I was following the Runic merchant named Ricardo to the building while accompanied by Nira and Freya who are disguising herself as a White Elf.
The woman and the man in armor are following us closely as is the butler, the woman continues to look at me seriously.
The seven of us go to a room on the second floor of the building that is very well decorated, we are guided to this room that has a set of chairs and two sofas.
As they stand still for a few seconds, I go over to the couches and sit on one of them with Nira and Freya sitting on either side of me.
On the sofa in front of me, the Runic merchant and the armored woman sit, while the armored man and the butler sit behind their sofa.
“Mind if I ask a few questions?” (Ricardo)
“You can ask any question you want, but know that I may not answer all your questions, and also don’t bother hiding the crystal, I don’t plan on lying if I choose to answer any questions.” (I)
“Very well, before I begin let me introduce myself.” (Ricardo)
“This one next to me is General Hilda, she is the one who commands all the soldiers of this city, the one behind her is the second in command, Commander Fabio, in addition, we have the main butler of the Duke of this city to represent him.” (Ricardo)
“My name is Zenos, these are my companions Freya and Nira, we are merchants.” (I)
Not bothering for anything else, Ricardo leaves the crystal on the coffee table between the two sofas, the crystal continues to glow in a green light while our two groups were performing showing that we tell the truth.
“Sorry to start with a question like that, but what’s the point of coming to this town?” (Ricardo)
“This city is a path I was going to go through, besides that, I plan to buy some of the local products.” (I)
“Do you plan on doing something bad in this town or breaking any laws?” (Ricardo)
“No.” (I)
“What’s your race?” (Ricardo)
“…” (I)
“How old are you?” (Ricardo)
“…” (I)
“Are you the leader of your group?” (Ricardo)
“Yea.” (I)
“You said this town was on the way to call where you’re going, could you tell me your destination?” (Ricardo)
“…” (I)
“Could you tell me how many subordinates you have?” (Ricardo)
“To be honest, I don’t know and even if I did, I wouldn’t say.” (I)
“How long do you plan on staying in this city?” (Hilda)
“I was only planning to stay for a few days at first, but now I’m staying for a month.” (I) 𝒷𝒹ℴ𝓿𝓁.𝓬𝓸𝓂
“Why did you decide to stay for a month?” (Hilda)
“Vacation.” (I)
“I’m planning on doing some shopping, fishing, and enjoying this landscape.” (I)
“You…” (Ricardo)
“Wait…” (Hilda)
“One last question, do you have any intention of harming this city or this Kingdom.” (Hilda)
“No, I think the questions are over now, right?” (I)
“…” (Ricardo)
“There are more questions, but I don’t think you’re going to answer them, so we’re done with that now.” (Hilda)
“Then I’ll say goodbye, tonight we’re going to eat somewhere in town if we’re done here.” (I)
“…” (Hilda)
“We’re done, thank you very much for your patience.” (Ricardo)
I say goodbye to them and head back to the ship to talk to the others before we all go get something to eat.
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Pov Ricardo:
When we saw that big ship appear out of nowhere and stop in the harbor, we thought it might be an attack, but luckily it looks like that wasn’t the case.
The people who were on that ship wore masks, but only one person completely hid his body, the others we could tell were from the Elf and Demi races.
As soon as they got off the ship I realized who the leader was, in addition to the way the others acted around him, there was also the fact that he was the only one with his whole body hidden.
Fortunately, these mysterious people seemed to be rational and followed all the procedures to enter the city, one of the reasons I am insecure around these people is that the great general Hilda, hailed as one of the strongest people in our Kingdom, is so serious around these people.
I’m a merchant so I can’t measure people’s strength just by looking at them, but I can see in the behavior of the three in front of me that they don’t feel any pressure to be in the presence of General Hilda, it shows me that they are not normal people.
One thing bothers me about the way the leader of this “group of traders” acts, he seems too carefree, he didn’t seem nervous or worried at all, in addition, he avoided answering certain types of questions, because of that I even avoided doing more questions.
After answering some of the questions and at least confirming that he doesn’t intend to be this city’s enemy, he leaves the building along with his two subordinates.
“What did you think of them, General Hilda?” (I)
“This person by the name of Zenos seems to be stronger than me, ever since I first saw him my instincts as a warrior scream at me not to fight him.” (Hilda)
“Do you think it’s the same Zenos the Church of Light is looking for?” (I)
“Probably, but now that we know that and have seen it, I can be sure he has nothing against our Kingdom.” (Hilda)
“Can you share your thoughts General?” (I)
“A few days ago I received information that in the city of Barilla, a part of the Church of Light army that we have been watching began to pursue their target throughout the city, but he still escaped.” (Hilda)
“You mean he’s strong enough to escape an entire army without a trace?” (I)
“After what I saw today, I’m saying that if he wanted to he could have eliminated that entire army, but he chose to run away, it shows that he wanted to avoid a fight in the city.” (Hilda)
“I don’t know what kind of trouble he’s in, but as long as we don’t do anything against him, then there’s no reason for him to do anything against us.” (Hilda)
“But what if the Church of Light comes here after him?” (I)
“He’s hiding his appearance, moreover if it turns out he’s here, it would only go without saying that we didn’t know who he was, after all, he’s totally hiding his appearance.” (Hilda)
“Tell that to the Duke too.” (Hilda)
“I will inform my lord right now if you’ll excuse me.” (Butler)
After that little talk, we all got out of here as we have a lot to do now that these mysterious people have arrived in town.