Chapter 156: Entirely different situations (2/2)
Worry and fear gradually emerged on their faces.
”What's wrong?” Alex frowned.
”It's the local warlords, they're here for the protection fee...” Binh replied.
Chau clenched her fists and interjected, ”What protection fee? There have been no major skirmishes in this area for over a decade!”
”No one is opening the door? Well, I'm coming in!” The door burst open under the kick of that man.
His appearance became clear.
The man clearly lived a comfortable life, as his large body size was in contrast to the couple and the other fisherpeople around here, who had malnourished and skinny bodies.
He wore leather armor on his torso, and a heavy two-handed saber hung at his belt area.
The man's nostrils twitched, and he remarked, ”Smells good in here.”
He looked at the couple and frowned, ”Why didn't you open the door sooner?”
”Lord, we were in the midst of eat-
”I don't care, the son of a warlord won't wait.”
Then, his eyes turned to Alex.
For a split second, a greedy and disgusting smile appeared on his face, and he said, ”You're housing a foreign man? Why didn't you alert my father? He needs to pay the living taxes.”
”W-w-what l-living taxes, Lord?” Binh kowtowed to the armed man.
”Nothing much, just a big portion of his foreign merchandise, as he is clearly a foreign sailor.”
The arrogant man thought Alex did not understand their language.
”Anyways, as usual, give over half of your weekly maritime harvest, and if you have any staple grains, we'll take a quarter of those,” The man moved his finger up and down, while his other hand approached his saber, as a threat to the unwilling.
”Why should they?” Alex didn't bear to see the two kowtowing.
From their short time together, this couple was higher than everyone and didn't deserve to kowtow to a scu*mmy warlord's son.
The man's chin folded, and he stared in a strange manner at Alex.
He placed his hands on the two-handed saber.
Alex frowned.
His precognition showed that the saber then made its way to the heads of the two homeowners.
Fortunately, this guy was an average mortal, and Alex did not need to use any of his powers.
In a flash, he reached the former, and with a single light punch, the armor collapsed upon itself, and the man was thrown off into the river.
The currents were not strong at this time, so the arrogant man latched onto a pier and climbed back up onto land.
”Do me a favor and sleep.”
The man fainted at his words.
Alex turned around and clicked his tongue when he saw the destruction he caused.
Half of the hut was destroyed, and the pieces of straw and badly-glued wood drifted off the currents of the river.
Inside the hut, the couple stared at him with their jaws agape.
Alex silently flew onto the other side of the river and cut down some trees.
Then, under the stunned stares of the two, he cut the trees into usable slabs of wood and built back the hut.
With his speed, he finished this very quickly.
”I need to go,” Alex whispered to himself.
Before that, he would do the couple a favor.
”Binh and Chau?”
”Y-y-yes?”
”Where does this warlord live?”
Chau shakily replied, ”On the coast, you'll find a temple with the symbol of a dragon eating an apple, that's where they inhabit...”
'For some scum to use the divine beast as a symbol, that's quite daring.'
”Thank you for everything, enjoy the fish sauce I made.”
Alex flew away, and in the direction of the sea.