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[ Yucca City, Center Point ]
After yesterday's battle, Kyne went back to the inn, he had to struggle calling out Alem from the outside since he was sleeping at the time and the inn's door was locked, but Kyne eventually got inside and sleep like a corpse, he didn't wake up until the clock was ticking at 3 PM.
When he do wake up, Kyne quickly packed his things, wear his coat again, and goes down the stair to meet with Alem.
"Ahh! Kyne, you finally wake up, how was your sleep?" - Alem
Alem seems to be making some food for the customers inside.
"Its good." - Kyne
"My nights ends here, so before i moved out i'd like one last meal please"
With a smile, Alem gladly accepted and said yes, Kyne then sat down at a seat that is located not far from the exit door, while he was waiting for his food, he sees Drew, Alem's son, working hard to bring everyone drinks and food, he doesn't seem to be tired at all, in fact he was smiling the whole time, maybe his life is not that bad, he must have a very loving family.
'Now that i realize, i haven't seen Alem's wife..' - Kyne
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He decided not to ask or think about it, whatever happened, he would still be happy to see that both Alem and Drew are still in high spirit.
Kyne let out a final sigh of relief.
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[ Yucca City, North Entrance ]
There are 4 gates that act as a way to enter Yucca, each of them are placed in 4 different directions that follows North, West, South, and East.
Kyne arrived at the North Gate and saw a lot of carriages waiting in line to get inside, there will obviously be guards at each gates, and if you want to enter the city, you either have to pay some fee or shows proof that you have come with clear intentions.
Its not the case for those who leave the city though, as anyone can leave at any moment without being stopped by the guards, but if they went outside for more than a few hours, they will need to pay the entrance fee to enter again, even if they lived inside the city, this applies to every adults except childrens and elderly.
Normal citizen doesn't have any cards or ID's, so there's no telling whether they're a real citizen or not, even guards cannot remember every person's face.
After exiting the gate and enter the wilderness, Kyne follows a road that connects to the nearest Village from Yucca, he plans to search for some information and maybe a way to make money.
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[ 2 Days Earlier, Ravensword, Dordén City ]
"Hey, you guys! stop bullying the cat, you're all mean!" - ???
At certain part of the city, there were 3 kids playing together in a cramped area, the location is quite far from the main street of the city, and usually people uses these kind of places as a warehouse to store large boxes or items, but for these kids, this place is their secret playground, and today they had accidentally stumbled upon a stray cat searching for food in their playground.
The kids consisted of two boys and one girl, the two boys previously tried to play with the stray cat, of course since its a stray cat, it doesn't trust human at all, the two boys managed to corner the cat, at which point it starts to hiss aggressively, that's when the girl shouted at them to stop and let the cat go.
"Aww, you're no fun Meyla, we almost got it.." - ???
"Why do you want to play with a cat anyway!" - Meyla
"Well we just thought that it'd be a cool thing to try petting it!" - ???
"Sigh, okay fine, anyway.. Ram, do you brought the thing?" - Meyla
"Of course! Hold a second!"
There are a pile of trash behind the two boys, from the looks of it, but actually these are not trash but instead their personal toy storage, in here they gathered a bunch of toys and sometimes magical items that seems cool, Ram approached the pile of toys and picked up something, he then showed both Meyla and Oth the thing that he picked up.
"Ohh!!" - Meyla and Oth
It seems like the item that Ram brought is a magic artifact.
"We just need to channel some mana into it right? and then it will create a fireworks!" - Oth
"Yes!, now who's here wants to channel their mana?" - Ram
"Oh oh! Let me do it!" - Meyla
"Here, touch it with your hand" - Ram
He reached out his hand to Meyla, followed with Meyla touching the magic artifact with her hand, she gave the artifact a bit of mana and after waiting for a couple seconds, the strange artifact activated, it gradually brightens and once its light is bright enough, a small ball appeared and launched upwards, it only flew for about a meter before exploding, creating a small fireworks that is full of colors.
"Woaahhh!!!" - Meyla, Oth, and Ram
"That's so beautiful!! Do it again!" - Oth
"Alright! Then-" - Meyla
When they were about to create the second fireworks, the ground beneath them suddenly shakes, scaring the three of them, its an earthquake, but its strange, because while the earthquake was still going, Ram looked into the sky and saw a translucent barrier appeared, the barrier took a dome like shape and it covers an entire point in a city.
The three kids actual location is at the South Point of the city, but without their knowing, their toys storage is actually in between the border of South Point and West Point, so basically they are at the Middle between south and west, the Southwest Point.
When Ram saw the barrier being created, he quickly pushed his friends out of the way, trapping him in the process, the barrier had covered the entire West Point.
"RAM!" - Meyla
The three of them tried to touch the barrier but instead they got knocked back, as if the barrier is rejecting them, no matter how much they tried, they cannot seem to get close at all.
Meyla and Oth screams at Ram, but it seems like the barrier had blocked all sounds from outside, Ram cannot hear anything they said and so Meyla and Oth too, they cant hear Ram's voice.
Inside the barrier, when everyone that is trapped inside still on panic and screams for help, a girl voice was heard, not from somewhere, but the voice was talking straight to their brain, like a telepathy of some sort.
"The Extermination, will start soon." - ???