Age of Heroes

They are walking around the White District looking for a tavern. As they walk they come across many taverns.

There is Hag Drunk, Stein Tavern and many others. But none of it catches their fancy so they continue walking.

Arial on the other hand observes the people in the White District. There is many establishment here compared to the Open District which has many stall. 

Here there is many shops and building focused on trades.

Arial and Ana walk the streets, and Arial look at a bakery, who serve mead and honeyed cakes.

Ana gulped but she did not buy anything. Arial on the other hand just observe the bakery. He is not hungry at all after he absorbs the war chief son blood. 

It became an energy that kept him from getting tired.

Right now he wanted to rest to stabilize the energy inside him. But it is not an immediate concern since the energy inside the war chief son is not that strong and could be considered weak.

Looking at the bakery Arial is reminded of his mother. 

Reminded of that little bakery that her mother built. Every day he and Lisa would help his mother, bake the flour, shouting for people to buy it in the common market.

Smiling, he remembers the time when life was simple and uncomplicated. Ana who walks beside him, look at the wistful expression on his face but says nothing.

They walk in silence looking for other tavern. Some tavern also has an inn and that is what they are searching for.

They then come across an inn that holds some promise. Big and spacious they enter the tavern.

Hunters Lodge. They went in there for a while but it was a tavern that serves as a mercantile for hunting supplies, blinds, nets and traps and etcetera.

Ana spotted a few quest posts in the taverns but she was not interested and ask where is the tavern that also has an inn.

The tavern keeper is a comely young lass who told her that there is one, but it is costly.

Ana told Arial to reconsider but he said it would be more profitable for them. Ana obviously couldn't see how renting an expensive inn would be more profitable but she was not about to ask.

Maybe because Arial wanted to elude the authorities or prepare for retaliation from the War Chief or something along that line.

So they walked the streets again. 

Finally they arrived at Meadhouse. A few buildings away from the Meadhouse is Lyre Tale, run by an adventuring bard who came from Ariundus and stay at the New World.

As they enter they could see a large mead hall, and people sitting on chairs, some was sitting around a fire pit.

There is a woman sitting on a table, veil on her face, reading something from a skin hide. A skinny tax collector who sits in the corner counting gold.

Arial could presume as much because of the badge and the bodyguard behind the skinny person.

So, they at least have tax collector Arial mused.

Arial thought they would be too primitive. Few tables away from them they could see an armored female warrior waiting for someone.

They approached the tavern keeper and Ana initiate the conversation. Ana decided she should be the one handling communication because Arial is an impatient man.

And his wraths knows no bound. Even though killing is not considered wrong in the New World and it is the rule of the strong, even in the New World there is no one would unhesitantly kill a war chief son unless he is crazy.

To Ana, Arial is not crazy nor is he reckless. He is certain he could handle the heat but Ana is not sure…whether she could endure the heat.

She also was there and she might also be implicated by the murder.

So, in the spirit of making no more trouble she decided to be the medium of communication for Arial.

'Tavernkeeper!' she yelled. The Tavernkeeper was arguing with one of his friend and hearing the shout he came running.

He looks friendly and muscly. A few scars and visible injury on his left arm but other than that he looks strong. 

Arial on the other hand looks like a refined jade, a diamond after the mud being cleaned, flawless and perfect.

With one look the Tavernkeeper knows that Arial does not come from here. 

There is no sign at all that Arial ever suffered any misfortune and he doesn't look like he is a merchant either.

Since the New World has no nobles they also have no Kings too. But the pressure and charisma Arial emitted if the Tavernkeeper could describe it, it was a kingly aura, a majestic presence. 

Even when he looked down upon the people of the world no one wouldn't dare dispute him.

Ana look at the Tavernkeeper who is looking at Arial with awe and she asked.

'I would like to ask something' she asked.

'At your service, lady. My name is Ragsnor. What can I help you with?'

'Zara. Know that name?'

'You means, Zara the Golden Courtesan?' he asked, smiles on his face.

'Zara the Golden Courtesan?' She asked.

'Yes, Zara from the House of Bliss. A pleasure house in the Red District. She is expensive that one. People said she is very beautiful, that even merchant princes from other continent would come on the Rose Blooming Month just to see her face. But Xander the owner of the House of Bliss is very protective of the girl and people even says that she is Xander personal women allowed only to serve him. At least that is what I heard.'

Ana on the other hand is thinking why is her younger sister is sending her to a pleasure lady. 

Arial who was standing behind her has moved to examine the Quest Board. It shows a few quest.

There is quest of finding missing person, hunting quest, gathering quest and extermination quest. Each one of them gives a reward of copper, silver or gold.

There is also a request for someone to decipher some old writings, some request asked for anyone to trade with them of the maps of the Ariundus continent and many others.

But it was not that that attract Arial attention it was the words underneath every one of this quest. 

On the bottom of the page it says Approved by the Adventurer Guild. 

Adventurer Guild.

He reads about it in Titania notes, a guild established in every tribes who answer to the Three Great Tribes who controls the Guild.

People who want job get done give their request to Adventurer Guild and Adventurer Guild post it to their branches in every tribe city. 

They take commissioned work and many others. Their headquarters is near the Three Great Tribes.

Arial was interested. He was thinking about few more thing when Ana tapped his shoulder.

'What you're looking at?' She asked.

'Quest' he said.

'Anything interesting?'

'Some' he replies.

Then Arial asked.

'Did you get any information?'

Ana then tell her conversation with the Tavernkeeper.

'So, Zara is a pleasure lady.'

'Hmm' she replied.

'So, what do you think? Should you find her like your sister advice you to do? Or follow me tomorrow?'

'Where are you going tomorrow?'

'Adventurer Guild.'

'You want to register?'

'Yes. The gold that your sister gave to you would at least cover us a few months before you have no money. If you want to get some gold, I could help you. Consider it a repayment for all you've done.' 

Arial is a grandmaster expert in martial arts. And what he hates most is owing something to someone.

Ana think hard and decided she would follow him.

'I will follow you then. Let us register together tomorrow.' Arial nodded and ask Ana to rent a room for him. 

With two gold she rent two rooms for thirty suns (days).

After his room is rented, Arial quickly went to his room to stabilizes his internal energy. Ana on the other hand is still down on the tavern searching for more information.

Confirming that she would not go outside the tavern, Arial began focusing his attention of stabilizing his energy.

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