Chapter 23: The City of Glorya
After we were done with our very productive rest stop at Speranza, the knight's 4th order and I resumed our journey to the capital. Our next stop was the City of Glorya, which I was told was the second biggest city in this country after the capital.
Harvey told me that Glorya was just as far from Speranza as End Town. However, since this time we wouldn't be traveling through a dirt road but a nicely paved one, the trip wouldn't last nearly as long as the first.
He was right. The road leading to the City of Glorya was not only nicely paved, but it also had rest stops every half a day of traveling and some strange magical wards I noticed that kept monsters away.
The reason why End Town didn't get that many visitors was clearer to me now.
Thankfully, the trip was only five days, and we didn't have a single monster or bandit get in our way. I did cook all of our meals during the trip because I refused to eat the crap they called "rations," which were just pieces of beef jerky, and it didn't even taste like the good kind of beef jerky.
Besides, all of the knights loved my cooking, so it was a win-win.
After our travels, we finally managed to reach the city, and just like it was described to me, this place was huge.
The streets were bustling with people of all races, the adventurers' guild was full of energy, the shops and streets were luxurious and clean, and all of the buildings were made using some sort of white marble, which just made the entire scenery more beautiful.
We made our way to the inn to book our rooms for the next two days, and I asked for a room with two beds. Harvey seemed confused when he heard me say that, but Jackson knew exactly what that meant. I was bringing Vespera with me.
Vespera had skipped our Speranza tour, saying she needed to go back to her cave and weave more webs for her spiders to be born.
Her plan was to add a few more dozen demon spiders to help and protect End Town while we were gone. In other words, she was even more worried about the town's safety than me. But I didn't think that was necessarily a bad thing.