The two of us make our way upstairs and what shock me is that the building have been abandoned

"i guess the oldman did not lie"

i headed to the stable and luck is on my side since i found a cart and two horse to headed to ward a village at least, i go to the wagon and lay her in the wagon, before i prepare a trip away from the building i make sure to rob everything that i could use what i found is bronze weapon and armor i take what i can carry and head to the kitchen to find food but instead i found a kid he did not notice me it seem he is gathering food i got near him and he turn to face me the kid have red hair and green eye he is tan enough for me to know that he spend alot of time outdoor and he maybe 10 years old or less.

"oi ! kid what are you doing there"

the kid just stare at me and i can see fear in his eye i know he going to try to dash out of here but instead he talk back to me.

"i...n-e-ed...the food mister" the kid stutter out of fear

"where are you from kid?"

"i--uh--from the village mister" this time he try to cover his fear

"why do you need these food"

"it because of famine" he has relax himself but he still wary of me

"guide me to your village kid a friend of mine need help and in return you can have half of these food"

"Ok mister i will take you there" he drop his guard entirely 

"follow me then"

i help the kid with preparing to take the food away to the cart and the cart is big enough to fit the weapon and armor also with food, after loading everything up we head toward the kid village the trip was rather pleasent. while the kid himself said that he know how to handle a horse and the cart so i let him rein the horse.

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"kid what is your name?"

"my name is Lyold...sir" he said happily

"so lyold how far is your village?"

"i took me 5 day on foot sir"he said

"how do you survive if it take you that long"

"i hunt sir, its not that hard" he said

we move in silent i accasionally check on the girl and Lyold are least bit curious on who she is, i did not even ask anything but Lyold told me that this type of horse are breed for pulling, that why the mercenary did not take these two horse.

"Lyold take it slow you dont rush it"

"ok" he said

we arrive at the village after 4 day of journey as we take it slow, in our travel by the end of the second day she woke up but she did not say anything instead just laying there since i could see that she is in much pain she seem afraid at first but she realise that i could be trusted and even Lyold trust me. When we enter the village i could see the villager ran to their house and close the door, Lyold stop the wagon in front of a big house which i could tell that it a village head house.

"Elder i bring food" he said

and old man walk out the door, i could see that he seem to be afraid of me probably he see me wearing all of this armor funny enough these people dont follow the earth logic because the weaponand armor are bronze while the accessory are iron maybe the iron here are low or being control by the lord. the old man nearing me he seem to hesitate in asking me.

"Welcome to our humble village milord" the old man said and he stooping at the same time

"i am not a lord my name is Gutz"

"Forgive me then, my name is Ela i am the elder of this village" the look of relieve on the old man face.

"Elder may i ask you a question?"

"Sure, ask me any question that you want" he said

"where am i, is there any lord here and is that iron ring"

"well you are in Zaltan kingdom in the village of Mun, there is no lord since the kingdom have fall and we are at the age of the map so nobody care about this fallen kingdom and yes this is an iron ring" he said while showing me the iron ring.

"I have a friend in the wagon she need to be taken care of you can take your share of the food in the wagon"

I need to gain this villager trust first, they can take care of her and i can ask about where he got the iron and when i turn my head to the left i can see the blacksmith he have black hair and tan skin he is taller than average and have big back muscle if you only see him once you could mistake him for a hunchback. finding the iron ore is important for me to make better weapon and armor.