Chapter 550: Questions and answers (1/2)
”Wait, so you didn't come here to save us?!”
Despite everything that I went through during this life of mine in this world when I looked in the girl's eyes as she was crying those words out, it was the very first time when I was met with such a wall of disappointment, lost hope and desperation.
”I'm willing to do anything, I will be yours forever, I will give you everything I have, but please, PLEASE! SAVE US!”
Turning loud even before I would have any time to react to her question, the girl almost instantly managed to put me in a tough spot. with how the entire village was devastated to its current point, forcing all of its surviving inhabitants to hide in those strange hideouts that prevented the altered vision of mine from working.
”Let's all calm down, no need to panic. First, can you tell me where Jelleria is?”
No matter what was the situation here, the first thing I had to do was to make sure that I could get rid of the deadweight that this damned flat girl's sister was. Even though her innate constitution was of great value to me or literally any other cultivator, I wasn't willing to put her in the same type of life that she just escaped from!
”Jelleria? She should be hiding in the third basement, under that building. Please, now that I told you, will you help us?”
With the eyes of this girl already indicating that she was going crazy from fear, I could only shake my head in resignation. Just what the heck did she want to achieve by telling me what I wanted to know before actually asking her own favour? That was the perfect opposite of what one in her situation should do!
”Okay then, tell me what happened here.”
With the basic morality of mine acting up, I perfectly knew that I wouldn't leave this hopeless girl alone in the village that was about to be massacred, especially after seeing in what kind of place the locals had to hide away in order to avoid the danger.
”Monsters' stampede… it��s been something that I only knew from the legends, but three days ago, endless waves of monsters came rushing, smashing right through our village and going somewhere further east. I believe that they will follow the coast all the way to the end of the peninsula, before turning back, ravaging the village once again and only then leaving us alone by hiding in the forest… But to think that it appeared right now, despite the last records of it being as old as the memories that my grandmother passed to me from her own mother's stories!”
As I was listening to the story of this girl, rather than taking everything at face value, I did my best to categorize her words into things that happened, things that she overestimated and things that her terrified mind used to fill the gaps. Yet in the end, there was one thing that actually managed to make me worried!