant wolf and posing like in some hunter photo Dan was smiling wide. Venir only let out a sight and blushed. He felt like a fool for thinking his dad looked so damn cool.

'Why did he have to spoil the moment!' (Venir)

Venir walked over to praise his dad without much faking, he was still a tiny bit red on his cheeks when he did so.

It was a weird moment with Dan standing atop a demon wolf being praised by his own son.

All the while his son is split between if he should stand next to him and pose and be proud. Or hide under a bush in shame for his dads behavior.

If some other would have passed on the road he would most likely pretended he didn't know him at all.

When everything calmed down they had to do the dirty work of cutting the demon wolf up and bury its parts at least one meter from another.

Venirs dad explained the importance of it while they were set to work.

-We don't have time to burn it so we need to cut it up like this and bury the parts a bit from another so it won't get risen as an undead. (Dan)

It seems in this world where godly essence could be found everywhere, it had some strange effects on the dead too.

It was punishment by death to leave any corpses of animals laying around after killing it because of this phenomena.

If the undead roamed around and killed other people it could create and epidemic of undead.

While they were slower as undead they were also much harder to kill. Fire or total dismemberment was the only way to stop them.

....

The rest of the way continued without an accident, no more beast attacked. Venir and Dan in the end arrived safely and could finally see the walls of the city in the distance.

Venirs legs had by then fallen asleep and dangled like two useless sticks on the sides.

His ass most likely had changed in color to a nice red shade, without himself needing to check it out. The pain alone was enough to tell.

Happy to jump down he was determined to walk the last part up to the gates.

All the while Dan smiling and whistling happily like this was his best day ever.