Learning New Things 4

In addition, other things were happening in the villages, after that day the lions appeared in the river and Jack saved the women from the villages, the village leaders pressured by the hunters had to send men from their villages to the river to protect the women.

The hunters were too busy to do this and so the villages had to take turns and send out some armed men every day to protect the women in the villages, these men were not coaches, but they carried shields and swords which was enough to protect women and scare the animals.

But after what happened the hunters who were in the villages that were closer to the forests started to notice an increase in the number of animals attacking the hunters, and a common pattern was noticed, the animals were always very thin and looked hungry just like the 3 lions that attacked Jack.

This increased a lot until a hunter died after he and another hunter were attacked by 3 lions, they were attacked in an area considered safe and were inattentive, one of the hunters managed to climb a tree and escape.

But the other hunter slipped while trying to climb the tree and was eaten by the lions with the other hunter killing the lions after having managed to climb the tree with his bow, after that he returned to the village taking only the dead hunter's weapons and clothes to his family.

After that everyone realized that something strange was happening and realized that it was an emergency situation for the villages, so the village leaders got together and also called on all the village hunters to participate in this meeting.

Mark and Ron naturally took Jack to this meeting because Jack was already better than many other hunters in sword fighting and survival skills in the forest, Sam already knew that Jack was training and he had no right to comment on who Mark and Ron wanted to teach.

The leaders of the other villages didn't care much when they saw Jack, but all hunters in the other villages knew Jack, who was the son of the best blacksmith that all hunters have ever bought Weapons from.

The hunters of the villages where the women were saved by Jack looked at him with hatred and not with gratitude, they forgot that Jack almost sacrificed himself to protect the women in their villages which was their obligation and just cared that because of that situation with Jack they couldn't buy from the best blacksmith in every village in the region.

Naturally, they were smart and realized that Jack was in hunter's clothes even though his armor and weapons were of better quality than many hunters, only Mark and Ron and the most skilled hunters had better armor than Jack.

So in addition to the hatred, they felt jealous of Jack who was the blacksmith's son and for that reason had access to quality armor and weapons, these hunters spoke the situation to the leaders of their villages so that they would not make any mistakes.

"Welcome to all hunters and leaders of the other villages, I asked for this meeting to be held because I think we are in an emergency situation, as you know I am the leader of the first village that is closest to the forest."

"And yesterday one of the hunters in my village Raphael's friend here who is the other hunter in my village died being attacked by three lions, these lions were similar to the lions that attacked the women in the river a few months ago."

"They looked like hungry lions and were very thin and talking to the leaders of the other villages it seems that the hunters said that in the last few months they have been more attacked and find more animals that look hungry too."

Jack and others who were not sure about the situation were a little surprised to hear this, if what Ethan said was true, then this was an abnormal situation that could put the hunters' lives at risk.

After that Ethan spoke a little more about what he knew had changed since his village was closer to the forest, as Raphael and the other hunter were close to the forest they had to hunt more often to ensure the safety of the villagers, so Ethan told Raphael to tell what happened to the other hunter.

"It was an accident, my friend and I saw the lions coming and we tried to climb the tree, we did it hundreds of times, I went up first, but my friend was tired because we had to hunt a lot in the last few weeks, so he slipped on the tree and I didn't have time to kill the lions on my own and save him."

Jack felt it was a pity that an experienced hunter died from an accident, but he could understand that the abnormal situation caused that accident by making that hunter more careless than usual.

But the other hunters did not think so, a hunter had an obligation to know how to protect himself and to always be careful that accidents like this did not happen, that is why Raphael was still alive even though the other hunter had died since the two were in the same situation. stress and tiredness.

After that, the leaders continued to talk and the hunters in the other villages also said that the situation was abnormal, but after the sixth village, the hunters did not notice this problem because their village was very far from the forest they did not have to worry about it.

In Jack's village, it was different because Mark and Ron had made a cabin near the forest for them to hunt quite normally, but as they were trained Jack and with him helping them on the hunt they did not notice much difficulty.

During the meeting, the hunters from the other villages tried several times to provoke Jack by talking about them not being able to buy new weapons and armor or to do maintenance because they could not go to Tim's workshop anymore.

The hunters also commented on Jack's incompetence as a hunter if he needed several hunters from other villages to save him from three lions, but Jack was smarter than other young men and did not care for the taunts and just ignored these hunters.

Sam didn't bother to defend Jack and Mark and Ron realized that Jack didn't care and decided to let this matter be forgotten with the villages in a possible crisis, but Jack would guarantee that he would not ask his father to sell to these ignorant hunters again.