We quickly left the forest and headed to the Harkard Empire.

　It wasn't that far away since it was a neighboring country. After walking for a few days, we arrived.

　We stopped at a small town near the border with the Clenfoss Kingdom.

　A town called Almake, apparently.

　Entering the town, it was full of dragons, like the country of the dragon people.

　However, the townspeople are not looking at us very well.

　Especially the beastman, Lenya, seems to be disliked, and was blatantly looked at in an unpleasant manner. It seemed that they weren't currently fighting, though, so it didn't seem to be a problem to go in for a while.

　Ten North Mountain is a famous mountain, but Meku didn't even know the location of the mountain in detail.
　First of all, let's ask where Mount Ten North is located here.

　However, it seems that not only the beastman Lenya, but also I, a human, am not very favorable to him, and he ignores me quite a bit.

　After about the fifth person, I finally met a dragon man who would listen to me.

''Ah?　Ten North Mountain?　What's the use of humans and beastmen in a place like that?

　Even though he's willing to listen to me, it's pretty nasty.
　It's far better than ignoring him.

'I'm looking for someone...'
'Mount Ten North is the northernmost part of the Empire and it's dangerous, to say the least. It's home to dragons. Well, I don't give a d*mn what happens to humans and beastmen.
'It's hard to tell if it's north, can you give me more details on where it is?
It's a hassle. You can see the mountains to the north, so just keep hitting them.

　Is that the proper way to get there?

How far is it?
It'll take us 20 days to get there on foot.

　Twenty days.
　Well, we could get there a lot quicker than that but that would still take ten days, right?

　The road bank is getting a little tougher.
　The current amount of money won't be enough to move for ten days.
　I have to earn the money.

　I don't know if there's an adventurer's guild in this country, but with the way things are going, I'm going to sign up for it.
　would be impossible.

　Is the best way to defeat the demon and sell its materials?

　

　Up until now, I've avoided selling materials because I couldn't use 【Corpse Absorption】, but at this point, I don't have a choice.

　Anyway, let's find an inn for today.
　The sun is starting to set, you know.

　Anyway, can we stay at the inn?

　Let's check it out.

　The first inn said no beastmen are allowed. It seems impossible.
　We went to the next inn, but there was a sign saying no beastmen allowed here, too.

I feel bad about it.
It's not for Lenya to apologize.
It seems that this town really doesn't like beastmen. Well, they've been at war for a long time, and it's not unreasonable to say that Lenya is a Ketsey, but she's not a citizen of Clenfoss, and that's unreasonable.

　After looking at a few places, we finally found an inn that didn't allow beastmen.

　When we entered the inn, we didn't get a good look and were probably charged a bit of a premium for our stay, but we were able to stay.

Anyway, the road silver is about to get a hold of me. And it was quite expensive. Let's make some money in this town for once.''
Well, I wouldn't want to stay too long, but it's not a bad time to be here.

　I don't get a good look from the residents too much, so I'd really like to get the hell out of here.

　We're stronger now, and it probably won't take much time to at least earn some road silver.

　Then night fell and we went to sleep.