Chapter 778
Chapter 778
“Nene! Come quickly! Some adventurers arrived, selling tons of meat! They’re in the warehouse beside the factory!” A young man told a girl who was around eighteen or nineteen years old.
“What do you mean?! Where did the adventurers get the meat? Marcus! Wait for me?” The girl said who saw her brother rushing outside after retrieving the family’s hidden funds.
Nene and Marcus were twins. Marcus was currently working as a factory worker who produced cheap clothes and shoes. Nene, to add funds to the family coffers, was taking in some clothes from people for laundry. The clothes and the completed laundry were shipped off to the people who were still staying in the city of Nermador.
The distance of the town from Nermador was just around four hours.
Their parents were working outside the town in the farms, but every time they went outside, they were risking their lives, and they forbade their children from following them outside the walls.
Just like anybody else in the town, Marcus’s family would prefer to travel far from Amendora, deep inside the eastern side of the Rendindura continent, where it was supposed to be safer. The undead were relentless in their attacks on the kingdom of Amendora, and every day, people from the town would encounter roaming undead.
The issue with traveling was that there was a miniscule chance of surviving while on the road. The undead were everywhere, and most roaming undead, even the weakest ones like skeletons or zombies, were being led by more powerful undead like vampires, wraiths, or even liches. The wealthiest town folks had already left, guarded by adventurers they hired, but they heard rumors that even most of them perished while traveling.
That meant that they had no choice but to keep staying in town. The only reason the town was still alive was that Nermador sent wizards in shifts to guard the town. The city still needed the services of their town. Still, meat was scarce simply because the undead kept targeting animals, even the wild ones, if they could not find any humans to kill.
“Marcus, wait for me!” Nene shouted at her brother, who was still running towards the warehouses located near his brother’s factory.
“Faster! Even with their tons of meat, if we delay, we will not be able to buy some!” Marcus hurriedly replied to his sister.
Once Nene reached her brother, she kept asking questions.
“Where did the meat come from? Are they still alright?”
“I saw the meat they’re selling. They’re meat from the bison found in the wilderness. Devin, one of the adventurers, told me that they hunted them while traveling from the desert kingdom of Arendora to here. The hunted animals were kept inside a large storage item so they’re still as fresh as the day they were killed.”
“Storage item?! Are they wizards?”
“Their client was supposed to be a Supreme Rank wizard who wanted to go to Nermador to fight the undead.”
“Are the adventurers powerful? Why weren’t the gangs taking their things?” Nene asked her brother.
“There are only three of them, Devin, and his parents, but they’re guarded by two ferocious and extremely powerful wolves! I saw the Blood Axe gang trying to rob them, but their two wolves killed most of them. Even their most powerful warrior was killed with just one bite!”
When Mercus and Nene arrived, they saw that a lot of people were outside the warehouse that the three adventurers had rented.
“What’s happening? Why are you still outside?” Marcus asked one of the people who was still waiting.
“Some wizards arrived wanting to purloin all the meat that the adventurers brought, but those wizards were driven off by their wolves. The wizards returned with their leaders, and from what I know, they were now negotiating with the adventurers,” The man replied.
After a while, the door of the warehouse opened and four wizards exited. Two looked to be higher-ranking wizards, followed by two wizards who looked dejected. The wizards were then followed by one of the adventurers, who shouted that they were now selling bison meat and the price was still the regular price. The man shouted that they would be selling all the meat until the supply lasts.
Everyone started to queue, so Marcus and Nene did the same. A younger adventurer exited the warehouse and when he saw Marcus, the adventurer called him, so together with Nene, they hurriedly went to the young adventurer.
“Marcus, come with me! No need to queue here. I’ll bring you inside through the door by the side. Who is this?” Devin asked Marcus.
“This is my sister, Nene. Nene, this is Devin, the son of the powerful adventurer couple selling the meat. I met him earlier when they were renting the warehouse,” Marcus said, who rolled his eyes when he saw Devin admiring his sister’s beauty with Nene blushing and hiding behind him.
“What happened with those wizards?” Marcus asked while they were heading towards the door by the side of the warehouse.
“Two low-level wizards arrived after our wolves killed some of those Blood Axe gang. When they saw our meat, they wanted to take all the meat for themselves, but our wolves stopped them. When one of the wizards attacked the wolves with some sort of spell, we were all amazed that the wolves just ignored the spells as if they were throwing cotton balls. It made me laugh so hard. Then one of our wolves jumped at one of the wizards, who held his neck in its mouth. Thankfully, our wolves are so smart that they didn’t kill the wizards, or else we would be knee-deep in trouble. The wizards ran away and returned with two higher-ranking wizards.”
They arrived at the gates by the side of the warehouse, and after they entered, Devin continued.
“Thankfully, the newly arrived wizards were wiser and didn’t immediately attack but wanted to talk to my father instead. When they learned that the wolves were summoned by a Supreme Rank wizard who wanted to go to Nermador to join the fight against the undead and that the meat was also a gift from the same wizard, they thanked us and immediately left. Before they reached the door, they started scolding the two wizards who attacked our wolves. It was so funny,” Devin said while laughing.
“Those two low-level wizards were so afraid that we would report their actions to the Supreme Rank wizard that we guided. What they didn’t know was that Anton had already left, and we have no way of contacting him.”
While Devin was talking to Marcus, his eyes never left Nene, who was blushing beside his brother.
“How powerful were your wolves?” Marcus asked Devin.
“My father said that our wolves are almost as powerful as an archmage-level wizard or warrior,” Devin said, who looked extremely happy that their family received such powerful guardians just by guiding Anton to Nermador.
Marcus looked enviously at Devin and stared at the wolves who were now sitting by the door. They saw Devin’s parents start selling the meat, and Devin asked how much meat they wanted to purchase.
When Marcus said that they only had funds for three kilos of meat, Devin handed them five kilos and did not accept Marcus’s coins, saying it was a gift. Devin said it while looking at Nene. Marcus just smiled, and after receiving the meat, they rushed home to cook some food with the meat and wait for their parents to have a little celebration.