"I apologize profusely to both of you for the rudeness of my companions, and I hope that your Lordship will not be offended."
The beast-eared man in front of him bowed respectfully to Jared and Caroline, and was careful to conceal his curiosity about Caroline's eyes when he raised his head, and since the other party was already on the right track, Jared didn't intend to pursue anything. However, the beast-eared man obviously did not intend to leave immediately, he first smiled, and then took two steps back to show enough respect before speaking.
"But I sincerely hope that you will not make such a hasty decision, we are indeed from the Land of the Wastelands, but we are not hostile. But we're not hostile, you can ask around, our Beast Souls have a very good reputation, we've never violated any human laws, and we've never been on any country's most wanted list. As a matter of fact, Gale is a very good person, only because of the urgent matter, so his temper is a bit violent ..."
"So, what's going on?"
Jared patiently inquired, if it were him in the past, he would not care about such a small matter, after all, and he has nothing to do with it. But not now, he really regretted how he thought of such a bad idea to lead the tiger out of the mountain, and now he had to take up the obligation of the lord, to care about these usually in his opinion boring and idle. If it had been Kelly, there might have been a better way. But Jared wasn't Kelly, so he couldn't do what she did.
"Ah ... is this ."
The orcish man at the head of the group seemed taken aback by Jared's attitude, and hesitated for a moment before replying hastily.
"As a matter of fact, our mercenary group only wants to venture deep into the Forest of the Undead ... Almost no one on the continent doesn't know about the changes in the Forest of the Undead, but there aren't many who dare to come here to take a risk. So we intend to rush before the crowd, to find some of the ancient kingdom of the lost props ... is probably so. Unfortunately, the person who sold us the map obviously betrayed our trust, so we got lost in the forest and one of our companions got lost. Gale was furious at what he encountered, and I hope you'll forgive him for his rudeness. Of course, as you can imagine, we were very excited when we found out that this place was actually inhabited, but ...however, there are some ..."
"Have you lost your companions?"
Jared looked behind him with some curiosity at some of the adventurers, and found them to be rather unusual. One of them had two long, sharp horns, and another walked around with a large tail. All in all, these human-looking people always had a few more strange parts on them than the others.
"That's right, so we thought we'd come here and ask to see if anyone had seen my companion ..."
The beast-eared man was only halfway through his sentence, but in the end, he could only sigh helplessly.
Jared didn't realize that in this continent, the status of orcs was quite low. Because they were not born like humans, they were discriminated against by the common people. The bulky ones can only be used as slaves, while the beautiful ones will be used as rich people's concubines or playthings. Of course, orcs are not naturally soft, cats and tigers are both felines even if they are different in size, not to mention that rabbits bite when they are anxious.
So many years ago, the orcs finally united and fought against human atrocities, and won to some extent. But it didn't end there, as a race that had been enslaved by the humans for centuries, many orcs had a blood debt to the humans, and when they won, the humans suffered the same fate.
Young, strong men were brutally torn apart and fed to the dogs, while the young, beautiful girls were captured by the Orc army and abused again and again until they died. For them, it was a natural vengeance, normal and not justified. As for the humans, they were not willing to sit back and wait for their turn, and in the end the war grew to such an alarming level that no prisoners were needed, and any enemy who surrendered was killed without mercy. Hatred began to snowball and eventually caused chaos across the continent.
Someone has to clean up the mess.
After that, a group of human and orc mixed mercenaries in the war to show the role of the war, and at this time coincided with the Abyssal Demon Lord invasion of the continent, in the face of his overwhelming fear and power, humans and orcs were forced to abandon their hatred, and after each of them lost a lot of war power, finally drove the Lord Demon Lord back. The orcs, also devastated, retreated to the savage wilderness of their birthplace and formed a new nation, and the war between the humans and the orcs came to an end.
But even so, the grudges were still there, and just as every human parent would scare their children with the words, "One more misbehavior and the orcs will take you and eat you!" Just as every human parent scares their children with "If you don't behave yourself, the orcs will sell you to the human slavers!" to reprimand their children and grandchildren, this seems to be a very childish intimidation but it has quite an effect, especially when their children grow up, this kind of secret hostility and dissatisfaction with each other still persists in the confrontation. So when Geer asked the residents here, the tone of voice is a bit rough, and these humans on the orcs but also with some disgust and dislike, the result is so argued. Now although the orcs in the human world is no longer as before can be bought and sold, but the status is still similar to slaves, those beautiful orc species will also be trafficked to other people who have this need, but the method has been a lot more covert, at least not as in the past, strung a rope tied out and shouted the price of it.
"..."
Jared did not answer the man's question, but secretly swept a glance at those people around him, and found that each of them had a somewhat excited expression, but did not particularly care about the meaning, he would have liked to ask, mercenary groups trespassing into the territory of other countries is considered a violation of the law, and now it seems that the concept of homeland in this world seems to be far weaker than one would imagine. Like this kind of no passport no proof of adventure team can actually strut in this kind of place ... but if there is really a problem, they should not behave so naturally.
"What are the characteristics of your companion?"
"Has the same ears as me and the same tail ..."
So Jared put up a hand, signaled for silence, and then he closed his eyes.
Everything around us has changed.
For Jared, color had already lost its original meaning of existence, in front of him, there were only infinite values and structures. The man in front of him was the same, Jared quickly recorded the approximate structure of his ears and tail, and then all the values around him were cleared in an instant, and any parts that did not match were eliminated, leaving only similar forms for Jared to judge.
Looking at Jared's inexplicable action, the crowd was also a bit surprised. The man seemed to want to say something, but Caroline signaled him to be quiet, so he had to swallow his words again.
Jared opened his eyes.
"The person you're looking for is under the shirt tree by the lake to the west, and I personally suggest that you make haste, as the lady appears to have been injured."
Jared spoke calmly to the man, then nodded at him as he and Caroline continued their walk.
"Boss, what the hell is this kid up to? How does he know ...?"
The big, burly man came forward, but was pushed away by the animal-eared man.
"You heard the man, west side of the lake, under the shirt tree! Let's go!!!"
(You're very kind.)
Caroline took Jared's arm lightly, while holding the umbrella with a little sarcasm. Jared, on the other hand, scratched his head in agony and smiled a helpless smile.
"We can't help it, we're the temporary lords of this place anyway, right?"
(It's mostly fine, but you should let them feel the glory and charity of the Empire, maybe these mercenaries can be useful here ... That's Kylie's exact words, there's no point in you glaring at me.)
"I can't do it."
Jared shook his head, what the hell was going on in Kelly's head?
"But I don't need to do the same thing as her, or else ... I'm really curious as to how Kelly keeps these people in check?"
"Because I'm here."
Serenity came out of nowhere, dressed in her armor, and greeted Jared before looking over at Caroline with what seemed to be an embarrassed expression.
"I've already heard about Kylie. Miss Caroline, I didn't expect that you could actually ... Although I have long known that Kylie's natural talent is very high, but just listening to one piece of music was able to make her break through the biggest bottleneck of the magician, could it be that that violin of yours is a magic weapon?"
"It's just a simple performance that Caroline likes to use to pass the time when she's bored, so if you want to hear it, you can come and be a listener next time you're free."
"This ..."
Hearing Jared's dismissive answer, Serenity froze in place.
She didn't know what kind of performance could make Kylie advance to the realm of chanting, but the fact that even she was so vague at the time made it even more intriguing. Serenity's personality was extremely serious, not to mention that the level of musical instruments in this continent was really too low, in this case, Serenity had already guessed that Caroline had gotten some props from the Spirit of Magic, or she herself was the messenger of the Spirit of Magic, and that the instrument known as the violin was a magical magic instrument...She even thought that this kind of performance must not be qualified for anyone to hear, maybe Kylie had this qualification at that time, so ...
So when Serenity heard Jared say, as if inviting her to afternoon tea, "If you are free, you can come and be a listener," Serenity's mind went blank for a moment and she stood frozen in place.
"What's wrong?"
(I don't know yet ...)
Looking at Serenity's dumbfounded appearance, Jared reached out and shook his hand in front of her eyes, and Serenity, surprised, jumped back.
"Can I, can I really ...?"
"It's just a pastime. Why take it so seriously?"
Jared felt more and more that Serenity's attitude was strange, but he didn't think much of it. Serenity looked at Caroline with an eager and inquiring gaze, and after receiving a nod of approval from Caroline, she made a solemn bow.
"Well, then, I'm sorry to say goodbye. I'm going to go back to take a bath and change my clothes, I definitely can't listen to Ms. Caroline's performance like this ..."
With that, she immediately turned around, and before Jared could open his mouth to call out to her, Serenity's silhouette had disappeared into the crowd of people in the street.
（It's not the prom. What's the rush?)
"Prom?"
Jared's eyes rolled.
"Caroline, how about this? It's about time we had a ball at the castle ..."
（And then I'll play the violin while you dance with the other girls?)
Caroline quickly picked up on Jared's following speech, which rather overwhelmed him for a moment.
"All right, I give up."
It was the same insincere apology, but Caroline was obviously used to it.
At that moment, the sound of a roar suddenly came from the sky. It was so loud, as if a dragon was roaring, that Caroline couldn't help but cover her ears.
"Human chick! White-skinned brats! Finally I've caught you guys!!!"