Karl walked down the road past the first few fields, nodding politely toward the farmers working in the fields.
There was an old man sitting along the roadside with a table full of fruit, and he made a wide armed welcoming gesture as he saw Karl approaching.
"Welcome traveller. You look to be a long way from home." The old man called in a strange accent that Karl struggled to understand.
"I do believe I am. I was travelling from just outside Whiton, and encountered a strange cloud. When it cleared, I was here." Karl hoped that the man would know Whiton Temple, which had been there with the same name since time immemorial.
"Whiton, you say? Never heard of it. But a Darklight Host Outreach Worker is a friend anywhere in the world."
That sorted it. He was either inside a trial, or he had been tossed onto another continent.
"I don't suppose you could tell me where I have ended up?" Karl asked, then tossed the man a silver coin from his bag and took one of the peaches off the table.
They were two for a copper, which seemed a bit steep, but when Karl bit into it, he realized that the peach had a rejuvenating property, and wasn't just a plain fruit. He would have to ensure that Thor planted the seed and got it to grow in the space. It would be a real treat for Lotus if he could give her magical fruits for her breakfast dishes.
"You're in Maria, just outside the Port City of Kanyigi, on the West Coast. If you follow this road another hour, you'll be there. I will warn you, anyone who hasn't made it past the first advancement shouldn't come anywhere near that cesspool. Kanyigi is a Fee Port, and it can get a bit rowdy.
If you turn around and go a couple of days down the road the other way, you'll get to Bunga, and it's a much better place to be. The only problem is that you'll have to deal with the wild beasts on the way there.
If you've got a combat class, it should be alright. As I recall, all the Outreach Workers should have reached the First Advancement before they're sent out alone, but then I suppose you weren't planning to travel alone, were you?" The old man asked.
Karl shook his head. "No, I was leading a group, but they weren't sent here with me. I don't know if they ended up somewhere else, or managed to avoid whatever sent me here."
The old man made a protective gesture, wishing them well, and sighed. "If they were sent here, I hope they weren't sent too far inland.
Here near the coasts, it's relatively safe for those at the first advancement, but if you get further in, you'll need to be at least past the second advancement, and there are spots near the borders where you'll need to be Mythic Awakened just to survive." ƒrēewebnovel.com
Karl had gone through the first Advancement Trial, so he at least had an idea what the man meant, but Mythic Awakened? If he recalled right, it should be the Totem Rank after Overlord, would Mythic be the one after that?
If that was the case, he really had to keep himself near the coast because it meant that the Second Advancement should be somewhere around Overlord Rank.
"Is there an outpost or temple near here? Somewhere that might have maps and some clue about what happened to me?" Karl asked
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