Chapter 178: Mad Village, Confusion and Shock
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The Land of Keys was not a place Ken was completely unaccustomed to.
He had hunted down a band of troublesome criminals at some point on those lands, they were a group really proficient in running away and they had helped Ken hone his tracking skills inadvertently.
There were many moments like those during his bounty-hunting journey as a young pre-teen. Although strong and skilful in the art of assassination, he still had to get used to the new world around him and the many techniques its people employed.
Those were very important formative years for him, both for his understanding of the world and for the start of his 'Legend'.
Smelling the strange plants in the Land of Keys brought Ken back to those times. Where he felt more like a dog in the rain stalking rats through vast mountainous expanses.
The Land of Keys in itself found itself in a very interesting position, being nestled in the westernmost corner of the large Elemental Nations continent, right in between the Land of Mountains and the Land of Birds, two other small nations.
The biggest players active in those areas were still the Land of Earth, with the Rock Village, and the Land of Wind, with the Sand Village.
There were quite a few smaller nations in between the two, and they had somehow managed to eat up a lot of the more exotic vegetation from the two larger nations.