I managed to finish the soup dish with lassie juice.

　I also looked around the other stalls, but Jaisal's staple food is bread, and they seem to eat soup with spices and fried meat as a side dish.

　Some of them eat bread with a lot of spices and olive oil.

　I probably wouldn't be able to swallow it because I wouldn't be able to bear the spiciness.

　At my current level, whatever I was eating, I couldn't let go of the lassie juice.

　For now, we headed into the center of the city, away from the hustle and bustle as our stomachs swelled.

　Jaisal is a city that was built around a water source. I wanted to see the keystone of the city, the oasis.

　I came to the center of the city while being called to ask if I needed water.

　In front of me was a large water source.

　Looking at it like this, it looks like there is a normal reservoir in the city, but looking at the landscape in the distance, there is no doubt that this is a desert. There is no doubt that this city is located in a corner of the desert.

　Looking at it this way, it's a miracle that there is clean water in a place with only sandy soil.

　I heard that there are sometimes underground water sources here and there in the desert, but I wonder if they just gushed out by accident or if someone dug it out.

　It's amazing that there is such an abundance of water in a thirsty land.

　The area around the oasis was neatly paved with cobblestones and benches were arranged.

　A number of soldiers with spears are patrolling the area.

　After all, it's a water resource that can be called the life of the city, so they're probably watching to make sure someone doesn't play tricks on it.

　However, there is not such a stuffy atmosphere in the oasis.

　The people who come here are also somewhat relaxed.

　Since this is the only water source that everyone cherishes, it seems that no one is quick to try to do anything.

　Well, in a city where the most important thing is water, you never know what kind of punishment you'll get if you do anything rough with the water.

　When I was strolling around the oasis, I saw a group of children with buckets of water.

　The soldiers are watching, but they don't seem to be angry with me for approaching the water's edge without permission.

　I try to get closer. Because of the desert area, it seems to have some dirt on it, but it's clean enough.

"Wet.....

　The water was lukewarm when I tried it out with my hands. The water was lukewarm, but not as warm as the temperature of the bath.

　After all, when it's this warm, the temperature of the water in the bathtub seems to be higher too.

　I didn't drink any water, but sat on a bench and relaxed.

　If you are in the village of Koliat, you must be experiencing a certain amount of cold. But I don't feel it at all, as I'm in a winter resort in transition.

　What a luxury it is to be able to enjoy the warmth of the sun in this way, even though it is the middle of winter.

　As I leaned back on the bench and relaxed, the street became noisy.

　Looking around, I saw people strolling peacefully and people sitting on the benches running at once.

　What the hell?　Didn't we just have an extraordinary situation where people who were taking it easy a moment ago suddenly started running?

　Impatient, I get ready to flee in transition, but I get off the bench and start running to see what's going on.

　As I walked closer to the bustling area, I saw that there were a lot of people gathered and cheering.

　With people's enthusiastic cries and the temperature rising, I don't know what's going on, and I transition to a suitable roof top.

　Looking down the street from the roof, I saw a group of strong, dark-skinned warriors and women with wands who seemed to be wizards strutting around.

　In the center of the line was a hippopotamus-like creature with what appeared to be a large amount of supplies on its back.

　Are they famous adventurers or mercenaries around here?　Or maybe the Merchant Corps?　For that, people's reactions seem to be over the top.

'Oh my, little traveler?　You're in an amazing place.

　As I was speculating about this, a woman came out of the window of the building.

　I'm on the roof now. If I were the landlord, I'd be pissed at where she came up from.

'Excuse me, I was just wondering what all the fuss is about,'

'Oh, you'd be surprised if you weren't familiar with the area. Those people down there are the desert couriers. Warriors who sell goods and deliver people from city to city across the desert. They're heroes in a desert city that tends to rely on supplies from the outside world.

　Since this is an oasis, water is probably more plentiful here than elsewhere, but even so, there are plenty of daily necessities, vegetables, iron products and other things that are missing.

　They are heroes in the eyes of the townspeople, risking their lives to bring them to us.

　If they didn't come to sell us supplies every day, the inhabitants of this town would have their lives cut short.

I see, they're more popular than half-hearted adventurers.

I'm sure of it.

　The occupation of the children who look at me with their sparkling eyes like that must be a courier.

'By the way, how do you get down there?'

　After watching for a while, a woman asks me while gazing at me.

　I thought that if I just stood there in a random daze, they would get bored and pull away first, but it's not going to happen.

　With my physical abilities, it's impossible to climb down such a tall place without ladders or handles.

　I'll have to use the transfer.

'Ah.'

Hmm?

　The only thing I would use in such a situation is still to avert my gaze to the opponent and transfer.

　I activated the transference while the woman averted her gaze.



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Oops!

　The place I happened to see on the roof was the desert outside of Jaisal.

　When I landed in the transition, my feet were sloppily stuck in the sand.

　It sucks. I've got a lot of sand in my shoes now.

　But I don't feel like it matters at this point.

　On the other side of the entrance is a desert area. The desert stretches on and on.

　The desert beside the city is relatively safe, or maybe it's because children can be seen playing with each other.

　At the very least, the chance of encountering a monster in this area seems low.

　Because I was a company employee in my past life, I haven't experienced rokkier trips abroad, so this is the first time I've experienced the desert.

　Unlike the beach sand in Kagura and Eric's territory, it's brownish sand.

　The sand clings to me in a way that I can't compare it to the beach when I try walking on it.

"Shouldn't you take your shoes off for this?

　I was fed up with the difficulty of walking too much.

　If you look at the children playing, they were all barefoot and running around.

　It's not so hot that you can't walk barefoot...no, it's just that Rasulians have exceptionally tough skin, and from my point of view, it might be the kind of heat that burns.

　While preparing to bring out water magic, I fearfully put my hands on the ground.

'It's warm, but not really that warm.'

　It's warm in the sun, but not at a temperature that will burn you. You won't have to worry about getting a cold burn with this one.

　I take off my shoes and socks because it was okay to get my hands on them for a while.

　The sand in the desert is very dry.

　It is very annoying that the sand flows between my fingers every time I walk.

　I felt it was a shame to just walk in such a large area, so I tried to run as fast as I could.

　The silky sand danced up like smoke, but it's quite refreshing to run on the clean sand.

"Ooohhhh - phew!

　But as he continued to run, he ran into the soft sand and his feet were caught.

　He has short legs because he is seven years old, so he was on his butt.

　He looks like an Asmo who got his feet caught in the snow at last year's harvest festival and got buried.

''Hahahahahaha!''

　The kids who were playing with me laugh at my ugliness.

　It's innocent laughter and not malicious, but I'm a good old man and it's moderately embarrassing.

　I make my way out under my own power and start walking as if nothing happened, but on the third step I'm trapped again in the same way.

'You suck at walking in the desert!

　The girl in the braid laughs at me and pulls me up.

　She's a girl, but she's surprisingly strong.

'How come you're standing in the same place as me and not getting trapped?'

It's not the same, okay?　The ground is hard here.

　She tilted her head with a look of purity, as if to say, "What are you talking about, of course?

　When I stepped on her feet to try it out, there was a hardness to the sand, like a wet beach.

　Apparently there are places where the sand is soft enough to be buried, and there are places where you can get your feet firmly on it like this.

　The girls seem to know that properly, and they choose to move there.

　I'm going to tap the foot of the girl and try to feel it somehow.

Hmm.........then is this area okay?

　Then I stepped out of the way, and I was still taken off my feet and laughed at.

　Walking in the desert is too difficult........