To a certain extent, for ordinary humans on the Aifala Continent—especially residents of small- and medium-sized human settlements with a certain degree of external defensive strength—
Adventurers were even more terrifying than goblins.
Adventurers were more frightening than Goblins.
Far greater strength than ordinary people, relatively lacking regulatory institutions, and punishments that were barely worth mentioning allowed adventurers to rampage through the streets with an aloof attitude that regarded ordinary civilians as inferior creatures.
Although Stodd's settlement on "Thousand-Stakes Island" was not small, the number of adventurers gathered there during the Sea Rhythm Festival because of the Moon Tide Feast far exceeded the limits of what the town could accommodate or supervise.
To put it bluntly, when the host of the banquet itself was a notorious pirate of the sea, what could the island authorities—those guards and the Sheriff—possibly do about the chaos on the island?
Because Xia Nan and Sasha were clearly experienced adventurers, the surrounding crowd scattered to both sides with an attitude of avoiding trouble.
This allowed the group of four to see what had happened at the scene.
Just as Xia Nan had guessed, what appeared before them was an extremely typical "adventurer-villager" case.
There was no need for the bystanders to offer any further explanation. The states of the people involved and the details of the scene were already enough to identify and judge what had happened.
A burly adventurer clad in Medium Armor stood in the middle of the area. One hand gripped a sharp One-handed Sword that gleamed with cold light, while the other held a dust-covered, disheveled young girl who screamed in terror.
Behind him was a mess: furniture and sundries were scattered all over the floor of a crude wooden house.
In front of him, a weathered couple knelt and prostrated