Chapter 16: Albert T. Cronoff (2/2)

”You're early as always sir, am sure you annoyed the Ms. again today.”

”Ha ha, i can't seem to help it, how was your shift last night?”

”It was strangely more quiet than usual.”

”Hmm... it's been this way for a while now, I wonder what's going on out there.”

”Ha ha no need to worry so much sir, winter is almost here I'm sure they're just migrating a lot earlier this year”

”Really... I hope so.”

”I should be on my way now sir, I've already organized your schedule for the day so you don't have to worry about that.”

”You didn't have to do that.”

Kelvin smiled and walked past Albert as he headed for the exit, ”It's will always be my job to assist you, it matters not if you're no longer a Lord, besides am the vice captain, Goodnight sir” he wave his hands and was headed for the exit,

”Dumbass, its morning!” one of the guards yelled out at him as he tried to act cool, Albert sighed and decided to ignored the fuss and bickering that had just started, he walked to his office door and entered.

Entering his office, he saw a thick stack of papers on his desk, he had accepted the job as a captain thinking it would make for a change of pace as a former Lord, only to find himself doing pretty much the same thing, the only exception was when there was a monster attack and the town needed all man on deck.

Although he complained about the similarities often, he was glad about this, if it turned out he was doing something completely different so soon it might've taken longer to adjust, right now the only people he was responsible for were the guards, the rest of the town was left to the chief, he preferred this than the politics of being a ruler, the only reason he had been a Lord was for the mere fact that he was born into the role.

He sat behind his desk and began his work, soon he came before a list, the name of his wife Erin Cronoff was written on the second line of that list, ”I almost forgot, she's part of the hunting party today, I wonder if she'll be okay.” it wasn't that Erin wasn't strong enough to protect her self, he just couldn't help but worry whenever she had to leave the settlement by herself, after all she didn't really like the outdoors, not to mention he had a weird feeling about this.

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After seeing Albert off, Erin started preparing her equipment for today's hunt, she was a magic user so she didn't really have much equipment, she wore light clothing, a dark purple robe with an hood. wearing a single silver bracelet on her left hand and carrying a small pouch.

After all her preparations were done she left the house, having already completed her chores the time had gone by quite fast, the streets was busy with both men and women as they walked in all directions, the sun hung high in the sky as the bright light shined on her skin, she frowned a bit then covered her head with the hood as she walked through the districts headed for the town's gate.

There wasn't many carriages in the town and since the gate wasn't that far from her house, she decided to walk, she seemed quite popular in the town as almost everyone who saw her greeted her warmly, most men admired her for her beauty and seductive features and often sent lustful gazes at her, they all respected Albert and wouldn't act on any of those impure desires. The women all liked her gentle personality but didn't really bother speaking to her except for exchanging pleasantries, she had a faint smile on her face as she nodded slightly to all their greetings, it didn't take her long to arrive at her destination.

She saw five figures waiting by the side of entrance to the town, there were three men and two women, all of them were ogres and had different types of weapons on them.

Ogres were quite strong but rarely had any magic potential, even when they did, they were quite limited in that aspect. ”Yo... Erin, Good morning, glad you could make it” one of the female ogress in the group welcomed her as soon as she saw her, she had a bow on her back but carried no quiver for arrows. She ran over to Erin and held her hands, ”Come on, we must leave now if we want to return before noon, Jarret already located our prey so we won't spend all day finding one.” she said with a bright smile as she dragged Erin by the arm and they headed out of the town.