Chapter 36: The interrupted party (Part 1)

Soon, the visitors have reached the village where the rescued hostages lived.. One of the nomads saw them and went immediately to their village chief, Spinel.

Nomad: Milord, the hostages have returned!
Spinel: Really now?!
Nomad: Yes! And they have some guests as well!
Spinel: They must be the heroes that the goddess promised us! Quickly call on all the villagers! We must greet them!

And thus, the Spinel, as well as his guards and a large crowd of people went to the entrance of the town... As Lucid and the others approached the town, they saw the crowd, cheering for them...

Lucid: Wow.. I didnt expect this...
Hostage 1: That's just normal, whenever someone comes back from a long journey, people greet them and start a feast in honor of Junon...
Hostage 2: It's a tradition in our village of course...
Lilith: So does that mean, you guys also worship all the gods?
Hostage 1: Not all... We only focus on our main deities and thats Arua and Junon.
Kirnale: Oh I see...
Elysia: Interesting... It seems you are also aware of the existance of the Gods...
Hostage 2: you can say that...
Sugar: They are made by the Gods as well...
Namiele: Yes... They have a special part to play in the world... Same is true for us...

Soon, they reached the entrance and the whole crowd cheered on. Maru and Moro are easily overjoyed by the reaction!

Maru and Moro: We're famous! we're famous!
Eriol: hehe... right...
Lilith: Well good things happen to good people...

Soon, spinel approached the visitors....

Spinel: welcome to our village! I heard you rescued some of our citizens, right?
Lucid: yeah... But it was a tough fight...
MAru: Yeah... The aqua king was quick...
Eriol: But we managed to save them...
Spinel: Well, save your stories for later, for now, we must feast!
Crowd: Yeah!!!

The crowd cheered on and the festivities have begun.. The feast lasted for 5 days and 4 nights... on the 5th day however, all was well, until...

Spinel: hahaha! You gusy did a remarkable job!
Elysia: Thanks...
Larg: It's well worth it!
Moro: We're happy to be of service.
Lucid: Yeah.. We wish to help those who support the Goddess..
Spinel: That's very kind of you to-
Nomad: Milord! An army of dark soldiers are coming towards the town!

soon, Spinel and the visitors went to one of the towers surrounding the city, there they saw a large army heading straight towards the village entrance...

Spinel: This is not good...
Lucid: Why is it?
Spinel: The Ikaness order...
Elysia: Who are they?
Spinel: I'll shall tell you all later.. For now we must prepare ourselves... A battle is about to begin.

That being said, the visitors as well as the nomad defenders prepared themselves to defend the village from the forces of Ikaness...