Chapter 171.

Chapter 171: Going Home
After helping Captain Quirk hire a temporary navigator from the Adventurer’s Guild, Lardy said goodbye to the crew of the Southern ship the next day and set sail for her hometown alone.

To save time, she rented a fast horse, and after a day and night’s trek, she arrived at her hometown, the Independence Territory of Messiah.

It was already 8:00 a.m. when she entered the city, and although she hadn’t rested for a day and a night, the fatigue in her body was swept away when she saw those familiar buildings and familiar streets.

But there was also something that made her wary, and that was the wanted notice found by the roadside, which clearly marked the identity of the wanted person – a sorcerer, in theory, only the local lord had the authority to issue a wanted notice, and now this appeared on the street, indicating that the upper echelons of this place were either already in cahoots with the church, or had reached a some sort of compromise.

She tried her best to look like an ordinary pedestrian, leading her horse straight towards her home location.

After walking for nearly twenty minutes, she came to the corner of an intersection, and a restaurant called “Flying Dragon Pavilion” appeared in front of her.

Lardy took a few deep breaths to calm her nerves, then pushed open the door and stepped inside.

Inside, the place was bustling with customers, and it looked like business was as good as ever.

But she didn’t find the person she was looking for, only a waitress she didn’t recognize behind the counter, seemingly calculating accounts.

Had a new waitress been hired? It was just as well, after all, the previous waitress had offered to quit before she left home, and it had been months since then.

Lardy slowly made her way to the front of the counter.

“Is the boss’s wife in, please?”

At this point, she was still dressed in men’s clothing, but she had removed the moustache she had used for camouflage, and she no longer deliberately mimicked a male voice in her speech.

The waitress looked up, a pretty girl stood in front of the counter, her green hair and delicate face always made people feel like they had seen her somewhere.

“Is the guest looking for Mrs. Write Shera Boss?”

Looking at the slightly dumb waitress, Lardy covered her mouth and smiled lightly.

“I’m looking for her, but I’m not a customer, I’m her daughter.”

“Ah!”

The waitress was a little startled, and she rushed out and bowed to Lardy.

“So it’s Ms. Lardy, yes …… I’m sorry, I was so rude just now!”

La Di waved her hand and smiled, “What’s rude about it, besides you’ve never seen me before. Just call me sister.”

“Uh, Lardy Little …… Lardy Sister.”

“Is my mother out?”

“No, the boss’s wife is in the backyard organizing things.”

“Thank you, then you go ahead and get busy, I’ll look for her in the back.”

“Uh-huh!”

Lardy turned and headed for the back, walking quickly through a hallway to the doorway at the back.

She spotted the figure that had been hanging around her for so long in an instant.

In the courtyard, a woman with the same hair color as Lardy was carrying a box, also heading for the door.

Naturally, the other party also saw her at the first moment.

“Aiyaa~, the wild girl finally knows to come back.” “Mom ……”

Tears welled up in Lardy’s eyes as she immediately walked quickly towards her mother.

The woman also put down her suitcase and opened her arms, mother and daughter hugged each other tightly.

Although when she was an adventurer before, Lardy had often traveled, but it was always with her fellow adventurers, and it was the first time that she had lived alone in an unfamiliar place for several months like this.

For those who live in Horn Bay, the northwest bay of the Kingdom of Aldo is basically equivalent to the end of the world, so how could this not worry Xela, who is a mother, and in this period when the Church’s oppression of wizards is becoming more and more severe.

“If you weren’t able to send back a letter every month, I’d be looking for you.”

Thanks to the Foster family caravan, Lardy was able to entrust her letters to them to be delivered to Horn Bay and then crushed and forwarded to her mother, Xyla, who was in the Messiah.

There were two main reasons why the Foster merchants were willing to help with this favor: one, she was an advisor to Earl Gleeman, and two, she was once a member of the Lichtman Adventure Group, and the Foster family’s second youngest master was on good terms with the Lichtman Adventure Group.

Mother and daughter made their way to Lardy’s bedroom and closed the door to whisper.

Xela asked eagerly, “How did you get back this trip?”

“I traveled by sea on Alda’s ship to Dagger Bay, disembarked at Asta, and then came straight home.”

“By sea?”

Xela was very puzzled, if she remembered correctly, it would be over two thousand nautical miles from the northwest bay of Aldo to to Horn Bay, such a long distance ……

“Mom, you’ve never seen it. His Lordship’s shipyard has created a ship that sails entirely on the wind, and doesn’t even need to be equipped with an oarsman, just spread the huge sails on the masts and it can run as fast as it can, especially in this season when there is plenty of wind from the north, and it can run at 8 to 10 knots almost every day on the way south.”

Xela gave an incredulous look.

“This …… is still unbelievable.”

She had also had some time at sea when she was young, so she naturally knew what a speed of 8 to 10 knots meant. Paddleboats could certainly reach that speed, but it was a short-term speed achieved by the oarsmen’s explosive power, and it was almost impossible to run like that for a whole day.

As for the lord of the Lords that her daughter spoke of, Xela knew that she wasn’t talking about the Lords of the Messiah again, but the young Earl who was in the Northwest Bay, who was mentioned in her daughter’s letter.

According to the letter’s description, this lord seemed to be an inventor, inventing many incredible things, although it was not explicitly stated, but the daughter’s words revealed a sense of admiration.

Probably because the other party asked for confidentiality, the letter did not specify the inventions of the count, but it looked like the ship that the daughter was traveling on this time was one of them.

“You didn’t encounter any dangers along the way, did you?”

“No, the journey was smooth, extreme weather and pirates were not encountered.”

“Did you have a good time there?”

Xyla asked the question she wanted to ask the most, even though her daughter had stated in her previous letter that all was well and that she was now back safe and sound, she still had to hear it from Lardy herself before she could let go of the stone in her heart.

“I had a good time there. Every day is full of life, and Count Greiman and my other colleagues are very kind to me, so please don’t worry about that.”

“Alas! It is said that the northwestern territory of the Kingdom of Aldo is an extra-chemical place ……”

“Mom ~ can not jump to conclusions without seeing it with your own eyes, there is compared to the Horn Bay …… compared to other places is a little backward, but can not be said to be a land outside of the world, and Earl Gleiman is trying to change the status quo of the territory, this time to send a ship to the Horn Bay is to explore the way for the future of the sea trade. ”

Thanks to “Zartoo” for the reward.

(End of chapter)