Village of the Schoolars

While Green is talking to Red in her temple, Bolrow's team has arrived at the village the hobbit they after were headed to.

When Bolrow team arrived at the village, they're being welcomed by something rare. Usualy when they came, the locals will either run away in panic or just straight up attacking.

But this time, the locals is coming out en mass to watch them. Some of them even waved at the aircav. Seeing this Bolrow waved back, followed by his men.

Bolrow then give the order. "Nomad-zero-three, Aztec-zero-two you two follow me and land on that clearing. The rest of you will do parameter check."

Three helicopter then land back to back while the rest is circling around the village. When Bolrow come out of his chopper, he realize that all of the villagers that approaching, have sheep horns.

To speed up the talk, Bolrow immediately ask for the village chief. Then, a woman step forward and move toward him. "Good afternoon sir, I am the village chief. Is there anything wrrong?"

Bolrow then show the village chief a skecth of the hobbit using his phone. "We are looking for this man. A hobbit male with the name of Kilgo. We need to ask him for some question, regarding city of Turov."

"Of course sir, that man is currently staying in our village inn. Young one, one of you please grab Master Kilgo and bring him here."

"Ozax, they say Kilgo is a runner risk, follow him and make sure he doesn't run away."

"Roger that." Ozax then follow the young man that heading toward the inn.

Seeing this Bolrow let out a sigh of relieve. But then, the village chief ask him something. "Good sir, I have a request, can I borrow the device that you use to show master Kilgo's sketch."

Hearing this, Bolrow let out small laugh and give the village chief his smartphone. The village chief then began to analyze the smartphone. "What is this device able to do, if you don't mind me ask my good sir?"

"Not at all. It can be used to send massage and make a long distance comunication like the mana com to a simmilar device. It can also do simple to semi advance calculation. Take a picture, and.."

"Excuse me, what is a picture." A small child suddenly interject and ask Bolrow a question.

Seeing this, Bolrow smiled at the child. "Let me show you." Bolrow then take his subordinate smartphone and take a picture of the boy. He then show him the result.

"Incredible! With this, the information of many thing can be share to others with a perfect details! A person, animals, even landscapes! Sometimes, describing something to others is hard. But with this, one only need to take this so called picture and then showed it to others!"

The little boy quick deduction baffled Bolrow. He quickly back on his feet and began to process what happen in shock. He came to a realization short after, all the people in this village have one thing in common. They possess a large amount of curiosity. One thing he know, many people with large curiosity like this one, are researchers and scientists. He let out a question while scaning the village inhabitant. "What is this village."

The village chief then return Bolrow's phone while laughing. "Hohoho. This village has no name, but some called it, 'The village of schoolars'. As you can see, all of us here are of the same race, the sheep horn race. We are famous for our lump of curiosity and sky piercing knowledge. Many of us were top researchers of many kingdoms."

Bolrow catch the past tense that the chief use. "Were? What happen?"

"Before that, the sun is almost down, please follow me to my house. Although it's small, please help yourself."

The chief then bring Bolrow to her house. Inside, there are the chief, few of the villagers and Bolrow. The chief held her head down and began to told Bolrow their story. "As I say before, many of us were top researchers of all kingdom of this continent. That is until one of us manage to create that thing. The combat golem. At the 8th year of war, it is almost certain that the war will be over soon, that is until miss Henae created the first golem. Giant armor that can't be pierced by normal bullet, paired with large weapon that can immobilized magic wagon with just few shot, truly a devastating duo. That woman creation is one of the main reason that prolong this war. We are heart broken learning that. That's why many of us decided to quit and go here to wait for this whole war to be over. This village have no geological, military, nor political advantage so none will come to bother us here. Master Kilgo is the only one that agree to come here to sell us provisions and bring us news."

"So all of you just hide here? Closing your eyes and wish that the war can just end?"

"We will only bring more harm than good if we took part in this war. At first, the golem only exist in Windel kingdom. But it's not long for other kingdoms to acquire the golem's blueprint and began to produce those killing machine themself." The chief then look at the man standing beside her. "Hatros here, he manage to strengthen the golem's armor, making it harder to kill the pilot inside. But then Dios, the man behind Hatros there, he manage to increase the penetration power of the golem's gun, making Hatros' upgrade obsolete in just few months. And then another one of us upgraded the golem, and then again and again and again, until I thought that this must not go on. I began to reach out to my fellow researchers and told them about my plan to build ourself a sanctuary. Now as you can see, many of them agree to it and that's how this village came to be."

"But then what? What do you wish to accomplish by doing this? From what I can see, all of you doing is just washing your 100% clean hands. It is not your fault that this war is happening, it is not your fault that those golem were used as killing tools. The ones that are at fault is one man, Damian Windelmark. My king once said, 'For two kingdom to settle a difference, you have 3 main moves; first is diplomacy move. If that doesn't work use behind the scene move. If nothing else work, then you use military move.' king Damian chose the military option for no good reason as his first move, forcing other kingdoms to responded in kind."

"Alas, if only the combat golems were not created, many would still be alive to see tomorrow."

"...Let me tell you a story. There is once a great general that was killed by his own king. I can't exactly blame the king, because that great general is trying to assassinate him."

The chief got curious and ask Bolrow to continue his story.

"At first, the great general like many of the people of that kingdom believe that a war that his king start is a just one. To unite all kingdoms under the banner of his own. But what the great general doesn't know, his king also said this. 'All people deemed 'imperfect or unwanted' will be disposed of.' From a child born with less finger to a man that will gradually loss his hearing or sight were being sent to a camp to become a force labor and left to die slowly. The great general were not aware about this because he was in the front line. That is until he lost one of his hand and eye in a battle. Because of his condition, he was sent back to the capital, where he then learned about the horror that his king made. To stop his king he began to search for same minded people and ploting to assassinate his king. But alas his king manage to survive the assassination and the great general got executed instead. At the end, when faced with dead he scream 'Long live our sacred kingdom'." What Bolrow just told to the chief and others were the story of Claus von Stauffenberg. The man that tried but failed to assassinate Hitler.

After Bolrow finish his story the chief ask Bolrow. "What do you wish from us? Like this great general, do you wish us to kill Damian Windelmark?"

Bolrow then nod. "If the option of stoping him does not exist, then yes. But instead, all of you just quit and hide." Bolrow shake his head and began to stand up. "By the way I have news for you. This war is a joke 30 years in the making. Damian Windelmark began this war just to steal Queen Elza." Many were shocked hearing that information.

"Aztec leader we got Kilgo in costudy. He came quitely with no problem. How copy?"

"Good copy, all unit we are moving out." Bolrow look at the chief, and then handed her a satelite phone and a piece of paper. "If you have something that may helped us quickly stop this war, call me using this phone. This is my number. Goodbye to all of you, I hope we meet again in more peaceful time." Bolrow and his men then exit the chief's house and enter the helicopter that has Kilgo inside.

Bolrow looks at Kilgo and then put a headset on him. "You Kilgo?" Kilgo then nod at Bolrow's question. "Let me be clear, you're not in trouble. We only ask you to come with us back to Lervi and provide some information. Understand?" Kilgo nod once more.

Unlike the previous event, the journey back to Lervi is safe and sound.