Endless Winter's
Chapter 2: Intruder Alert

The young man was herded in a cafe called Cafe Evanora. It may be big enough for all visitors, but not for this one young man.

"Why does it feel so cramped?! I can breath out here! I gotta go... I have to go...!" the inner youth.

"Woi...!" snapped from the woman who broke her daydream.

"Hiii... L-yes?"

"Before that, what was your real name? Be honest!" ask the woman who has finished 3 bottles of wine.

"I'm Natan Evara. Just an ordinary wanderer, that's all!" natan Sahut.

"Hmm? So it's true that you're the one." continued the drunk woman who downed one more bottle.

"By the way, you haven't answered my question. Who the hell are you?" ask Nathan again.

The woman kept looking at the brand from the bottle of wine she was holding.

"You're listening to me, aren't you?"

"uh? You're very curious about my name, yes, what can you do. I'm used to being called by Venal."

"Kok happened to be the same brand of wine that you hold?" suspicious Natan.

"Oh... It is true that this is just a coincidence." replied Venal.

"So that's it.." The blond man was still suspicious.

".... Believe me not believe me, I don't care."

"But, why would you bother to help a stranger like me? Though we only knew a while ago." said Natan.

"Heh... Don't you equate me with the misfortune hero in most fairy tales. Of course, all of that has its rewards. In accordance with our first meeting." said Venal who clarified.

Again, Nathan gulped his own saliva...

"The wine you drank just now, it's also quite expensive. You must be wondering, how can a bum buy a wine?"

"A.hmm... Maybe you have robbed people for a long time, even killing them vilely?!" Nathan's bad guess with cold sweat.

"No, stupid! Which elite wine is sold in a small cafe like this, even in the suburbs as well. This wine is only about 14 pieces of silver coins."

"Oh... Thank goodness." sizzled Natan who sighed.

"But not so fast!" venal snaps the bottle of wine at the table.

"...!" surprised Nathan.

"I wonder how they're interested in you. What made them come after you?" ask Venal while pointing towards Natan.

"Eh... Anu, I can't answer that. I don't want to bring strangers into my personal troubles. Once again I'm sorry." the blond man's groan lowered his head.

Suddenly, the sound of broken glass split the atmosphere in the cafe. The jerk woman got up to the table and pointed the broken bottle towards Natan's neck.

"Bad answers come out of the mouths of losers like you! I don't want to hear it again, unless you want your neck to leak. Do you know how important you are?" threaten that crazy woman.

"Hiiii...! You're really not sane. Please let me go!" peekik Nathan.

The other visitors couldn't help, just watching that was enough. They knew what was done, they also knew who the boy was dealing with. She's a woman that's known to a lot of people around, a crazy bum that's troubling the public. For that, they did not want to deal with that insane woman.

"Whoever, help me!" hysterical scream Natan.

"Huh... Your request for help will be in vain!"

The bottle slightly pierced Natan's neck.

"Aargh...! I will answer well! But let me go first, please!" please Nathan.

"Well... Alright."

Venal released his grip.

"Huh...Huhhhh..Huh..!" Nathan fell down.

He still could not believe that his life was intact.

Surprisingly, Venal immediately kicked Natan quite hard.

"Wake up! Before my foot takes you out!"

Quickly, he got up and stood up. And they sit back quietly.

"So gini le -..."

Before finishing his words, came several royal guards all of a sudden.

"Don't move everything!" command of the captain of the army.

"Let's... What is this! Why is everything coming?!" surprised Nathan.

"All right, this is enough!" pekik Venal dropped the smokescreen.

Turning towards the pitch-black smoke, he did not find it. Not only him, everyone was confused watching directly.

"What's going on? Where's us?" Nathan wondered.

"..."

"Welcome back, Miss Venal! Let me deliver it before His Majesty!" greetings of a pointy-eared male servant who bowed his body.

"Okay, I leave it to you!" reply to Venal who immediately turned around.

"Well, Young Master. Can we go now?"

"Where is this actually? How did I end up here?!" nathan asked with his panicked face.

"I can only answer, we are now in the palace of Elven Country."

"Huh? Whahuh? Could it be to end up in the Elf country?" the Younger Master screamed while holding his head.

"Calm down, Young Master. Everything will be clear when we face His Majesty." explained the elf maid.

"Oh. All right, I hope nothing bad happens."

"Come! please follow me!"

Passing through a hallway full of white and gold dominant patterns, also the edges are neatly arranged various kinds of fallen hero statues. As well as windows with painted glass depict some important events in the history of the elven civilization.

Arrive at a gate about 3 meters high. Not made of wood or iron, but a stone that requires a password comes from an unknown spell.

After the elf maids inserted a proper spell, the stone door shifted, producing the noise that it should have.

From the beginning of passing through the hall, Natan was already amazed and confused to choose the right words to describe what he saw.

From behind the gate, there was the same spacious hall as in the hallway. The difference is that there are several guards lined up facing each other.

The front stretches far enough, there are 8 thrones that he said for the leaders. But one of them was empty, and it was the 6th seat.

"Ofers! I brought the foretold man, he's here! He will always lead us to a glorious destiny in the future!" flatter the elf servant while kneeling before the leaders.

"Who... The one you brought? How could a snot boy like him be able to carry such a heavy responsibility, what kind of nonsense is that?!" insult the leader who said he had the devil's horn.

"Why can an evil demon like him be a demon?!" nathan's nervous out of control.

"So what you say, snot boy! You don't know who you're dealing with!" the 3rd chair leader.

"Looks like you're mistakenly carrying people, stupid waitress! Get rid of him now!" snapped the leader of the 5th chair while pointing his finger.

"But His Majesty -..."

"Wait for what else? Kick him out of here!" the leader's orders were wrathful.

Simultaneously, the same black smoke appeared from behind Natan.

"What's this a fuss?!" the newly arrived Venal.

"What the fuck are you guys really talking about!? It's clear in front of your eyes there is..."

Suddenly...

"Have not seen each other for a long time to disturb your little gathering, Pathfinder Alliance! This is Mary speaking!" The hologram introduced itself.

"Curtain, intruder.." muttered the voice of a girl.

"I came at the right time, all of you are here, waiting for me!" continued the figure slowly approached to the center of the room.

"Hmmmmh... No need for a mysterious introduction, Mirage Tower Crew!" an Elf King.

"Cummer..."

The figure did not rub him, instead he shifted his gaze, staring with his 3 pairs of eyes at the innocent boy.

"Hehehe... Looks like you guys still have hope! I see it right now! That is enough to delay for a moment the destruction of all of you. But I'm not here to just warn him. There are good negotiations for your survival." said Maria who continues to pay attention to everything.

"Whatever your negotiations, we will still refuse!! Fraudsters will always be cheats!" press Leader of the 2nd chair.

"Heheh. Once you talk to me, you better think longer... No, a consideration would be better!"

"..."

"However, I will still force you to listen to this! Put the ears well! If you ever see this girl once, drag her to Sigor Forest. Life or death!" obviously Maria while showing a hologram of a familiar girl.

One of the guard girls, feeling familiar with what she saw. Previously, he was very furious at the arrival of the intruder, now turned into astonishment. He knew the girl in the hologram.

"Don't be silly of you! The girl who started the invasion in the kingdom of Venzonia. How can you not know where he is?" the guard girl.

"Nothing to explain anymore! You can only answer "Yes" or "no". Bring me the girl, and I'll guarantee the safety of your people!" Maria says.

"..."

"The last location was in the Underworld Demonic City! I hope the demons don't help him!" press Maria stared intently at the Demon Leader.

"Heh... Our only threat, want to protect us? What kind of shit is that?!" it was Venal's taunts that crossed his hands.

"Have you forgotten about SeaTerror?" ask Maria who made sure.

Venal immediately gasped for a moment listening to that.

"Are you talking about? What is that thing?" ask the demon leader.

"If you don't remember, it doesn't matter. Just ask how SeaTerror has progressed to this point."

"..."

"Okay, for my last message. Once you help that girl escape, no one will look up at the sky tomorrow!" threaten Maria with her comfort.

"I think that's enough, intruder! Now get out of here!" shouted from a corner girl who was pointing at her weapon.

"Gee... Whoa...! You are here too? It looks very festive. Why don't you say hello to your future hero? He seemed so scared!" said Maria who glanced at Nathan.

"That's enough! I'm fed up! No one truth comes out of that disgusting mouth of yours!" hina Grace's.

"Oh... You want to know the truth? What about SeaTerror 20 years ago!" Her gaze almost made Grace fall.

Suddenly, the hologram disappeared. Leaving nothing, leaving only a big question mark.

"Everyone please calm down! There's nothing to worry about. Everything is under control." said the Elf King.

Seeing that Venal was stunned thinking, Natan started to get curious.

"Actually...what's with the SeaTerror he's talking about?"

"You don't need to know! It's just the fucking intruder's shit!"

Venal was still stunned, as if thinking about Maria's words just now.

"You don't have to hide it! Everyone should know this! But how the leader of a country does not know this!" natan.

"Of course because they're hiding it from the public!" venal snapped out loud.

"..."

Venal sat down and could only hold his head.

"SeaTerrors... Mysterious creatures whose origin is hard to detect! Probably from the sky. Not that they were a sacred being, but rather falling from the sky coinciding in the vast ocean. We speculate, because they attacked after a mysterious object fell from the sky. They began to attack settlements near the waters. The first attack no one survived." explained Venal.

"What's that thing like?" ask one of the leaders.

"Mutation of sea creatures. They are more horrible, brutal, like invaders. You know what's worse than this?"

Everyone nodded at the same time.

"After several attacks, we were able to defend one territory. At that time, killing SeaTerror was still an easy matter. But we realized something terrible... We found some jewelry in the creature's carcass. Which means, they can infect other creatures and make them one of them."

The increasingly tense atmosphere is shown by how the listener is very focused on the explanation from Venal. They stared at him, almost without a blink of their eyes so eager to hear him.

Nathan could only swallow his own saliva, again. No wonder Nathan is not alone.

"Lantas, how's it going? Did you guys win?" ask the girl again.

"They are adaptable, they continue to evolve over time. We were slaughtered on the last assault. All killed, not a few we have to attack our fellow comrades."

"The listeners from the beginning have installed a serious face that is tense. Not a few people are afraid to hear it.

"You must ask the same thing. How can I tell a story like this if humanity was slaughtered? That's when the rest of us had to use the ritual again. A hero summoning ritual from another world that had never been used again after the fall of the Demon King."

"Certainly? How's fate?"

"Thank you to them, be able to make a fight back and press them. The final battle on Mount Magaria. The battle ended with a massive eruption from Mount Magaria. That's why winter is forming."

"What about the heroes?"

"Yes, what about them? They survived?"

Venal just shook his head, "what a pity, they sacrificed themselves. No one survived! The dark and historic event continues to be covered up to this day. The government thinks this winter saved us from SeaTerror. The rate of SeaTerror invasion ratio is dropping drastically."

Their feelings are mixed, they are confused to have to grieve along with the feeling of horror.

"The last country and able to survive the SeaTerror attack until now..."

"..." - ".Everyone was sweating and wanted to hear the answer.

"Hieronian Empire!" answer Venal.

"What did you say? Hieronians? I've never seen their leader once" said the 3rd Chair Leader.

"Is that so? So they're trying to cover this up? Absolutely outrageous!" upset Leader of the 7th chair.

The leader of the first chair could only smile at their interesting conversation.

"That Starts! Looking at your reaction, do you already know this?" ask a question from Nathan.

"Of course I know, I also live in that dark age! Even up against the mighty Demon King a long time ago." said the Elf King who kept his eyes closed and smiled suspiciously.

Nathan is suspicious of the person he is talking to.

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