20 Agera

***Clay***

The town of Agera is peaceful, or wait, it was peaceful. A few hours ago, at dawn I woke up and stretched my body. After last night's run-in with the local bully, Janus, I went directly home and slept which resulted in me waking up too early. My mood has recovered and I'm up for an adventure today.

As I stretched my body outside the inn, I heard a roar of a beast. It was probably a few tens of miles from here, but it sounded very angry, and I might just be the only one who could hear it so clearly with my super hearing. I was a bit curious as it was still dawn and monsters are already active. I flew towards where the roar came from and I saw a monster as big as a mansion's size. It had a rounded body and looked like a frog but wasn't. It had scales and spikes as well. Overall, it really looked like a porcupine than a frog, but the face just makes me want to call it frog. Observing it from above I noticed that it was moving towards a direction. No, it wasn't towards the town, but towards one of the places I have visited yesterday afternoon. In fact, it specifically was marching towards where I encountered and killed the Salamander. It can't be a lover could it? They do both have reptilian blood but that just doesn't make sense to mate.

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However, as it got closer and closer to the Salamander's place, it noticed that the Salamander was not home and so rampaged around its territory. I'm sorry Froggy, but your friend won't be coming home after that mistake he did in facing me yesterday, you know, when I crash landed. Anyway, as that was not of concern to me, I left it alone and went back.

When I arrived back, it was still dawn, but I guess the people of this world wake up early and start work at dawn, since I saw the shops getting ready to receive customers already. Stalls were being set up and the patrolmen were doing their rounds as a new shift replaced them. Unconsciously, I was dazedly looking around and did not notice that someone was already beside me.

"Good morning to you Sir. How was your night at our Inn?" The receptionist-slash-owner asked me. Her name is Dalia and she owns the most frequented Inn in Agera called Moonwink. It was an Inn mainly for adventurers and mercenaries but it's open for all travelers as well as Igelias is after all at the most-front of enemy territory, a frontier kingdom. As I am neither of the two, she designated me as a traveler instead. I don't really know the value of money here, so I am not too sure about it being cheap or expensive but let's just call it cheap, either way I don't care. I get to rent rooms without problem because of the sale of monster materials, especially that Salamander.

"Oh! good morning Owner, I was just stretching my legs. I slept well actually, as if I have not slept for a long while, thanks to your Inn's services." I really did feel that. It feels like it was only yesterday that I was sent here.

"Thank you for saying that. We really do our best to bring our customers the best service. We strive to improve every day as well." She started telling me the story behind their town. It seems that the town was erected by some adventurer called Daryl a few decades ago and became a village that handled the monsters that came close to the border of the human kingdoms, and then it became a town later. It was then adopted by the kingdom of Igelias to become one of their frontier towns. With this information, I knew that this town was the edge of human territory. That's good to know since I might have intruded on another races' territory and found myself in trouble. That's why the adventurers here were stronger than most and even the mercenaries were veterans in defending the town. Just to be clear on the two job descriptions; Adventurers mainly deal with monsters and their materials from the corpse, dungeons and treasure hunting while Mercenaries deal with wars or escorting jobs, to not get confused with the two. Of course, it was taught to me by the owner.

"So that's how this town got brought up. Thank you for telling me this necessary information owner. With this I'll be able to survive even more possibly. Now, may I ask what's for breakfast and if it could be brought up to my room?" I asked and pleaded. It's always a good thing to be nice to those who are nice to you. Although in this case, the owner would just be providing a service to a customer, kindness still can't beat being an ass even in another world. Besides, I'm feeling lazy today, I want to stay in. I'm rich anyway.

My father always told me, "As a salary-man I have to be the humblest guy they ever encountered in their lives. That way they will let their guard down and will enable me to take advantage of that to make profit and deals. Remember this lesson son." And well, I really took that as something to live by. Human nature sucks and it sucks to be one of them in the era I was born in where people try to justify everything in subjective light so that no one's opinion of you and what you do become relevant. Morality has already become a weapon to hold out to potential aggressors.