The Red Fang Mercenary Corps worked more than one route. Several other teams partnered with different merchant caravans, and business was thriving on the routes branching out from Liao Leaf Town.
Duwak had grown close to Ye Chuqi and chatted with her freely. He even quietly asked whether she had considered joining a mercenary corps. The Red Fang Mercenary Corps offered good terms.
Ye Chuqi only smiled and said she was heading to Monte City to use the Teleportation Array. She wanted to take a look at the Imperial Capital Academy.
Duwak fell silent. Perhaps the mercenaries felt a natural divide between themselves and the people of the Imperial Capital Academy. They lived in two different worlds, with some things they simply could not understand about each other.
Ye Chuqi saw it differently. They were pursuing different paths. Adventurers made their own way across the continent, and their small efforts helped maintain its balance and peace. Many students at the Imperial Capital Academy, meanwhile, were recruits for the Imperial Capital Legion. After graduation, they would join the legion and go to the Beast Abyss to hold the front line between humanity and Mutant Magic Beasts.
If the Imperial Capital Academy's teaching and selection methods had not been so extreme, Ye Chuqi would have had no objection to what was, in effect, a military academy.
Ye Chuqi had always felt a particular respect for soldiers, one she found hard to put into words.
On the second day of the journey, something unexpected happened. Ye Chuqi considered herself vigilant, and San San kept watch for her at all times. With the caravan and mercenaries also taking turns on patrol, she should have been able to sleep soundly even outdoors.
Yet when she opened her eyes that morning, there was a Purified Beast