5 Gathering Information (1/2)

There was a small Room inside village chief's home which was usually reserved for village chief's son when he returns from his trip to city, village chief was 63 years old and has only one son which was going to become next village chief. He was out of village because he had some business to take care of and also buy necessary things from nearby town.

Ace was resting right now as he was exhausted after beating up so many of beasts. he encountered 12 of those Boars who could go berserk and become black but as he was about to enter deeper into the Forrest, Alice warned him that there was a creature there 50 Km away which was radiating abnormal amount of radiation and Ace shouldn't go that way.

Ace decided to play it safe and returned with those bodies of ordinary boars because those black boars were too strong for villagers and if he bought them with him, then entering the village would be difficult.

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Village chief gathered all the villagers and they were discussing about Ace.

” But we cannot let him stay to long! what if he is wanted by some sect? we would be doomed and whole village would be killed.”

” But he said he is a merchant, maybe he only needs some time to rest and would leave soon, if we can buy meat from him at low cost hen that would save months of labor for our hunters. ”

” Did you notice how he looks, he doesn't look like he came from somewhere around this part, he must be from far away so maybe the powers which are after him are also from far away and won't attack us for no reason ”

Village chief listened to all the elders and finally made a decision ” Fine, let's do this. we have to decide wether we want him to stay or not. if he stays then we will buy meat from him and leave a good impression on him. later we can use that when our village faces trouble and if we tell him to leave, then he might have bad impression of us and won't sell us his meat ”

as he said that ,be looked at all the Villagers with narrow eyey ” I've made a decision to let him stay, we have been oppressed by bandits, we have to pay tax to the sect too. I know that recently we have enough beast meat but this merchant's price is affordable for our village. we won't have food crisis for at lest six month if we spend all the saved money of village on his meat. Earning his favor would be good too as if he can exterminate those strong beasts then he would be able to help us with those bandits too. ”

” I think village chief is right! if we don't take the risk then we won't survive! ”

” We will buy the meat! ”

” I don't want to starve anymore! ”