About thirty minutes had passed swiftly since the chaos began. At this moment, the entirety of the villagers had gathered inside the village square as though it were a defensive tower, a place where harm wouldn't reach them. Most of them stared around continuously in fright; some shivered, a few cried out, while others prayed in their hearts that someone truly powerful would come to slay the monster wreaking havoc on the village.
Not far from the village square, a group of more than five hundred soldiers, armed with various weapons, stood around Ren, listening to his plans.
"We need to stay here for now and keep everyone safe," Ren suggested in a deeply worried voice.
"But the monsters will bring down the walls if we don't act quickly! We can't afford to lose them; they've been the only thing preventing monster attacks like these for decades," one of the soldiers immediately refuted, pointing out the flaws.
