Now they have finally started seeing the wooden gate of the village. They then continued to approach the gate.
"Stop!! Who are you people?!"
Hearing this they all suddenly stopped on their tracks, then Godo shouted back.
"We are adventurers, we took a mission which stated we needed to deliver something in this village!!"
After shouting this, it became silent. After a few moments of silence, the voice shouted again.
"Ok, you are allowed to come in."
Then the gate started to open showing 3 men, 1 around his 40s and the other 2 around 17 years old. After meeting and greeting them, the 3 took them to the chief's house. After walking past around 18 houses, they reached the chief's house. They went to the door and knocked, then went in. They were greeted with a slightly old man sitting in a chair looking outside the window showing the mountains ahead. The old man then faced towards them and asked,
"What is it?"
"Chief, it is the adventurers which took the mission to deliver the thing." replied the older man
"Oh, is that so. Welcome, welcome, here sit on the chairs, make yourself at home. And you guys can go now. "
Godo and team then sat down on the chairs, they were singular chairs. Then the three went out and back to the gate. Then Folaei took out the small box from her bag then gave it to the chief. The chief took it then proceeded to open it. The inside of the box excluded a faint blue light making Rai and Shuya glimmering with surprise. Then Rai asked the chief.
"What will you use that for?"
"This gem? I am going to give it to my 2nd daughter."
"Why?"
"Well you know, after months of trying to achieve the 3rd level of mages, or the Low-Mage grade, she finally did it. So i am going to give this gem as her congratulations."
"Hooo, is that so. Then what is so special about that gem."
"Clearly you would have guessed it by now but this is a water element magical gem. It's to aid her in her journey."
"Ohhh, that's cool. By the way what can it do?"
"What it can do? Well..."
Then the two of them continued to answer and question back and forth. While all this Godo and Folaei were just looking at them while sitting peacefully. After asking lots of questions and getting answers about them, Rai then said,
" That's great, than can we, you know. Meet her?"
"Of course, she will soon be back from her friends house so just wait for a bit more."
"Ok, not like we are in an urgent matter anyway."
After asking the chief many questions, they knew more things about this village now. This village was founded 500 years ago by his great great great great great grandfather. Please note they may have died from early age. If you ask why the hell did he founded a village in the middle of a forest, it was because it seemed fun. Not too convincing.
The three people who guarded the gate earlier were Noma, Numo and Eqee. Noma and Nomu are twin brothers who are being trained under Eqee. As Eqee used to be a B-rank adventure and was born in this village, the chief asked him to train the two, which he accepted. Also, according to the chief, this village have around 50 houses, so it's like a medium sized village.
Minutes passed and passed while they waited for Opui's daughter, Afui. Then finally, they heard footsteps and chattering outside the door.