Chapter 73: Carine Village.

Chapter 73: Carine Village.

Hestia, if it isnt rude to ask, what sorta beastman are you? Lorena asked. Ive never seen your type around here.

After finding an opening in the forest, we were welcomed by a slow streaming river in the middle of a deforested area. After wandering along it for a bit with the guidance of Lorena, we managed to find some fields. According to Lorena, they already harvested the last batch of crops for the year, so the fields were rather empty.

However, what actually surprised me wasnt the field itself but the remains of the crops. To Saoris and my surprise, we actually found rice plants. Tasianna did mention that something similar existed in Peolynca but that it was a staple in dwarven society. I didnt really expect to find it here.

As we were observing the fields, Lorena suddenly asked me what type of beastman I was.

Uhh, I'm a dragonewt, a half-dragon," I told her, hiding my dragon origin.

Still remembering Saoris lecture about hiding our real forms, I decided to just say what was obvious to anybody who could see. I technically am a dragonewt in this form, my status board says that, after all.

Come to think about it, something doesnt feel correct.

Oh right, Lorena can I ask you a question? I spoke, now that it was my turn to ask some questions. Besides your initial reaction when you woke up, youve beenwell, comfortable? Yeah, I believe that word fits. You seem rather comfortable around us despite there being two beastmen.

This has been bugging me ever since I healed her. Although she was acting cautiously when she first met us, she completely let her guard down after I healed her. Yeah, I made the correct move and showed that I could use holy magic, the same element her goddess is associated with, but that shouldn't be enough to make somebody act friendly, right?

Tasianna told me that the history between humans and beastmen is rather tense. I was expecting some racism or stereotyping, of some sort. I know it is pessimistic of me to think so, but Tasianna honestly made everything sound super terrible.

There is also the case of those bandits. Lorena mentioned that a few beastmen were among the bandit party, so I honestly thought she would be a bit more vigilant of us.

Oh, is this because of how I reacted when I woke up? Ah, Im sorry about that, I know that was pretty rude, Lorena said in hurry. I was pretty nervous because I thought I was caught by the bandits, so I wanted to run away as soon as possible. He he, that was a bad mistake on my part. All three of you look far too pretty and proper to be one of them.

"Uh, no, that's not what I meant. This is my first visit to these lands, and I was informed that humans didnt like beastmen. Im surprised that youre acting so friendly to us, I admitted, believing that being forthright would yield the most answers now.

HUH?! Who would say such things? Well, I guess I never left my village before this incident but why should humans hate beastmen? Lorena said, tilting her head to the side, raising an eyebrow. "We have no beastmen villagers but beastmen hunters usually come to our village to hunt down wolves and goblins. I think our village chief would send a request to the hunter guild once our guards notice large groups of monsters or beasts."

Wait, what?

Ignoring my confusion, Lorena continued, "I mean, the more animalistic-looking beastmen are scary and they can be pretty rowdy and rude, but none of them ever harmed anybody from the village. The only terrible people are those damn bastards that attacked our village."

Excuse me, but what?

[Tasianna, could you explain this?] I demanded through [Telepathy] so Lorena couldnt hear us, looking at Tasianna with a tint of confusion.

[Thisare you sure those books you have read were not outdated, Tasianna?] Saori, too, was questioning Tasianna, breaking away from her aloof public appearance as she gave our fairy friend a worried look, unsure of what she knew was outdated or not.

Tasianna flinched back from our glares, waving her hands in a panic as if she wasnt at fault, [I-I, no! Lady Hestia, Miss Saori, I didnt lie to you about this! I am sure that my books were telling the truth! Humans and beastmen should have a bad relationship with each otherat least, in history. Maybe that human is lying!]

[Tasianna, please, pointing fingers at somebody else? You are better than that, so stop that,] Saori expressed with clear disappointment. [Besides, at this point, I truly believe that those books you have read are not up-to-date concerning recent times. It is alright, Tasianna, it is not your fault. I know I sound upset but this has also piqued my interest. What is the political situation when a peasant like Lorena has a friendly attitude to a beastmen, and what caused it?]

The ends of Saori's lips suddenly curved up, turning her previous frown into an inquisitive smirk as she placed a finger on her chin. Compared to her playful and enthusiastic attitude concerning anything money or sewing related, her historian side was way more serious. I guess this is the difference between a hobby and a passion.

Uhm, excuse meis everything alright? forgetting that Lorena couldnt hear anything, all three of us flinch from hearing somebody interrupting our conversation.

Oh? It is nothing, Lorena. I was just curious to see you growing rice, Saori said, using an excuse to hide our surprise.

Oh, really? You know, that happened because the previous lord of our land suddenly introduced it to us, literally ordering that this should be what we should grow, Lorena explained. These lands belong to nobles, so our elders werent able to refuse the decision. Whatever we can keep after giving our harvest tax tastes great, but they require so much work to grow.

Lorena was slumping her shoulders but suddenly snapped herself back straight, Ahhhh, Im sorry but we have to go now! Its so carefree traveling with everybody that I forgot about what we have to do! Please, can we hurry up!?

Widening our eyes at the fact that we got distracted by rice plants, we remembered why we were hurrying since morning. Lorena, once again, got onto Saoris back and our party dashed like the wind where she told us to. While we were running, I quickly got another look at my two companions new clothes.

Both were made using Saoris [Mana Weave] so they counted as mana clothing, perfect for us three shapeshifters.

Tasianna's was based on a halter dress but adapted to look like her fairy form's clothing, resembling more like a fantasy outfit. It was primarily a cyan dress with tints of purple and white to give the dress some life and style. As Tasianna wasnt a frontline fighter like Saori and me, we had more liberty to add more fluff to it, creating a rather stunning dress for her.

As both her fairy and wind elf form were flat, the chest part of her dress was left covered and white. Beauty in modesty. While the top part wasnt as decorated, the skirt part of the dress showed how much effort Saori put into it, turning the hem of the dress into multiple vividly colored butterfly wings, overlapping with each other as if they were resting.

The whole dress also came with two separate cyan sleeves that started from her biceps and ending at her wrists. She was also wearing a mana-blue butterfly styled cloak and a bandana on her left wrist, which was actually Tasiannas clothes as a fairy, there in case she ever decides to transform into a fairy.

As a final addition, Tasianna also requested Saori to add a white waist apron on the dress, as she wanted to signify to the world that she was a maid. Although she loved the dress, she still considered it too colorful to be worn by a servant. Tasianna honestly took pride in looking like a maid when shes willing to do that.

So, to please her, Saori sewed an apron with a similar design as her hem, while keeping it completely white to resemble a maid dress.

Saoris outfit, on the other hand, threw away any notion of looking cute like Tasiannas and mine. Hers looked the most modern among us, taking on a professional style with a black dress shirt and trousers, looking as if she was about to enter a classroom for a lecture.

Instead of a cloak like ours, Saori is styling a black and white short-sleeved trench coat that was pretty reminiscent of a certain Victorian assassin game that I knew about. To finish her look, she also sewed herself a crimson red scarf and fingerless gloves, finalizing herself a very rogue-like outfit while maintaining a sense of modernism.

As you should know, Saori couldnt make boots at all, so Saori and I were running through on the grounds barefooted. It wasnt much of a problem for us as I had my scales and Saoris were protected by thick fur and paws. Tasianna was the only one who needed some foot protection, so I just made some wooden sandals for her.

Interestingly enough, Saori absolutely hated the fact that she couldn't make boots as she despised seeing her legs covered in fur. That was the main reason why her outfit barely showed any skin. I can imagine her wearing some long boots, reaching her thighs if we ever get some.

Also, to note, we switched out Lorenas rags with one of our spare blue mana dresses, as she didnt fit into any of Saoris custom creations.

As I was musing about how absolutely, fricking awesome we looked now, we eventually reached the vicinity of a group of houses.

Many of the houses were demolished, showing signs that they were burnt down from the still black grass that remained despite the buildings being slowly removed. A few new buildings have already been constructed but they looked like they were rushed, probably just there so they could stave off the cold winds and nights.

There were no walls or anything that resembled defensive structures. It was very likely that the budget and manpower was invested into getting houses and the necessary facilities up, decisions that benefited the recovery of the once-raided village.This chapter's initial release occurred on the n0vell--Bjjn site.

Hmm, I guess you dont need too many walls when a few guards anda militia? I dunno but they look like watchmen.

Saori, using her incredible eyesight, used [Identify] on the few remarkable ones but was quickly let down. They all were stronger than Lorena, who was practically a weak or untrained F rank monster, but none of them impressed us. They could all go up against an F rank and defeat them, but they would have trouble fighting against an E rank alone.

Both their stats and skills werent anything to talk about, but it was enough to protect themselves. It also was interesting that all of them had some kinda weapon ability.

So, from peculiar and dangerous monster skills to weapon abilities. I guess this is the biggest difference between humans and monsters.

It makes sense, human ingenuity isnt reserved for equipment and tools alone. Techniques and knowledge are also a reason why humans can dominate beasts, despite the difference in raw power.

They might look weak but I shouldnt underestimate them. I was a human once, too, and I know how good they can be working together. Until I can get a good reference, I shouldnt look for a fight.

Well, I never intended to do so. I cant go around and look for conflict everywhere I go. Im a dragon but I dont have to act like a feral monster.

Lorena jumped off Saoris back with gusto and sprinted towards the village. As we couldnt leave her alone until she made it to the village, my party ran after her.

As we approached the village, some of the militiamen saw us and shouted, "Guards!" and "Everybody come over!", and then suddenly unsheathed their weapons.

Stop! Who the hell are you people?! Nobody sides the folks living here can get past, one of the militiamen shouted to stop us.

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Sunday, July 5, 2020 1:03:31 AM Germany [Member of Zard Skwad]

Bio: Hey there, AbyssRaven here. I'm just an avid Light Novel and Fantasy story reader who randomly thought of a story and began writing about it.

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