"Oh! You look different today, Stella!"
Venya said to the approaching young girl while he was watering the plants in his garden. He was thankful to this little girl who managed to save him in time from the hands of the first cultist who arrived here.
Because of that incident, he realized that he needed a way to either fight off an evil guy or at least have a method to escape from them.
Just his alarm or magic equipment that tells him if there's an uninvited guest was not enough!
In the end, his old body couldn't really put up a fight, so he fixed his hidden basement and made it a comfortable place to hide in case the same incident happened.
His worries became true after a bunch of cultists attacked the village and massacred everyone in their sight.
Luckily, even though the cultists noticed his prized collections of beast cores, they probably thought of looting them after completing their true mission in the village.
