Kaster Village.
"Chief, strangers outside!"
Kaster, the village chief who had just been about to scold the soldier for being so flustered, swallowed his words and asked instead, "What strangers? How many did they bring?"
"A-around ten."
"Call everyone over here!"
And so, very soon, Ryan stood beneath the earthen wall and saw a burly, unkempt man wearing a horned helmet cautiously peering at him through the gaps between shields.
"Outsiders, you've come to the wrong place. Leave at once, or we'll take this as a challenge."
Kaster looked at the ten fully armed Knight Retainers beside Ryan, and his eyes instantly widened.
"Leave this place at once, or we'll loose arrows."
Only then did Ryan notice that on the arrow tower on the other side, someone had already drawn a bow and nocked an arrow. The wooden arrow was so crude it could not even trigger his body's instinctive sense of danger.
"Chief... we've lost our way. I hope you can point us in the right direction."
Ryan's perception was powerful enough that the exchange inside the village just now had been perfectly clear to him.
After hearing this, Kaster hesitated, then asked, "Where are you going?"
"Where is the nearest city? We plan to head there and rest for a while."
"City?"
In that instant, Ryan noticed the village chief's gaze become incomparably wary. The man ducked behind the shield, leaving only the two horns on his horned helmet visible.
"We don't know anything. Leave."
The soldiers on the earthen wall had already become dangerous, the spears in their hands looking ready to be thrown at any moment.
"I'll grab him down."
As soon as Higni finished speaking, he sank into the shadows. The next moment, everyone on the earthen wall discovered that below them there was now