Emperor dismisses everyone from the meeting in the hall as soon as we arrived.

As soon as everyone leaves, he suddenly asks for me to take a journey.

“A journey? What do you mean?”, I asked.

Emperor stands up from the throne and walks down towards me.

“Yes, a journey to the west of our Dawn Empire. A place where some elves reside for the past 10 years.”

Do we have a forest full of elves in the west of our empire? Never knew… Wait, that still doesn’t answer my questions.

“Don’t worry, it’s just a mission of delivering a letter to the city lord. You can even look around till they provide you with a response letter.”

This is too sudden but if it’s about delivering a letter, then why me? There are Kei and other upper-rank strong adventurers in the guild.

Is it because we are familiar with each other?

“Is it really alright? It sounds important.”, I asked with a concerned face.

With a faint laugh, he says, “Child, don’t worry it’s nothing important. Also, didn’t you want to go on an adventure?”

“Kei, prepare a map and my letter. Take care of stuff from our end.”, he ordered Kei as if it was just the normal souvenir or formalities, but that smile doesn’t look genuine.

I wonder if I should ask questions about why he chose me or about this sudden visit.

But I chose not to. For better or worse I didn’t anticipate what was yet to come and might regret it later. It sure is the pretty continent to go on an adventure but I’m still at level 45 only. Most of the adventurers are of higher rank in the town.

Should I be exploring other places right now?

Honestly, I don’t know the answer myself. Let’s just go with the adventure in this magical world.

Next day when I logged into this world at night. I found Kei waiting for me outside of the adventurer guild.

“Why are you wearing a hood Kei?”

“Pssst!!!”, trying to keep my voice down he says, “I don’t want to cause any unnecessary problems. Hearing my name, I will just drag unwanted eyes on me.”

Oops, I almost forgot he is still the trusted and strongest knight protecting the emperor at all times.

They just act way too differently around me which makes me forget their real identity at some times.

*Ahem,

Kei takes out a pouch and a badge from his inventory.

“Alvin, make sure you wear this badge to identify you as an imperial member while you enter the western city, Elvin. IT will greatly help you at the city gate and in the city lord manor.”

As he handed me a heavy pouch, I ask, “What is this? I understand the letter and pouch but what’s this about?”

Kei opened the pouch and takes out a gold coin. He says, “A little gift from his majesty. It would help you with lodging if you decided to stay here instead of logging out.”

Closing the heavy pouch, he again says, “His majesty was about to provide you with some imperial coins, but I stopped him. Wonder if I shouldn’t.”

Bro What are you saying?

Is he being serious? Is this heavy pouch full of gold coins supposed to be a little gift? And he is talking about imperial coins who are above gold coins at that.

‘How much does it make in real-life conversion?’, I might lose sight of my real objective.

As we were talking, the street got a bit busier since it was a busy night, a lot of people can be seen around the guild coming for their work and relaxing with some food.

“Alvin, stay safe and enjoy the journey. Hope you enjoy your time in Elvin city.”

With Kei’s word, I hurried to gather the necessary things for the immediate travel. I guess I was excited all along. watching me from behind, Kei mutters, “Stay safe and out of trouble. I wonder if this is the right decision, your majesty.”