From the South of Alterra and Bright Villages were aborigine villages. While they already received many refugees from the south, it was by no means the majority of them yet.
At this time, a group of hundreds of refugees traveled northwards. They were from various villages along the drying river, meeting somewhere along the way. Although it was slowly recovering, it happened too late and too many territories had fallen.
They fought monster mobs after monster mobs and the leading teams frowned as they noticed something.
"Are the monsters getting weaker?" The de-facto leader, a thirty-year-old Guard by the name of Fossu, said with furrowed eyebrows. He had a large build and dark red hair. He was also a very rare elementalist among villagers.
His teammates fought alongside him, some of whom they met just recently, but the bond of life and death experiences was strong. Together, they took down a level 6 monster with relative ease.
