Chapter Twenty-Seven
[April Roy's(Black Rose) POV]
Before we could get too far we spotted something in the distance, a wooden wall...
"What is that?" One of the five other girls asked.
"It appears to be some kind of village..." One of the girls among the group said.
"A Village?" I asked.
Villages were extremely rare in the intergalactic age that we live in and any villages have transformed into small towns with modern structures...and yet this village is so outdated that they built everything out of wood and thatch...
"Maybe they are uncivilized? Like the primal worlds?" Eve, my sister, asked us.
"Uncivilized?" I asked baffled.
"Don't forget this is a game, anything is possible in the Game Worlds," Boss informed us.
Right...these are games...
When I look at the ocean that surrounded the island and the flying dinosaurs above the forests I can't help but think these are real worlds...
Not to mention the realistic feeling of sense.
The pain doesn't feel fake and the sand beneath my feet doesn't feel like it's not real...
Sigh..."Okay, let's get closer, maybe its an abandoned village?" I told my friends and sisters with a smile.
We carefully walked up to the village and just before we could peek over the wall a yell startled us.
"Halt! Who goes there?!" a deep voice shouted from behind us.
We slowly turned our heads to look behind us and we were surprised to find 15 men wearing hide clothes with iron pikes in their hands pointed at us.
Some of the men even had bows aimed at us.
"Uh...sir's we don't mean any trouble! We are just passing through!" I tried to convince them.
"Oh? Passing through, is it? What does looking inside our village have to do with passing though?" the largest man asked with slight anger in his voice.
"Wait for a second...are you new Survivors?" the large man asked surprised.
"If you mean did we just wake up on the beach naked, then yes, is that unusual?" I asked the large man.
"Of course it's unusual! New survivors only appear every 30 days! The fact that you girls all appeared recently is unusual!" The large man informed us.
"Come into the village, we will continue our talk in there, it's too dangerous to stay out in the open," the large man told us while looking at our surroundings for signs of trouble.
We followed the man into the village and found that there were at least 30 men and women located in this village. [A/N: 60 People live in this village]
The 15 men that found us were the hunters of the village that hunted down the dinosaurs that littered the beach and Forrest.
While we were walking through the village I couldn't help but ask "Why were you so worried about standing out in the open? The Dinosaurs don't use range attacks right?"
He glanced at me and told me "The dinosaurs are the least of our worries."
"What could be worse than the Dinosaurs?" I asked confused.
"Our fellow survivors that have turned to banditry, murder, rape, cannibalism, these kinds of people have formed multiple bandit villages around the entire island like the Bloody Wolves to the north and the Starving Animals in the Redwoods," he informed me.
"I will warn you now, if you get captured by the bandits, kill yourself. Because if you do not your fate will be far worse than death," he told us with a grim expression.
I stayed silent and followed him to his wooden house in the village.
He welcomed us inside where we found a simple bed, table, and a few chairs.
"You can all sit down, I will try to answer any questions you have about the Island," he told us as he pointed towards the wooden chairs.
I sat down on a chair and asked "How long have you been on the island?"
"I have been on the island for a decade," he told us.
"Wha..." we said in shock.
"That's right I am one of the few on this island above level 50 still alive," he told us with a serious expression.
"Why is everyone around level 20?" Sofia asked.
"That's because they are afraid," he told us.
"Afraid?" I asked.
"Afraid of death, bandits, and the horrors of the Island," he explained.
'They are afraid of death? Does that mean they cannot respawn like us players?' I thought to myself.
"Who is the highest level on the island?" Alice asked.
"The highest level person is around level 80 and he is the chieftain of the Iron Fortress," he informed us.
"Iron Fortress?" I asked.
"That's right. The Iron Fortress is the largest settlement on the island and they are located to the north. They are equipped with metal armor, guns, even dinosaurs like rexes, they are the most dangerous and advanced tribe on the island." he explained.
"Can you tell us more about the island?" I asked
"Sure, there is no way to leave the island..." he said before being interrupted by me.
"No way to leave the island? Why not just build a boat?" I asked confused.
"We have built boats before an attempt to escape the island but weird glowing barriers surround the island and even the survivors that have tamed the flying dinosaurs claim that there is a barrier in the sky above the island as well...essentially there is no way to leave the island."
"What about the floating pillars in the sky?" I asked.
"The Obelisks? What about them?" he asked confused.
"What's their use? What purpose do they serve on the island?" I asked.
"We don't know, just served as markers on the island, and underneath the obelisks are platforms with buttons on them," he told us.
"Oh yea, we also found Notes from the survivors from before our arrival on the Island," he told us.
"Survivor Notes? What do they say?" I asked.
"No one knows, they are scattered everywhere and no one has gathered them all together to find out what they mean, but what we have discovered is the authors of the Survivor Notes, one of the Authors is named Helena, Mei Yin, Nerva, and Rockwell," he informed us.
Before I could ask him another question we suddenly heard some shouting outside the hut.
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