Soon after, I picked Feng Mian and Axilia both up, and headed back up to the village at the top of the mountain. The latter was acting like a baby and punching me the whole flight up, screaming about how she wanted to kill more, but I forced her to come along with me with the promise that she would be able to kill a bunch of things once we entered the portal and got sent to where-ever the hell it was going to send us to.
In any case, when we arrived, the village head was already there, waiting for us. The other villagers, however, were still nowhere to be seen, hiding like a bunch of cowards. Not that I blame them—for a group of people like them and the circumstances they live in, feeling scared of the new and being cowardly is a perfectly natural thing.
"Have you collected all the fragments?" The village head asked, and I gave a nod before showing him the four collected fragments in my hand. The light ones, of course, were invisible, but he got the point.
