Chapter 4: Setting Off
After Trode recovered from the shock of his transformation I explained the situation to his majesty. Trode (who was once a renowned magician) came to the conclusion that in order to end the curse we'd have to find Dhoulmagus and beat him in battle, sound easy at first but we had no idea where he went so I suggested we check the criminal files to see if it held a clue to his whereabouts. On the way to the files I felt I had to ask what was behind the forbidden gate, Trode shrugged and decided to tell me
"You see Guv behind the gates is a magical scepter, I don't know the exact history behind it but I do know that it grants whoever holds it ultimate magical powers, however there is a dangerous side effect, it is said that he who holds the scepter will go insane, so that's why my ancestors sealed it off do you have any idea what kind of chaos a lunatic with that much power could cause yet another reason to stop that dreaded Dhoulmagus"
"But Trode how can I stop someone with ultimate magical power when I can barley handle a Slime" I said
"Not yet, but by fighting monsters you'll become stronger, and since there's been an increase in monster attacks, it'll be easy to find sparing partners" said Trode
Trode was right of course, fighting all those monsters made me stronger then Trodains training program ever could.
Anyway in the Trodan criminal files, as it turns out Dhoulmagus put aside his jester hood for a life of crime because no one liked his sense of humor, hey who knew, then we found the important bit, are first clue "Dhoulmagus was once a pupil to the renowned magician Master Rylus who lives in Farebury, though Dhoulmagus was an excellent student he was kick out for secretly trying to learn forbidden black magic".
So with that new bit of info we set off for Farebury it wasn't hard to find locate towns since there were very few of them in the world, because monsters roomed the wilderness most people tended to stay where they were born.
Now back to the story, Trode wanted to be assisted by more experienced soldiers but had to stick with me on the account of me being the only one not cursed by the thorns, Trode also wanted to travel in a luxurious carriage but all the good carriages were destroyed by the thorns rampage, the only one that wasn't completely destroyed was a simple old fashioned travelers carriage. We packed what little provisions we could salvage from wreckage; Trode rode on the carriage well I had to walk, with Medea pulling the carriage, Trode didn't like the idea of his daughter pulling the carriage but since there were no other horses available Trode had to concede. By the time we set off the morning had just begun and so had my Quest.