Barrett stayed outside a room in the little castle all night.

The door to that room had been broken. When Barrett and the elder stepped over the broken gates, past the burning stables and corrals, through the blood, stones, and broken glass halls, and up the broken staircase, they reached the room, which was filled with a crowd of people.

There were men and women, and Barrett was relieved to see the tailor who was mending his saddle inside. No matter how events develop, at least tomorrow he will be able to leave this place of right and wrong.

The crowd inside and outside the room was divided into two groups, the smaller group guarding the room at the behest of the elders, and the larger group believing that the lives of Lord Clifford and the guards were not enough to undo the damage he had done to the inhabitants of the village, for whom the shivering woman in the room and the boy in her arms, who were only two or three years old, were also to pay.

The smaller group had been crowded into the bedside of the woman in the room by the other, and the anger and shouting of one party were in stark contrast to the panic and whispered persuasion of the other.

But when the elder arrived, everyone fell silent. They looked up, all sorts of elusive expressions on their faces, but whatever was on their minds, they at least waited quietly for the leader to speak.

The elder had only said two sentences, the first of which he repeated that none of them, including himself, had the right to judge the woman in the house and the child in her arms, who were not the same as the lord, and the second sentence in which he gave a brief account of Barrett and the mission that Barrett was to fulfill.

The barbarian adventurer still remembers the words of the elder when he advised everyone to leave, "No matter how bright an act is, if it is stained with the blood of the innocent, it will grow dark." ”

After this, Barrett sat on a chair outside the room, sword in his hand, like a statue, and stood silent.

On several occasions, people came in groups, either raising their weapons and shouting threats or whispering pleas for their own ordeals.

Loud intimidators, Barrett stands up from the bench with his scabbard in hand, and the aura he exudes will make them flinch. Hatred can sustain the villagers in their desperate revenge against their enemies, but not enough to transform them into deathless people like Barrett.

And the whispered supplicants, Barrett simply remained silent, leaving them to condemn or weep. He is not the old man, and he will not tell them any great truths, and even more so he will not listen to them, otherwise he will not come to him. Barrett just blocked the broken door like a mountain, and didn't let anyone in until dawn......

As dawn approached, there was a whole army of heavily armed knights and hundreds of soldiers in the village, and Barrett could tell that they were not the same as the ordinary guards who knew how to collect taxes and oppress the villagers.

The soldiers took the woman and her child from the room, as well as the elderly and several others from the village. When they tried to take Barritt away, both the elder and the woman said that Barrett was just an outsider who had inadvertently been involved in the incident.

The knight at the head, the pattern of the armor coat is a pitch-black raven with eyeballs in its mouth, Barrett doesn't know what nobles would choose such a strange pattern as their coat of arms, it shouldn't be too ordinary.

Raven Knight, after listening to the men's accounts, nodded at Barrita, signaling for him to leave. But Barrett didn't do that, because he hadn't been paid yet.

When he made his reasonable request to the Raven Knight, the knights and soldiers around him laughed, and they looked at him with an expression as if they were looking at an idiot.

Raven Knight, with his griffon's helmet under his arm, didn't laugh, but he refused Barrett's request without even thinking about it.

But in the end, Barrett still got his fair share of the pay. Because the woman agreed, she, as heir to the castle and its property, allowed Barrett to take his remuneration, and she, like the old man, did not say exactly how much it would be.

As a result, there was an extra palm-sized blue ** spar in Barrett's spatial ring. and 100 gold coins of yellow-orange-orange. He was not a saint, and there were few adventurers who were not greedy. No matter what others say, Barrett thinks that he deserves his reward.

After this, Barrett retrieved the saddle from the tailor and rode away from the 'Kernos' on his young horse, which was not interested in anything around him.

The rest of the story won't be over, but it has nothing to do with Barrryt. He remembered that the woman in the room, after asking Barrett who she was and why she was protecting them, had asked him in a low voice if he could kill all the villagers outside if she paid enough.

Barrriet, on the other hand, tells her that it wasn't a good deal, either for him or for her. Some people's deeds need to be judged to be convicted, others don't, but in any case, the one who will be judged should not be him—an adventurer on a journey.

After that, the woman never said a word again until dawn.

......

After leaving 'Kronos', Barit also encountered a caravan of nearly twenty men on the way.

The owner of the caravan was very warm and hospitable, at least as he appeared. After inquiring about Barrett's whereabouts, the merchant told Barrett that their destination was similar, and warmly invited Barrett to go with them.

Except for the merchant and a few inconspicuous servants, the rest of the caravan was full of bodyguards with various weapons. Barrett didn't know exactly what the merchant was trafficking in, so much so that he needed more than a dozen bodyguards to escort him.

And if the goods were really valuable, why did the merchant invite him out of any other way? Barrett did not know.

So he rejected the merchant's kindness and continued his journey alone.

During this time, he also visited a village on an island in the middle of the lake. The name of this small village is 'Angsa', which means 'Giant's Eye' in the ancient lingua franca. The lake around this village is known as the 'Giant's Lake'.

Barrett didn't know if it was the lake or the village that came first. According to common sense, the lake and the island in the middle of the lake must have been the first to exist, and then some people moved to live on the island, and the village was slowly formed.

However, the name of the village is an ancient lingua franca, while the name of the lake is a lingua franca, and the two are so closely related that it gives the impression that the village is older and older than the lake.

There are less than 100 households in this village, and Barrett stumbled upon it when he went to fetch water from this large lake called 'Giant's Lake'. Every family and every man, male or female, has his or her own boat made of basswood, so the island is filled with boats.

As Barit fetches water, he is seen by the villagers who are fishing in boats in the lake, and he is invited to the small semi-enclosed village.

The people here were equally hospitable, but unlike the merchant he had met before, Barrett could sense that the villagers' enthusiasm was genuine, and that the merchant's enthusiasm was mixed with something inexplicable.

When Barrett arrives in a boat to the village on an island in the middle of the lake, he discovers that he is not the only one in the village. He was still seeing a dwarf, a mage, no, it should be said, a dwarf mage, wandering around the village, gesturing on the ground from time to time with a staff.

The little man wore a magic hat with a blue hedron embedded in the center of his forehead, a dark purple mage robe and cloak embroidered with the six-pointed star motif of an ancient magical symbol, and a twisted wooden staff in his hand, lest others know his profession.

When the little dwarf mage saw Barritt, surprise was written on his face with a fluffy white beard under a pointed hat. His eyes widened and he pointed at Barritt, his mouth wide open enough to swallow a goose egg.

After three heartbeats, the little man suddenly jumped high and ran up to Barrett in a puff of smoke. With the surrounding villagers and Barrett unaware of why, this pulls Barrett by the pants for the dwarf mage and pulls him down to a place where no one is around.

Subsequently, the first words that the dwarf mage said to Barrett were:

"Say, are you also here for the treasure?"

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