Master Of None

By the time the party was ready to leave, three carriages had arrived. There were healers and some adventurer parties that had grouped up when they saw each other. They were the first wave of people to help the border due to how close they had been and how fast they could prepare for travel.

"Since we all compared maps, it looks like we are all heading toward different parts of the walls. My party is going to head toward the hardest hit in the last reports before we leave. Everyone be safe and remember to avoid the flock of arrow sparrows." The other adventuring parties were heading toward places in the wall known for demons to pass by often. It would help more refugees that way without having to send soldiers out.

"How was the watch last night? You never woke anyone up." Walker met up with Gil who looked a little tired but nothing enough to stop their travel.

"It was interesting. The skills that a scout has, are made to blend in and see further while discerning sounds from each other. I was surprised that she could tell what the wagon wheels sounded like in comparison to shuffling feet. And I mean, from over fifteen minutes of travel away. She also can only use a dagger and throwing dagger so she is very limited in combat." The insight about what a scout could do was interesting.

"Does that mean they have skills that help them camouflage as well?" Su found the differences in what Gil could do compared to a scout interesting. She had never met a scout who was also using a scout system.

"Yes! When I asked she told me that there were times she scouted days ahead to make sure there weren't certain monsters in an area when traveling. I feel like that party has so much more experience than us just based on traveling alone.

"So, in comparison to us, they are more versed travelers. We are more versed in relationships between kingdoms." Remey found that it made sense. The party was always spending more time within a kingdom than traveling. They had to learn and adapt to what other cultures did.

p "Escort specific. They are the best escorts who can deal with a wide variety of common monsters and employers for a longer time. We are the best kind of representatives. We represent the place we come from and help the people." Walker felt this was a rough comparison to what they did against what the party did.

"Brother, we are wandering in to an interesting area," Onyx spoke up to get Walker's attention. The party had managed to separate from the main trail slightly to a route that was less traveled. The reason behind was speed. They wanted to push and get to the border walls by sunset.

"Onyx is right, we went the wrong way and need to move." Gil became more serious and started to carefully walk off the trail. It only took everyone a few moments to understand why.

There were multiple nests with sleeping arrow sparrows. The thin brown bodies with yellow beaks showed off why they had been named the arrow sparrow and could dive to pierce enemies made sense. They all knew that they could scare the arrow sparrows away if they attempted to attack them. Unfortunately, the odds of scaring them away from their own nests was too low.

"This route must be left alone because of this. We should just sneak through as quickly as we can." Walker started to creep through the area following Gil. Midnight took up the rear as they all followed a line. Alice remained as close to Du to be safer. If the party woke up the flock they would have a tough fight on their hands.

What seemed to be lucky for them, was the fact that the flock of arrow sparrows were heavy sleepers. Walker could understand that this had to be because they were used to the constant noise of the entire flock at once. It was like living in a crowd that never stopped talking. Eventually, someone would ignore the sound.

Gil held a hand up for them to stop. A single arrow sparrow was awake. It was hopping around here and there. The age was definitely younger than all the others and Gil could tell that it couldn't fly yet. This made him more comfortable pushing through since it most likely wouldn't know that the party was not supposed to be there. It had yet to learn about humans at all.

The slow steps they took were only over the same places that Gil had walked. Leaving the hatchling sparrow behind, the part saw the edge of the nests in the grasses. It was not the largest nesting area they could have passed through but it was definitely a dangerous one.

The entire time they moved, Midnight had kept her nose in the air to smell anything risky nearby. But what she didn't expect was the sudden breeze full of dust to blow by when she was leaving the edge of the nests. Her large sneeze that followed was louder and unusual for the area.

The response from the arrow sparrows was intense. Chirping began to overtake the sounds around the party while some of the arrow sparrows darted in to the air. "Move!" Gil called for them to move in their group. He knew that they only had one chance to run before they might need to hide under Su's shield.

"Why aren't they chasing us?" Walker looked back and saw the arrow sparrows were focused on something else. Something the party couldn't see.

"It looks like they have zeroed in on something else." Gil wanted to say it was just a monster, but he knew that the arrow sparrows had cleared the area of monsters. "We should head over there." The entire party felt it was risky but if people were being attacked they had to go.

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