Back To the Beginning
The Day on which Everything Changed

2 Years have passed.

Noland and I are both 12 years old.

A 12-year-old in the region, who is considered an adult and can start working, is a good time to start our plan.

The season is at the end of the winter phase, the snow begins to melt slowly, but still the temperature is still a little cold.

I wear a white shirt covered in a black coat. I'm wearing a gift glove from Noland, it's very warm. I also made sure that Koloman's bright gray scarf was inside my suit.

The necklace made by the orphanage? I always use.

I also did not forget to bring my adventurer backpack!

In this era perhaps the way of dressing would depict one's caste.

The more striking and festive the way you dress, then it means you are from the upper caste.

Therefore, I keep my way of dressing to a minimum.

We were all planning to gather at the border gate of the city, before we finally parted ways.

I started walking on the street where there was still a snow in the middle. If I look at the trees around here, I will see some leaves from the trees supporting the snow above.

In the past two years I have trained some abilities that might be useful in my journey. I trained my endurance, I trained my martial skills, as well as my communication.

How are the funds for this trip? relax.. I've prepared it!

I worked with traders around the Alps, I raised money for travel, learned to communicate with consumers, figured out how merchants of this era thought, and also seek information from traders.

Information is the most important thing.

The merchant association we were heading to was out of town. The city is often called Monte Rosa.

From the information I got, the city was very tied to the local traditions found there. Every day there must be a crowd of people dancing in the middle of the city, with great joy.

If the Alps are a region of tranquility, then it is a city of excitement.

Very contrasty.

However, it is said there is a very large and magnificent library, although still inferior to the royal library. I was excited to go there because of it!

In the Alps there are several libraries with quite a lot of books, but unfortunately I have read all. I need knowledge from out of town!

Noland was very surprised to find out that I had spent an entire book in that library. After that, I taught him how to read super fast!

I have now arrived at the area where the residents live, some residents are greeting me.

In order to increase my endurance and stamina, I build up the habit of running around the Alps every morning, especially in the woods, while practicing my reflexes.

At first it was difficult to start running, but consistently did it every day and was accompanied by my brothers.

So, every time I realized that the morning of the trial was coming, I had unconsciously run inside the forest.

Habits are important to form.

For martial skills, Noland and I studied with one of the martial arts experts in the Alps region. My martial skill was to protect me from random events that I would never expect in the future.

The training given by my teacher was very hard and sometimes to the point of no sense.

My teacher always advises his students to meditate every day to calm the mind, do not need to be too excessive, just sit still for a while and remove all the burdens of life and focus the mind can still be called meditation.

While building habits as well as martial skills, I also trained my communication skills while working with the merchants in the Alps region.

Every day I meet various kinds of people with different characteristics and backgrounds, their life problems also vary with infinite solutions.

Noland is very good at this.

He always wins when we race to get the most sales, with the result he is very far from me.

It took a long time to finally be able to match him.

The perfect job is one in which others see us working, but in fact we feel like we are playing around.

On the way to the promised place, I got some protective talismans from the surrounding residents, in the form of bracelets. They gave me more bracelets for Noland later.

The people here are really very good. I was so happy to spend my childhood in this region of peace.

With my communication skills so developed from before, the residents are getting more friendly towards me.

How's my family doing? My father still works out of town, my mother still manages the land, my brothers have started working out of town and some help my mother's work.

How did my family respond knowing that I, as the smallest child, was leaving the Alps? Of course they will refuse, but by looking at my achievements the last two years.

Similarly, the family of Noland Filibert, in the end by knowing his purpose concerning the family of Thiatus and the surrounding population, they inevitably had to allow his son.

From a distance I can see the border gate of the region, from here too I can see a crowd waving in front there.

There was the Filibert family, and my mother and some of my brothers who were still in the Alps. I waved my hand indicating I realized it.

At the very back is ready Noland by holding his smallest sister who is about 3 years old.

Noland was ready with adventure clothes along with his backpack full of necessary items during the trip.

Besides there was already a horse carriage that would take us to the city of Monte Rosa, the car was protected from the side as well as from the top side, the car was driven using 2 brown horses. About the trip will take three days of travel, with a stopover of two inns.

I approached the mob.

"Hello the Filibert family, and Noland!" sapaku friendly.

The Filibert family greeted me back.

"You're so long... Arthur!" noland exclaimed to me that they waited too long.

"Yes sorry.. after from 'situ' I went around a little in the residence of the residents to say goodbye.." I replied giving the reason for my delay.

"Oh. I guess after the tomb of Koloman you went wandering to an obscure place." said Noland.

Noland first visited Koloman's tomb to tell him of our departure.

It has been 2 years since the family of Tatus held back the hand restraints of the noble man, there is no time left to delay our departure now.

"Arthur, son of Noland, come home once in a while, we'll celebrate your return later" said my mother told me to return occasionally to the Alps.

"Of course it's Mom!" answer me to my mother.

After that my mother and my brother hugged me very tightly.

"We will miss you so much" said one of my brothers.

"Yes, we are, too" I answered briefly.

It seems that Noland has finished saying goodbye to his family, he returned his little sister to his mother's embrace.

"Zeroan... Come.." take me.

"ah! Yes Arthur!" answer Noland.

We rode the horse-drawn carriage, and put all sorts of things in it.

The horse-drawn carriage began to move, we looked towards the back of the horse-drawn carriage. Everyone there waved their hands, some were slightly moved in tears.

We both returned their hands.

Increasingly, the horde of people was no longer visible from the sight of the two of us.

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With this, our journey begins at this moment!