After joining the caravan guard, the formation changed.
Initially, the four of us were arranged in a single column.
It changed to two-person teams, providing circular protection around the camels.
The remaining person, Vela, also known as the fourth sister, was responsible for scouting, patrolling the outer perimeter on alert.
Because when Rudeus reported our professions, he declared me as a King-level Magician.
So I was assigned to an interior position; the one responsible for guarding me was that third sister.
Namely, the short, big-breasted woman, Bonchiani.
Although her skin tends towards coffee-colored, her face is still quite good-looking. Women from the Bekalite Continent all have a kind of exotic beauty.
Probably because they also engage in combat and mostly use heavy weapons, their bodies have muscular development. The curves of their muscle lines likely make most men more desirous.
However, I've heard that women from the Bekalite Continent age very early, but there's no way to confirm this.
From their perspective, doing such dangerous work, living to 40 is already considered long-lived!
The one responsible for guarding Rudeus was that eldest sister, Daxie Romero. She's a true giant muscular woman.
Her arms are as thick as my thighs, her height is over 2 meters. You have to look up to speak to her, and she's probably not young, with many wrinkles on her face.
Rudeus must envy me being guarded by a young girl!
As for the caravan leader, Helen Robert, I still haven't seen her real face. She usually sits in the carriage at the center of the camels.
Occasionally when she gets off the carriage, she also wears a veil. She seems to still have charm, but it's a pity I haven't seen her in person.
After teaming up with people from the Bekalite Continent to travel together, I discovered that the people of the Bekalite Continent have different customs from those of the Central Continent.
Because here, most women participate in combat.
Thus, a unique social structure has formed.
Namely, true gender equality.
For example, general life and work tasks, like chopping wood, skinning, etc., which in the Central Continent are usually handled by male Adventurers, here are divided and taken in turns by both men and women.
Furthermore, the Bekalite Continent is also a world of the strong. The so-called strong means that as long as you are powerful enough, or you have enough money, you can marry multiple wives here.
But at the same time, because women also participate in combat and commerce, there also appear women who are very wealthy or have extremely strong combat power. This also leads to situations of one wife with multiple husbands.
I heard Ben Robert joking with me that in such situations, if the lady of the house becomes pregnant, it's determined by which husband had the most relations with the lady during the previous cycle.
The child born is considered that husband's child.
It is indeed somewhat hard to accept, but this is the social custom here.
The strong get everything, regardless of gender.
So Ben Robert told me he greatly admires their caravan leader, Helen Robert. He would never look down on her just because she's a woman.
Of course, both one wife with multiple husbands and one husband with multiple wives are minorities here. Only a very few exceptionally powerful individuals can achieve this.
Most men and women still form relationships within teams due to the existence of succubi.
If a woman accidentally gets pregnant, she needs to return to her hometown to give birth to the child. Of course, the man who had relations with her also needs to bear various expenses for the woman during pregnancy.
This is the local custom. Although marriage is rare among warriors, scumbag men are also rare.
Here, few men abandon a woman after she becomes pregnant. However, it might also be because children are usually raised by elders in the village, so the cost of having children is lower.
If having a child meant never being able to separate, perhaps many scumbag men would appear.
So, when you see women on the Bekalite Continent, just treat them as men. Hesitant, overly polite chivalry is not popular here at all.
Our journey continued. Anya, who was in my group, has a hot temper.
Her first reaction upon encountering monsters is to charge forward and greet them with her hammer. I usually just call her by the first two characters of her name, 'Bonchui'.
She quite likes this name of hers. I heard her say that when she left her village, her great-grandmother gave her this name.
Occasionally, when we don't encounter monsters, she talks a lot too. She often discusses with me those exceptionally powerful warriors she has seen and the achievements of her eldest sister.
Her mouth never stops, talking non-stop.
Because monsters basically never got close before she dealt with them. I had no chance to show off.
Once during a rest, she was chattering beside me again.
'Dorin, your sword is too short. I see you have quite a lot of muscle too. Why don't you use a more powerful weapon?'
'This sword was given to me by my father when I was 5. It's actually very powerful. The monsters were just all eliminated by you charging forward. I could actually handle them!'
She pouted somewhat disbelievingly.
'I think you should just use magic from the back. Didn't your companion say your magic is the most powerful among them? Why have I never seen you use magic?'
'I'm currently training my swordsmanship. If I use magic whenever something happens, my swordsmanship can never improve.'
'Hmph, definitely another excuse for being lazy.'
'Anya, since you're so unbelieving, how about we try? Let's have a match. Then you'll know, won't you?'
Hearing my words, she seemed somewhat excited and happily agreed.
I distanced myself 10 meters from her, saluted, and assumed a stance.
She seemed not to understand the etiquette of a match, just standing there foolishly.
I didn't mind and said, 'You can make your move. Feel free to use your full strength, don't hold back.'
'Hmph, I'm afraid I'll smash you into a rotten watermelon.'
Then she swung her massive hammer, attacking towards me.
I used overflowing mana to increase my muscle strength. Because her attack had no technique at all; she just directly swung her weapon for a smashing blow.
I used my meteorite sword to guide the force of her weapon downward along its momentum. The hammer fell to the ground, and I Go with the flow pointed my sword at her throat.
'So? Do you know the difference between us now?'
'Hmph, I was careless just now. I was afraid of smashing you and didn't use my full strength.'
'Alright, then please use your full strength to smash at me this time. The result will be the same anyway.'
She became somewhat flustered and angry, raised her hammer and circled it in the air, as if gathering strength.
What is this? A tornado destroying a parking lot?
To make her lose convincingly, I used 'Time Flow' at 15x speed acceleration, pouring mana All-out into my body.
At this moment, my body also erupted with massive steam and simultaneously a violent gale.
I prefer to call this form the Saiyan mode. This is just the effect of 15x speed.
I don't know what 20x speed would be like.
Her hammer finally finished accelerating and came hammering towards me. Relying on my body's super-fast reaction speed and observing its landing point at a speed synchronized with her hammer, I caught her whirlwind hammer with my bare hand.
With a *bang*, her hammer stopped before my hand. I caught her heavy hammer weighing 60 jin with my bare palm.
The other guards watching from a distance, including Rudeus and the others, initially had an attitude of watching a spectacle. After seeing my move, they all became nervous. Several women even cried out 'Ah!', though I didn't notice who shouted.
Only after I easily caught her hammer did everyone relax. However, they all gaped in astonishment. Probably they couldn't comprehend the sharp of catching a giant hammer barehanded.
After I caught her hammer, Anya was also greatly shocked. She knew best the weight of this hammer blow of hers. If this strike hit a single-tailed death scorpion, it would be a one-hit kill.
She didn't expect this man to catch it with his hand. She felt ashamed of her earlier arrogance.
I clapped my hands as if nothing happened and said,'So? Do you admit defeat now?'
Actually, the skin on my hand was broken. But the ultimate technique of 'Time Flow', 'Time Flow: Reverse Flow', can briefly restore localized damage to the body. I now use this skill as a passive ability. There's no effect of consuming lifespan.
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