ar from the capital, the main economic acti

h vibrant healthy crops. Large swaths of overturned land were being ploughed by po

es and mines could be seen d

ooks and wasted no time in looking stra

e my master,] a feminine

too, Alia,]

ooks so tiny from up

Alaric thought up an idea before clos

that he'd closed his eyes in concentrat

know," Da

the dark-hair

ed and looked back at the boy who'd jus

ght resplendent glow to them, a brig

es... Oh dear, is that a stone elephant- No... What is that thing? I don't know what

resemble a perfect fusion of the two creature

han the average elephant or rhino would ever hope to and s

pair of steel horns in a line roughly

augh filled the a

e than SwiftWind here. They come in all shapes and sizes

moured skull and horns, drilled into the ground with its powerful tusks and trampled over the f

w a glimmering shimmer coming out o

onestly. See that glowing machine at the centre of the quarry?"

ea

closer to one place without damaging the land. These miners are then tasked with getti

ndmarks. It wasn't long before they witnessed more of these mines, each with a uni

ispered into Alaric's e

to grant his friends the benefit he'd just attai

n his brow before someth

et go of

o watching the passing feature

here really is an orphan who managed to summon his guardian in the Five Hills,"

have a guardia

away. But there are exceptions like

d you know?"

detect your guardian. A few B-class exceptions might be able to tell as well. You can rest easy. Almost e

c? He has no patron and there is no one to teach him in

especially elemental magic. In even rarer cases, it's said a guardian can teach their masters magic. That's if they are o

carefree harebrained knight of a man was exposing everything ab

ds his enemies. Did Alaric care though? Maybe.

s all-powerful guardian,

d, "I don't

led, "If I were you, I'd try to get along. You six are from neighbouring villages and

bout these children... nor did he feel the need to make f

to the Tower of Seekers. But from what he'd heard of the Gua

igned to. Making enemies with someone who co

o be this complicated

ur trust in Garin

for the overprotective caretaker to trust with their saf

d and you just might grow to be as strong as some hero I once met. The bastard was

you must know when to fight... and when to run. You don'

can mean the difference between life and death. There is n

uare at the centre of the Capital of Valeria. I don't mean to be too disrespectful, Garin, but this kid is nothing compare

ted you, however, age has nothing to do wit

stories of the hero that nearly defeated the Demon King too and had l

ould think about for months. He'd trained hard and studied whenever

defeated?" Darla finally spoke up. Her t

then you can worry about such matters," Garin replied, "To do that, you must first get an

t of their journey, from smooth hills with quarries, m

came across an especially tall peak that pierced the sky. When it seemed as though th

the children's eyes. The other side of the mountain had been completely cut and in

ved at the To

se conversation they'd just had