Dark Games

62. Mo Chui and His Small Village

The view of the border region of Zein Kingdom was enough to make Reynal surprised, the rebellion had spread and occurred in most parts of the kingdom. Reynal chose to walk away and hide most of the power he had.

Swordsman or knights who saw it would only see Reynal's level of strength being at the Moon level of the Seven layer. The stronger the radiance of power that was released then the more attention everyone drew to him.

Reynal arrived at a small village, the village gate was tightly closed as if he did not want to receive any guests. Intrigued by Reynal's push through the village gate, the door opened but he found several adult men staring at him with knives, swords, sticks and all sorts of things that could be used for weapons.

Reynal raised his hand, trying to tell them that he had no malicious intent. “ Who are you?”

“I'm Reynal, a small traveller trying to escape the chaos” said Reynal lying

A man who had a large body came forward to check on Reynal's luggage and found nothing that he thought was suspicious. After examining Reynal, the man looked out the village gate to make sure no one else was following him.

“Alright please go to” said an old man after asking for approval of a large-bodied man.

“Thanks” Reynal was finally able to be free from the accusations, he was then ushered by a large-bodied man and the old man.

“Include my name Mo Chui, I am the village chief here and he is the village security chief. You can call him commander” Mo pointed towards the big-bodied man, Reynal smiled and welcomed their introduction.

“Then can you know what purpose you came here for?” Mo asked

“I searched for a nearby inn from here and it happened to be this closest village that seemed to be spared the rebellion” Reynal explanation immediately made the faces of the two turn sad.

“Indeed here to avoid chaos or bloodshed but it was worse” Mo then explained about the problems that befell his village.

Since three years ago there has always been a drought or disaster in the village, since then the economy of the villagers began to weaken. Plus the rise of the rebels who forced them to pay taxes so that the village was spared from war and chaos.

Chairman Mo and several village administrators along with the village security have tried to fight the rebels who are asking for taxes. But they were no match for the rebels, many of the village guards died making the village even more helpless to resist.

The longer the villagers got more and more troubled, some of the old men and youths died from a very long famine. Chairman Mo has been trying to negotiate with the rebels but what they have got is their tax rate doubling.

“This year they are again raising taxes so we have to hold hunger for a week and have to work to get money” Mo looks very sad, he stared at the state of his village which is getting worse and worse.

“They are cruel, why don't you guys try to complain about this problem to the kingdom?” Reynal felt the matter was huge, fortunately he visited. According to him, this problem was caused by Hell Memoth, their evil increasingly violent made Reynal even more resentful.

“We have tried several times to bring this matter to the kingdom but it seems that the royal side did not take action or assume that this village is something that is not important to them”

“I know, our sales are not much but we never ask anything to the kingdom and always obedient to pay tax”

“Sorry, we do not mean to.” village chief Mo stopped his remarks, he tried to erase his sadness and tried to smile.

“Hahaha it is not good to talk about this to the guest” Commander understands the actions of the village chief, he then shows Reynal the inn located at the back of the village.

“Alright, thank you” Reynal bowed respectfully to village chief Mo and Commander. Then give some bags containing hundreds of gold coins to the two.

“Take this and share it with all villagers” said Reynal while closing the door of his inn, refusing to hear the rejection from Mo and Commander.

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**Hello,,, the author wishes you a happy new year 2020...

hopefully in the next year we can be even better than before, being people who believe in God and always try to benefit the crowd....

The Happy New Year**