Arriving at the Sorrowful Swamp

It was evening.

A caravan of more than a dozen wagons was slowly making its way along the main road to the Imperial Capital.

At the very front of the caravan was a luxurious carriage with a family crest emblazoned on its door.

Inside the carriage.

Lan Qingyou and Alisa sat with their heads lowered, each reading a book in her hands.

It was the seventh day on the road.

Aside from stopping in two cities along the way to restock, they had spent the rest of their time camping outdoors.

Still, compared to the world a thousand years later, where monsters were everywhere...

There weren't many monsters on this paved road the caravan traveled, which had been built specifically for passage.

Or perhaps the road had been built precisely because there were no monsters along this stretch.

Regardless.

At least the journey had been peaceful, giving the two of them time to settle down and read.

Of course.

Reading wasn't all they did.

When they stopped to restock, Lan Qingyou and Alisa also went out shopping.

Though most of what they bought was books.

The towns they passed through didn't have facilities like libraries either.

But they did have bookstores.

Though most of the books were leisure works printed at the expense of wealthy merchants or nobles.

It couldn't be denied that they could still learn a thing or two from them.

So...

Lan Qingyou and Alisa would toss the books they were holding out the window every half hour or so.

After all, there was only so much information to be gleaned from the leisure works written by nobles and merchants.

As for where they got the money to buy books...

They still hadn't used up the hundred gold coins Adams had given them.

And Arthur, the fat