Roslet

Zhao Nan had sought out a merchant caravan not because he was afraid to travel alone, but because traveling with one was convenient in many ways—and meant he wouldn't get lost.

As a student at the Ernst Institute, and a fairly well-known one at that, he was bound to encounter plenty of people looking to invest in him.

For many people, an investment didn't necessarily need to yield a return. A little goodwill might be enough to earn them help down the line.

That was why students at the Ernst Institute often dealt with nobles from the Kingdom of Fenlai.

Before he had a system, Zhao Nan had naturally dealt with those nobles as well.

With connections like these, finding a merchant caravan headed for the Hanmu Kingdom was easy.

After returning to the imperial capital of the Kingdom of Fenlai, Zhao Nan mentioned the matter to a nobleman's steward he knew. On the third day, the steward found him and told him he had arranged a caravan. It would be heading to the Hanmu Kingdom to deliver goods in five days.

Five days later!

Zhao Nan met the merchant caravan that would be traveling with him to the Hanmu Kingdom.

The caravan's leader was a sixth-level warrior named Roslet. He had no surname.

The Coiling Dragon World's setting leaned heavily toward the West of Zhao Nan's previous life. As a result, commoners often had no surnames. They only acquired one after becoming nobles.

For example, Linley's Baruch Clan had been founded by the first Dragonblood Warrior, who was named Baruch.

Zhao Nan had no surname either.

Once he married and had children, the clan he founded would take Zhao Nan as its surname and be called the Zhao Nan Clan.

Roslet was the same. He wasn't born into nobility, so he had no surname.

Indeed, it was only natural. A nobleman owned his own fief; he could hardly end up leading a merchant caravan.

Take Hogg, for example. Though the Baruch Clan had fallen into decline, it still owned Wushan Town as its territory.

If Hogg had wanted to live more comfortably, he could simply have raised the taxes. Then he wouldn't have needed to sell the family's treasured possessions, and he would still have lived well.

But Hogg was kindhearted and never collected excessive taxes.

Of course, Roslet's being only at the sixth level also had something to do with it.

After all, the sixth and seventh levels were entirely different realms. Only those at the seventh level or above could be called powerful; those below it could not.

If Roslet reached the seventh level, the kingdom might even grant him a title of nobility.

At the same time, seventh-level experts were already a backbone of the Yulan Continent.

After Zhao Nan and Roslet introduced themselves, the caravan set out.

Roslet thought highly of Zhao Nan. After all, an eighteen-year-old fifth-level mage was enough to command anyone's attention.

After all, Zhao Nan already had the potential to reach the Saint Realm.

As for becoming a god, no one thought Zhao Nan had any chance of that. The Yulan Continent had existed for countless years, yet only three god-level experts had ever appeared.

Of course, that was only what most people believed.

Thanks to Zhao Nan's strength and his good rapport with Roslet, he was given one of the best carriages in the caravan.

As a result, Zhao Nan felt none of the bumps as they traveled along the road.

That made it easy for him to focus on cultivating.

At the same time, he resolved to keep the caravan safe throughout the journey.