Being In Debt

"Finally, everyone seemed to calm down," Alaric muttered under his breath as he observed the island with the help of his shadow sense, a basic technique he had been practicing.

Due to the attack from the monsters, there was a wave of panic going around the island. They weren't panicked because they were afraid of fighting the monsters... no... that couldn't be the case.

After all, all of them had seen and survived the second quest, becoming something more than capable of facing and fighting a wave of monsters.

The real reason they were panicked was that the attack had happened in a truly untimely manner. First of all, all of their best warriors were out of the village.

Second, and most importantly, they weren't expecting something like this to happen.

After experiencing the power and care of their lord, they had somewhat relaxed. Relaxed to the point that they... they began to get careless.