Darius walks up to the wagon he had been directed to, he walks around back and climbs into it. He sees a group of 3 humans and 1 elf inside, 1 of the humans and the elf wearing heavy armour, the second human holding a bow, and the last human with a quarterstaff next to them.

Darius looks at them all as he says “Hello.” before he goes to sit on one of the benches. He is stopped by the human with the quarterstaff laying said quarterstaff on the bench and saying “And just what do you think you are doing?”

Darius frowns a little as he says “I’m joining this caravan.” while he shrugs, going over to the bench on the other side of the wagon. “Like hell you are, you are only level 17, this is an iron rank quest.” The heavily armoured human says, frowning and looking at Darius.

Darius sighs, shaking his head as he says “Well, it’s a good thing I’m a full Iron rank adventurer then, and that was the guild masters decision. So unless you want to go against what she says then leave me alone.” The armoured human laughs before he says “Like the guild master would have anything to do with you, you’re a newbie.”

Darius sighs, shaking his head before he feels a tingling on his skin. He frowns as he turns on his mana vision, his eyes glowing while he looks around. Darius notices the human with a quarterstaff has mana flowing out of him and he is looking at Darius seriously.

Darius snorts and shakes his head “An aura user huh, interesting that you would use your aura on one of your teammates, but how about I show you what a real aura is?” Darius says frowning before he blasts out his aura for a second, clearing away the aura that was already there like it was nothing. The wagon goes completely silent as everyone inside looks at Darius, most of them having gone pale from the force of his aura.

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Darius then says “and that is why I am an iron rank, but I’ll let you in on a secret, my aura is only level 1.” while he smirks as he looks at the aura user whose eyes widen as the aura user pales further.

The elf starts to laugh as he looks around a little, before looking at Darius and saying “Good, very good. I haven’t met someone who can get them to shut up like this before. And the strength of that aura, you must have somewhere in the thousands of mana.” Darius shrugs as he looks at the elf “You aren’t wrong about that. I’m Darius, and you all are?”

The elf nods as he says “I’m Folred, then there is Gerfast” The elf points at the armoured human “That’s Wyn” He points at the human with the bow “And finally Aron, our aura user.” He finally motions to the quarterstaff wielding human.

Darius nods as he says “Well, we’re off to a rocky start, but hopefully we will get along.” Folred laughs again as he says “I’m sure we will get along at least.” Darius nods as he says “I have a feeling we will.”

A man pokes his head through the front of the wagon, saying “We’re about to get underway.” before he pulls his head out. Darius finally sits down right as the wagon starts to move.

The caravan quickly leaves the city, with nothing important to note happening. They soon are travelling through the countryside, making good time. The caravan doesn’t stop until it’s starting to get dark out, at which point they form a wagon circle. Darius and the group of adventurers are placed around the circle, so one of them at least could respond to an attack from that side as camp is set up and food is cooked.

Darius spends half the night awake, keeping watch for an attack from the bandits. Luckily the bandits didn’t attack during the night. The caravan preparing to travel again early in the morning. They soon get underway, with Darius being positioned at the front of the caravan. He rests as much as he can while he waits, the merchant being sure that they will be attacked at some point during the day.

After a few hours of travelling Darius is fully awake and keeping watch for anything. Close to noon, he notices something strange on the horizon coming towards the caravan. Darius frowns as he stands up, looking towards it.

Darius’ eyes widen as he realizes that it’s a group of men on horses, he frowns as he says “They’re here.” before he starts to cast a firebolt, aiming up at the sky to use as a flare.