Outside the forest, farms and pastures stretches as far as the eyes can see. Few wooden houses can be seen scattered across the vast empty land. Many types of animals can be seen across the vast field, grazing on the grass and galloping around, farmers plowing the fields and herding the animals.

Raynor looks around, admiring the scenery that he has never seen before. A farmer walk pass them, and Raynor stare carefully at him.

[Alien civilization..]

Raynor spoke the word that came to his mind. Basically, he classified what he sees here as Alien Civilization. Yuria does not count as alien, because she is from Earth. The 4 guys that he meet back then, he first thought that they were earth’s primitive people. But now, after realizing he is in another world, he realized that he is surrounded by alien civilization. He is more interested in the civilization and technology instead of their biology.

Aliens is what the people back on earth always look out for, after they begin their space exploration. Humans have tried many ways to detect unknown intelligent life form, but to no avail. But right now, Raynor is in the midst of an alien civilization. Although they look similar to humans, but they are actually an intelligent life form not from earth.

Raynor looks curiously at everything he came across. He even wandered off and headed towards a different direction because he was mesmerized by their agriculture activities, only to be pulled back by Yuria.

Yuria is heading towards the direction of the city while pulling Raynor’s arm. She is in a rush, because she needs to get to the city by sundown, before the city gate closes. There, they will stay a night at an inn and the next day, she plans to have an audience with the Queen of this Kingdom. So she has no time for Raynor’s sightseeing.

They reach the main road that leads to the city not long after they left the forest. The main road seems much busier with human activity. Sometimes, groups of adventurers pass them by, and sometimes, carriages pulled by horses and bulls can be seen.

Yuria noticed that the people that pass by keep staring at Raynor. When she tried to examine him why does he get more attention from the surroundings than her, she realized that his attire is what makes him stands out. Raynor’s attire is similar to a modern day bulletproof armor. Attire as thick as a metal armor, with strange materials and designs that you can’t find anywhere in this world.

(There are some adventurers also wears armor with weird shapes and designs. So it is safe for Raynor to pass through the city gate without any suspicion. Probably) Yuria thought.

When it is almost sunset, they can finally see the city walls in the distant. In front of the gate, there are many tents and multitudes of people outside the city walls. Those tents are clearly for those people to stay, and the amount of it, is like a colony of ants, jam-packed in a small area. Yuria felt heartbroken looking at the sight of that. She recognized that these people are refugees, denied entry into the city. These people are war refugees.

The place that had war recently around this area is only her kingdom. And these people flee to this place long before the war even started. These civilians clearly know that the enemy outnumbered their military strength, and they are destined to be conquered. So they flee to this place in advance, hoping to find shelter, but only denied entry into the city. They have been denied entry not because the ruler is heartless, but because of their sheer number, and if let them flood into the city, it will cause chaos. Now, those refugees have no place to go but to camp outside the city walls without any particular goals.

As Yuria and Raynor walk past the refugee camp towards the city gate, many people have their eyes on them. But mostly on Raynor. They can’t recognize Yuria, their former ruler. The usual Yuria that they know is one who is dignified and elegant, accompanied by the elites of knights, attire and ornaments that gave off an aura of royalty. But the Yuria now is with a weird looking brat, with tattered low class attire, dust and mud all over like she just came out of a jungle cave. The only merits on her is her facial features that stands out from other civilians. But no one will even believe that she is a royalty even if she can proof herself.

Yuria can now easily blend in with the refugees around and no one will suspect her identity, if putting Raynor aside. But the thing that attract attention from their surrounding, other than the weird Raynor is their baggage. A civilian walking around with big baggage and another seems to be weapon wrapped by cloths will attract unwanted attention among poor refugees.

Naturally, they already have people following them from behind. Yuria and Raynor couldn’t tell if anyone is following them, because neither of them have any experience of fighting against other humans. The stronger you are, the more battle experience you accumulate. And the easier you can detect anyone that is tailing you, and can even detect hostile gazes from hidden enemies. But neither Yuria nor Raynor react to the people that are tailing them. This let everyone know that they have no combat experience, and might be weak even though they possess weapons and weird armor.

If you are young, few in number, possess valuables, gave off hints that you are weak, and roams around poor places that have low public order, naturally bad stuffs happens.

Naturally, they have been surrounded. Raynor and Yuria finally noticed something was off, but they were already too late. 8 guys with daggers surrounds them. The normal civilians quickly left the scene because they don’t want to be involved, and the other reason is because these guys are from a large criminal organization that governs this area.

A criminal organization naturally will have strong people. And among the group that surrounds Raynor and Yuria, the strongest is Rank E, the rest is Rank F. All of them are stronger than a normal civilian, plus they are armed with weapons. Naturally, everyone will try to avoid a group like this.

[Leave all of your valuables here and you are free to go. The girl will have to stay back!]

A person who seems to be the leader of that group of bandits yells at Raynor..