BXBX NOVEL Chapter 35: Planet Caladie
It was the first time all the students had arrived at another planet, and even for Jake. The streets were full of both military personnel and a little bit of people walking left and right. Stalls everywhere selling all kinds of things, like foods, fruits and smoky meats. Immediately they arrived, they quickly left the spot they were in because they saw the teams that entered earlier where in another side.
Immediately they left their spot, another team came out of the spot they stood on earlier.
"So now what\'s next? What do we do now?" Jake asked.
That was when they saw the students heading off to the sergeants standing off to the side so Jake and his team decided to head there. When they all got there, they waited until the students were all there.
After some time, all the students were now here so sergeant Lee decided to speak to them all. "I want you guys to rest up today or you can as well explore the shelter but you are advised not to go to far away. Tomorrow, the hunt will commence so make sure you get adequate rest."
"Some military personnels will show you guys were you are gonna stay for the week long hunting."
After Lee finished speaking, some soldiers came over to take the students to their temporary dorms. After some minutes of walking, they were finally here. The building that was to be their dorm, was located at the east side of the shelter.
The building was big enough to house close to 150 hundred people. So luckily it was big enough to house the 100 hundred students. When they all went into the building, they could see doors on every side. It felt like they were back at the academy.
"You guys will have to stay in the room according to your team. Which means, one team per room." The soldier said. "Don\'t worry the rooms are big enough to hold even eight people."
To which Jake and his team members quickly picked a door and went into the room. The room was truly big enough to hold 8 people. More like it was designed for 8 people to stay in. There were four bunk beds, two study tables and a single window.
"So what do you guys suggest we do now?" Jake asked as they all sat down on their beds. "Should we explore the shelter or rest up?"
"I want to explore the shelter." Peter answered.
"Me too." Vynn and Cindy said together.
"Well, I wanna rest up." Jack and Sophia said together at once.
"I Will also want to explore the shelter with you guys." Kate said getting up.
"Alright, that settles it." Jake said. "We will go explore the shelter and see what information we can gather about the different types of beast we could encounter here."
"Great. Have fun." Sophia said quickly shutting her eyes. To which Jake, Cindy, Peter, Vynn and Kate exited the room to explore the shelter.
"So where do we go to first?" Kate asked.
"I think we should head to the travellers hall," Cindy replied. "Its a place where they have information for travellers, you can also trade in your crystal cores you manage to hunt for credits there."
"I have two questions," Vynn said. "Firstly what are travellers?"
"Travellers are people who go out on hunt for some of the big families or other influential people." Cindy replied.
"And how do you know all this?" Jake asked with a raised brow.
"That was gonna be my second question." Vynn said.
"Have you guys forgotten when I said my dad works for one of the big three." Cindy said.
"I kinda forgot." Vynn said.
They walked through the shelter and eventually reached a very large hanger like building. It was an open space with no entrance, so people were free to enter and leave as they pleased.
From side to side, it was filled with counters with workers stationed there. Just as Cindy had said, there were blacksmiths here who were forging equipment and weapons. Shops that sold little gadgets and beast baits. And even a quest board.
The quest board was mostly filled with other travellers looking to group up and complete tasks together. The group went towards a stall that sold all sorts of items necessary for capturing beasts. Behind the counter, was a middle age man with a monocle over one of his eye.
"How can I help you, young soldiers. I guess it\'s that time of the year where they send you all on your first hunt."
"We were wondering if it was possible for you to provide us a map of all the hunting grounds here." Peter asked.
"Sure I can. That will be a total of 50 credits though."
"That is alright. Lemme pay for the map." Peter said.
"No. Don\'t worry, since I\'m the team leader, let me pay for it. It\'s my responsibility." Kate said.
After a few minutes of back and forth on who was going to pay, they finally allowed Kate to pay for the maps. After buying the map, they exited the building to look for a place that has shade so they could observe the map better. The group opened up the map which was on some sort of digital paper.
On it, the map indicated where they were and different areas around them which was colour coded. It went from green, orange and red. The closer the colour was to red, the more populated the area will be with beasts. That was when something caught Jake\'s eyes on the top of the map. It was the name of the planet; Caladie. Jake just shrugged and they decided to study the map some more before they went back to their dorms to rest for their hunting that was gonna commence the next day.