That sure is anti climatic. For a group of bandit travelers that know the in and out of the dungeon traps and bring trouble to the official and adventure that try to catch them (or in this case kill them as any country rules cannot be applied inside the dungeon), they lost way to fast from the assault of the camper van golem. Guess that shows the power of this golem of mine.

Haliza's personal guard wanted to kill them right here and there but I intervened, saying that I am the one who caught them and wanted to hand them over to the judge for further trials. Maybe they will be sentenced to death, or maybe not. Regardless, It just felt wrong killing them. I don't have any problems killing monster but human is a whole different story.

To transport them, I make an earth carriage similar to the circus carriage use to display animals. The same carriage I made to transport the idiot noble back then. The tied up bandits didn't struggle much, since most of them are knock out cold. With a connection set between the camper van golem and the earth carriage, we continue our journey as usual. The people who use the main road can't help but to keep on staring at the golem and the carriage, having a confused look. There's one person among them that catches my eye as he seems to know what's happening. Maybe I'm just imagining thing...

With night approaching, we finally found ourselves at the entrance of the Rock and Sea dungeon Malsia's side. There, the guard greeted the runaway princess but

"Poor him, I'll be sure to compensate him" [Haliza]

"Please do" [Guard]

Seriously... well, apparently when sneaking out, Haliza just order the guard station here to let her pass saying there's a royal emergency happening inside the dungeon (with Mira further convincing him). Not knowing what to do, the station guard finally give up and let her pass through. This causes the king to be angry since he does not report this right away. Now the guard are punished (albeit lightly since the king know about his daughter's attitude)

(RIP guard, your carelessness will be my lesson) [Ash]

Using the goddess orb in here, it's my turn to be scanned. This sure bring me back to the time I get scanned by one of it when entering Estel for the first time. This giant blue goddess orb sure is a mystery. Nevertheless, as long as it get the job done, I guess it's fine. Still

"Hoo... it shows here that you have received a title from Goddess Achalasia and God of Death" [Old guard]

"!" [Others]

Not only Haliza, Mira, guards and the people around us, even I myself am surprised by it

"The Guardian of Children, and the great scythe magician" [Haliza]

"That actually makes sense. You do take care of the orphanage with great care, and you manage to defeat an S rank monster solo. Maybe that's why the titles are bestowed to you" [Mira]

"Don't you check it before? Otherwise, this new messages will not appear" [Haliza]

"I didn't bother to check it since it's pointless to me, but this sure is a surprise" [Ash]

"Wait, does that mean!" [Guard A]

"Are you perhaps the Behemoth Slayer?" [Old guard]

"He is" [Haliza]

"Got called that a lot recently" [Ash]

And the guards (as well as the surrounding people) become excited. Well, let just hope they don't expect me to do all the work here.

As for the titles given by Goddess Achalasia and God of Death, I sincerely have no idea when? Maybe it's during that one time I met them in my dream. My nickname is the behemoth slayer but that's like how the people around refer me, as for the title given by the God? They're granted when someone achieve a feat that's recognize by them and can be seen by using the goddess orb. It can't be forged no matter how, so someone with title bestowed to them by the goddess will be recognized as a great person and highly sought by everyone. I'm grateful for the title but let just hope the news didn't spread much.

After passing through the goddess orb (as well as showing them the official letter from King Estel and handing the earth carriage with bandits to them), I take my first step at a new country and

"It's the same" [Ash]

Almost the same as Estel, that's a bummer. Well, they're a neighbouring country, so maybe I should have expected that. Malsia building looks like that of an old British or European building and design, and here, it's the same. Well, as disappointed as I am at first, I do appreciate the finer details of the material use, instead of the usual material, the building here give of some vibrant white colour that I just started to notice. Apparently, there's an earth themed dungeon here called as gift from earth dungeon, and they used the limestone that they got from the dungeon to make the building

We take the soldier carriage station here and go to the castle. I can't use my bus golem since this is a new country and the fact that I just left it behind for Rean to use whenever necessary.

Along the way

(This is...) [Ash]

"Something wrong?" [Haliza]

"Are you sure the corrupted Thanatos didn't appear later?" [Ash]

"That's what happened" [Mira]

"I can clearly felt a strong corrupted mana, but I can't exactly pinpoint it" [Ash]

"But our court magician didn't detect anything!" [Haliza]

"Maybe because they didn't knew about this monster before, or maybe because it can hide itself well. Whatever the reasons are, it's still out there" [Ash]

"That's terrifying" [Mira]

"Ash, can you..." [Haliza]

"Scout around? Sure, but you have to accompany me as well, otherwise I might get arrested" [Ash]

"Will do" [Haliza]

"Thank you" [Ash]

As I keep on searching for the wavelength of the corrupted Thanatos mana, trying my nest pinpoint it location, my eyes attracted to a certain someone. A young human black hair girl scavenging through the trash with a Little girl around Charlotte age at her side. She's around 15 years of age and from the looks of it, she seems starving

(Sigh... I can't believe my eye) [Ash]

"Stop the carriage please!" [Ash]

The carriage stop, I went to the girls but, she looks terrified, like having a PTSD kind of symptoms, she tries her best to run away from me but her legs just give in. On closer inspection, there's a scar everywhere in her arms and legs... poor girl

"Please... spare her..." [Girl]

"It's fine, really" [Ash]

I open up my item box, bring out the warm fried rice that Claude make for the two of them and

"Is there other like you around here? If so, please show it to me" [Ash]