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Volume 2. Chapter 8. Copper

"RUN!"

"They are breaking through!"

"Guns don't work! Malay users forward! Aim at their heads!"

The defenders of the city fought valiantly against the hordes of monsters that attacked their homes. But their strengths were not enough, the monsters kept on swarming at them as if there was no end to them.

"We are done for! Evacuate the citizens! Don't let them breach the walls!"

"AAAAAA!"

It was too late. The monsters broke the wall and started to pour into the city. And when all hope was lost a light shined, bringing salvation...

*****

6 Years Later:

Several people entered the bar at the outskirts of the town. Their uniforms and faces were dirty from the coal that they were mining all day long, while some even barely could move.

"Bellman! Bring us the best pint you have!"

The bartender, an uncle in his fifties with his carefully cut mustache and glasses glanced at the newly arrived people.

"Will you pay this time, or should I put it on your tab?"

"Haha! Not today friend! We found some diamonds so today, we will clear our debt."

"You said that yesterday..."

The bartender took several wood mugs from his country and filled them with a brown liquid that he passed to the miners.

"Thanks! Let's relax guys!"

The band went to the tables further in the back and started to drink lousily while talking.

"Did you hear? The taxes will be raised again!"

"That just a rumor, man. And even if it did, we are minors under a noble. It doesn't concern us!"

"Still if this continues like this place will also turn into one of those places."

"Ya mean, you seriously believe that the capital of a country will become a rusted city? You are nuts! The king wouldn't allow something like that!"

"Yeah, just to be safe we should prepare to set sail before it happens."

"And how will we do that? We can barely pay for our bears!"

"We can always ask the Bellman."

The group looked at the bartender who was cleaning a mug while talking to customers.

"Yeah, I don't know. That guy gives me the creeps."

"Why? Isn't he a famous smuggler or something?"

"Kid, you are new right?"

"Yeah, I joined a week ago."

"Then let me tell you about this place." The leader of the band drank all the liquor from his mug before continuing. " Six years ago, this bar opened from nothing as if it grew from the ground. The liquor here is good, so it quickly became famous and with all the other restaurants closing due to the famine it secured a lot of clients. Naturally, since it is at the edge of the wall and business was good, some bandits tried to rob the place. Supposedly, the next day, they were found at the doors of the city knights, their brains liquified and they could only sing a weird song. The same song that this old man hums occasionally."

The rookie's eyes were filled with fear, seeing the gentle old man as a monster in human skin.

"Of course, he is also able to find anything that you wish for. Some people even think that he is connected to a powerful organization. Remember the knights? Even they don't mess with him. And his staff-"