Chapter 20: Onto the Next Adventure
There were a few townships closer to the Duke's Tower, but they didn't have the means to keep up with the demand for weapons a knighthood had. While they were useful for quick fixes, the knights were willing to travel to a larger place when needing something new entirely.
As they passed through one township, Irene grinned as a few people took notice of the knights and apprentices and cheered for them as they went on. She hoped that one day soon she could call herself a knight but even the youngest knight to ever grace the Knights of Tenetium was almost eighteen. She had quite a while to prove herself before then.
Once past the township, they found themselves in the plains of Tenetium—which were what Irene was most used to having been born and raised in the central-most point of the large valley.
As she and the traveling party rode forward, she had no troubles as she went along.
Since monsters typically came from mountainous areas with fewer people, the plains were simple. Monster attacks were unlikely unless they managed to hide away in the forest as they migrated around at night, but in each forest they ran through, they got lucky. Even dire wolves hadn't bothered them and it was already midday.
"We will take a break here!" Gunnar announced to the apprentices. "Take your horses to the water and eat something quickly."
They had to risk a bit by stopping at the edge of an aspen forest but that was where the small river had a point where the horses could get to the water without risking their ankles or slipping.
They would have to cross a small bridge once they left that area but Gunnar said when they went to the bridge it meant they were over halfway there.
Irene was thrilled to see another township. Since her father was protective by her mother's request, she had gotten out of the house very little. She was used to the township they were a part of but it was only because her cousins and their families took up most of the houses in that area. There were flashes of red hair all around as one walked through the town, it was no wonder that was the only place she was allowed to roam.