63 Mission Successful! (1/2)
”What is approaching our village in such a wild manner?” one of the village guards asked the rest of the squad of five individuals who stood guard at the front gate of the village. These guards were dressed in what could only be considered as homemade armor.
Each had a full set of body armor but were lacking any time of armor to cover their heads. Each guard held a weapon and a shield on their backs and sides, but all were in poor condition. It was clear that the village Leo started his journey in, was more well equipped when compared to this village.
However, if one were to look within this village, it seemed as if the citizens were living much better lives than the other one that Leo originally visited. The reason was simple, the other village would face an endless wave of monsters while this one was only living with the threat of the Spider Queen.
Unlike the random monster waves, the Spider Queen never launched a true attack against this village. This meant that the villagers were much happier, even though they were less likely to survive against the Spider Queen if she were to send her entire army against them.
”Hurry up and open the gates! We have many warriors with us who need attention before they pass away into the underworld!” Christopher was the first to call out to the guards as Leo's three-man squad continued to sprint towards the village gate.
”Wait, how is it possible?” recognizing Christopher, one of the guards gasped and was in deep thought for a moment before shouting to the rest of the guards at the gates. ”They are from our village, hurry listen to what they are shouting and let them in!”
Quickly arriving, the citizens of the village were caught off guard as more and more of them recognized Christopher and the other warrior who once went on a raid to slay the spiders. However, what happened next, truly blew everyone away.
Using this time as the villagers around them were distracted from recognizing older warriors who they thought died, Leo quickly withdrew all the warriors who were still tangled in webs. Before arriving to the waterfall area, Leo decided to cut the webbings to allow each warrior's head to be shown. This way, the villagers would make the decision to help him start the healing process.
As he predicted, after only a moment, the villagers once recognizing their loved ones who they thought perished in the raid, jumped into action. Like a tornado, the villagers swarmed the warriors as they quickly cut them out of the webs while others ran to their huts to grab anti venom medicine.
After one hour passed, the warriors who were poisoned and tangled up in webs, were now resting on small beds made of straw and being given medicine to heal faster. Though it would still be several days until these warriors would wake up, the villagers were absolutely thrilled concerning this wonderful grace the heavens gave to them.
This commotion finally made its way back to the Chieftain's hut and shocked everyone inside. The Chieftain of this village was of course Maria's father, but he was much more formidable than what Leo would have expected. With an extremely chiseled body and heroic bearing, this Chieftain was a true leader who even wore an heirloom of his family; a bear's head over his head!