Chapter 10: The Strange Town

Along the way, he caught a caravan escorting ingots, and it took Mino just over a day to reach the famous town of Sword Furnace.

It's probably just a short time since the annual furnace opening festival has passed, and the whole town is still full of festive decorations, and it looks jubilant.

It's just that everyone in the town is still dressed in festive costumes, which looks quite strange.

Unlike the rumored arrogance, the people of Sword Furnace Town were quite enthusiastic, but Mino, who was worried about the new sword he had forged for two years, hurried to find out the address of the master who forged the sword for himself.

Disappointingly, however, the Master, like the Rangers in the Tales, prefers to live alone in the remote suburbs, and Mino arrives in Sword Furnace Town at dusk, and if he has to rush to the Master's place, he will have to wait until midnight.

Regardless of the question of whether the master would open the door to a stranger at such a late hour, not to mention the fact that it was presumptuous and rude to do so, the mere fact that he did not know the road was enough for Mino to obediently suppress the eagerness in his heart and stay in the town to rest honestly.

Again, the people of the town were so hospitable, and when they learned that Mino, after his own persuasion, had finally decided to stay in town for the night, they all warmly invited him to his home, to the tears that brought tears to his eyes when he thought he would be met with a cold reception in this town, which was all busy with iron and business.

In the future, if anyone says in front of me that the guys in Sword Furnace Town treat people coldly, Lao Tzu must use this pair of iron fists to teach them what honesty is.

Thinking like this, Mino wasted a lot of energy, and finally got rid of the enthusiasm of the townspeople, and lived in the hotel with money.

After more than a day of driving, although he didn't have to experience a battle and didn't have to take the 11th bus with his legs thrown around, it was good to be able to walk on the mountain path, and what else could he ask for stability, so after being shaken for more than a day, Mino still inevitably felt tired.

So Minoan didn't even eat, just took a hasty bath, and fell asleep on the wooden bed that he hadn't seen for a long time.

It's a pity that the irregular life is really not good, only less than three hours of sleep, Mino was woken up by his own rumbling belly, touched the shriveled stomach, looked out the window at the sky just after night, Mino was thinking about whether he was wronged to get some dry food to eat, or bother the innkeeper, get a steaming meal to fill his little belly.

"Ahh

Just when Mino was hesitating, a terrible scream suddenly came into Mino's ears, the voice was vaguely familiar, followed by several similar screams, which made Mino wonder if he had gone to the wrong place and ran to the side of the execution ground.

It was a few screams that made Mino, who was still a little dizzy, completely sober up, and the IQ in his brain was running at high speed, connecting all the weirdness that he had been aware of since he entered the town, but had been ignored.

First of all, the town's prosperous festival costumes, if it is only now that the grand furnace festival has ended, the existence of these costumes is understandable, but according to the priest and the fellow caravan members, the opening festival in Sword Furnace Town has passed for more than half a month, and the intact costumes have become strange.

You must know that many costumes are very obstructive, and the festival has passed, so it is only right to remove them for the convenience of life.

In the same way, the townspeople are dressed in the same way, all of them are dressed up, not to mention the problem of daily washing, but in addition to some necessary cultivators and caravan residents in charge of weapons trade, most of the people in Sword Furnace Town are swordsmiths and blacksmith apprentices, and it is their daily routine to beat and beat by the fire, not to mention that it is quite inconvenient to wear these costumes, and it is extremely easy to destroy.

And all the people who have talked to Mino about Sword Furnace Town have all talked about the coldness of the townspeople, and the farmers who farm are basically not in the town, they are incompatible with this town with the theme of sword casting, most of them are scattered in the farmland outside the town, and the people who stay in the town are either busy striking iron or learning to make iron and busy with business, how can they have time to deal with a stranger who is not famous.

However, Mino found that many people in the town were wandering the streets, and his arrival was received with such enthusiasm that Mino thought that he was returning to his hometown in Tarssy, but enthusiasm was enthusiasm, which was completely unreasonable.

More importantly, Mino found that many of the people who were enthusiastic about keeping him were warrior professionals in strong suits, and according to the information that Mino knew, these people should basically be outsiders, what qualifications and reasons did they have to keep themselves as outsiders?

And in the end, the screams that made the pent-up doubts in Mino's heart completely explode made people feel the weirdness of this town.

The screams were terrible, if not killed, but seriously wounded, and it was supposed that the enthusiastic townsfolk should have made a fuss, but there was no sound except for the next few screams that were clearly not from the same person.

What is going on? How is it that the townspeople, who are still enthusiastic during the day, turn cold at night, and all fall asleep? But even so, there should be a person in charge to deal with such a striking tragedy, could it be that the famous lord of Sword Furnace Town eats dry food, and the militia under his command are all idle waste?

But even so, there should be a startled dog barking, why is the whole town quiet, not even half of the insects and birds chirping, it is completely a dead area.

More importantly, the screams gave Mino an extremely familiar feeling, like the voices of the caravan members who had come with him.

All this is really scary for Mino.

And just as Mino was thinking about what was going on, a soft knock suddenly sounded on the closed wooden door, which frightened Mino and fell directly to the ground.

However, just as Mino rubbed his aching buttocks, and was about to get up to open the door for the visitor, the thick wooden door suddenly broke open in the middle, shattered into pieces, and smashed against the wall, and a black shadow burst in, like a deadly sword, straight into the bed where Mino was supposed to be.

Looking at the wooden bed that had left his body temperature but was now broken in half, cold sweat covered Mino's forehead.

(To be continued.) )