382 Ten Half-Dwarf Escorts (1/2)

Everyone looked at Yale with strange faces because healers were a strange existence in such a remote area.

There wasn't even a single person in the group who practiced the Magus Path, and that was something that also applied to all the other people in the town.

Not everyone had the talent to train into the Magus Path, and those who had such talent wouldn't live for long in a place that relied on criminals to trade.

Moreover, since no one knew about the Magus Path unless some traveler appeared, usually, there was no way for the children to practice it; they didn't even know if they had enough talent or not.

Healers were scarce even among those who practiced the Magus Path, so no one in that group had met a true healer before.

There were people who used the Magus Path spells with medicinal herbs to improve the medicinal effects of the herbs, but that was less efficient than true healing magic.

However, Yale's healing had surpassed what they expected by far. They weren't sure if Yale was extremely skilled or all the real healers had such power, but they could easily guess that having Yale with them was something critical for their travel.

”Mister Yale, thank you for saving me.”

The skinny man felt that he had the greatest stroke of luck of his life at that moment when he discovered that the guy that he hired was someone far more valuable than what he had thought.

That skinny man and his family were the only humans of the group since the rest were half-dwarves.

There wasn't really a lot of differences between half-dwarves and humans, but since they were in the Dwarf Kingdom, the half-dwarves looked down upon humans.

Of course, the other two families swallowed their opinions because they alone couldn't plan the trip, but in their hearts, they still considered themselves superior to humans.

The escorts were all half-dwarves, so the skinny man knew that no matter who brought them there, they would end siding with the other two families in case of danger, so he had been eager to hire a human.

In the Dwarf Kingdom, there wasn't equality, and the treatment for each species was different. Even half-dwarves needed to pay more taxes in the cities than the pure dwarves although the difference wasn't too high.

As for humans and other species, their taxes were incredibly high, so living in the city was almost impossible for an ordinary human.

Of course, as long one was strong enough or was considered to be useful for the kingdom, all the problems from being human would immediately disappear.

After all, there were things more important than the purity of the dwarves for the royalty and the nobility like strength. Those who were strong enough were treated as guests even by the most important people of the kingdom.

Besides strong people, those like Yale who could heal were also very valued, so even those half-dwarves weren't in a position of treating Yale as someone inferior.

Of course, Yale could kill everyone in an instant if they turned hostile towards him.

The only reason for Yale deciding to hear the offer of the skinny man was that he felt that the man had contact with Shirk and Shirk's wife in the past.

In the past created by Yale's acts, they appeared near that town but suffered some injuries in the process. After all, Yale only ensured that they would be alive in Yale's present, as for the difficulties they would have faced in the new timeline, it was outside Yale's reach.

That skinny man was the one who helped them ten years ago, and although that was also part of the past's modification, changing the past didn't change the personalities, so Yale was still grateful for the man for having helped them.

Those two wouldn't have died without the skinny man, but they would have faced a harder time, and they also repaid their debt to the skinny man before leaving, so there wasn't a compelling reason for Yale to help the skinny man.

However, since it could be considered to be some fate between them, Yale decided to help if that man seemed honest enough.

Obtaining information was just an excuse because Yale could just obtain all the information by reading the skinny man's mind, as reading the mind of a mere Novice Rank was just a child's play for Yale at that moment.

Yale had yet to read their minds as he had only relied on the Divine Eyes, but that was because he was showing respect to them while waiting for them explain it by themselves.