The Tales of Draconic Warlock

The deal with the mayor went smoothly.

The mayor paid a lot for the information that I brought to him, a lot more than the standard price to keep my mouth shut about this dungeon/secret realm. Even if he hadn't paid that much, I am not someone who invites unwanted problems by yapping my mouth around.

In addition to paying for the information about the secret realm/dungeon, he also signed that I completed the mission and cancelled the mission from other places. It means the mission is no longer active and no one can take it anymore.

Since he paid so much, I drew a perfect map for him to find the cave without an issue. I also told him about the markings on the wall and how I accidentally activated the portal.

With that done, I have no business here. Now, it's time for me to return to the academy.

Luckily, this journey wouldn't be as problematic as the journey here. There is a teleportation hub in this city, which significantly reduces travel time.

Of course, the teleportation wouldn't take me directly to the capital, I have to change once in order to reach the capital but that won't be much of an issue.

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One hour later...

Man, the traffic was surely very high. It took me too much time to reach the capital. This was not something that I usually faced while travelling between my home and the capital.

Well, that was because in Winter City I am the son of the Viscount and that reduced the waiting time. The traffic between the Capital and Winter City is very low and that made the waiting time much less than when compared to other cities.

With the city at the border of the kingdom, there was not much movement between the capital and my home, though there was a direct link, which was not a privilege that every city has.

The only reason why Winter City has a direct teleportation link is to suppress monster tides that could erupt here.

As I said before, my home is very close to Orlum Forest, which is home to a large monster population and many of these monsters are of high rank. This is why, even though we know that there could be dungeons in the forest, no one would explore the forest and establish a post there.

They are afraid of the monsters that could easily attack their place and reinforcements are not easy to come by at that place. Anyone who has settled there would most likely perish. This was why no one dared to establish a settlement there.

Even though there are many high-rankers, they have other places to take care of. They can't concentrate on the forest unless a monster tide appears. It was left to the mid-rankers and the low-rankers and they can't do anything substantial either.

What they could was to cut down the small time dangers that were growing in the forest and that too in the outer regions only. No one would dare to enter the Inner regions as that area is considered dangerous even for High-rankers.

Though a high-ranker could easily fend himself off while facing a high-ranking monster, there are too many monsters in the forest and that means they wouldn't come out of the place unscathed. they could easily die too.

The presence of a huge number of monsters in the forest would lead to a Monster Tide.

The reason a direct link was established was because in a way my home is the frontline in case there are any monster tides. If the frontline collapses, many other provinces would fall easily.

To prevent that, there is the need for a direct route of supplies and soldiers. For that, a direct teleportation link was established.

The last monster tide happened three hundred years ago, but the link exists as no one would know when that would erupt again. Until then, it worked as a civilian route, rather than as a military route.

Teleportations were originally intended for military purposes. They had to react as soon as an enemy appeared inside the borders of the kingdom, whether it could be monsters or foreign armies.

A faster mobilization means fewer losses and faster results. In addition to that, supplies needed to be supplied constantly or wars are easily lost.

This was why every kingdom built a lot of teleportation nodes between the central area and places where the military would be needed mostly.

Monster tides won't happen every day. There are places where monsters appear attacking humans every now and then. There are also places where monster tides wouldn't appear even in a century.

Moreover, with time most of the boundaries with other nations have stabilized except for a few places, and that means there was that much for the military to move here and there.

As the need for their movement decreased and these lines became a faster route of travel for the nobles and rich. They can save a lot of time, though it costs a lot.

Even though these opened for civilian use, common people usually can't afford the high prices. Also the transport of resources through teleportation costs a lot. So many merchants take the traditional routes for transport, making them still the most used transporting routes, compared to the teleportation routes.

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I should go meet with Angela in the morning.

Aaahnn, I am tired as of now and need sleep. Though I am Tier-6, I do need sleep. While searching for the missing party, I didn't sleep much. Only one or two hours a day, did I sleep.

This broke my usual routine and made my body feel discomfort. I need relief for now and sleeping is the best way to heal a body.

Moreover, if Angela is in the mood, I may have to spend a lot of energy tomorrow and for that, I need to be at the peak. If I am not, then Angela would not be the only one to be disappointed by my performance.