Vol 2 Chapter 12 (1/1)

[T/N: The title is a slight play on word, ”legend” was in katakana instead of written as 伝説 Bravo if any of you figure out the iht?” The brown-haired man asks everyone on the roof in relief uuuuu Groans of acknowledgment come as a response “Hurts like hell… but we really did it, didn’t we?” “Sure did, can’t believe we took theiant of a ives a pat on the brewery owner’s shoulder “Don’t worry, Langley We will all pitch in and help” “That’s a given, ouldn’t have survived if we didn’t have all these barrels of beer and ale hich to drown the Huntsmen” The brown-haired man shakes his head slowly in disbelief “To think Mr Gui had thisto need to build a pond in case this happens again” fuuu “It’s going to be a pain getting rid of these Huntsed Guess the entire beer pool will have to be gone too” Langley sighs while slu his already sht be able to pickle them… or smoke them in your e of the Frozen West like to drown their prey in alcohol before s them to preserve the meat to make them taste better There’s also the seafarers tribe that would put live shellfish into diluted alcohol before cooking the tradition in various cultures Personally didn’t think about it until our ED mentioned it Russians immerse their meat in vodka for the winter as it’s both an antifreeze and well, booze Asian and South American cultures throw in scorpions, snakes, hook worm and various other ani drinks In some cases, as a full marinate (dark ardless of culture) Although in all these cases, the alcohol is unusually strong, s it in weak alcohol should theoretically be enough to preserve thethe flavour, I’d think it would be so with a more colint “Are you for real, Cori?” Langley had heard tales about the brown-haired o, saying that he’s a traveler here to repay a debt No villagers knew of hiers that travel around aside fro to the Free City of Feia to the south and the border town of the Nordom, Liliheim, to the north Naturally, everyone was suspicious of hi for boarding in a guesthouse ever since his arrival The children love him since he always tells vivid tales when asked The adults always thought he was merely a failed scholar or scribe since the tales sound outlandish But when the first ofhiain Through his own connections in the cities, Langley tried to look into Cori’s background and that of the stranger’s Cori hier was supposedly a renowned loers were all equally powerful, soh wealth and influence to overthrow a , this means Cori can’t be a si to repay an unknown debt, Langley wanted to knowto know hieable The idea of building a communalthe livelihood of the entire village - as he claimed it would Fro a lower quality beverage coers’ baked goods got sold within thein the two cities, said to be well liked by some of the better-off citizens and the nobles The children beca sick whilehappened as he said it would - and then some Just how many of those tales that Cori told to the children were real? How many were actually tales of fancy? The previously unheard of bread loaves ood, that even the resident i that there’s a way to recover his loss, Langley’s heart leaps in joy [T/N 1: Malt is erer wasto the process of floorwhere the perforated wooden floor -ie wooden floor board with holes- gets heated and smoked via a series of channel underneath the floor, heated via a central fireplace This process is well docu of whiskey where peat smoke is used prepare the malt] [T/N 2: Baked bread weren’t usually sold out within a day inabout hard bread So the villagers co is actually a pretty big deal since you don’t have to stay long in the city and earn more than your usual profit It should be noted that bakers usually get their leftover, unsold goods, in this case, the bakers can buy what they want to eat, indirectly i their family’s health due to better nutrition This doesn’t include the specifically e] “Well, if you don’t believe ht Mr Gui?” Cori turns around expecting a reply, but sees no one there “Mr Gui?” The brown-hairedaround in confusion as well “He’s over there” The largeon the ground Cori’s brows furrow at the sight “Hugh, Langley, look after the injured and keep the door closed for the ti just in case” The other two uninjured men nod as Cori makes his way past the attic beer fermentation pool, down the stairs, past the barrels filled with drowned [Huntsmen Rabbit]s and out the door [T/N: Oh boy, Attic beer fermentation, both me and the editor didn’t know much about it, we only know “of” it After so their roof at night to let insects and other windborne er it This GREATLY reduces the labour required as opposed to ale, but quality is harder to control] A sorry sight h town There are dead villagers everywhere,slumped on the floor in the doorways Cori readies his weapon, advancing slowly through the village All the houses within his sight seems to be ransacked, with the obvious valuables taken He checks each body to make sure that they are indeed dead, all of the stabbed in the heart His heart sinks as he sees the opened door to a particular house, it’s a hoenerations of her faht, aside frorandata gata There’s a soft rattling sound while he was inspecting the corpses of the strangers, causing hiain, Cori is ready for it this tie closet, he readies his weapon and opens it quickly The sight of Charlotte holding an unconscious Gui surprises hi toward him causes hiray fox slowly gets up in a daze, looking around a bit before staring at the corpses intently eeeeee A scream pierces the air and Gui’s ears twitch in a certain direction before he dashes out the door Cori can only look down at Charlotte before worriedly looking back up at the door where Gui left froirl up, partially closing the door before hiding in the bedroo the door open, he hopes whoever is responsible won’t come back since an open door seems to indicate that a house has already been ransacked Gui, after all, is an Iher priority The gray fox cli fro the location of the screa out in the open, but at least there would be some distance for hiht dirt road, there’s simply no cover, especially if the killers responsible are faster than hi metal reverberates in the air Gui makes his way quickly over to the source of the sound, in front of the largest building in the village, the Ad It’s the equivalent of a town hall and a storage facility coe, obviously it would be smaller than an actual town hall Naturally, it would be the first place for people to gather should disaster strike, aside frouards within the entire village, 6 retired guards from Feia “Just die already you old men!” “As if!” “They are already dead, they just don’t know it yet!” “You heartless oats, you want to talk about heartless? You guys didn’t budge an inch e trained that horde of [Hunts is the act of aggro-ing/drawing the attention ofthee] uu 3 users, with the glowing red deuards who can only reply in anger as they struggle to ward the users off The other guards are dead or severely wounded, with a crowd of villagers huddled inside the building “«Veil of Darkness»” “«Serpent Strike»!” “«Heartseeker»!” The user in the back casts a screen of black in front of the other two users as they rush forith their «Skill»s The one on the left dives low to the ground while the one on the right charges straight forward The guards tucks their shi+elds close to their chests as they lower their spears, they have seen how their fellow guards were attacked and ready themselves The veils h they were curtains, with no fixed distance between theotten within striking distance of the h pitched whining, whi noise fills the air just before the other two users reach the guard with their attack They turn back at the unexpected, sorrowful sound behind the the two users’ locations to the guards They were surprised that the users are attacking from the sides, contrary to the location of the curtains, but e to stab their respective opponents in the chest at the last secondhis crotch with both hands as he rolls on the ground, whi in pain Gui spits out the piece of cloth in hishis throat before giving it a good shake Without a ht that had turned back to deal with the guard “Gerht screaray fox bites hard on the section between the calf and ankle as the other user warns hiuard in front of him suddenly bashes hi it and ending it by stepping in with a powerful two-handed upward thrust with the spear The spear enters the user’s throat with a zaku before settling within his brain The user can only stare blankly at the guard as his whole body slowly slides down the spear froht, before it’s uncereuard sla user who had just tried to warn his coht eye with a wet sounding zaku, killing hiuards breathe heavily as they recover froht “Thank you, Lord Gui You saved all our lives” “Mayor, take care of the wounded quickly, they ht be saved yet!” “We don’t kno to repay you, Lord Gui” “Thank you, thank you, thank you” “It isn’t over yet, keep everyone safe As for repaying ive me bread, maybe with meat this time” Gui holds his nose up in the air as he takes a sniff His ear twitching left and right, within a few ers can only do as they are told and fortify their position As the sun slowly approaches the horizon, Gui ed to find two other users with the [Villain]’s ets to feast on bread and rabbit within the village before logging out and eating dinner with Kun While the food within Second Phantasia was certainly delicious for Gui, he still prefers to eat with Kun and Hank There are a fewith them now, but Gui considers the The next few days, the village spends its ti funerals and rites for the deceased and their faed to convince thewithin the brewery, has successfully cured theout what has happened to the rest of the village, he secretly vowed to share all the profits he gets with the village as interest free loans Stupidly enough, the [Villain] ear back Except for the two users who Gui killed on his own, the rest were naked save for their avatar’s basic undergarain, but swiftly dealt with them nonetheless After they tried to sneak in for the third tie, checking for their scent After finding their un thee altogether, accepting their loss As for the crystals, Gui ate the hard to chew on after all the various soft bread the villagers had offered to him After a week or so… “Mr Gui, how about you escort ers to Feia?” Cori asks his in “Why?” “There are a few orphans as a result of the last attack, I want to at least bring them to their fae Also, I’et so like children without fauely recalls the tiainst the bear Wafuuun Gui gives ahis head ka ka “Eh… what’s going on here?” Cori already noticed so on within Feia from a distance, but he didn’t expect such festivities when he arrived with his carriages The streets are lined with red and blue flowers and ribbons, with similar decorations on the balconies of all the various shops Even the sulking and sad children stare in wide-eyed wonder “Hail, Archson!” Cori waves at a town guard he knows “Hail, Cori! What brings you here?” “Well, you see…” Cori proceeds to describe the events that took place at the village Archson can only nod syht face “Anyhohat’s up with all the festivities here?” “Oh… urin Cori stares at the e and face “You earned a fortune? No… found a treasure?” The guard starts shi+fting his eyes while still so his smile “Wait… you have a son?” Cori stares even harder “No, a daughter! Wow, congratulations! Didn’t you say you were impotent?” Thehis smile “Yeah, so did the physicians Let’s just say a hten his expression, but his s joy prevents hi the healthy birth of all the Elders’ children” “Wait… what?” “All the Elders’ children were born safely” “What do you le one of theme… what in the four heavens…” He has seen and heard s, but this is a first even for him “In any case, hit up the restaurants, all the different Elders are sparing no expense in the celebration and are serving free food There are games and prizes for everyone as well if you hit up the townsquare” The guard lowers his voice to a hushed whisper “I’d personally visit old Markus’ shop, you should have seen him when he found out his wife is with his child We couldn’t see his eyes for days They are serving seafood pies and s in his shop” [T/N: Not sure if “couldn’t see his eyes for days” is the equivalent idio like an idiot all day, so uess I can use this to try and cheer the kids up before returning them to their relatives… By the way, are the Cha for the Elders, they are all heading to Zinnia Academy to pay their respect You could probably catch up to the pretty sloith all the missus and newborns” “Where is this Zinnia Acade into overdrive First, Archson -who is supposed to be inate his wife Then, all the Elders within Feia happen to have children at around the sa to pay their respect to an Acadeure out what it ihter’s Godfather, Headmaster Rick He also happens to be an Immortal Runs the Academy with a few other Immortals The ‘Little Witch’, the ‘Cat Amazon’ and the eh… what did the captain call him… think it was… the ‘Prince of Destruction’? Oh, and the Acade students though” [T/N: The Acade, this is due to the fact that the Academy was never “opened” nor was it officially an Acade by the previous voluet students from the elders as no one know of the Academy] “Headmaster Rick? ‘Cat Amazon’? ‘Prince of Destruction’? Never heard of them… but ‘Little Witch’…? Can’t be the sa to spin as one bombshell arrives one after another Each of those titles are ahts, since he knows for every tall tale, there’s a grain of truth In this case, it’s the famed captain that called soood shake of his head “Ah, I should get going, but wait here, give e, only to see Gui licking his drooling lips and his tail sweeps back and forth vigorously as though it’s a living duster He quickly grabs a parcel he prepared beforehand before returning to the front of the carriage “Here, share this with your fellow guards” Cori casually tosses the parcel into the guard’s hands “Ohhhh, what is it?” Archson catches it easily without dropping his spear with a kisha “Some new cured meat, ale marinated dried rabbit jerky and beer marinated smoked rabbit meat Tell me what everyone thinks, I will leave a stock at Carvin’s as usual, anyone that wants the, as inthis is a terrible, terrible dad joke You’re welcome for the facepal accurate use of the name within context… still… that pun…] “Thanks! Will do! And tell the villagers that the guards send their condolences” Cori nods with a sad s the the horses to go forward The carriages behind him follow him as he heads to the townsquare Most of the children had their fill of fun and a up a few shops for the free food -where Gui struggled to eat so served in soup or stock-, Cori finally brings the children to their relatives one by one The practice of adopting one’s dead sibling’s offspring is widespread on the Zrewheig continent, there are occasions where these children will end up getting sold to slavers Fortunately for theion of the continent practices serfdodoms and city states Instead, the unwanted children would become properties of the state where they are placed in an orphanage where they are trained in basic skills The cost of running the orphanage is recouped fro In short, they become indentured to the state It isn’t a perfect syste a slave The re children are somehow related to the Elders’ faether As such, Coridirections and taking a short rest “…” “…” “…” Two figures get up fro of the acade on?” “What did you do while I was busy, Rick-ni~?” “I didn’t do anything! I swear!” “Then why is there so -eared soldiers escorting theet married to some princess while I ay? Or you couldn’t help yourself and had a tryst~?” “What?! I never left the Acadee!” Rick pulls on his hair with both his hands, as though asking, “why esture “What the hell are those Wan-Wan doing?” Till narrows her eyes, which causes Rick to lift one leg to the side in air and draws his ar to be borrowing that~” [T/N: Old comedy posture, seen in HK films, asian family sit-coms and japanese varieties shows fro ready to be hit” pose Here’s a , courtesy of Solistia] Rick looks at hiht koho to regain his coether Rick!] “Well, whatever it is Rick-ni, deal with it~ Since you are the Headuests that are slowly , his face twitching non-stop in the mean time