While some Alterrans were busy defending against foreign enemies, some Alterrans were going around being foreigners themselves.
The movements had an increasing trend since Althea and Garan left. After all, even the Ministers themselves went on adventures, how could they not?
As such, when Ansel formed his circus, it was not a surprise that dozens of performers, extroverts, and adventurers-at-heart went to ’audition’.
These auditions were very fun. They were not held in public, but there were many audiences among the ’government employees’ and those in-the-know.
The auditioners had complete control of what they wanted to perform. They were just given a certain amount of time, which would be strictly cut off after the time limit.
It was then that people found out that there was so much performative talent in Alterra.
Ansel, who went Southwest, wasn’t the only one who led groups far, far outwards. It could be said that there were local caravans that headed all over.
Other Alterrans had also gone around a lot, and they were going farther and farther away. One reason was that the market in nearer areas was becoming more occupied and somewhat saturated by Alterran merchants or other big caravans with a lot of funds.
While saturated wasn’t the accurate term because the demand was strong and there would never be a lack of it, it was much more profitable to go farther away, where there was less competition and they could widen the profit margins.
There was also something particularly glamorous about selling rare products that no one else was selling in that area. This feeling was much more prominent farther away from Alterra. They could also get other benefits.
It was said that a caravan funded by Baron received a nice house in a town just North of Flaret Town. It pretty much served as the base of operations of that team, which wasn’t common to see in commercial companies than in mercenary companies.
It had also doubled as a guest house for the Alterrans who went in that side, though they were mostly mercenaries.
Another one of the Terran groups who were particularly adventurous was none other than the Crow Trio’s group. They also had some company. For example, there was Yeshiya, who was now Crow’s girlfriend as well as other like-minded friends ranging from level 16 to 20s.
Not long ago, Crow’s group had returned from an excursion from the Undead territory and had spiked in levels. Now, they headed in the opposite direction, the western regions.
They also hired a mercenary team to guard them, the Suns, which was Helios and Hugo’s mercenary team.
They knew that the two Ministers headed in this direction so they went here. It wasn’t that they were expecting to encounter them nor were they expecting a route to be there.
It was more like ’a path worth taking’ situation. They didn’t care where they were heading, as long as they could venture to new places.
And venture to new places, indeed.
At some point during their trip, they got...lost.
There were vast forests between territories. In their maps, even if they purchased the updated ones, there were still gaps in between territories.
These distances were a matter of tens or hundreds of kilometers; it wasn’t like their people could step on every spot there to fill in the gaps in their maps.
It was somewhere here that they encountered a particularly difficult town-level mob. They were supposed to be heading to a level 3 Town some hundred or two kilometers west of Basset Town, but encountered the monsters that the town attracted.
It was a mob of a hundred or so monsters, and a quarter of which were town-level monsters above level 15. Even with Helios and Hugo there, it was a struggle. They didn’t bring a super powerhouse with them, after all, not that those were easy to mobilize and hire at all.
The struggle was that after defeating two-thirds of the monsters, a new batch was attracted by the blood, and by this time, their group had already been spent.
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