The Greatest God
Burning of the Cave

Khun stared around Alta's house. The house is quite spacious but feels very quiet.

Somehow the atmosphere of this house reminded Khun of somewhere.

Have seat. Don't worry, consider it your own home.

Khun stared at some of the women's paintings attached to the wall.

"Oh that's a picture of my late wife. He's long gone."

"Your wife is very pretty," praised Shin as he looked at the painting in question.

"Thank you. He must be so happy to get a compliment."

"Please sit down, sorry if this place is so simple."

"No. Even your house is big, "Bapas Zayin is amazed.

Alta took some drinks and snacks in the kitchen to serve her guests.

"So if I may know where these gentlemen are from?"

"We are from the north" Zayin replied steadily.

"From north? Isn't the north already a lot of villages abandoned due to undead attacks."

"really. Our village is one of them. So we went to find another place to live."

"It looks like the village is very quiet. Is this village always safe from undead attacks?"

"really. Our village has quite a lot of knights and qualified. We also make it our turn to hunt the night so that the village is always safe."

"It is only fitting that this village is so peaceful."

"Here is the guest room. Luckily, I clean it every day. So if you're so tired, the room can already be used for rest."

"Dad?" a teenage boy came out of the room next to him.

He came out while bowing his face.

"Sorry, I brought guests without talking to you first."

"No problem."

"Let's take a minute."

"Gentlemen introduce this is my son, his name is Sylon. Their Sylon is lord Shin, lord Khun and lord Zayin. They'll stay here a few days."

"Hello."

"Yes, greetings."

"Woah, we look the same age but I didn't expect you to have a child this big" Zayin was excited and came closer to Sylon.

Before Zayin approached Sylon, he had moved to hide behind his father.

"Sorry, he's so shy."

Shin and the others nodded in understanding.

"I'll excuse you to go to the village hall for a while. Gentlemen, don't be shy. Excuse me first."

Sylon clutched his father's hand and was still hiding behind him.

"You coming?"

Sylon nodded in spirit. Alta smiled kindly as she rubbed her son's head.

"Okay, come with me."

After the homeowner left, Zayin without hesitation went straight into the room and lay down to rest.

Shin only shook his head. While Khun chose to sit on the terrace observing the residents and the atmosphere of the village is so peaceful.

"You still think of the owner of the eternal flame in the cave?"

"The fire is mine."

"Yours? But how can it be?"

"I also want to know, how can anyone take my fire and keep it."

"How can the fire not burn the bottle and how many people keep it?"

"I want to ask the ghost I caught yesterday."

"Come in, I'll keep watch. I'll give you the code if Alta comes back later."

Khun nodded, then rushed inside the house.

After being inside the room Shin took out a pebble stone in his bag.

Throwing the stone on the floor, it turned into a ghost.

"Master," said the ghost as he sat down to pay his respects.

"I'm not gonna mince words, so who's behind this jug theft."

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Alta greeted the locals in a friendly manner like normal days. Everyone else also greeted Alta well.

No matter how young a child is, you will surely greet him politely.

Not to forget they also greeted Sylon. All the residents were quite surprised Sylon went to accompany his father.

Because the residents have understood how the passing of children is only a puppet of the village head.

"Hello Sylon, tumben's coming to the village hall?" asked one of the village hall managers named Yodh.

Sylon did not answer and only shriveled behind his father while bowing his head.

"There are some people at home, they plan to stay overnight. So maybe Sylon is embarrassed by them."

"Oh so. Are they the ones who just got here this morning?"

"really. Because in our village there are no inns, so while I'm going to entertain them."

Yodh nodded in understanding.

"What about the fire in the cave?"

"From the knight's information there, the cave was already heavily destroyed. They say it's like someone deliberately set fire to and extinguished the cave."

"Because if it is accidentally burned, it should be possible that the fire will spread quickly into the forest. Moreover, it must be a very large fire because it can make the cave so destroyed in just a matter of hours."

"good. Order the knights to investigate again. Check every cave. The things that are still left in it."

"Good."

"Emmm, I'm actually a little suspicious of the guests at your house."

"For that I will ask them slowly. We focus on the investigation on the location first."

"Good."

Then Yodh went to the place where the knights were practicing.

"Dad... Are the people in our house the bad guys?"

"You take it easy, I'll always take care of you."

Sylon nodded in understanding without letting go of his grip on the father.

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