Chapter 145
It had been a good day. I had expected an ambush while I was going to the neighboring village, and I had planned my trip thinking of thieves and the princess as my possible enemies. I gave extra tips to have the things I bought sent so there would not be much trouble as I quickly bought everything I needed. I also managed to have my revenge against the egg seller who had sold my daughter a dragon egg.
I could not tell the truth and just told him that a bug monster had come out and wounded my daughter. I hit him with the metal bat and refused his offer of giving me thirty eggs. I had a sudden image of thirty dragons coming out from them. While the Metal Bat did not believe me, the egg seller said that he had picked up the dragon egg in a mountain.
He would be telling the truth as he was being beaten by the Metal Bat, and that meant there was a possibility of another dragon egg coming my way!
I had played with the egg seller for thirty minutes and then took care of my luggage to go back to my village. I had not been ambushed once and thought that this would be another peaceful year as I approached the village.
“Master, isn’t that smoke?”
I had placed the Metal Bat next to me in case of a sudden attack, and she now pointed to where the village was. I saw black smoke and wondered if someone was burning a field. People burned fields after harvests often to remove tied sprouts, bugs, and their eggs.
“However, people do that after the harvest with magicians.”
“That’s true.”
I did not know whether this method really worked and just watched others do so. I had seen magicians our landowner had sent to stop the fire from spreading. As this kingdom was cold, people needed a lot of firewood. Landowners sent their magicians in order to prevent the possibility of losing this precious resource. That was the law here, and the punishment for not following these regulations was extremely severe. Therefore, field burnings were planned a week ahead, and I would have known if our village would do it.