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The next morning, visitors arrived. Not vampires. Villagers. Word had somehow spread about the debt. People brought gifts. Food. Coins. Medicine. Whatever they could spare. The kindness moved Elara deeply. But even after counting everything, the total barely made a difference. The debt remained impossible. As evening approached, another visitor appeared. A single rider dressed entirely in black. The moment he entered the village, silence followed him. Fear followed him. The man rode directly toward the apothecary. By the time he stopped, villagers had already retreated indoors.

She shivered and looked away. As they turned down another street, the entire block was filled with blacksmiths. Everywhere flew anvils and hammers, and the ping of metal rang throughout the street, each blacksmith seeming to echo the other. There were also clay pits with large flames roasting slabs of red-hot metal, on which they were forging horseshoes, swords, and all sorts of metal work. Caitlin noticed the faces of children, black with soot, sitting by their father’s sides, watching them work. She felt badly that the children worked at such a young age. Caitlin looked everywhere for a sign of Scarlet, of her Dad, of any clue of why they were here—but she found none.

And she didn't tell her friends that she had brought the gun from her father. "Why is the village name Blackhound?" Isabella asked the old woman while paying attention to her villagers. Astonishingly, they all stood in the same posture with their hands behind their backs and their heads down. "Ha, that's a long story. In short, having risen from the ashes," replied the old woman and brought silence into the atmosphere. The three of them had no words to ask for more because the old lady's words sounded real as if they had happened.

CHAPTER 158 ~3RD PERSON'S POV~ “Have you ever heard about the blacksmith?” Clarabelle asked. "No, I haven't, my queen,” the UNKNOWN replied. Clarabelle shut her eyes and said, “The blacksmith is a legend among the mortals. Some of them actually believe he exists, and some of them believe he's just a myth. They say the blacksmith lives in the deepest, blackest depths of Mystic Meadow and enternaly hammers a glowing piece of metal, waiting for the day he can take revenge on the ones who hurt him.

The village was quiet, and the person guarding the entrance of the village was dozing off, so she successfully sprinkled the powder into the well. By the next morning, the people in the village woke up and drank water. An hour later, they would have an attack. After leaving Butteriron Village, Zoey arrived at Blackmere Village. To her surprise, Blackmere Village was brightly lit, seemingly filled with a joyful atmosphere. She hid behind the tree, observing the situation inside. There was singing and dancing inside, as if celebrating some kind of ceremony. Zoey suddenly had a bad guess in her mind. Are you suggesting that we held a wedding?

“The child will have seen half the winter pass before it comes into the world. Who is the man on the road?” “there is no man on the road,” I replied. My fingers, trembling slightly, began again to rub the same spot on the pewter plate with the damp rag, the metal groaning beneath the pressure. “the people of this village have long memories for folks who appear from out of the timber with nothing to record them,” he said. “They like a ledgers and wedding bands,.” “I will bear what the people say,” I answered him, my teeth snapping shut, my eyes fixed on the pewter platter. He lingered for a moment by the door, his cloak stirring in the damp air as he stared at the wet floorboards. Then he lef

Corvu nods at me, I suppose trying to reassure me it was okay to follow him, then grabs the reins on the horses to walk them. The village was different, to say the least. It seemed everything here was built with the aid of nature. Even the blacksmith we passed used an open hut and a firepit. Children seemed abundant here but the main thing I noticed above all else...they were all human. Gecko didn’t seem to mind but Corvu’s ears hang low. Was that an indicator of him feeling uneasy? Or sad? I can’t tell. Gharp leads us to a small wooden house that is attached to another one. He opens the basic wood door with broken panelling and holes and lets us inside.

He stared out into the valley, his eyes widening. Below them, tucked into the foothills, was a village. But it wasn't the peaceful settlement they had hoped for. The houses were leaning at impossible angles, the roofs sagging as if the very foundations were being pulled down by gravity. The trees surrounding the village were black, withered, and leafless, their branches curled like skeletal fingers reaching for the sky. "That's the village," Arung said, his voice dropping to a hollow tone. "The settlement at the edge of the mist."

(Eliza's POV) I stared at the blacksmith, surprised by his eager recognition. His professional demeanor had vanished. "Your designs," he explained, pointing to a workbench. "I've been waiting for more. The dual-purpose dagger blueprint was extraordinary." Relief washed over me. For a moment, I'd feared he recognized me from somewhere else. "I hadn't realized my design was so impressive," I said, maintaining my male disguise. The blacksmith's eyes lit up. "In thirty years of smithing, I've rarely seen such innovative work. My master was particularly intrigued."

My village community was small, with only around two thousand people, and we were what outsiders considered old-fashioned and self-sufficient, which meant that everyone worked, regardless of age but like all old-style villages the men had their place and so did the women, we all travelled by horse, horse, and cart, or on foot. We have the fundamental stores that any country town has or requires in the village’s main centre, including a seamstress for our clothes, a butcher, a bakery, and a market for all the fresh fruit, vegetables, dairy, and any food for the village’s animals. In addition, we have a small school, a blacksmith, and a healer. The blacksmith and the healer are the only ones w