Side story 8: Life of Babida the lumberjack abroad (Read part 1)
Babida P.O.V.
So I just killed the Monster of the forbidden mountain and had to leave my homeland to fulfill the pact that I signed with the ancestors.
I pledged to let them harness my plot of land for ten years as payment for healing my wounds on the battlefield against the evil giant bird of the cursed hill.
Indeed after the ancestors' vital intervention, while I was on the ground writhing in pain due to the savage windy attack of the Monster, I was invigorated and could defeat it by first smashing its leg with my Herculean steel axe and then cutting its head off.
Now it was the time to back my word toward the forefathers. I hence left the Batang empire and traveled to the neighboring land on the west border, the Batumba empire.
I was unknown there and that was just fine for me because I liked to go unnoticed and live a quiet life, something that I would have never been able to avail as a celebrity.
