Ten days passed since the battle against the Royal Knight and the Guardian Knight. Chief Rick rebuilt his new village in the bamboo forest. The area was partly safe since the beast that resided in the bamboo area was a poisonous snake.
It was a safe area as the Old Man Rick knew a trick to make the snake stay away from the village. It was an aromatic concoction that the poisonous hated, causing them to stay away from the village.
They just needed to spray the concoction every morning and night, every twelve hours, and their village was safe from the poisonous snake.
Tang Shaoyang and his party helped the villagers to settle in by hunting the poisonous snake nearby while the villagers built the house. Even though most of the villagers were women, they built their houses pretty fast.
Three houses per day, it was quite an amazing speed. But of course, that was just a simple house to protect them from the cold late autumn and sleep in the night. Ten days, the villagers had built thirty houses which were enough to accommodate everyone.
The two villagers on guard noticed Tang's arrival. They nodded their head and let him in while their eyes focused on the unconscious Selena on his back.
Even though most of the houses were finished, the villagers did not stop working. They had to build a warehouse to store their food during winter, gathering the woods for the winter, and more for the incoming winter.
This would be their first outside the city, there were many works to do for them to survive in the wild. Old Man Rick who was helping the villagers carrying the big wood noticed Tang's arrival.
He put the wood on the ground and approached him, "How's it going?" Then he glanced at the unconscious girl on his back, "Who is she?"
"My slave and also a Cleric," Tang Shaoyang did not bother to hide Selena's identity from the old man, "Also, make sure for your people to not wander too far from the village."
"Oh, another Cleric!?" The old man was happy with another Cleric in their village. It increased the chance of their survivability with more clerics joining in, "Why? Do the beasts outside get more aggressive?"
"No, but the Waskin Adventurer Guild called Diamond Rank Parties for the Beast Stampede, and from my information, one of them interested in the quest," Tang Shaoyang told the old man, not hiding a single thing from him, "Don't worry, I will stay in the village until the Beast Stampede starts."
Tang Shaoyang looked toward Elin, and the latter nodded her head, "Can you check on them? I am worried for Suyin, she is still feeling guilty for Delia's death."
"Alright, I will look for them, and watch her for me!" He pointed at Selena before he left the house.
Tang Shaoyang went deeper to the north, he had been exploring the area around the bamboo forest and quite familiar with the area. He knew where the hunting ground was.
Using his [Spirit Eyes], he scanned the surroundings while dashing toward the hunting ground. The deeper he went into the forest, he encountered varieties of the beast.
He came out of the bamboo forest and started to search around. This was an area of Iron Hide Deer, Iron Lizard, and Iron Coyote. The area was occupied by these three types of beasts with part of their bodies being iron.
The best hunting ground for his subordinates, stage-3 Beast with the highest level was level 97. As soon as he entered the area, sure enough, he smelled a burning smell. His [Spirit Eyes] also found a smoky area ahead.
Tang Shaoyang rushed forward to see what happened because the smoke was so thick. It was unusual unless there was a big battle ahead.
Soon, he reached the burning area, the flame was still burning the grass fiercely. The flame should be from Liang Suyin's ability. From the normal blessing, she got [Fire Elementalist] Class. So he was sure the fire source was Liang Suyin.
Soon, he heard a small explosion ahead of him. Without hesitation, he rushed forward with his [Flash Step].
Soon he saw Liang Suyin was besieged by beastmen. Yep, she was fighting beastmen, nine of them while protecting Arina. Three Coyote's head beastmen, three Lizardmen, and three Deer's head beastmen.
It was not Deere he encountered in the beforehand portal since iron covered its body. He dashed forward to the front of Liang Suyin and punched the Coyote in the head.
He did not know why, but when he appeared, the nine beastmen immediately retreated instead of attacking him. He ignored the beastmen and checked on Liang Suyin, "Are you okay?"
Despite her miserable condition with a few cuts here and there, the girl nodded, "Mnn, I am fine."
He could see Arina was still healing Suyin, so she should be fine. Tang Shaoyang then focused his attention on the beastmen, "Humans! You are disrupting the peace in the forest, leave if you don't want to die here. Leave the forest!" The Coyote head spoke in human language to Tang Shaoyang.