Chapter 124: B2: C24: This is My Guest 2
There was barely any forewarning that she’d used a complex spell. He’d barely felt the trace of the void, either. She’d moved them instantly to a spot near the center, making it look easy, as if she was merely breathing.
He looked back and saw the others were with him under the glow of neon magic lights, fully returned to their village. No Baron Ekri the Tailor in sight.
When Zarian looked up, he saw the Central Library Artillery Tower looming above the other village buildings. The structure stood as a vast monument to Hannah’s crafting prowess and runic engineering while looking like a skyscraping weapon of doom, all black with the dark red gator head emblem and cursive motto.
“I’ve placed a ward around your village made for Ekri. It would keep him out unless he wishes to attract my wrath. The last time he did, I made him regret it for years,” Ruvaria said.
“Why didn’t you kill him?” Zarian asked.
“That is a story for another time.”
Zarian looked back at the others. Nobody had anything to say. Then they glanced off to the side as a pair of adventurers from the Windy Strider Kingdom walked drunkenly by them.
The striders were singing about how the world was ending and nobody had time for love except for the Darkness Lord and the Shadowfell Lady. Their love was the end of Infinita.
That was one of a few bawdy songs that turned Zarian’s marriage into a comedy, tragedy, dramedy, or all of the above. Zarian didn’t put it past striders to find something to celebrate for even when there was a major doomsday fight miles outside of the wall.