"Ahhh!"
It was nighttime, and a naked man was standing at the edge of the river, just right beside the huge stone igloo, roaring to the heavens like a wild beast.
He was bald and covered in mud with little vines growing at the back of his body while he took steps out of the river.
He fell flat to the ground with a crazy laugh leaving his mouth, "I-I am free." The man muttered.
"Free, free, free, free."
He kept muttering these words as he wandered around. The man was still naked but that didn't stop him from moving around.
As he sauntered, he noticed a huge farm to his right. The man was feeling hungry so he strolled over there to get something he could eat.
Right outside at the border of the river bank were two beastmen patrolling the area.
One of them spotted the naked man walking toward them and immediately walked toward him, "Can I help you?" The beast-man asked.
The naked man didn't reply, he kept walking and when strolled past the beast-man. Feeling ignored, the beast-man held the arm of the man.
"You are in the wrong residence, we are not having any visitors." The beast-man asserted, stopping the man in his tracks.
Slowly tilting his head, the man uttered to the beastmen, "You should remove your hand".
"What?"
With no warning, the beast man instantly wildered away after his body turned into dust from the contact with the man.
The other beast man who saw this wanted to immediately alert the village to get back up, but the naked man wasn't going to allow it.
The man sped toward the beast man as the sand on the ground began to construct a blade around his hand.
Once he was close, he held the back neck of the beast man before he drove the sand blade into the beast-man's stomach.
The sand blade dispersed after it had completed its task and the beast man fell to the ground.
The man raised his head a bit to the sky as a warm satisfying smile hit his face before he voiced out, "Ahh, I almost forgot this feeling~".
He began again his advance toward the farm but this time, the man wore some of the guards' clothes to coat his private parts.
Upon getting to the farm, the man saw Elena, selecting some apples with a basket in her hands.
Since the farm was protected by huge wooden fences that encircled the whole farm so no one from the outside could get in.
The man held the fence with his hand and rested his head on the fence, "Excuse me." The man called out.
Elena peeked at where the voice came from and caught a glimpse of the man wearing only trousers standing outside the fence.
"A man?" Elena muttered, she lowered the basket she was holding and moved toward the fence.
"Do you need something, sir?" Elena pulled close to get a good look at the man.
"S-sorry, I..em, I'm a traveler from far away… I haven't had anything to eat for days… I…would really like some food and a place to sleep for the night." The man expressed, scratching the side of his neck with every word he said.
Elena looked at her basket and sighed before she went over to pick it up and handed two of the apples to the man.
As soon as the man made contact with the apples, Deka suddenly yelled from afar, "Elena! What are you doing?" He asked.
Elena replied, paying no attention to the man, "it's a hungry traveler, I'm just giving him some apples".
"Traveler?" Deka scrutinized the man for a while, but then his eyes widened when he noticed the trouser the man was wearing.
"Wait Elena don't….!"
Elena immediately plunged to her knees when a dark sand-like virus fed from her fingers to her arm all the way to her neck.
She began shivering on the ground as the dark sand was spreading all around her body.
Deka ran as fast as he could toward Elena, "Elena!" He called out, gliding on the ground to place Elena's head on his lap.
"Hey! Elena! Elena!" He tore her shirt to see that the sand had already gotten so deep inside her body that it was modifying her skin color.
Deka panicked and began calling for help, he also noticed that the man was no longer at the fence which made him feel more furious.
...…..
Sato had already arrived at Nervek and was in his room with Divanchi and Yuri staying in the room next to his.
He laid on the bed when Aril suddenly threw a message his way.
<<The guards at the farm just made contact with a stranger>>
'Yeah… so? I already gave the order to not let anyone in the village… you don't always have to inform me of every tiny detail'. Sato said, rolling to the side of the bed as he tried to get some sleep.
<<Understood>>
Sato slept off and woke up the next day.
His first encounter was with Erza who barged into the room and lay beside him, watching him sleep with a smile on her face.
Sato opened his eyes to see Erza, "What are you doing here?" He asked.
"Hmmm, let's see… oh right." Erza stood up from bed before she held Sato's hand and pulled him from the bed.
"Father wants to speak to you, the event is today, so chop chop and get ready." Erza pulled Sato's clothes off as she spoke before hurling him into the bathroom.
It was the day for the royal selection, and the sounds of people cheering for their favorite contestant were reverberating throughout the whole of Nervek.
And since the contest was built to determine new leaders for the city, a lot of people registered, each wanting to take the spot of being the next council member after about 50 years of Vlad, Puma, and Gudan ruling.
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