Gareth POV

I walked out the castle doors leaving the King to find the remains of the 'battle'. The King will likely be busying upgrading the castle's defenses once more in case of another attack. I needed a way to get to the [Elsewood] forest but I did not have the slightest clue of where it was. Walking across the streets of the city I began asking questions to where I can buy maps and most of them pointed towards the public library. 

Finding the library was easier than I thought. There were mass amount of people walking in and out of it. Walked into it I went to the the girl sitting by the counter with a forced smile on her and asked

"Do you happen to sell maps here?"

"Ah yes! What would you like? Dungeon maps, map of the city?"

"Do you happen to have map of the world?"

"We do, but" looking at what I was wearing she sneered "it is rather expensive"

"It's alright, wealth is not an issue here. Just bring it out as fast as you can" I shot back. 

"Alright give me a minute" She walked in the door that was behind her while mumbling hateful remarks under her breath. 

As she was she talking her time I strolled around the librarby trying to find anything noteworthy. After a white, I noticed nothing of intreset here. All the books here dealt with simple things like [How to kill a Goblin], [Adventure Guide Vol 2] [Mana? Work of the Devil] The value of the books in this room would not even amount to 1% of that of the Royal library. No wonder the royalty managed to stay in power for so long. The commoners can barley perform magic due to the lack of knowledge they have. 

I saw that the women returned with a rolled up piece of paper. She quickly let out her hand and asked "This will be 25 gold" sneering at me thinking I did not have enough. 

I placed my hand into my pocked while using [Mid Space] and pulled out a handful of coins and placing it on the counter. 

I took the paper from her hand and walked off leaving her blankly staring at the amount which far exceeded 25 gold.

Looking at the map trying to find [Elsewood] forest. It seemed to place near the Kingdom of Rhieg. Interestingly enough the two Kingdoms seemed to placed near the southern border of the continent and were rather isolated from the various other Kingdoms. 

So all I need is someone to take me to the Rhief Kingdom and I can travel to the forest from there. I could make a request to the Adventure's Guild but the King is already aware of my fake adventurer name so I couldn't really go there.

I needed some other way. There was only one other place where I could get information. A tavern. As I was trying to find one I came across an old man selling face masks. After thinking about it I decided to buy one.

Walking into it was exactly like I expected it to be, large burly men chugging down more beer than their own body weight with waitresses running around trying to refill them.

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Walking up the bartender I asked "Happen to know a quick way to Rhieg?"

No response.

Pulling out a gold coin I wished it towards him asking once more. 

This time, he simply took the coin and glanced behind me to a table. There sat three men and one woman who were obviously adventures by the way they were dressed.

Pulling up a chair and sitting right beside them which caused them all stare at me. I asked "Wouldn't be travelling to Rhieg would ya?"

This time they were even more confused then before. "I need to go there for a mission and I happen to a competent magician"

The look on their face was full of doubt due to my small stature. One of them managed to snap and grabbed me by the edge of my shirt and pulled me up.

"Listen brat, we got better things to do than help you with your stupid mis--" before he could complete his sentence I grabbed a nearby glass and hit him hard in the face shattering the cup. The noise got the attention of everyone as the burly man was growling in pain.

The other three adventures stood up were ready to pull out their swords and strike me but they stopped while still holding on to the hilt when I began casting magic. I willed my mana to the huge man's face and casted [Mid Healing] seeing the white light caused their eyes to widen along with everyone else's in the room.

"White level..."

"and a mage..."

"no..not a mage..he is a healer!"

The whole room went silent as the healing magic worked on the man's face completely removing all traces of the wounds inflicted.

Leaving the bewildered man on the floor I turned to the other three. "How about now?"

Once I asked the question the three snapped out of their bewilderment, and the one I supposed to be leader glanced back at the burly man then back at me.

"What the hell man? Could you not have just asked?" He quipped

"Wouldn't have been as fun if I did that now" Which caused a part of the room to laugh.

"Fine. Whatever man. Someone who can heal would be a great help." He responded while helping the burly man get up.

"I am Jack, this big man you trashed is Walter, the one over there is Joan and this lady is---"

"Single and also why do you wear a mask?" She cut him of while putting out her hand forward for a handshake Which caused me to chuckle a bit.

"Ignore her. She is Elva. Just meet us in the nearby inn tomorrow" He said while glaring at Elva's comment.

"I am Clyde and as for why I wear the mask" I simply shrugged.

"See ya all tomorrow" Saying that I left the tavern to get ready for the trip.

This was going to be a fun trip.