Chapitre 14: What.
"We have decided to make this competition extremely fierce compared to others we had in the past," the old man began.
"A few days ago, the scouts from the Chief's palace detected an unusual amount of crows flying towards the village with extreme speed," he continued, gesturing upward.
"The crows will be more than enough to completely drown everything in their ghastly light. The animals around the village will be fiercer than ever, and they will attack with newfound resolve, devastating our lines," he said, his voice heavy with concern.
"WHAT!!!"
"HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE HERE!!!"
"WHAT DO WE DO NOW!!!"
Everyone was in a panic, they looked like they just heard doomsday was announced or something like that.
Alex like the dumbass he was, could be seen looking around with his eyes raised.
"(What the fuck is going on... what crows...)" Alex cursed at the book Prehistory, he never really touched it after that because he pretty much didn't have anything to do with it.
Or he just forgot, Alex didn't remember why he hadn't used the book yet.
But he should have used it to find out what the light was sooner.
"Hey brother, can you tell me what light we are talking about?" Alex asked someone.
The young man looked at him confused and ignored him.
Alex sighed and looked up.
"SILENCE!!!" The old man yelled.
Everyone's chatter calmed down.
"Since Chief detected the crows sooner than we, we got a reinforcement..." Old Man said this and pulled his hand to the one woman in this group.
She was beautiful, she had green hair and blue very unnatural eyes, a good body, and extremely arrogant eyes.
"Mrs. Eleanor." He said this.
"But Sir... haven't we experienced something like this before and Chief's forces failed to protect the exits as he had to expand his forces?" Someone asked from the crowd.
Old Man looked down and said with a cough "I Apologize... I worded it wrongly... Mrs. Eleanor isn't from the Inner layer of the Village... she is from the Core layer..." He said this and for a moment everyone stopped talking.
"WHAT!!!" They yelled out once at all times.
Everyone was looking at Eleanor like they were looking at some kind of legend, goddess that came down to their mortal world.
"Silence!!! Now Mrs. Eleanor will take the stage." Old Man respectfully stood down and let Eleanor come to the elevated wooden log.
"My leaders told me to protect this side of the exit, you all will just need to abide by my orders, I will destroy the stronger animals while you kill the weaker ones... that's it." She said this and got off like she didn't even want to look at the peasants she was seeing.
Alex furrowed his eyebrows, he didn't like the attitude of this kind, especially in women, and especially not in his leaders.
"As she said, the animal hunting will begin in 3 days, the crows are supposed to come to our village in about a month, we need to clear the outer layer of the forest as fast as possible and put wooden walls over the southern exit we protect not to let any animal herein, as for the Apprentice Ceremony goes..." Old Man looked at the man next to him.
Man nodded and stood next to him.
He held a paper-like material stretched out in his hand, Alex guessed it was dried-up wood or maybe animal skin.
"You are going to be given your Pocket, you will need to gather as many animal parts as possible, you will gain points and influence, the stronger the animal more points you will get, at the end of the hunt when the crows are about to appear, anyone that has the highest points will become Apprentice hunter, and of course, the age gap is between 5 - 13 years old, this only applies to them, I wish you all good luck, this is it." The old man nodded and stood down.
Everyone started to chatter like they just heard the most inexplicable thing in their lives.
Alex decided just to use the Book of Prehistory when he got back, he didn't want to look like an actual idiot here.
He decided to go back.
"HEY!!! THE ESCAPER!!!" Someone yelled out.
But he couldn't wait and still asked someone.
"Hey brother, can you tell me what is this crow stuff?" He asked a passing handsome man. he had black hair black eyes, a lean but muscular build, and Shaolin-like clothes.
"Alex???!!" Man said this with a smile.
"Y..es?" Alex swallowed his saliva, he couldn't believe out of hundreds of people here he would catch someone who knew him.
What bad luck.
"You don't remember me do you..." Man laughed.
"No, I apologize, things happened and---" Alex wanted to apologize but he was interrupted.
"That is alright, I am Jack, you were a little infant when I last saw you..." Jack said this making Alex incredibly uncomfortable.
He stepped back, how the fuck did this man recognize him without seeing him after he was an infant?.
"Oh, no no no, don't be weirded out, it is your necklace, I saw your father give you on the day you were born." Jack noticed Alex was weirded out and immediately said this.
"Oh, I see, greetings Uncle Jack, it's nice to meet you, now please my question," Alex said changing the subject.
"You... are not like your father," Jack said.
"Yes, I get that a lot..." Alex just wanted to know what the fuck the crows were, he was regretting not taking the book and asking for it in his home, he got himself in that situation now.
"Listen, there is a restaurant close to this place, I met your father and he may be waiting for us there, let me take you there and you can ask me anything you want," Jack said with a smile.
"Fine, thank you, Uncle Jack." Alex smiled.
They continued to walk.
"It has been a long time, I remember the flame is saw in your eyes when you were born, that flame hasn't disappeared even now." Jack looked at Alex and said this.
"Yes... I am a competitive person, and that is why I want to ask about the crows." Alex said this.
"You mean the Ghost crows." Jack turned back and said this with confusion.
"Yes???" Alex said this.
"You don't know the Ghost crows?" Jack asked.
Alex while sweating made up an excuse "Not, you know, for some reason I fall asleep the moment something like that happens so you know? I never really was interested in the things also." He said this with the most awkward tone imaginable.
"OOHHHHHH!!! Of course, you are a kid, that makes sense." Jack yelled out like he understood.
Alex sighed in relief, he was spared embarrassment.
"We are closing on the Resourant, before that let me tell you about the crows." Jack pointed his hand up.
"Since the conception of our village, the crows came every year regularly, the descriptions we have from the ancient times have never changed on what is happening now, the crows bring ghostly light to our village turning into a disastrous sight." Jack sighed.
"Disastrous sight?" Alex asked.
"The sight you never forget and you dream in your nightmares, everything goes feral after that happens, the animals, the monsters in the forest start to attack the village, the scent of despair goes around the entire village engrossing it with absolute gloominess," Jack said this.
"That's it?" Alex asked.
"That's it?" Jack turned back.
"No, like that is bad but it doesn't sound that bad right? you just need to kill the animals beforehand and make sure no animal goes beyond the gate, from how many people there are in this village, that sounds very easy." Alex said this.
Jack was shocked for a moment and then he laughed it out "HAHAHAHAHAHAH, that is right Alex, that would indeed be very easy. if not for the actual death that happens in the village at the times of the Crow's Light Event, when everything is engrossed in that disgusting light, it life-sucking, it makes you feel gloom, despair, absolute helplessness, old people that don't have much to live anymore die instantly... entire village experiences thousands of deaths every event... the animals are the easiest we have to deal with... because we can deal with them... but this... we can't stop it." Jack said this.
Alex was completely shocked.
"So... what about kids? Infants?" Alex asked instantly.
"Kids and infants fall asleep the moment the Event happens and nothing happens to them, but other people, about 20 years of age, you can't fall asleep no matter what you do, if you are sleeping before, you are woken up..." Jack responded.
"Oh my god..." Alex was thoroughly shocked, this was a true apocalyptic disaster, how could they live for so long knowing they could die instantly the moment some weird fucking crows come.
And why don't they kill the crows anyway?
"What about you guys kill the crows... they may fly high, but an expert archer can take them out very easily," Alex asked.
"You are right, but no matter who shoots the crows and no matter how big the projectile is, from what anyone has seen, the arrow or anything like that goes through the one damn crack... one damn opening the crows have, no matter what angle you shot at it, you can't hit them, it's not even that crows move, it's like you are shooting at that little angle to avoid them deliberately... its annoying, very annoying, you can't hit them or kill them..." Jack sighed.
Alex wanted to ask more questions but Jack interrupted.
"Oho? We are here..." He smiled.
Alex looked back and saw a big wooden building in front of them, they were standing on a good road made from cement-looking material.
Looks like they walked to the more comfortable side of the city.
But Alex didn't care about this now...
"What the fuck did I just hear..." He sighed and asked himself.
This was balls-deep insane, these people were being killed every year, he understood why most elderly here had eyes of nothingness and just peacefulness because they knew that no matter what, they would not be able to die a natural death, this was extremely despairing, Alex didn't know if he would be able to live with that, to live years of fighting torture and then die by some crows you don't know anything about.
This was something he has never heard of before and he was really scared now... where was he... where the fuck did he reincarnate. what was this world and how could he escape it immediately...
And wait... could The book take him back to earth with coins?
End Of Chapter.
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