Chapter: 121

“Good” Kel smiled back. Mark nodded with a smile.

“We’re ready. Ahead of schedule.” Anya replied before handing them the details of the quest.

“Thanks” Jay said, sitting down at the table before beginning reading the details. Looking through the information, a regretful smile appeared on Jay’s face while reading about how a second child was presumed dead, so he wanted to speed things up; while Anya noticed Jay’s expression.

“This is why I want to leave quickly” she said to Jay..

“Yeah..” Jay pursed his lips as he thought to himself “So she does care about some people?… hmm…”

“Two days’ walking journey? We could just run and burn our energy, camp one night and arrive around morning. Might save some time.” Mark suggested.

The others all nodded at this, knowing they would only feel the effects of exhaustion when their energy started to get low so they can run as long as they have energy; however if it dropped enough they would be defenceless.

“Yeah, but we should keep a small amount in reserve in case we run into a forest monster or something.” Kel chimed in.

“Don’t worry, we’ll kill anything quickly if we run into it.” Anya replied, completely missing the point of Kel’s suggestion.

Jay almost shook his head at Anya’s remark. Kel made a good point and it was clear by Anya’s reply that she didn’t even give per point any thought. He decided to ignore what Anya said and reply to Kel as he looked her in the eyes.

“Good point Kel,” he smiled and nodded “How about we hold onto about twenty percent before we decide to rest? Whoever has the least energy can just tell the rest of us when it reaches that point…” Jay looked around “Hmm so who has the least energy anyway?”

“Well, I have thirty-five.” Mark was the first to reply.

Kel and Anya knew about his class but Jay still had no clue he was a spellsword, so he was the only one at the table who looked confused. Before Jay could question Mark, Kel quietly told hers.

“Forty-five.”

This was less shocking to Jay since she carried a wand. Energy determines mana pool size after all, and Kel had clearly dumped all her points into energy. She probably also was starting with a class that had a high base amount.

“I have fourty.” Jay said, before looking at Anya expressionlessly.

“Twenty energy…” Anya bit her lip, not used to being the one who was the baggage.

Jay was laughing internally while Mark replied.

“That’s alright. Just call out to us when it gets low, ok?”.

“Well, I guess we should get moving.” Jay said, putting his hands on the side of the table.

“Let’s go.” Mark said, downing the rest of his half-full glass as they all stood up and left the snakeraven inn, beginning their journey south-east.

As they left, Jay had his minions travel to the east side of town. Once they left the village, he planned to have them follow the group – though from a distance so no one would notice.

The track wasn’t used very frequently. Some carriage-cart tracks made a make-shift road, but the road continued east while the party had to travel southwest – finding a walking track on the side of the road, they turned off.

Walking along the path, they had to go single file. It had been semi-created by years of footsteps; the hamlet was so small that even cart’s didn’t travel there, the hamlet itself didn’t even have a name.

Jay couldn’t help but wonder what kind of monsters they would be fighting – more precisely, he wondered what kind of bones they had.