One of the Four major retirement zones is the little sun village which is surrounded by willow valley village, Gale village and Warlock village.
This villages has it's own history but they all have the purpose of guarding the border from sea monsters. They are also in charge of negotiating and trading goods with elves that share equally boundaries.
This elves are also commoners among elves but they are permitted to trade with humans. life in the borders could be said to be peaceful untill the mating season where most amphibian sea monsters leave the sea looking for areas to mate and raise the young until they are matured to leave on their own.
This monster are usually aggressive during this period. It's only six months away before their mating period but preparations are in progress.
An awakened with the gift of astrology had forecasted that their is a high possibility of a beast tide occuring in the next few months.
This will not only affect humans but also elves. This caused the usually quite town to be very busy not only little sun village but also the neighboring towns have begun to make their move and seek reinforcement from Adventurers.
Adventurers are people who awakened talents but refused to work or be bound by the nobles or empire the are ready to accept quest for reasonable price and resources.
Not only humans are adventurers even elves, dwarves, and mixed bloods[ this mix bloods are the results of the union between two different races.
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A door in a neighborhood suddenly burst open a young boy who seem to be in hurry came out with unkempt hair and unbuttoned shirt while struggling to put on his shoes.
When a voice of an old but energetic voice echoed from the neighboring apartment called out.
"How many times do I have to remind you to open the door gently" says an old man who was also leaving his apartment.
"Am sorry old Sam I was running late to work but it won't happen again" The man who spoke earlier was old Sam a retirement swordsman veteran.
Rumor had it that in his hay days he was above rank 5 but this day he just spend his old age smoking every morning like it nobody's business.
"Don't you have a better excuse than that, you always come up with the same lines every morning" replied old Sam.
"Can you stop bothering Kai his already late for work" this was the wife of old Sam, mrs Julie.
You might wonder why she refused to be called grandma, well actually no one dared call her grandma. She was actually a very beautiful noble princess but went against her family and married a commoner she actually had a unique job which was an Archmage.
she raised her strength above rank 5 and broke out of her family constraint some said she was actually above rank 5 but those are just speculations. You definitely don't want to see her mad.
So she insisted on being called Mrs Julie instead of grandma like most folks her age.
but she still maintains her beauty even at her age.
So old Sam definitely don't want to get on her bad side this morning.
"Good morning old Sam and Mrs Julie I would be leaving now" the young boy who just greeted them was Kai.
His greeting just stopped them from having another battle of words.
It's an unwritten rule not to interfere in their argument to avoid receiving the beating of your life. Kai's greeting just stopped an eminent battle of words.
Old Sam just replied with a "hmm",
and left to go to his usual spot outside under the willow tree in the center of the compound.
Just as Kai was about to leave Mrs Julie called him back and handed him with a home made takeout
"I know you have not had your breakfast so eat this when you get to work" she said while handing him the box.
"Thanks Mrs Julie and take care" he accepted the box and gave a respectful bow.
"Enough with the formalities, now run along and don't be late".
"Ok and take of yourself and Old Sam while am gone"
Kai said as he left the building and saw old Sam and other retired old geezers having their morning talk on latest events.
Kai greeted them some of them replied and some just nodded their heads as he hurriedly left the compound and onto the busy streets.
"His really a good kid but sadly their is still no news about his parents and sister". one of them said
"Well his almost grown up now he will soon have to take part in the ceremony" Old Sam said sarcastically.
He was actually very close to Kai's parents but even he knows little about their way about.
"Well I hope fate brings them together again" he said in his inwardly as he let out a short sigh before they changed the topic to talk about recent events
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As Kai ran into the busy streets where there were a lot of different pedestrian on the street going about their various businesses,
The town guards were also on patrol with their silver armor and swords hanging on their waist. some where carrying spears, others had either broad swords on their backs or short swords and shield.
They looked very imposing and help maintain order and protect the rights of the common people.
Some natives have already began to set up their stalls to display their goods, some had already began with their early morning trade everyone was just busy.
Kai kept on running as he was already late to work he was definitely going to receive an ear full from his supervisor Mr Jeff.
Kai has up to three part time jobs and one of them was to pick fruits from the orchard outside the village. it would have taken him five minutes to get there if he had boarded a carriage but he was too poor to enjoy such luxury so he had to run but even that will take him fifteen minutes, he was definitely not going to have a quiet day.