Chapter 263 - The Little Angel and the Bird (1/2)

Cecil and the rest were making good time during their travels through the neutral territory. Other than the occasional bandit or monster raid, it was a pretty laid back ride.

Not much could threaten the party. The monsters were only C-B ranked and the humans who attacked them were too weak to even put up a fight.

If it wasn't because Cecil didn't care about taking their lives, not a single one of the bandits who attacked would have been able escape from his party's retaliation.

”Hey Cel, lunch is ready!”

”Okay!”

Cecil was currently driving the wagon. Sleipnir was a smart enough battle pet that didn't need much instructions from the party, as long as they pointed out the way, he would just keep on moving until someone told him to stop or change directions.

Sleipnir had pretty good stamina as well so he could keep running for as long as Silver needed to fully rest up and start their trek through the air.

There wouldn't have been many hindrances to their journey if not for the frequent monster attacks and the occasional bandit raids, which frankly, have been getting on Cecil's nerves.

If he could, he wanted to just rip their bodies apart and be done with it.

Looking up at the sky, Cecil couldn't help but lament at the thought that he's already been here in this world for over 2 years.

”...I'm 15 now...I wonder how my family's doing...”

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In the Silvaria family estate, a young girl was running through the corridors of the main family branch's mansion while a small white bird chased after her.

”You can't catch me, Chi!”

The bird only chirped in reply before it suddenly sped up and landed right on top of the girl's head.

”Aw, I got caught again!”

This little girl was Angelia Silvaria, Cecil's little sister and the Silvaria family's youngest. She was 8 years old now and due to the large advancements that her family's city had undergone in the past year since its establishment, she should be attending her primary school right now.

”Angel! Where are you?”

Angelia heard someone call out to her so she quickly took the small bird perching on top of her head and went to hide somewhere in the house.

”Hmph, It's big brother Matty, he's probably here to bring me to school!”

”Angel! Where are you! Don't you dare hide from me now, okay?! If I find you, I'll stuff you in a bag and send you off to school!”

”Bleeeh~ you're not gonna find me, stupid big brother!”

Angelia ran out of the house when her brother went to search for her on the second floor. She made sure to keep out of sight and made her way down the cordoned area her family was living in.

She couldn't understand why her family was isolated away from the city while everyone else that they took in was able to live inside the large city that had now spanned the entirety of the valley they were in.

The little girl could see from afar, that on the sides of the valley were large walls and watchtowers currently being constructed. She knew that her daddy was currently working and monitoring the construction of the valley's walls.

It was for everyone's protection and it was even her very own idea to build them. Angelia had seen the large monsters that would sometimes climb down from the valley's sides and attack their city so she had offhandedly suggested to her daddy to just build walls around the valley.

Kaiser was a little skeptical at the idea, but Matheus thought it was brilliant and the most straightforward answer to their problems. He even guaranteed that with their current metal and material production, they would be able to start building the wall and have it finished in 2-3 years. They built the walls using large rocks and cement while the watchtowers would be created using refined metal ores.

Silvaria City had been taking in people that the exploration teams were able to find from their travels deeper into the No-man's Land so they had enough manpower to construct the walls. Of course, they didn't just take in anyone they found.

Each new refugee they found was put through a strict screening before being accepted into the city. There was a time when they had taken in anyone they found and it had led to a very unfavorable outcome.

Probably due to living for so long in the wild and seeing many things that plunged people into a state of irrationality, some of the refugees who were saved by the Silvaria family's exploration teams began committing acts of injustice while inside the city not long after being rescued.

Kaiser and city's council only had one requirement from their citizens. That was to uphold justice and the dignity of their people, pitch in to help with the city's development and never, under any circ.u.mstances, should a human being try to harm another one of their own kin.

The world they were now living in was NOT Earth. Monsters lay afoul everywhere and people's lives were easily lost in this chaotic place which made it all the more valuable. It wasn't uncommon to suddenly find a large horde of monsters attack the city from out of nowhere which would sometimes lead to a great loss of life.

Every person present in the city has one life and that life was very, very precious. So when Kaiser found out about a group of people that 'acted' as some sort of underground gang or mafia in the city, he naturally went and swung down his iron fist on them.