Chapter 36: Sightseeing the Capital
During our breakfast meeting with the royal family, I explained to them what I had in mind when the princess told me that she wanted to become an adventurer and travel to different countries.
Basically, my plan was to take her back with us to End Town where I could teach her magic everyday while still helping the residents there. Then, after we both turned 15, we could enroll as adventurers and travel for some time before she went to the academy. Realistically, it was a pretty good plan. She would learn much more magic in an environment where I'm constantly using it to help others than just teaching her spells in the castle's backyard.
The year adventuring could come in really handy too. I mean, there were kids that attended the academy solely because they wanted to go adventuring some day. Enrolling at 15, which was the youngest someone could be for an adventurer, could allow her to get some experience first hand. I thought of it sort of like an internship.
However, when I told the royal family about my plan, they seemed extremely surprised. A reaction that I definitely didn't expect.
"I love it!" interjected the Princess with a loud yell.
Both of her parents exchanged glances, then smiled. "Ha ha! Who would have thought? She actually said yes!" said the king as he laughed in between words.
The queen was covering her mouth as she snickered to herself. "Then, Melina... I guess you have two busy years ahead of you."
In the end, they all agreed with my plan of sending the princess to End Town to learn magic. Honestly, I didn't think they would agree that easily, in fact, I expected them to say "no" and use that as an excuse to go back home. However, now that it was actually happening, I was starting to feel more motivated.
"We'll have to make preparations, gather all the stuff that you are going to need, call a knight's order... Hmm, maybe we could hire a group of adventurers too..." muttered the king as he began planning the whole ordeal by himself.
"Ah, actually... I was thinking something else..." I interrupted his train of thought, but I had a good reason.
Ever since we started traveling, I was taking into account how far apart each of the towns and cities were from each other. I truly didn't want to travel for an entire month again, so my plan was to teleport to the cities and cut down the length of the trip from almost thirty days to three, or even one day if I used my MP potions to recover.