BORNEO

Ch. 14: First Contact With Shinso

Rimba enters the village, leaving Bodenk and his friends. He runs to the center of the village and see there is a gathering in front of the Village Chief's house. He can see Melano and Olaf standing together, surrounded by some villagers and militia members. In front of them he can see 5 players standing together, the one in the middle seems like their leader. The shoutings are coming from some villagers and the militia members, behind them there are also some people crying.

"You said we will only act as guide, and will stay behind uninvolved during the fight. That's why we join you willingly without requesting any compensation before. But you intentionally create a gap in the defense line and let the monsters attack the rear from the gap before attacking them from behind while we struggled against them!" A militia member who joined the expedition is shouting.

"So what? We didn't expect that the monsters actually managed to make a breakthrough and attacked the rear. You should be thankful that we still coming back to help you guys otherwise if the monsters managed to get away it will be a problem since we are supposed to exterminate them." One of the 5 players responded with a smirk.

"Mr. Shinso, we only ask for some compensation that are the rights of the deceased's relatives. It's true that we didn't talk about any compensation before, but since the militia actually joining your army in the expedition they can be considered as part of the army and deserved the compensation when they perished on duty like the other member of the army. As the army leader you should know this too." Melano spoke to the man who looks like the leader of the players, turns out he also the leader of the monster extermination army.

"Alright, Shinso. Listen here, we only demand that you provide the compensation. Seeing that the army also helping the village by exterminating monsters in the surrounding area, I will let go the fact that your incompetence to lead costs us some members and will not demand punishment when I make a report, although I'm sure the fact that your leadership is not good enough will be put in consideration for your further assignments." Olaf who just standing quietly beside Melano suddenly joined the talk.

"A report...?" The leader who also keep quiet so far also speak in the end. Rimba now can see the looks of the leader, he is an American with short hair. He have a tall build on a lean side with enough muscle. It's his eyes that totally caught Rimba's attention, his eyes are like a predator who watch his prey.

"Yes, I will make a report to the army officer. You know, I'm also part of the kingdom army who assigned to stay in this village. I was informed of you and your army arrival and tasked to supervise and make a report of this monster extermination task." Olaf give a brief answer.

"That's... Okay, I will provide a compensation and leave right away tomorrow morning. I'll send the compensation later this evening." Shinso seems hesitated but eventually gave in and just turned around and leave. Rimba caught a glint in his eyes that look dangerous, he seems angry that he would have to provide compensation and got a bad evaluation for his leadership in this monster extermination task.

After Shinso and his group leave, Rimba talked with the militia members who returned from the expedition and learned what happened. Turns out during their expedition Shinso as the leader who only bringing infantry with him keep utilizing his soldiers as shield wall and killed most of the monsters together with his teammates. He only left a small number of monsters to be killed by the others. It was still okay if they only monopolized the kills. But during one of the battle where they attacked a Goblin tribe and facing strong resistance, he actually make a gap in the shield wall and let some of the goblins to enter the army ranks, before closing the gap and isolated the goblins who made it through inside. This small group of goblins were directly facing the rear where the militias located alongside some players not part of Shinso's group since most of the soldiers were arranged in frontline as the shield wall and the remaining on the flanks.