Chapter 222: Entering The Country Through The Checkpoint
Chapter 222: Entering The Country Through The Checkpoint
The checkpoint’s construction was no different from the one on the Wargenburg’s side, but the soldiers stationed here, though were not so different from humans at first glance, all had triangular animal ears wiggling on their un-helmeted heads and tails of various patterns and length swinging from their waists.
The soldier who seemed to be in command of these soldiers appeared to be of rather high rank and was wearing a set of magnificent armor, but looked like a beast walking upright. Loren thought that they were probably from the primitive tribe, but this was the first time he had ever seen a beastman having beast features on their whole body like this. He had almost no memory of seeing beastmen on the battlefield when he was a mercenary, and even if he did, he only vaguely remembered only those with beast parts here and there on the body of an ordinary person.
“It looks like this barrier is under the jurisdiction of the Cat-men.”
Lapis, who was looking out the same window as Loren was, explained this to him.
“Are they different from beastmen?”
“No, they are generally classified as beastmen, but if we divide them into clans, as I mentioned earlier, then these are Cat-men.”
“Does that mean there are many others?”
“Yes, there are the Dog-men, the Rabbit-men, the Fox-men, the Rat-men, and so on.”
“I guess it was good to know that there isn’t enough going on to spread the word, though, right?”
“That’s one way to look at it.”
If this was some kind of a major event, it would be strange if the information wasn’t widely spread. In Klaus’ view, it was likely that what was happening in Karlovy was something that was limited to one city and had little impact on the rest of the country. The thinking made sense, and it made Loren reconsider his opinion about Klaus a bit. But limited to a city or not, they were headed for that city, which meant that they were going to be confronted with something they were not going to be able to get any information about.
“I come for vacation, not for troubles.”
Loren shook his head, his shoulders slumped in disappointment. He just wanted a vacation without doing any work, and he couldn’t even have that. There must be a limit to his bad luck, mustn’t it?