337 7.65 Be Humble And Know Where We All Come From

"Please, come and take a seat with us and tell us what sad sorry tale had befallen you. You looked fit but the clothes you wore are all in rags and it looked like you had robbed a beggar just to be in his clothes. Are you lost or simply gathering attention to yourself in this garb? Or, are you trying to hide from the Sheriff of Nottingham?"

"Sheriff of Nottingham?!?! I do not wish to hear that name again. That good for nothing is the one that put me in this state and there is no compensation whatsoever when things fall apart...!!!" the 1st man spat his words at the mention of the Sheriff.

"Yes, if not for this hearthstone that we had bought much earlier and placed it here in town, we won't be here in this instance and we might even get killed by monsters roaming listlessly on the grounds that we humans walked on. We end up with nothing...!!!" lane ted the 2nd one at the thought of being alive.

"Those demons...those demons...are way too much stronger than we think they are. We were killed the moment a hailstorm fell on us and our cloth armour provides little or no protection at all. Our bodies burned to the ground in pain and agony that we ourselves had experienced and I am never going back there again." the 3rd one describes how his demise before he is being respawned.

"Ring leader, they sound as if they had suffered before coming to this state."

"Yes Robin, they were mentioning about demons and there are as competent as us humans if they have a powerful attack mage within."

"Boss, this is what happens to me when I respawn, but I still have my weapon and armour but their condition seemed a bit off. Gentlemen, were you adventurers before you fell in this state?"

"Yes, by the looks of it we were all adventures and we happened to meet the same fate as these 2 men here as well. Look, we were even equally dressed up in the same tattered clothes, pants and even these ill-fitting boots."

Explained the 3rd man.

"We lost all our fine weapons and armour when we died and had to wait for 6 hours before we were respawned back in this poor condition. We also lost our worldly possessions that are inside our storage bags." lamented the 2nd man.

"We lost not just our equipment but also our dignity, the party raid that we took part in was a total mess. It was disorganised and we were hacked like as if we were insects to those Level 90 demons." said the 1st man as he looked at himself and picked at a cockroach that had taken residence inside one of the pockets of his tattered clothes.

"You are not going to eat that cockroach do you?" asked Stef with a bewildered look as the 1st man removed the cockroach and peered into it.

"No, this cockroach is like us and we are the demons... *squash*" as the poor cockroach was stomped underfoot. Stef noticed that his toes were sticking out of his ill-fitting boots and half of his trousers were torn right to his knees and the other was full of holes.

"Have some tea and some dumplings. You guys really looked like you both need some food in you. So, you three were in a party raid and all of you are from the same band, I suppose?"

The men slurped their tea and had another cupful before they each took a dumpling and ate them.

"I'm a swordsman and my job is to tank those demons from coming out from the crevices that they crept out from. My band was Shiverguard and right now I was disbanded and had only a few shillings left in my possession." said the 1st man with a mouthful of dumpling in his mouth.

"I'm an archer and we were stationed about 100 paces behind to support them. I'm from Riders of the Dragonfly. The same thing happened when I respawn and I find myself being disbanded as well." cried the 2nd man as he spoke and stared at his cup of tea.

"I'm a wizard and I was with those ranged attackers about 50 paces back. I'm from Winged Immortals and I've been in the band for a few months shy of a year and this is the first death I had experienced and it was the worst."

"I heard of dying in the battlefield and respawning back with full equipment with a total loss of just the experience points, but this is a nightmare." said as the 3rd man as he slouched across the table and poked his fingers at the dumpling that he had set aside for himself.

"That's really unfortunate to hear if this tale. So it means you three had suffered defeat in a party raid as commandeered by Sheriff of Nottingham himself?"

"Not really, the Sheriff gave us the word to our leader and there are 5 bands grouped together with a total number of more than 50 men. Are you adventurers too, to gain abit of fame and fortune in this world?"

"You need to have better equipment than those you are wearing right now. That's the Normal armour in the Light class you are wearing. You'd be dead before you enter 200 paces before those demons." sneered the 1st man who was a swordsman after he sized the four of us who were just wearing Studded Leather armour.

"This is not Normal..." Jean Lethal spoke up as I held him back, as he retaliated to the swordsman who had looked down upon us and wanted to withdraw Gotham from his back.

"What my friend here was saying, it is not normal for us to be in this gear if we are not adventurers. Actually, we are traders and we trade in items that are not available through normal means."

"We are not into party raids or boss raids and these weapons that we hold are merely ornamental and has no purpose and all are Common items. Take no heed at our equipment, they nothing more than decorative for us to hold and for everyone else to see."

"Whoops... Its already been quite late and past dinner time. We would be taking our leave now. It has been a pleasure talking with you. Pleased to be of your acquaintance, Gentlemen. We would make our move. Don't worry about food and drinks. They are already been paid for."

"I performed soldier's salute and ushered the 3 of the others to walk on ahead when we were stopped by the 2nd man who asked," May we know your band's name? "

"It's the Band of Vagabonds..." and when I mentioned the band's name, all 3 of the haggard-looking men were surprised and was somehow delighted to meet the people whom others were praising highly before due to the single-handed duel with the Flaming Arrows, 3 weeks ago. Then their faces turned sullen as they had looked down on those that were highly praised.

"Should we make our stats visible, Robin? This would prevent anyone from looking down on us anymore."

"No... Let them be. If not we won't know who our next soldiers would be. Might as well take in free to play adventurers and groom them instead. I won't mind going back to basics to let them learn the ropes."

"Remember, be humble and do not forget where we had come from."

.......

"Whaaaatttt...?!? 5000 gold coins from me? Sir, I don't understand all this... I am not an adventurer, I'm just a support member of the band and you've given me so much for little work that I had done."

"I haven't even used a single coin from the past you had given me and now you had given me so much...! A former slave like me earns 1 copper per day and it would take many years of working before we could attain a single gold coin."

"And yet, you gave away gold coins to me as if there were coppers to you. I appreciate it but this is way too much for me, I could easily live very comfortably with a few hectares of land, a barnful of livestock and a few wives in bed... *ahem*, that's what a rich man would be having right?"

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Will.I.Am sheepishly looked at us as he looked down at his feet as he shuffled it. All of us laughed at his naiveness and asked about the dinner that he had prepared for the dearves earlier and he gave the 4 pouches of shards to me.