After eating, Jimmy came to bring me to meet the village chief. Soon we arrived at a medium-size house. In front of the door, there is a middle-aged man around 50 waiting with a smile. Beside him, there is a man around 30 with a strong build similar to other men that I saw.
The middle-aged man walks up to me and invites me into the house to talk. After getting inside, the middle age man starts to introduce himself and the guy next to him.
"My name is Tom. The chief of this village. And this is my brother, Ben. The warrior captain of this village."
I also introduced myself to him. Then the chief start to explain about his village which I already knew a bit. But there are a few things extra. He said that there are two more villages like this nearby. And they are under the protection of a knight.
This reminds me of a fantasy world knight. A guy in shining armor, doing heroic things. Then the chief stop me from my thought.
"Mr. Soro. What is your plan at the moment?"
I start to think a bit about his question. At first, I want to stay in this village for a while and go hunting in the nearby forest. But after a short walk in this village, I start to smell urine and feces almost everywhere. So it's a no. So I decided to ask him about the dungeon.
"Mr. Tom! I have an interest in the dungeon. Is there any dungeon nearby your village?"
The chief thing a bit and reply:
"There are a few safe dungeons nearby. But you can't find anything in there. If you want to explore a high difficulty dungeon, I recommend you to go to the forest across the river. There are many wild dungeons on that side."
The term safe and wild dungeon caught my attention. I noted to myself that I will visit each one of them. There are many new things that I want to ask them but my gut tells me that if I ask, I will blow up my cover and expose that I am not what they think I am. So I decided to ask them for a map of the area.
The chief reply awkwardly:
"Mr. Soro! We don't have a map of the area but Tom can tell you briefly about the direction of each dungeon."
Then Tom starts to point in a few directions and tell me the way to reach the dungeon. I mentally talk to Kiki to peek out from my shirt and listen to the warrior captain's explanation. Remembering things is not my forte, I'm only good at thinking.
After that, we exchange some more talk. Then the chief mentions the help that I gave to the group of hunters. And he said that I can ask him anything I need. He will try to fulfill it. So I decided to ask him for a few things. Such as a basket, empty bag, rope, extra clothes, waterskin, a knife, and 2 spark stones that make a spark when hit with each other.
The chief seems a bit regretful from his early promise to help me. After that, the chief escort me to the village gate and we bit goodbye to each other.
I turn to look at the sky, it's still in the afternoon. So I decided to go hunter for a bit and earn experience.
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Back at the village gate.
Tom looks at the back of the beast tamer and his wolves. Then ask Ben next to him:
"What do you think about him?"
Ben replies with a neutral expression:
"Young, naive, and inexperience but not too arrogant like those who came to this village before."
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Back to Soro, little that he knows that his polite attitude as an earthling is being seen as weak and naive. But little that they know. Soro will change into something else. 😋