Chapter 21

Chapter 21: Green Dragon Princess

“Be quiet!”

Amongst the reed.

A ranger with a full beard hurriedly placed his index finger on top of his lips and tried his best to stop him as he asked, “Joanne?! Have you forgotten what I told you before this?”

“I told you to remain silent whenever you’re in the swamp!”

The young girl behind him who couldn’t control herself stuck out her tongue and finally calmed herself down from the excitement.

She bent down, kept her position low, and looked at the situation of the Jackal Monster’s Settlement.

“That’s weird, why is there no one… Ahhhhhh!”

Joanne was mumbling to herself as she squatted on the floor. Suddenly, she let out an unexpectedly loud cry!

“Joanne!”

The bearded man furiously turned around and was about to start nagging at his sister.

“I already told you to… Ahh!”

Just like Joanne, he was shocked by the scene that he saw and let out a scream as a reflex.

“Eric, you can’t blame me for this.”

Joanne replied, as if she was wronged.

Just a few meters away from them.

A masked man, who was holding onto a sword, was staring at the duo.

“What are the two of you doing?”

Roger asked in a low, calm voice.

“Please do not misunderstand!”

“We’re just passing by here.”

The bearded man called Eric seemed like an experienced man. He raised both of his arms in the air and asked sincerely, “May I … please stand up?”

Roger replied, “Sure.”

“Thank you… We were really just passing by and got curious when we saw the corpses of the jackal monsters, which is why we came over here to take a look. We had no other intentions!”

Eric was worried that Roger might misunderstand their intentions.

“Oh really? My partner has just finished killing those monsters and the two of you appeared. Was it really a coincidence?”

Roger’s tone gradually became more and more stern.

“Or perhaps both of you had already been following behind us and were waiting for the right opportunity?”

He was testing them to figure out when the two of them had arrived.

At the same time, he also wanted to let them know that he wasn’t alone.

And, as expected.

Eric immediately started explaining in a nervous tone, “Sir, I swear that we did not notice you or your partner before this and definitely wasn’t following you…”

“We were just passing by!”

Roger continued to pretend as if he didn’t believe them and sneered, “Why would ordinary people like you pass by such a dangerous place?”

At this moment, the girl called Joanne couldn’t help but interrupt, “Eric is telling the truth. We just left the village this morning, and it’s true that we were just passing by…”

When Eric heard her talking, he became anxious and was hinting at her.

However, Joanne did not understand what her brother was signalling her. So she stupidly kept explaining to Roger.

From her point of view, both of them were just adventurers of one circle.

But the man that was standing right in front of them was different — he and his partner could destroy the entire settlement by themselves which showed that his ability was way beyond theirs.

Explaining and gaining his trust was the only way for them at surviving.

…

‘So there are indeed villages around here.’

‘But from their appearance, it is most probably just a small village.’

Roger muttered to himself.

Then, he nodded his head and said to Joanne who was clearly inexperienced.

“I trust you. Since it’s a misunderstanding, I guess we don’t have to point our weapons at each other.”

As he continued talking, he put down his green beetle sword.

The siblings both let out a sigh of relief.

However, the next sentence that Roger said caught them off guard, and they immediately became tense again.

“My partner and I have come a long way from the West and have been hunting for a very long time in the swamps. We’re short on supplies now.”

“We need a place to replenish our supplies, we just need some food and water.”

“So, would it be possible for the two of you to tell me the location of your village?”

A worried look washed across Joanne’s face.

She suddenly understood what Eric was trying to tell her before this.

At that moment, there were countless bloody scenes that flashed through her mind.

‘Oh no, will I be bringing disaster to the village?!’

‘No way. I can never let him know the location of our village.’

This was what Joanne was thinking.

However, Eric replied before she could say a single word.

“Just head in the Southwest direction for about a few kilometers and you should be able to find the village. There is a huge Banyan tree at the entrance of the village and you will definitely be able to spot it from afar. Plus, the soil there is very different from the ones here. It is of a distinctive bright yellow colour which is easy to identify.”

He had a very sincere look on his face as he continued, “The villagers are very friendly. You should be able to get some water and food by exchanging the things that you got from hunting in the swamps.”

Roger silently stared at him for about thirty seconds before nodding his head.

“Thank you.”

“The two of you can leave now.”

Both the siblings were finally spared.

However, the two of them were still facing Roger as they slowly retreated, trying to get to the edge of the reeds.

They only dared to turn around and leave when they could no longer clearly see Roger’s face.

On their journey back.

“Why did you tell him so many things so specifically?” Joanne couldn’t help but ask.

“Since we already told him that the village is nearby, there’s no need for us to hide its exact location.”

Eric shook his head and said, “With the kind of situation that we were in, our goal was to survive, so that we could ask for help back at the village.”

“Let’s go back quickly and report this to Master Cindy. Since they were able to destroy the entire Jackal Monster Settlement, they definitely aren’t the usual adventurer team that we know!”

…

On the other side, Roger, who bade farewell to the duo, was speeding up his search in the settlement.

He didn’t find any freshwater.

As for food, there were only baskets of wild lettuce.

Roger picked out a few fresh ones and placed them in his backpack.

To be honest, Roger was shocked at how poor these people were in the Jackal Monsters Settlement.

If it wasn’t because of the gold watch and large box of broken silver and gold that he found in the chief’s room, Roger really thought that all his effort had gone to waste.

“This is unbelievable. I barely made enough to cover the cost for maintaining the arrowheads.”

Roger thought to himself about his bad luck.

Then, he picked up a few more wild lettuce before leaving the settlement.

…

After leaving the settlement, Roger headed in the Southwest direction just like what Eric told him.

After a while, there was indeed a distinctive bright yellow soil on the ground in front of him.

As the reeds started retreating, his visual range became much wider than before.

About half an hour later, Roger came onto a road.

There was a sign that was filled with mole: [Lettuce Avenue]

He continued heading South on the road.

Soon.

There were buildings that appeared on both sides of the road, but all of them looked abandoned.

After another half an hour.

Roger met a white-haired elderly man who was fishing by the pond next to the road.

He contemplated for a while, but he still went up to the elderly man and asked for directions.

The elderly man was cold to him, but he still patiently answered Roger’s question.

From what the elderly man said, Roger got a lot of additional information:

This piece of land is located in the center of the Great Wetlands and is called the Yellow Stone Island.

If he wanted to replenish his supplies, there were two motels along Lettuce Avenue if he continued to head South.

The first one was called Green Dragon Princess.

The elderly man told Roger that it was a slaughter house and that place was extremely dangerous. He warned him not to enter that place!

As for the second shop, it was called Thorns.

This was a much safer option as the owner was an old dwarf man from the hills and he’s very friendly.

He recommended that Roger should go around Green Dragon Princess and directly head towards Thorns.

After hearing all these, Roger thanked the elderly man and continued with his journey.

After ten minutes, he saw the sign board of Green Dragon Princess.

Roger did not stop. He quickened his pace and went past it.

Then, after a while.

He saw Thorn’s signboard.

However, he did not slow down and just went around it.

At noon.

Roger looked at the green canopy that was at a distance and his footsteps finally slowed down.