Lunch passed and once Raisa had finally settled down the pair of us relashed the horse to the cart, before climbing aboard and setting off to complete our journey to Bobel in Joquet.
"Mind if I ask you something? You mentioned the gods of this world before but do you have any whose congregation you belong to?"
"Cong what?"
"Ah um let's see here a member of their faith"
"Oh well it's not like I belong to a church or anything but I guess you could say I'm a follower of the Goddess Of Terra, since she is the Master of the Gods of Commerce and Trade. Merchants who receive her blessing always succeed in any manner of trade."
"Oh I see, how does worship and blessings work?"
"Well I can't speak for everyone, but for me whenever I get to a town that has a church or shine to the Goddess, I'll give a quick prayer and a tribute if I'm able, as for blessings themselves that's for the gods themselves to decide usually they give blessing to the truly devote or those who aspire towards deeds in honor of the Gods.
There are stories of a person who spent 10 years cleaning and purifying a lake far in the north after a poison slime made a nest and turned the place into a poison swamp, for his deed in restoring the land, the Goddess of Water granted her blessing.
The lesser gods give their blessing more often for far lesser reasons but their blessings are nothing more than maybe a small boost in your luck towards whatever the god resides."
"Well even with that much effort you are quite pious in my eyes, back on earth those who even believe in any gods dwindle year by year to the point that a good portion of humans don't even believe there are any gods yet looking over our world"
"…"
"Sorry I did not mean to insult you it is just how my world has become, perhaps if we had as much interaction with or even proof the gods were watching over us we would not have given up on them, perhaps now that i'm here they might chose to interact with me in a method that magic would permit?"
"I can't really blame you, if our gods abandoned us we'd lose faith as well, but given your description of religions of this earth from before, it sounds like they've been absent for quite some time already, but it would be really amazing if you could converse with them now that you're here."
"Well perhaps one day if I get to speak with a god of this world or mine I can ask them about it heh"
"I'd love to see what kind of a blessing you'd receive"
Cheer returned to our cart as it trundled its way through the cave every now and then I would dismount to collect drops from a goron or two who would be found and killed by patrols on the road.
Collected:[[ 27 Copper Ore, 5 Goron common cards]]
Finally after close to an entire day underground we emerged from the passage and formally were within the lands of Joquet, at the side of the road an inn with ample parking was available.
"It's pretty late we should stop for the night, otherwise we'll have to camp, but without guards it could be dangerous."
"Well I know I said it before but I can use monster summoning so we could use those to guard us? But I'm also not opposed to staying the night in an inn either, I've got enough supplies on me so I don't need to restock really"
"Hmm, well my own provisions are getting pretty low, but if you're offering up more of your worlds food then I'd be more than happy to forego purchasing more travel rations here, and honestly those bedrolls of yours are more comfortable than any inn bed I've ever seen"
"Well in that case we might as well stop briefly to water the horse again before setting out, and we should manage 3-4 hours travel before we stop to setup camp then"
"Sounds good, course we'll have to camp off the road a ways since anyone traveling would see your monsters and attack, but if we can manage that long on the road we should be able to reach bobel by lunch tomorrow if we set off at first light."
As Raisa headed off into the parking lot to provide her horse with water, I entered the inn hoping to unload something I had come across in my inventory and wanted to dispose of asap but if Raisa saw I'm sure she'd prevent me.
I hunted down a party of adventurers, and approached them.
"Good Afternoon everyone."
"And what's you want?"
[Ok maybe a bad mistake they are clearing drunk]
"Uh well I was wondering if you guys were interested in buying some monster materials from me, I don't have enough coin for a room at the inn."
"Bwahaha that's so is it, well fangs and stones won't be enough whatchu got that's on offer boyo"
Pulling a bag out of my backpack trying my very best not to make a face as the sound of flesh squishing could be heard as its weight spread out onto the table.
"I've got orc… testes I can give you everything in this bag for enough to spend one night"
A female member of his party reached over in a hurry and opened the bag to examine the contents.
"He's not kidding by my count, theres 7 pairs in here!"
"Hoh hoh, mighty fine deal you've struck there boyo, y'sure you only want a single silver for this?"
"Yes sir, I just want a place to rest my head in safety until I can get home safe and sound tomorrow"
"Well no skin off our teeth"
Flicking a silver coin in the air and arcing it towards me.
"Deal's done now scram, your spoiling the taste of my mead!"
Pocketing the coin I happily left the inn.
[Ugh why does everyone prize parts like that so much, I don't want to ever have to handle anything like that ever again, but I get a feeling that's likely to happen more and more frequently]
Leaving through the swinging doors of the inn I headed outside the afternoon sun shining down warming the skin of my face, after enjoying the warmth for a brief moment I headed over to the parking lot to rejoin Raisa and continue our journey once again.
"Heya Satou"
The familiar red headed woman waved me over as I entered the lot.
"Everything set?"
I questioned with a hint of concern.
"As far as I know on my end yeah, you didn't go and cause more trouble again did you?"
"ha ha I don't think so, just gathering intel as it were"
"Well that's good but I should be able to tell you anything about this area I've been traveling this route since I was 5"
I wore a look of shock on my face as she gestured for me to climb aboard the cart, but instead of once again joining her on the driver's box I climbed up into the back of the cart.
"Oh"
She was wearing a slightly disappointed look she replied to my action
"Am I such a bad traveling companion?"
"What no, of course not I just wanted to experiment with my skill some and well, would need room to do it in, since it might affect our safety for the night I certainly wanted to do it before we actually needed it"
"Oh I see well you should've just said so them, here I thought you were mad at me or something"
Puffing her cheeks up before sticking her red tongue out at me in a joking manner.
With everything settled we both boarded and departed from the rest station.
Once we were about a mile away from the station my experiment began, from the front seat Raisa turned to check on me every so often with mixed reactions, since from her perspective I merely was waving my hand around in the air like a lunatic.