[Bonus chapter]More Demands!

Once William was assured that they had gone, he sighed as he felt bad for them but instead of taking his horse towards the town center as he had told them, he walked towards the woods on the other side.

"Clop clop!" 

The tapping sound of the hives echoed in the dark woods. Though the sky was clear, the woods were so dense that the rays of the sun hardly passed by.

Though it would feel like he was riding the horse randomly for fun, but after riding from the same place a few times, he changed his way and crossed the deeper woods only to stand in front of a dark oak tree. 

But he did not climb off his horse as if he was only looking at the scenery for a moment.

"You dodged the knight well, your highness! I would not have been able to follow you this way!" the old man with a big cloak over his head came out of the dark and chuckled.