How Did it Start

A few hours later they finally arrived at the Evergreen Village safely and Yuki woke up to Fubuki granting her rewards for the Side Quest.

Ding

Quest Complete: Side Quest - Go to the Evergreen safely, with no injuries whatsoever to your party.

Rewards:

2 Days for Main Quest

1,000 Coins

Rewarding the Host. Complete!

Yuki slowly stood up, but she found that she couldn't bring herself to stand up.

When she finally opened her eyes, she saw a nervous and reddened face of Anna staring at her.

Yuki snapped out of her gaze and finally had the time to look around, she then saw that she was the one who was embracing Anna, but she kept a straight face and let go of Anna before standing up.

"I'm sorry if I pulled you in my sleep." Yuki apologized and tidied up her wrinkled clothes.

"Ah no, it's not a problem. You look like you were having a nightmare and I only went up to wipe your face but you suddenly pulled me." Anna explains, she then remembered the moans of Yuki that made her body heat up again and she hid her face in embarrassment.

"Okay," Yuki said before stretching her body and finally going out of the carriage with Anna behind her.

"So this is Evergreen Village." Yuki mumbles.

From her research, she found that the Village is very healthy and has fresh air to it. People also call it "The Land of Peace." Because of the beautiful view of the trees around it, and the crystal clear lake, you will find yourself at peace when you are here.

But all of that was gone. All the trees have died, the lakes have gotten muddy and dirty, and the worst part of it is the air that is lingering in them. It was filled with poison that will be quite dangerous for you to breathe if you were a normal or weak cultivator.

The Village was very peaceful, no fights were happening and almost all of the people that are living there are normal people. But still, they are living a great life all day, until the Wild Monsters appear before them.

Instantly, all of them protected themselves by covering their body with Qi/Mana so that the poison would not invade their body.

Out of all of them, Yuki has the strongest barrier as Anna is the weakest.

Yuki was very happy to see that her training was finally successful even if it was a little progress, Yuki's barrier was condensed to a very potent amount of Mana that can be deadly if Yuki didn't control it well.

But lucky for her, it finally worked.

"Quality over Quantity huh?" Yuki thought.

"Where will we go now?" Anna asked Sylvie.

"We'll go to the Village Chief and ask what our Quest would be," Sylvie answered.

"Then lead the way!" Anna hurries Sylvie to get going.

"I know." Then they began their journey to the inside of the Village.

And what they saw almost gave them a scare, a few dead animals were laying on the ground, but the worst scene is children standing on the sidewalk waiting for some good people to give them money or food. But because of their dire situation, no one can give them anything.

Even the government that has control over the Village cannot do anything because they have been losing their funds ever since the attack started.

Anna and the two look at them with pity, but Yuki remained indifferent and ignored everyone. Anna misunderstood Yuki's actions as she also felt sad about them but cannot express them.

But the truth was Yuki didn't care about them, why? Because they didn't matter to Yuki's eyes and why would Yuki show them care when they are not even related to each other?

Soon they found themselves in front of a normal-sized mansion, they then called for the guard to let the guard know that the Adventures that he hired had arrived.

When the guard saw that they were not lying, being an S Rank Adventurer, hope glimmered into his eye and he hastily went inside the Mansion to notify the Village Chief.

Soon an average-looking man came out and greeted all of them.

"Esteemed Adventurers, we humbly greet you! I'm sorry if the Village looks depressing, we cannot do anything about it because we cannot fight the Monsters that are wreaking havoc." He sighed dejectedly.

"It's no problem, that's why we are here." Sylvie shrugged.

"Let's go inside so we can talk more." Yuki cuts off coldly to the Village Chief.

By now Yuki has already made another Ice Mask because she doesn't know what she will do if the attention was put on her.

"Yes. Follow me." The Village Chief answered.

His name was Dong Huang, he was the successor for being the next Village Chief. Even before he managed to get the title, he has already won the hearts of his people because of his kind personality towards them.

Not only that, he helped their Village by recommending some ideas that have never been used in their Village like using Crystal Clear Lake as a source of water, selling their goods from Big City, and probably the best creation that he had using an Energy Stone that will suck Qi in the air for them to use as power.

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A.N

No, it's not like electricity, think of it as just like a battery for them to use when they ran out of Qi for them to use. Just as I explained, Qi is like Mana. If you don't have it, you're like a normal person. Because they don't cultivate and act like normal humans, this is their way to replenish their energy.

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It may sound odd because what he does is normal for a Village/City. But their people are secluded from the Big City resulting in them not studying, so all of the Ideas that Dong Huang made were brilliant to them.

"So what is the problem that you're having with Chief Huang?" Yuki starts the question.

"It's like this. One day on a normal day, we suddenly heard the cries of our Men that were supposed to sell our goods to some big city. But when they got out of the Village for a few minutes we suddenly heard them screaming for help like they were in some sort of pain." He explained and continued.

"Then what we saw was our team getting slau- slaughtered by goblins and trolls that were powerful for us to defeat. If we were to estimate their powers, it should be around Essence Lord (Early) and that's not all, there were around a hundred of them there." Dong Huang shivers just from the thought of that.

They are only in the Essence Gathering (Peak) at the most, with Essence Warrior (Middle) being their strongest warrior and the so-called genius of their Village.

"Hundreds? Then your Village should have been destroyed by now." Eren exclaimed.

"Yeah he's right, how did you manage to survive till now?" Anna asked.

"I think that's because of our ancestor, it is said in our books that before he died he turned his Spirit to become the Guardian of this place and our ancestor is not weak, legends even say that he is a Cultivator of Essence Lord (Peak) closing to Overseer." Dong Huang explains.

"Do you have some proof of your claim?" Yuki narrows her eyes at him.

"We do! If you would like to follow me I would like to show you her excellency's statue." Dong Huang quickly answered.