Chapter 28: Dawn (1/2)

Tyler watched as almost all the adult residents of the Red ogre settlement as they went to work on their preparations to migrate. The sun hadn't even risen yet and they were already almost done with their preparations. It seemed they had heard from the chief of the situation surrounding the two strangers that had saved their lives and were in a hurry, so they could make it back to their companion in time.

This sight was actually quite impressive to Tyler, just like before he hadn't fallen asleep last night and felt almost no fatigue. It was like his body was overflowing with energy and didn't know what to do with it. He watched the town folks party all night as they sang and danced, eating and drinking to their hearts content. He had joined them in eating mainly because he wanted the alcohol but had painfully found out it had no effects on him. He wasn't disappointed or sad about that fact though, it would save him from a nasty hangover.

The ogres had brought out 11 large carriages, they were quite lucky that most of their stables were not destroyed by the flames of the lesser Basilisks. The carriages were large enough to fit about 50 fully grown adults, they were made of wood but was lined with Orids, one of the most common metals in the demon continent, it had similar properties as steel but had undergone fundamental changes due to the high density of Mana in the demon continent, they were more flexible and had a higher density.

One of the carriages was used to carry all their supplies, foods, clothes, weapons, and so on. Azar had told Tyler that they only had two small spatial storage box in the settlement and they were only used for their most valuable items, what's more both of these boxes had been given to them by Albert.

A small spatial storage box was the most common dimensional storage item in this world and had a dimensional space of about 100 cubic meters with the medium and large spatial storage box being varying due to the massive influence of the magic runes used in it's creation process.

Albert had a medium spatial storage ring himself, he usually handed it to Erin as he didn't want any extra weight on his hands when he was fighting. They stored all their belongings and to his surprise Albert had shown him everything he owned, he was really acting like he worked for him and Tyler didn't know how to react. Albert had quite the collection of weapons in his storage ring, there were mostly swords but, there were different types of swords that even Tyler hadn't heard of, ranging from the katana to the great sword, no matter the size or shape, as long as it was a sword Albert had it.

These weapons weren't ordinary ones at that, he could tell that every single sword in the ring was at the very least made from an high level beast core, some were even magic artifacts. He told Tyler that the weapons now rightfully belonged to him and even offered him the ring but Tyler promptly refused, it felt like he would be making a dangerous commitment if he accepted it, so he told Albert to keep it and if he ever needed a weapon he would borrow one like last time. Albert reluctantly agreed, he had been standing next to Tyler since then, just like a loyal Butler which was a bit awkward for Tyler.

Albert also didn't need sleep, he was a demon noble and could go months without one. Tyler felt awkward with him just standing beside him quietly and decided to get some more information out of this.

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He asked about the 77 regions in the continent and found out quite a bit, he tried his best not to ask questions that made him look like a fool, and just focused on general topics. For instance the regions surrounding this one were the Sentro region, the Rantre Lahoured Region, the Denminatre Region, the Taine Ze Region and the Mounta Region.

Each of these regions belonged to one of the five Great families, they had made sure to expand their regions in a way it brought them closer to the Darknar Region. The closest region right now was the Sentro region, he hadn't asked for anything specific but when he found out the five families were keeping a close eye on the demon king's castle he was hit with a massive headache.

'Maybe going back there in such numbers isn't the brightest idea.' He might've been lucky in the past, and had not gotten noticed because he was alone, but going there with hundreds of people felt like he was courting death. He thought about what to say to the ogres in other to have them wait for him and Liz somewhere far from the castle but nothing came to him, in the end going back to the castle like this would give him a time limit on how long he could stay before they came for him.

Thinking about this logically though, it was impossible for the five Great families to monitor the castle constantly for 1000 years, they would be more wary about each other than a stationary building. At most they would have some scouts some distance away from the castle. This was mostly to keep themselves in check. it wasn't a perfect plan as they could still try to move in secret, but, they would have some underhanded solutions for that as well.

After arriving at this conclusion, he had a sigh of relief, as long as he wasn't that unlucky, there was no reason why the five Great families would pay attention to a settlement of ogres, migrating through the darknar region.

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As the sun began it's rise, Liz and some of the kids woke up, she was very pretty so some of the female kids had ran to talk to her last night, they seemed to remind her of something which cheered her up a bit, they had all fallen asleep around her and she did the same, it was quite a lovely sight to see. Erin seemed to be popular in her own rights, as all the other kids and even the adult female ogress sat around her, she wasn't smiling but she didn't seem to be bothered by it, they all had fun last night in one way or another.