Hiro here. I like to think that there is good in any person, thus I will negotiate with this here bandit king, I must rescue the rest of soldiers from enslavement, or I will lose any wright to call myself 'humanitarian'. 

  With that in mind I ask the self entitled lord of this lands:

"What will happen of me if I reject your offer and take this men back to their home?".

  As cheers of joy break out behind my back, I see a clear disappointment on a face of a bandit king.

"I can't argue with you been an owner of that there slaves" he said as he made a pondering face, then I saw a figure of a young woman approaching behind him, she looked almost like a noble woman if not for excessive tasteless and non matching golden accessorize, she clearly had a natural beauty enhances by some sort of local makeup(cosmetics), she whispered something to the bandit and he changed in expression.

  As he then said "You can take slave's back to capital if you know the way to get there" to that someone in the crowd behind me said "I know all the roads from here all the way to capital my lord" as I turned to the voice I saw that one of soldiers doing Dogeza I asked then,

"Why are you bowing?" to what he answers.

"Sorry for interrupting the talks of lords this one humbles before your might" I was shocked to be refereed as lord and to clear up the confusion I asked with a hint of shyness and embarrassment in my voice.

"Did you refer to me as your lord?" to what scared and awed soldier said.

"I didn't mean to anger my lord but a lord without a castle can't be called a king" he said with a trembling voice, to what I respond in a commanding manner.

"Rise you lot, you are not my slaves, you are soldiers of capital, and as per promised I shall return you all back home to your families" with that said they all spring up with cheers of joy.

  As I started walking towards the army camp, soldiers started following me one after another, then I beckoned the person that stated he knew all the roads to capital and asked him "So where do we go from here?" as he scratched his head another soldier behind me asked "What about our provision? do we leave our camp abandoned?" that question hit me with reality of army logistics, and then I was happy about having inventory function of my favored games U.I., and I commanded soldiers to collect whole camp, get all horses, and oxen's, disassemble all siege engines, pack them up and prepare to move back towards the capital, then I said to bring towards me all things that can be carried by a single human that caused a bit of an uproar, to that I said:

"I will carry all provision, weapons, ammunition and that can ease the burden of oxen and horses" what caused a bit of stir among soldiers, then I switched my weapons, from daggers to great sword, then to a battleaxe, then I unequipped weapon to my inventory, with that demonstration soldiers scrambled to bring me everything they could carry with they're hands as I added one thing after another into my inventory.

  As we move out I noticed none of the soldiers was on horseback and that intrigued me and promptly asked the guide soldier

"Why everyone is walking on foot we have horses" to what I get an answer,

"My lord is walking on foot we can't mount thy horses without thy permission"then I think [damn I haven't mounted a horse for years last time was when I was a kid back at my grand uncles big farm] with that in mind I say,

"I will mount a horse if it's not to obstinate, and you pick any horse it will be easier for you to show the road" as I finish talking I get a docile gray horse, as I try to mount it I mount it as if it's my second nature, it looked like I hooped on it, it must be a support of games character animation, because I never in my life mounted horse like this, and controlling it was almost like controlling my own appendages.

  We got to a matter with the rest of the horses, and I asked the guide soldier to mount soldiers with proper prowess on horseback, then I permitted rest of the soldiers to board the empty carts and carriages, and thus we march with maximum oxen speed which is hella slow like human walking slow.

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  At this point is start questioning the guide soldier{he was the one of guys awed by me},

"So what is your capital like what kind of people live there?"[to what he basically just started to brag about riches of nobles and merchants, which was not the info I was searching for]so I asked a question with more pointers,

"I want you to imagine that I am a newborn to this world what common sense will you teach me?"he made a weird out face misunderstanding something and explained this:

[In short it's dangerous to stay on the roads at night not only because of bandits but also monsters.

Monsters are mostly spawns of evil dungeons, but sometimes crazy alchemist feed their pets with mana crystals and turn them to monsters.

Mana crystals can be harvested from monsters and from mana veins used to make mana potions, if a man ingests a whole and undiluted mana crystal he will get a mana poisoning, and will be able to cast overpowered spell once but will be left with damaged mana pool witch will not restore mana until properly healed.

Spells can be learned in magic academy and to enter one you need to be sponsored by a noble no merchant money can by you that opportunity, even if you enter academy it may take normal people 10 to 15 years to master 1 element which will give you a title of "mage".

There is an opportunity of learning 2nd element and becoming renown and titled as "vector mage" which will put you above many nobles and enable you to become a court mage but it may take from 30 to 40 years depending on your talent.

On rare occasions talented mages harness 3 elements and become "triangle mage" but it may take a whole life to get there and you could take a seat of grand master of academy.

And lastly the one that can harness all 4 elements can wield a title of a "square mage" there was only one man talented enough to wield that title at lest that's the legend he was taught at the orphanage.

Dungeons it seems there is a good dungeon right under the capitol of this kingdom, not like it's cool it's like it at least doesn't overflow with monsters and doesn't threaten the livelihood of humans leaving nearby like evil dungeons do, but good or bad all dungeons abstract the natural flow of mana, from trees of life created by gods and entrusted to high elfs of fairykin to safekeeping mana balance.

The basic rule of this world is strong rules the weak but humans have strength in numbers, and none will rule over humans after humans were liberated from demihuman ruling by the heroic "square mage" Hiroba'広場'{probably alias and I Hiro Fujiwara find this coincidence quite interesting}], and so I spent time listening to him rambling and sidetracking, through a whole day of our travel, as night approached he said,

"My lord we should halt for the night, for R&R by that river we need to feed the horses and take a night stand"to what I promptly nodded and thus he commanded our caravan to halt for R&R, then he asked,

"My lord who I should appoint for night watch? our strongest are winded from riding on horseback, and everyone else are well rested from sleeping while been transported by a carriage "I shake my head to that and say,

"Let everyone have a good night's sleep I will stand night watch I don't need sleep or shifts" and so dismount and lean myself against a tree nearby, as everyone hustle and bustle setting up camp for the night my horse was led to water to recuperate, everyone run up to me asking to give them this or that, from my inventory I forgot to mention that guide soldiers storytelling was occasionally interrupted by requests for provision or water pouch, and as everyone settled down I stay vigilant of my surroundings, and see as sun finally sinks over the horizon, then is see two moon's lit up, one big and blue kinda bigger that our moon, and another one smaller and pinkish or red, sort of our moon sized but dwarfed, by the bigger and more distant moon, cause smaller one is actually in front of a bigger blue one this is so eerie, I think I can't sleep tonight even if I wanted.

  As I wake up I try to stretch but feel a bit of restriction in my limbs, then I notice that I was bound to a tree while I was asleep.