Chapter 258 - Mission: Secure Food! (1/2)
”Wow, so this is the Snow VIllage that you were talking about?”
Miya looked at the small village, surrounded by logs with a spike at the top end before her eyes.
”I'm back! Please open the gate!”
Michael called out to the people at the watchtower.
”Hey, you owe me food for making me wait for almost three days in the dungeon, and having me help you with your Ice Trolls quest, you got that?”
Miya angrily kicked Michael on his chin when she remembered being all alone inside the dungeon for almost an entire three days doing nothing but hunting undead by herself.
”Geez, that's already the seventh time that you're telling me that” Michael couldn't help but feel a little bit angry, as his ears are already irritated from the continuous reminders of Miya of him leaving her behind for almost three days inside the dungeon.
”Huh? Because you left me hanging for almost three days by myself...in that rotting place, without even telling me that you're gonna be busy yesterday!”
”Hyung-nim!”
Miya and Michael are currently passing through the gate and was just entering the village when a group of kids suddenly ran towards them with excited and happy smiles on their faces, and two of the kids are the siblings, Mara and Ant.
”Wow, I didn't know the kids here like someone like y- Huh?” Miya was about to laugh at Michael, but when she turned to her side, Michael was already gone!
”Shadow!”
”Noona! We have never seen you before!”
”Are you new here!?”
”You came with hyung-nim, are you his girl...friend!?”
”Noona, why did hyung-nim suddenly disappear in front of our eyes?” Ant tugged at Miya's robe with a wronged expression, while the other kids surrounded her, throwing her their own questions.
���Eh...ahh” Miya suddenly didn't know what to do, especially when she saw some villagers laughing at her circ.u.mstances.
'Damn you, Michael!'
'I don't know how to deal with kids! This is the reason why I left the house! Urggghh'
Swoosh!
A soft wind blew, and a figure of someone appeared before a small wooden house at the edge of the Snow Village.
Michael nodded to Carter who had just turned from a corner and passed him by.
Then he just stood there, in front of the cabin house, and just stared towards it, with no intention of walking over and knocking on the door.
”Come inside”
A few seconds later, an aged voice sounded from inside the small log cabin.
Michael smiled, and only then did he take a step forward and slowly ascended the small flight of stairs and before his eyes, the door opened by itself, like it was inviting him to make his way inside.
”Have you completed the task I gave you?”
The old lady, Sonya didn't even look at Michael and just continued knitting on her reclining chair, as she sat beside her fireplace.
”Yes” Michael nodded with respect, then he started taking out heads after heads of Ice Trolls from his storage space to a total of five heads, and placed it on the wooden floor.
But Sonya didn't even look at it and just continued knitting for a few seconds, while Michael just stayed silent. It was because he had always had this feeling that the old lady before him isn't just an ordinary woman, but someone truly mysterious.
It was because he had already a deduction that the old lady is clearly someone powerful, a powerful druid at that, and the most baffling thing is that she had just let the villagers live an almost impoverished life that only relied on the food planted in the garden or from the rare games from the village hunters that they would manage to hunt once in a blue moon!