"How is it?" asked Prime Garil as he took me to the usual hall to show the finished products.
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They are doing an amazing job. They are fast, and the quality is better than I had thought they would be. It is truly impressive that I decided to forge more pieces than I had decided.
"As always, you and your team are doing an amazing job," I replied as I began to check one product after another.
Forging and enchanting, both of them done well; their skills are better than mine. If not for some needing a special touch, I would have given them all pieces to forge.
It would have freed a lot of my time.
I am happy that I do not. Forging pieces myself has been an oddly calming experience.
Twenty minutes later, I turned to the man.
"Do you have any doubts about the pieces you are working on?" I asked. To that, he shook his head. "No, the information you had provided didn’t leave any space for doubt," he replied.
Hearing that, a smile couldn’t help but appear on my face.
I was about to say something to him when both of our expressions changed.
"It seemed like they had finally found out," he said, and we walked out of the forge and toward the gate, where we saw three people.
The first one is a man in his early thirties. He is stone skin, with the fiery amber skin.
He is Mikal Banas. The most dangerous man in the realm.
To his left is a beastwoman of the Frost Horn Beastman tribe. She looked to be around sixteen years old and very beautiful, the better word would be cute.
On the right of the stone skin is an old half-elf who looked to be in his late seventies, with a kind expression on his face.
All three of them are cultists, and the most dangerous of them all.
"Your sources have become slow, Banas. It had taken you over three months," said Prime Karamiv as she appeared in front of them.
The amber stone’s skin man smiled, hearing that. "My sources are fine, Karamiv; I have just been careful."
"I don’t want to fall into the trap, like the last time," replied the man.
These people used to live in the village; they lived here for centuries. People are still in contact with them, providing them with valuable information about what is happening in the village.
There are even some cultists among them. It’s very hard to catch the cultist.
Especially in a place , where I need to be very careful about every move I make. Another thing is, the realm is small with few people.
It is easy to find cultists when they are actively hunting. Those signs are easy to find in them.
Here, people were limited and didn’t have the chance to hunt for centuries. At such a time, they hide the proof in their bodies, making it hard to discover them even for me.
"So, is true? You have found someone who could take us out of this damn prison?" he asked.
Though a moment later. His eyes moved around the village before stopping on me. They didn’t ask me to hide. Since the whole village knows, hiding wouldn’t have made any difference.
I met his eye and he grinned, while I shuddered in my heart. I could feel the power; he is as strong as Karamiv.
It is why they have never been able to kill him.
"Yes, this is the design," replied Prime Karamiv and sent the crystal toward him. He took the crystal, but his eyes didn’t move.
We need their help; that is why they decided to come openly.
They have things we need. The village may have a large collection, but there are many things we need that we don’t have.
These people have them. They live outside, which is more dangerous, but they also explore the realm far more than we do and have a lot of rare things.
We could make do without them, but it wouldn’t be strong without their help.
Not to mention, we didn’t take them with us; they could stop us from leaving. They are powerful enough to do that; that is another reason we have to work with them.
If we are able to leave successfully, then we will be adding more cultists to the world.
The dangerous kind, because once they leave. These people are going to advance rapidly and not just in the Prime stage. Seeing that they already have the most important component to advance to all levels, including Silver Primes.
Like the primes of the village, their comprehension of laws had reached high levels.
They wouldn’t have any problem advancing fast.
I don’t want to do this; I hate cultists to my core and have been part of the organisation that hunts them actively, but I will need to do it to escape from this realm.
"I want the truce until we finish with it," said Prime Karamiv, but the man laughed.
"Not so easy, Karamiv. First, let me study the design," replied the man. He might be a cultist, but he is the best runemaster in the village, also an artificer and alchemist.
He had assisted Prime Hamit in the original design. Some of the parts had come from him.
Prime Karamiv didn’t say anything, just kept looking at him.
"Fine, since I came. I will not leave without giving something," he said, and the next moment, metals, stones, crystals, and other types of resources appeared in front of him and moved toward Prime Karamiv.
"This is the first batch. I will give you rest after I study these designs," added the man and turned, before flying away.
A few seconds later, even our soul sense couldn’t find them.
"He left. God. I feel so scared whenever he comes," said Prime Garil. It’s clear by his face that he is scared, nearly everyone in the village, that’s how dangerous that man is.