The Protector Of Maran

Chapter 5:

5 minutes had passed since Cesar left the store, Morgja decided to stay there waiting for the guards to solve the problem they had, and while he did so, he dedicated himself to looking at the titles of the books that were still on the shelf, all of them were books that had become famous and recognized in the city.

"Is it normal for them to declare an emergency by ringing the bell?" the boy asked, turning from looking at the books and heading to the counter to talk to Jachell.

"Well, it depends on who's on watch, in Cesar's case he usually rings the bell once a week, but in Taley's case, she only does it when she really thinks the enemy she's facing might get over her" answered the girl, trying to stay calm and not show Morgja that she was scared by what might happen.

"And how do you know everything is back to normal?" he asked again, taking another look at everything in the store.

"They ring the bell again".

"How long do they usually take to do it again?" Morgja asked for the third time, making Jachell couldn't take it anymore and lost her calm to start crying because of worry and fear.

"I don't know, Cesar's alarms usually end right after Taley arrives to help him, but it's Taley's alarm, what's attacking us has to be very dangerous, what if they can't put an end to the danger? We have weapons, but I don't think we'll be able to face the monsters" explained the girl, resting her face on the counter so that Morgja wouldn't see her cry so easily.

"One last question, I know I'm not a regular customer and I may be leaving soon but would you let me take a sack of horse feed?" Morgja asked without any context, causing the girl to look up and look at him strangely for not understanding what the boy wanted to do at that moment.

"Take whatever you want, we're all going to die anyway," answered the girl pessimistically, leaning her head back on the counter to continue crying.

Morgja walked over to the sacks of animal feed; the bags were of different sizes depending on the animal for which the food kept inside was intended, the one that corresponded to the horse was more than 1 meter tall and was made of jute, the boy picked it up and placed it over the counter with a smile.

"Well, I'm taking this, and I'm sorry," the boy commented, causing Jachell to look at him strangely again, only to discover what he was referring to when he opened the bag and threw all the food on the floor, the girl immediately forgot her sadness and she was angry with Morgja for being the one who had to clean up the mess that the boy had created in a matter of seconds. See ya," he said next, before running out the door.

At the same time, near the watchtower Cesar and a woman wearing full-body steel armor were tied up in front of five monsters, all of whom had long hair, beards, and ram's horns coming out of their heads, and instead of Human legs had goat legs which were kept covered by cloth pants of a different color each, three of them had bare chests while the remaining two had leather armor. The leader, who was the one with the largest horns and the taller, reaching about three meters, was ahead of the rest of his companions, he carried a large battle ax on his back.

"You have given us a lot of trouble," the monster mentioned, turning his head in the direction they had come from, to observe the corpses of ten other monsters of the same race as him.

"Shut up and kill us once and for all," Taley exclaimed, causing the goat to redirect his gaze back to her, this time with a smile that, together with the pupils of his eyes, which were also the same as those of a goat, made him smile. They made it look sinister. The monster moved closer to Taley and grabbed her head to remove her helmet and see her face; the woman's black hair came loose and fell over her shoulders; her slanted eyes were brown, and her skin was white. Taley was frowning at the monster. The monster placed her large hand on the woman's chin and squeezed her cheeks with her fingers.