Chapter 410 - Strange town (Part 1) (2/2)

Suddenly, Monk heard a grumble from his belly. He hadn't eaten in a while as most of his money was spent on travel and often when he was too focused, he would forget about certain things. One of them being food.

”Here.” The woman said as she picked up an apple and went to hand it over.

As Monk went to reach down in his pocket, he realised he had no coins on him at all. ”I can't, I'm sorry.”

”Just take it, I wasn't charging you in the first place. We all need to eat, and this town is a little more special than you think. One way or another, we have all been in your situation. Where we haven't had the food to feed our bellies, how does it make sense when there's enough food to go around the whole continent, yet we still have people dying of starvation in nearly every major city?” The woman said, shaking her head.

”It's clear that something's wrong with the system.”

Monk couldn't agree more with the women. He too, had come from one of those so-called families. He had kind of forgotten about it, since his time at Avrion. When his parents heard the news, they weren't happy because they thought he was going to become a knight, but because they knew he would be well fed and looked after.

Taking the apple, for now, Monk promised he would come back when he had a few coins. The money wouldn't be a significant concern for him. He could always just go to the local guildhall and complete a few simple quests to earn a few coins here and there.

Before that, Monk decided he would head to the Inn to see just what was going on. While walking there, he could see that the many people he saw walking through the town really were walking to the same place as him. The inn was located right on edge near the river and port. So, there was a lot of space in front of it.

When Monk had finally arrived, he could see a massive queue of around a hundred people, not all, but a lot of them looked either poor, sick, or weak with some disease of some sort. Then when looking down at himself, he realised he didn't look too different himself.

Lifting his arm, he went for a sniff and quickly pulled his head away as he scrunched up his face.

'Poof I stink, I haven't had a shower in days. The woman said he would be here for a few weeks right; maybe I should do some quests first before anything.'

Just as Monk was going to walk away from the Inn, he heard screams coming from one of the sh.i.p.s not too far away. His instinct made him rush over in the direction, but he wasn't the only one as two more men seemed to be running with him.

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