Chapter 8 - 04: The Path of the Knight
The rooster crowed as the sky lightened in a gray haze.
The church bells rang, and a flock of white pigeons flew into the blue sky.
People gradually filled the main street of the town.
The knights and town guards, who had been bustling all night, slept in the corners against the walls.
Yilin's soldiers had formed a line early in the morning in front of the inn. In the entourage, she mounted her white horse. After casually rewarding the innkeeper with a silver coin, she led her men through the crowds, out of the town, and continued south.
During times of peace, the gloom brought by evil forces always came quickly and vanished just as fast, especially when the forces hardly harmed anyone. Sometimes, it even looked like a joke, and some conspiracy theorists began to suspect that all of it might just be a fabrication by the church, claiming that demons and the Lich did not exist.
Since late at night, the Lich Gray had not been seen. So, after just one night, except for those knights still thinking about their achievements, no one remembered that there had once been a Lich living on the neighboring hill.
Vendors had already set up their stalls, hawking their wares on the street.
Women buying vegetables shouted angrily over trivial matters like short weights.
Hardworking farmers were already laboring in their fields.
Children, who didn't need to go to school and had nothing else to do, chased the knights still searching for any trace of Gray, occasionally cheering.