Chapter 320 - Hospitality (1/2)

Despite how happy I was to finally find a clear indication where the village was located, I still had two problems.

First one, it was a damned night!

While it immensely helped me in terms of finding out where my destination was, I doubted that a night visit from a stranger would be viewed kindly, forcing me to bid my time before the daytime in the forest.

And the second thing was just the sheer distance I had to cover on foot to get there.

While one could think that a few kilometres was nothing to such a powerful person like me, with how curved and constantly obstructed by trees and rocks this path was, I was unable to move faster than just a bit over the speed of an average human.

What I didn't expect though, was that after I finally reached the outskirts of the village with the intention of spending the night under some big tree, I would be spotted by forward guards!

”Stop right there! Who are you!”

With a simple, intimidating shout, one of the poorly armed men stepped out of his hideout, as the rest of his unit kept hiding in the treetops. While I could only locate them with the help of my energy vision, as soon as I pinpointed their location, it wasn't a hard task to notice that they already aimed their bows at me!

”I'm just a traveller! I was invited to the village by the Leicar, but seeing how its a night already, I wanted to wait for the dawn to enter.”

There was no point in hiding my intention. I was willing to enter the village officially to check out if the refugees were taken there first. With how strong I was compared to them, I could enter forcefully, but that would only make things harder in the long run.

”Wait here then! We will fetch him to confirm your story!”

For such a primitive village, they really had some strict defence protocols! From what I remembered from the books I read, in the medieval times, the cities were just closed off for the night, and that's what I based my approach on, but thinking how they were kinda in the middle of the war, I could only admit they had some reasons to be overly cautious!

Not intending to cause any disturbance, I rested my back against the nearest tree in a place that didn't obstruct the archers' line of sight on me. In the end, I didn't want them to feel threatened by my presence! As long as just one of them would fire, the rest would most likely follow, turning this situation from tense into an awkward one!

”I see that you've come, after all!”

Not too long after I was ordered to wait, I heard a familiar voice.

Turning my head around back to the entrance of the village, I saw the same officer I was talking to back on the beach. With how sleepy his face looked like, it was rather obvious that he was forced out of the sleep just for the sake of confirming my story.

That means that he either reported my appearance and his superiors decided that I was special enough to warrant an abnormal amount of care or the discipline of command in this place was simply awful!

If they would wake up the second in command of the entire army every time someone claimed to come here under his invitation, it would only take a week or so to make their entire commanding group unable to properly do their job from the lack of sleep!