Enjar’s arrival made an abrupt ruckus that was not expected by even a single one of them. They could not believe what they just witnessed!
It was basically quite impossible to imagine, passing through Alvred and his men without even getting into their way. They had the formations in which they could practically see anyone who passed through them, by covering the way in half a circle.
And if Enjar passed through the barricade, naturally the others would be alerted, hence started to chase this man right here. The fact that there was no one one of them that chased after Enjar meant two things, either they did not know or they truly had been defeated.
Anomalies could happen, and they understood that. Those two ideas, where it was either Enjar was able to pass through the barricade or defeat them, was just horrifying altogether.
If the man in front of them was able to achieve those seemingly impossible feats, then what chance did they stand against?!
All of them started to frantically run. They need to retreat from this forsaken place and go back to the place where they belong, to the area of Earl Kant.
Enjar smiled as he watched them running away without even . They did not know that Alvred and his men were still alive, so it was natural for them to be afraid to be slaughtered. Enjar did not mind them, and started to mind his own business.
“Haaa… no matter how many I chased, there would be at least one that got off from my pursuit. This was different from when I had the men to circle them and cut off their retreat path. I could command them to do that. But this, might not even be worth the effort.
Might as well proceed to do my own schedule, I’m pretty tight on time after all, heh.”
Enjar started to walk in the direction where Alvred had explained.
While he was walking toward his destination, there were people who were confused about what was happening. They were different from the people who ran frantically without any care whatsoever.
They were none other than the villagers of Willow Village. They were dumbstruck about the situation that was happening as of right now. Tens of people that had been staying in this village for a while as the newcomers were running like a mouse when they saw a predator.
And before they knew it, they truly had been left. And they had no idea what happened that made them like this!
Is a disaster coming to them? Is there an enemy attack? If that’s the case, then tell us something about it!
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They naturally did not dare to ask this question because they had been subjugated and the sovereignty of Alvred and his men was still inside of their hearts.
They could only watch them do their abrupt actions while the head village and the others started to gather to discuss this matter.
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Enjar seemed like he couldn't care less about the ongoing situation of the Willow Village. In fact, he seemed like he did not want to waste a second as if he was tight on schedule.
He walked and jumped through the village, with every jump he would cover more than five meters of distance in front of him. And if one tried to put their attention at Enjar’s feet, one would see that his feet exuded sparks of flame. He strived to the outskirt area of the village on another side, around the northern east of the village. And after a few minutes of jumping without any hindrances, he arrived at his destination.
There, he could see a location that was deliberately put into a disguise. It was honestly not easy to conclude that it was a masquerade made by some party, or people might even leave it and not put an importance to it. Either it was because the information he obtained from Alvred was that accurate, or because Enjar himself had an impressive pair of keen eyes.
And if one looked at Enjar’s eyes, he would see that Enjar’s eyes seemed to be covered by red light.
Without wasting any more time, Enjar proceeded to walk into the place and started to look at it deeply. This area was quite rocky, with a relatively flat outline of a land. There were some big rocks here and there, but mostly this land was just barren.
There was a big stone, around 1 meter high and 2 meters wide. The stone did not stand out at all. In fact, it looked so ordinary and normal. But Enjar once again, made his right eye dyed in red light. He grinned and walked to that stone with interest.
“That Alvred bastard, if I don’t not have this eye of mine, it will take me more than 2 days just to find this exact point.”
Going back to Wheatfield Village would take around a quarter to half a day, and going back yet again to this spot would take the same amount of time. Not only that, one would also need to rest too. With that being the case, Enjar thought that he would have definitely tried to search it first, in case that he would find the location first before a day passed instead of going back and forth.
There was a chance that Alvred might mock him because Enjar could not find the spot. Enjar would care, and he would probably inflict punishment upon that guy if that was the case.
In any case, It was honestly a bet if that scenario happened.
‘Isn’t Alvred afraid that I will be angry because of this ? If that’s the case, then how daring of him to give me this not so exact spot? Does he value my intelligence high enough that he felt like he did not need to give the exact location? Well, I was quite in a hurry too, so I can see that.’
Alvred said that the spot was hidden by an obvious stone set in place. He said that he did not want to put the stone in a tight disguise because he did not want his men to be confused every time they went here. And he also said that this area was practically covered by their surveillance, so they felt like they did not need any tight secrecy.
But if that was the case, then what was going on here? Why was the information that he got from Alvred did not match up with what Enjar was seeing here? This stone was clearly put in a disguise! A hard one to find at that! Unless one had such a lucky encounter, it would take more effort to find this spot.
“Is there someone that has come to this place first?” Enjar thought out loud as he screened his surroundings. He faced his backs’ view, and tried to look for some hints and clues. he look left and right,
He sighed as he shook his head and proceeded to touch the stone in front of him. It weighs more than 400 kilograms, and it would not be easy for a man to move it. Enjar moved his right arm and he pointed it toward the sky.
A long flame appeared above him from his sole right hand, and he kept on putting it in the air for a while, as if he was charging and powering it up. The flame became more fiery and powerful, stronger than when he was using it to break the gate in the earlier encounter.
“Flamefall.”
He brought down his arm and the flame struck the stone, with the point hitting the stone.
*BAAAMM*
An explosion occurred, and the stone moved away from the previous position. There were smokes that hindered Enjar’s view, and it would take a few moments to make it disappear. The hidden spot was in the open and Enjar could put his eyes onto it.
Enjar’s eyes gleamed in excitement because no matter what, this was a treasure. How could one not be excited when they found a hidden treasure that he could take it away?
The smoke started to recede and Enjar could now put his eyes into the hole. There were some shiny things that were attached inside the tunnel, either on the right left side or the upper and down side.
“This is….”