"Luther as you have already met Marlene before she's our group swordsman and leader."
"I know you don't have great impression of her as what happened in the morning but she's competent adventurer, she's B class adventurer with strength close to A class."
"I know what she did was bad but she didn't it cause she's worried about everyone safety as you can imagine what dark elfs are capable of when they succeed in disguise as human in human society."
Dave try to clear image of Marlene from settlement leader hopes that it works out for them.
"But it didn't look like she's worried about everyone safety the way she was addressing everyone at that time." Luther doesn't trust Dave words yet as he already seen what Marlene said was about to do.
"Father I'm sorry for what happened in morning but she didn't it out of cautious, Marlene isn't that bad as one might think."
"After all she was the one who saved my life at that time."
As they were talking about Marlene she came back too, everyone from settlement look at with nervousness as they heard about feat she capable of despite being just 20 years old.
"Where did you go Marlene, we have been waiting for you." Dave said with beaming smile on his face.
"Nothing much I was just clearing out the surroundings here is the beast that I hunted."
Marlene slightly wave her hand moutain of beast corpse was made right infront of them.
All the people in square when they saw this had their jaw dropped on the ground cause some of this beasts were high level one that could wiped out their entire settlement in few attack.
The rich smell of fresh meat spread in air throughout the settlement no-one has eaten meat for months already, saliva was dripping from everyone mouth.
They all wanted to snatch the meat from mountain of breast corpse but they didn't have guts to do it as the one who hunted this beasts was still standing right infront of them completely fine without single scratch on her body, she doesn't even look tired at all.
As if this was the big deal for her looking and with empty stomach humans are capable of doing anything to fill their stomach.
Seeing this one little boy couldn't hold himself back and move towards the beast corpse but just as he taken few steps her mother pull him in horror cause if Marlene got offended by her child rudeness it would be ended of them as this were hunted by her and she wasn't part of settlement.
"Mom, I want to eat meat. Please, mom we can atleast ask for single piece of meat to eat."
"It has been months since we last time ate one."
Child mother quickly close her child mouth by her hand, she bow her head in apologize towards the Marlene for her child rude behaviour.
Marlene looked at the child who just spoked now she pulled out dagger from space ring and cut off one of the deer leg and removed the deer hide.
The fresh tender meat of deer was visible to everyone eyes they can even smell it, most people in settlement never seen meat like this before or deer that it has came from.
"Here take this you can have as much as you want." Marlene said with kind smile on her face as she put deer leg in mother hand and pat the little boy head with gentle smile.
"But this looks one of the rare..."before woman can say more Marlene stopped her
"Its okay, I have more than this with me. So, giving to guys isn't the problem and as the as little boy said you guys didn't had any meat to eat before so you should have."
"Child can't play with empty stomach right." Marlene said with sweet smile while looking at the child.
"Thank you big sister." Little boy said with smile on his face looking at boy smile everyone heart melted as they didn't see any children smiling like this for week and the tregedy they went through is really big that they won't be able to recover from some time.
After taking few steps back Marlene said with loud voice so everyone can hear it.
"The beasts that I hunted are here for you guys eat as much as you want."
"You don't have to worry about anything, we will prepare lunch and dinner for everyone here."
As Marlene stopped talking everyone cheers erupted in loud noise some were showing their gratitude, some were crying and while few were glad to stay still alive and live to eat again.
Marlene join her group once again after announcing the feast.
"Miss I'm thankful for your generosity but we can't pay you with anything we don't have anything to give you guys no gold or silver, magic crystal or monster core." Luther said with Marlene as they truly have nothing to give Marlene.
They don't even have anything to give as reward for slaying golden eye dark arctotherium bear that almost wipes out settlement.
"No need worry about anything, you guys don't have to pay me with anything this is my free will help you guys."
Even though Luther didn't said anything he knows there's no such thing as free meal in this world their must be something and Luther was right thinking that.
Marlene look at people cheering and crying around her and she thought to herself, "This country bumpkins are all the same just give them bread and they will forget about anything."
"The aroma deer has one of the best meat to eat, I can't believe I wasted it like this for this bumpkins but it will be all worth it to keep Jake with us."
All of this Marlene did to keep Jake within her team if it wasn't for him she would have wiped out entire settlement but the people he knows live here and most importantly his father and little sister.
"Father I told it was big misunderstanding in morning, Marlene is good person." Jake said while at Marlene back with admiration.
Luther didn't said anything as he son really admire Marlene and he knows her more than he does and most importantly she saved his life.
While father and son were talking Carl came and put his hand on Jake shoulder, "Come with me we need make lunch for everyone."
"We will talk later father." Jake said as he go along with Carl.
At night Marlene look at the people finishing their dinner with happiness, sadness and tears at village square from far away.
"Look at them eating like pig even after loss of their family and friends, they didn't even mourn over their dead when they just buried them today and Dave you want me to kind to this pig like animals." Marlene said with disgust and disdain in her voice.
Dave let out sigh, "Marlene no matter what you feel or think about this people always remember that we live human society, we have to pretend and hide our nature that's the difference between us and animals."
"No matter what they do or stronger they become in the end they will always remain animal not human like us Marlene, we are currently at in outskirts of the forest but there's short cut middle part of forest not far from here and we need an out post here."
"This place is perfect for that, we can not find guide for this place after setting up teleportation circle here, we can directly come here instead of wasting all the time to travel here."
"This community already have few hundreds I already talk about this to Jake and he will convince he's father and they won't reject it either as adventure guild support isn't something they will deny." Dave calmly said.
"You are right, let's go as we already feed this pigs enough High quality meat."
Marlene and Dave sat on bench near the Luther.
"Father we want to set up teleportation circle here to the city of greendurd in Kotswold Kingdom." Jake said with persuing voice to his father.
"Jake I understand that you want better life for us but we don't want to part of any Kingdom or Empire we are good by ourselves here."
"No father I didn't mean as this community will be part of the kingdom, what I'm trying to say is this teleportation circle will owned by the adventure guilds."
"Father adventurers aren't like those what rumours said and what officials used to say in our kingdom back then, adventure guild is good."
"They look after the people, there's no adventure guilds in Yorst Kingdom cause king banned it for long time from when kingdom was established 500 years ago."
"All of the kings were mad and cruel who only cares about their power not the people that's why they didn't allow any adventure guilds in kingdom."
"Father if we set up teleportation circle here we can always back in emergency situation and you guys can also find shelter in greendurd and all the maintenance and formation of teleportation cost will come from guild, you guys don't have to pay anything."
"Father thinks about the future, not just for us but for the children we have here in settlement too."
Luther start to think about what he's son said and he knew they alone can't defend against monster in this forest and weather can become deadly any time too.