The priest who came from the market town carefully checked the physical condition of Lanka and the others, and the expression on his face immediately became deep. After saying something to the village chief, he left with a straight face and some anger. At first, I was worried about the extent of their injuries, but after asking the village chief, I learned that Lanka and the others had only fallen asleep due to overwork, and were not sick or injured, although I knew very well that it was because Ilr had treated them quite well.

And the reason why the priests show a displeasure is precisely because they don't need treatment, in this world, the equivalent of a doctor's priest, their treatment fees are charged according to the amount of magic consumed, like this, obviously there is no need to pay, that is to say, this priest is completely in vain.

After knowing that Lanka and the others were fine, the villagers were relieved and went about their own business, while Nina volunteered to stay and help the village chief's wife take care of everyone.

The village chief and I went to the corpse of the spider monster, and when we got back to the village, we didn't have time to properly examine the corpse.

"Has the village chief ever seen this type of monster before?" I circled around the spider and asked the village chief.

"I've lived in the village for so many years, and I've never seen anything like it." The village chief shook his head, judging from his expression, he probably wasn't lying, "Mr. Carter, is this the monster that disturbs the forest?" ”

"It should be, according to the knights, this monster is not in the monster atlas of the Duchy of Basol, it should be an alien species."

"It can kill so many powerful warriors, if you let this monster enter the village, the consequences are really unimaginable, it is great to be able to destroy it."

"Although this monster is dead, there is no guarantee that there are no similar monsters in the forest, so the village chief can't be too careless."

"What? Does Mr. Carter mean that there is not only one such terrifying monster? So, so what do we do? The village chief's eyes widened and he looked a little flustered.

This should be your own business, you can't always rely on others to protect the village, and I am not obligated to help you all the time. Looking at the village chief's plea for help, I muttered in my heart. But considering that there were almost no young men left in the entire village, it was a bit of a force for them to form their own defense of the village, so what I ended up saying was quite different from what I had in mind.

"When Lanka wakes up, he should find a way to investigate the forest again, and until then, I will stay in the village to protect everyone, so you can rest assured that the village chief will be in this time."

"That's great," the village chief sighed with relief, and smiled reassuringly.

"But the monsters have been active recently, I'm afraid it's not safe to continue living here, why doesn't the village chief take everyone to live in the town?"

"That's true, but when it comes to moving, there are a lot of practical problems, and it's hard to solve the house you live in in the first place." The village chief narrowed his eyes in embarrassment.

Ah, it seems that no matter what the world, housing prices are a big problem.

I nodded with deep feeling, and then my eyes were drawn to an awkward-looking spot on the spider's body. Located at the bottom of the head, which is equivalent to a human neck, the gap between the hard exoskeleton and the one that seems to be embedded with something. I reached out and took it off, and it was a translucent stone.

"This, this is, Mr. Carter, can you show me what you have in your hand?" Just as I was pinching the stone with my fingers to take a closer look in the sunlight, the village chief next to me suddenly shouted, showing excitement and excitement that was not commensurate with an old man of his age.

"Village Chief, have you seen this stone?" I handed it to the old man and looked at him suspiciously.

"That's right, that's right, there's nothing wrong with that," the village chief's hand holding the stone began to tremble, and tears unconsciously flowed down the wrinkles on his face, which was the expression of the strong emotions in his heart.

I patted the old man on the back and waited patiently for him to calm down.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Carter," said the old man, wiping his tears from the back of his thin hand, and choking up, "this stone belongs to my grandson, and I picked it up with him by the river when he was a child, and he wore it around his neck all these years. About two months ago, he had been drafted into the lord's garrison, and then he had been heard from at all, and he didn't expect ......" The old man couldn't hold back the sadness in his heart and cried again.

"It's just a talisman, it doesn't mean that your grandson has suffered an accident, so don't be too sad." I tried to comfort the village chief.

The exoskeleton of the spider monster is very hard, which Lanka has learned when they fought it, and it is almost impossible for ordinary people to embed a stone into it. Moreover, the exoskeleton wrapped in the stone shows no signs of damage, and it is more likely to protrude from the inside than to be embedded from the outside.

It occurred to me that the spider had maintained a human form for a period of time before it changed into its current form, could it be that this monster was actually the grandson of the village chief, but for some special reason it became a monster?

Is it really possible for humans to become monsters? However, the villagers who were recruited by the lord have also disappeared recently, which is too much of a coincidence, and I always feel that the more I think about it, the more complicated things become.

But all this is also my speculation based on this stone, and the village chief is also old after all, and the stone and other things all look similar, so it is impossible for him to see it wrong. Heck, this kind of thing is fine, anyway, it doesn't have anything to do with me, and I don't have to waste all my brain cells thinking about this kind of thing, although I don't have brain cells either.

"Village chief, Mr. Carter, yes, there is ......" At this time, an impatient voice came from a distance, and I had some impression of the man who came in a panic, he should be a villager in charge of the security work around the village.

Before the man could finish speaking, the reason why he was so flustered appeared in front of him. Several knights appeared in my sight, dressed in the same equipment as Lanka - armor engraved with the coat of arms of the Duchy of Basol. The knights kept pouring from the entrance to the village, at once more than a hundred, and counting, followed by an even greater number of infantry, and slowly entering the village was obviously an army, and the rough estimate was about a thousand.

A knight in a red cloak restrained his horse in front of us, opened the mask of his helmet, revealing his slightly vicissitudes of cheeks, and quickly examined the corpse of the spider monster with a gaze as sharp as an eagle.

Then he turned his gaze to me and the village chief, and his gaze changed from stern to soft depending on the object of observation.

"Excuse me, I'm Balikaf, the protector general."

The knight introduced himself to us in a deep voice.