Gorr opened his eyes, the atmosphere was very different from the previous day, he spent the night in a village inhabited by the human race. The villagers that Gorr had defeated were now tied up somewhere, the villagers planned to hand them over to the Merchants. Gorr got up from where he was sleeping, a little boy ran up to him while carrying a wood like an axe
"Hey, Gorr look at my axe"
"It's just wood, can you cut something with it"
"Shut up, look at this"
The little boy hit the wood not far from his position using the wooden axe. But nothing happened, Gorr laughed at what the boy was doing. The child ranted to Gorr because Gorr had laughed at him.
"Roven the things you make will not help you to become like me, come here I'll make an axe for you."
Gorr broke a stone and made the little boy named Roven an axe with a small size. Roven was very happy to receive the axe made by Gorr.
"With that thing you can practice properly"
"Waaaaahh, thank you Gorr, you are the best"
"But don't use that axe to attack the villagers"
Roven nodded and immediately ran to his house to show the axe he had just gotten. Gorr began to walk around the village, all the villagers greeted him warmly, Gorr really wanted to stay long in Ursu village but he had to continue his journey as soon as possible.
On his way Gorr saw Julia in a building focusing on doing something, out of curiosity Gorr approached Julia.
"Hey Julia, what are you doing? What is this forging?"
"Oh morning Gorr, I'm counting the number of items we have. Soon there will be many merchants coming, we will sell them the goods they ask for later".
"What is a merchant?"
"They are people who have a lot of goods to manage, they often move places to get and sell goods".
Gorr just nodded at Julia's explanation, not yet finished Julia recorded the goods in the building Gorr said goodbye to leave. This time Gorr will go looking for some logs that will be used to build a house that he had knocked down yesterday.
Gorr entered the forest, he was looking for wood that Barsmith often used to make sticks and fences. Gorr, who was repeatedly hit by attacks from the stick, felt that the wood from the stick was very sturdy wood.
Gorr continued to look into the forest, he got an obstacle from a Tigress but with just one blow from Gorr the Tigress was unconscious. After searching for a long time Gorr finally managed to find the wood, Gorr uprooted the two wooden trees and brought them to the village. Not forgetting Gorr tied the Tigress who attacked him to the wooden tree.
Arriving at the village, all the villagers were very surprised by what Gorr brought. Julia, who had just finished doing her job, was also surprised because suddenly there was a Tigress lying in the middle of the village. Besides that, there seemed to be a commotion going on in the village, Julia ran to find out what really happened in this place. Julia's eyes widened after seeing two tree trunks lying in front of the village entrance, not an ordinary tree it was a climbing tree. A rare tree that has exceptional wood quality, the price of this tree is very expensive.
"Gorr, d-did you bring this?"
"Oh Julia, that's right. I wanted to find strong wood for the villagers' houses, and I remembered that I used to get beaten with this wood so I just looked for it in the forest."
"In the forest? You mean the Forbidden Forrest?"
Gorr nodded, all the villagers were surprised by what Gorr had done. For Ursu villagers, entering the Forbidden Forrest is a very forbidden thing, this is because in the forest there are many terrible creatures that can attack at any time.
This is completely different for Gorr who has lived in the Forbidden Forest since childhood and trained for three months there. The fear of monsters and beasts did not exist in Gorr. Gorr holds the wood he brought
"So when are we going to build a house?"
"We're not going to build a house with that wood, damn it" All the villagers answered simultaneously
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At the same time a chariot was moving towards a place, inside the chariot sat a man wearing a glittering robe and a man wearing armor and holding a sword. They were a group of merchants who were moving towards the village of Ursu.
In the middle of the journey, the Merchant looked annoyed and asked
"How long will it take us to arrive? Why is it taking so long?"
The voice was so noisy that it gave the people around him a headache every time he babbled. Holding his sore ears the coachman replied
"We'll probably arrive tomorrow morning"
"Tomorrow morning? I can't wait that long."
The swordsman beside him who had been silently listening to his master's ramblings now opened his mouth.
"I apologize for my impudence, but what does the village have that we should be the first to go there, sir?"
"Don't you know.... There lives a very beautiful angel, if we make it there first I can buy their goods and make her fall in love with me"
"If she still refuses?"
"Since that person no longer exists, we will use force."
The warrior was silent as he looked at his master who was smiling broadly, He was a merchant who had liked Julia for a long time. But Julia had no interest in him at all, the merchant was so ugly and old that Julia was disgusted by him.
The damn merchant often used violence to force Julia to marry him, but Julia's brother Joseph was always there to protect her. It was only a few months ago that Joseph got the call to join the war, since Joseph was no longer around the Merchant was confident that he could take Julia soon. The Merchant's evil laughter echoed to the horizon.
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The day had turned into night, as usual Gorr was sitting in the cottage while observing the stars in the sky of Ursa Village.The villagers did not build houses with the wood brought by Gorr. They chose to sell the wood because the price was very expensive.
In the midst of Gorr's loneliness, Grandpa Julia approached Gorr.
"Enjoying the night?"
Gorr was a little surprised by the sudden arrival of Grandpa Julia, Gorr did not answer and continued his reverie.
"You've brought some amazing stuff, it's impossible for us to get Tigress you know"
"Is Tigress meat expensive?"
"Not the meat, the Tigress' skin has a high selling value. It contains mana that can be used for Mage clothing and so on"
"What else does that mean?"
"Hahahahaha you can ask that to the Merchant who's coming soon"
After Julia's grandfather's words the two of them were lost in the beauty of the Ursa village sky that night, soon they both decided to sleep.
The atmosphere that day was a little different from before, Julia asked Gorr to cut the Klati Tree that she brought yesterday into smaller pieces. Gorr cut the tree with his bare hands, he was afraid that if he used an axe he would destroy the tree. On the other hand, the villagers were drying the washed Tigress Skins, their sales this time would be extraordinary.
The sound of a horse-drawn carriage was heard from the entrance of Ursa village, a merchant had arrived, the villagers flocked to see who the merchant was who came to them this time. Julia and her grandfather stood in the front row to welcome the Merchant who came. Meanwhile, Gorr hid so that the merchant would not run away in fear when he saw the Orcs.
The train stopped, a merchant got off the train, it was Ragnar Valskar, a merchant who always asked Julia to marry him. Julia's face became angry,
"What else is this old bastard going to do when you were still here?"
Shortly after Ragnar came down, a knight of Ragnar's guard also came down. He carried a sword and wore armor on his body. They both walked towards the crowd. Julia's grandfather greeted them both.
"Yours sincerely Mr. Ragnar, I welcome you to Ursu village let me take you inside so you can see what we have."
"No need."
Everyone was surprised by the rich man's answer, but soon Ragnar continued to say
"I will buy everything you have, as long as Julia marries me."
Hearing this, Julia could not contain her anger.
"No, who would want to marry an old bastard like you, Ragnar Valskar? You yourself are a disgrace to your family."
"Oh, I see..."
Ragnar signaled, and the guard drew his sword. With one swing a tree fell, and he swung again towards Julia and her brother. A sword cut was exposed under the ground, he was only bluffing but if this continued it would be them who were cut down next.
"If you refuse again, then the next target will be the villagers. Have you changed your mind Julia?"
The atmosphere became silent, in the midst of the silence the ground shook suddenly. Ragnar panicked that something was about to happen, but at the same time Julia smiled and said
"I'm not changing my mind, because now his village has a protector."
A rock flew towards the head of Ragnar's guard, he managed to avoid the rock. Shortly Gorr used his fist, with the sword he had the guard managed to parry it even though it was thrown. Gorr confidently said
"If you feel so strong, why don't you draw your sword on a strong man too Bastard?"
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