Runeshield Mage 4: A LitRPG Fantasy Adventure by NJ Buller

Author:NJ Buller [Buller, NJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-01-23T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Best of Dalry

The humans were racists, and Theo’s mood was ruined.

They’d flown towards the village in the car, slowly looking down at it as it became larger and larger. There were easily five to ten thousand inhabitants within it, the place rather large for being so far out in the middle of nowhere. Stone buildings, brick streets, what seemed to be a lamp on every large corner, and enough people looking up at the vehicle that it was clear they had eyes that worked.

All in all, not too terrible a sight, though that had rapidly worsened as Theo sat the car down on the ground away from Dalry, about twenty meters outside of the open gate. While he didn’t think they would be outright hostile to him entering the village from above, there was no reason to take chances. Looking peaceful was the way to go, and that would be done by entering through the right entrance.

Since there had been no chance of Theo leaving the car in a place he wasn’t comfortable with just yet, however, he’d put it into the floating mode, keeping it about a meter above the ground, and they began to drive in at the pace of what a horse-powered wagon could manage.

"Hello there," Theo had said to the guard at the entrance. A human guard, with a welcoming smile! Didn’t reach his eyes, but Theo didn’t question it too much just yet. "Could you point me towards the town hall for this village?"

"Of course! It’s just down this street the entire way. Stop when you see the big building with the red banner," the guard had happily answered, pointing right down the path they were already taking. How helpful, though Nero was already warning Theo about the blades being taken out of their scabbards.

Maybe not so helpful.

Theo really had hoped that they would be a bit more subtle with their intentions. Now as they moved forward, all the people around them were still wearing smiles, some waving while others just looked at him with idle curiosity. There was even a pair of heads seen from atop one of the roofs, two youngsters muttering about something that Nero couldn’t pick out. Curious.

"They want to kill us," Stig whispered calmly, the forest dwarf already having pulled out his own knife from his belt. "I count seven people with swords, two with hammers, and everybody else is sticking to household items."

"Nero counts about double that," Theo said, just rolling down the street without any efforts made to stop. Nero’s presence seemed to be making the people around them weary, though those looks of greed and spite were very clear. Theo wasn’t sure how long it would take before greed overpowered self-preservation, but it couldn’t be that long. "Nobody with anything that threatens us, though."

A few seconds more were spent in silence, until a rather handsome young man stepped in front of the car. Theo stopped it before it ran him over, though it was just barely done in time.

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