Chapter 14 Cursed Magic User

Next two days, Nikol spent days getting to know people in the town. Most of them were kind and helped him to get adapted to their town. He was helped by people of all ages including kids, teens, women, and older ones.

Unlike Nikol, Alva couldn't have the greatest time because the moment she went back after spending the day with Nikol, she got confronted by her mother.

She was so angry with her for not coming back after giving the dish to Nikol,

Somehow Alva was able to convince her about not to get any punishment, but she was told not to stay with Nikol again. In the future, Alva's going to be the chief so Usha was training her to fulfil her responsibility to the fullest but when she makes mistakes like this, she gets worried about the future.

"I'm worried about the future, but will we even have one to worry about?" She was the most depressed by the current situation of the tribe. It had been only a few months since the goddess stopped responding to them but if this continues that might be the end of them.

Nikol and Alva were summoned by Usha to give their report on the investigation of Nikol's identity and his memories.

Usha was strict with her orders and the way she acts in front of others but deep down she was a worry wart.

"Oh~ you two are early, come in," One of the ladies who hung around Usha was the one to welcome us.

The last time when Nikol was here both of them were here too, so he knew about them.

"Aunty, is the chief here?" Nikol noticed during these few days that Alva calls Usha, chief instead of mother most of the time.

"Usha is here, did you come to give your daily report?" Alva nodded to her question.

They were warmly welcomed by them to the clean and little luxury-looking room. Nikol still couldn't get over the fact that their clothes are so exposing but their living styles are much more developed than their clothes.

The blond-haired mature beauty was working her ass off on something on her table, She was so busy that she didn't even notice them entering their rooms.

"Chief, we are here to report," Alva gave her normal formal speech to her and she reacted by looking at her with a questioning look.

"I told you, it's okay calling me mother," Usha said with a displeased look but her attention quickly shifted to Nikol.

"Anyway, did you get your memories Nikol?" She asked him.

"Not yet chief, but I'm getting used to this tribe and the people are nice, so I can manage even without the help of Alva now," Nikol told her but it did bring some distaste to Alva.

Nikol saw her frowning and quickly squeezed her butt without getting noticed by Usha.

"Eee!" Alva was taken by surprise that she couldn't help but release a strange sound.

Usha looked at her with a confused look,

"What happened, Alva?"

"Ah, no mother, it was just a bug," She even forgot to keep the charade of calling her mother, as chief.

"Those bugs are everywhere, I think we should ask Nym to do something about it, some of them might be poisonous," She didn't notice the blush on her daughter's face.

"I haven't seen Nym for a while, where has she been?" Alva wanted to change the topic so she won't notice her strange behaviour.

"I don't know, that girl won't listen to me, I told her not to do to the forest alone but, she always sneaks out, so I assigned one of my attendants to protect her,"

The mother and daughter pair were talking about different things while Nikol was listening to them with much interest.

Usha didn't want to talk much in front of a stranger. Even though Nikol had been here for a few days, he was pretty much a stranger with an unknown background so she didn't want to reveal much about their tribe's secrets to him.

She always felt a little different vibe from Nikol, she wasn't familiar with it but it was certainly not an unpleasant one.

Nikol's ears perked when he heard something very important,

"Alva, we should do something about the Kano tribe quickly, I don't want to extend this until your generation," She said.

"Did they do something again?" Alva had a tired look on her face.

"They certainly do, Kanos are waiting to attack us any moment, we can't afford to lose any more lives in this tough time, It had been several years since the goddess, stop responding to us," Usha was discussing it with Alva.

"Kano tribe, I feel sorry for them, but our own people come first,"

Nikol's interest in this situation was increasing little by little.

"Are you guys talking about the new offspring problem, Alva told me about?" Nikol asked them.

Unlike, the relationship between a normal leader and their subject, the Ron tribe didn't have much distance between them so all of them were talking friendly with each other.

This was also a result of not having any opposite gender so most of the common senses in this world were twisted and unfamiliar to Nikol.

"Yes that's the main problem, I don't really know how to solve it, I fear someday we might get erased from this world," Usha said.

Alva gave me a begging look but Nikol decided to ignore it for a minute.

"Don't you guys have other ways to produce offspring?" Nikol asked from them.

"We don't, I don't know why but, I guess we are abandoned by our goddess," She said with a sad look on her face.

Alva was looking at Nikol rather impatiently like telling him to tell her about their secret but he wanted to wait a little more before he do anything to clarify the status of this strange place and his memory.

"Isn't it a great problem? How are we going to produce our future then?" Nikol wanted as much information about this situation.

"It isn't our greatest problem, at least we can survive another generation with these people but, recently there has been an increase of cursed magic users, they are destroying people left and right," Usha said.

Alva also had an idea of what she was talking about but she hasn't seen them in real so she doesn't have as much experience with them as Usha.

"What are cursed magic users?" Nikol asked looking confused.

"Cursed magic users are what we call them but I don't really know what they are called, they are a disgusting bunch of people who uses people's life to increase their own numbers, as much as I know first curse user came from the dark elves," She said while taking her seat back.

"Dark elves? There are other races besides humans?" Nikol was getting surprised constantly. Now he was sure this isn't his world.

"I guess you don't know, we have many races in this land, elves, humans, beastkin, dwarfs, and demons are some of the main races," Usha explained to him.

"Didn't she explain those things to you?" Usha asked while pointing at Alva.

Alva was getting cold sweats because she was only thinking about sex and feeding Nikol instead of actually teaching him about the world.

Nikol noticed her nervous expression and decided to play it safe,

"Yeah, she did tell me but I thought chief might know something more since you look knowledgable,"

Alva was satisfied and thankful for his answer.

"Haha~ even if you don't have memory, you won't forget to suck up on your superior do you? You must have been a pretty scary one when you had your memories," Usha said while laughing loudly.

"Anyway, I was talking about curse magic users, It's actually horrible magic used to kill people and give birth to them as a member of their own race or clan,"

"They kill people and collect their souls using that magic and use them to give birth but, the offspring which are produced by them are mostly lifeless zombies, they just exist with no feelings or anything," She kept explaining to him about this horrible thing.

Alva's face was distorted with disgust upon hearing all these things.

"It's awful, how can they do things like this?" Nikol asked.

"All these things began after the goddess abandoned us, We were trying to do something about this problem but I can't afford to lose people from my clan, we must hang onto our last hope," She said with a determined expression.

"You're the strong chief and good woman," Nikol complimented her for real this time.

Usha was a little embarrassed to hear such words from someone,

"You guys should go rest, I will let Alva monitor you for a few more days and then you will be free, I can see you're a good girl," Usha said but Nikol wanted to protest and say she wasn't a girl but he decided to do it another time.

After excusing themselves, Alva and Nikol left the chief's room, both of them were pretty hungry so they wanted to grab something to eat.

"Thank you for doing that for me," Alva said while walking with Nikol.

"It's fine, more importantly, I'm worried about your tribe's future, I will definitely fulfil my promise don't worry," Nikol didn't want her to think that he was taking advantage of her.

"Well now that you're here, I'm pretty sure everything will be alright,"

Nikol was amazed by her innocent and easily convincing nature despite being the daughter of calculating Usha, he didn't want to disappoint both of them for some reason because if not for them, he would have been food for a giant spider by now.

"I will do everything, Just like my sister took care of me in my hardest time, I will take care of you people," He muttered and both of them went to grab some food.