Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent!

With Boss Kang and the rest of the bandits dealt with, Alex and Mira turned their attention to the five farmers who still stood there bewildered at what they were seeing.

"Are you guys alright?" asked Alex, with a gentle smile on his face.

He probably seemed more like a psychopath to the five farmers though.

The quick switch up from deadpan, cold hearted to friendly and approachable was far too fast for his mindset to be normal.

But that was how most awakened were in this day and age.

The concept of psychopaths had long been lost to time after the advent of the Primordial Expanse.

"Yes! They were just in the process of stealing our produce before you… um… cleared the roadblock with your head…"

"..."

"..."

It was almost like an old cartoon scene, with nothing but the wind and an old bush rolling along the ground to signify the awkwardness of the atmosphere after the youngest of the five spoke out first.

"Well, we're happy to have helped."

Mira entered the conversation from the side, ending the somewhat tense silence between them.

"By the way, you wouldn't happen to know where we are right now?"

She continued to speak, breaking the ice between them by asking something that they would most definitely be able to answer.

"Sure! We're in the Evergreen forest right now, and we're headed to Tenebrus city right now. If you follow the same direction you were already going before you planted your face in the tree, you'd reach it in about 100 kilometres."

The oldest and strongest of the five answered this time.

Though, the way he mentioned Alex's entrance once again sounded off to him.

Alex couldn't help but feel his eye twitch.

'I feel like they're doing it on purpose at this point…'

But he held it together.

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"Wait, did you say 'city'?"

But then Alex recalled what he said before mentioning his crash.

'Tenebrus city, surely that means what I think it means right!?'

Alex was almost praying at this point that his feeling was correct.

"That's right! Tenebrus city is actually the largest city throughout the whole of the Evergreen forest. It's said you can find anything and everything there, as long as you know where to look."

"YES!"

This was exactly what Alex was wanting to hear.

He wanted somewhere where he could find information on the beasts in this place.

Hearing that Tenebrus city was somewhere you could find 'anything and everything' was just the icing on top.

Such a place had to be a treasure trove of information that he and Mira could take advantage of.

He doubted he'd be able to find a B+ rank Variant class beast on his own any time soon, so this was a huge help.

"By the way, where are you folks from, if you don't mind me asking? This is the first time I've met such strong adventurers since I started trading this route 10 years ago."

The D+ rank lead driver spoke up, wanting to answer some of his own curiosity this time.

Alex wasn't sure whether to answer that.

While Mira just threw aside any sort of caution and answered directly.

"We're outsiders, we just made it to this forest after spending weeks in that barren wasteland…"

She told them the truth, since there was really no harm in doing so.

"You guys came from the forbidden lands…"

But it seemed the five of them were more shocked and horrified by the fact that they had come from the floating islands rather than the fact that they were outsiders.

"What's so forbidden about that place? It seemed more like an empty, boring ass place to me."

Alex was genuinely confused by their shock and fear.

Nothing about the previous three weeks he had spent trying to find Mira had indicated that those islands, or even the surface below, were 'forbidden' in some way.

'Perhaps they are mistaking the place we were in for somewhere else?'

This was the only reasonable explanation he could come up with.

Either that, or he must have just been paying zero attention during his time over the last 3 weeks.

"You don't know about the forbidden lands?... Just where did you guys come from?"

This question confused both Alex and Mira a lot.

Didn't they just tell them where they came from?

"We're outsiders, like we already said?"

They tried reminding them, but this basically got them nowhere.

"Outsiders?"

"Like from beyond the forbidden lands?"

'...'

'...'

Alex and Mira just looked at each other in astonishment.

'These guys don't know about outsiders? Just how backwater is this place!?'

'Perhaps this Tenebrus city won't be as good as I was hoping after all…'

Their minds turned to different things, but the conclusion was basically the same.

These guys somehow didn't know about outsiders like them, from the outside universe.

How that was the case, the duo had no clue.

But they thought it better not to ask at this point.

It might bring them unnecessary trouble, which quite frankly they were not in the mood to face since their whole thing of being in the Primordial Expanse at the moment was trouble in and of itself.

"We'll be on our way then. Thanks for the help."

They made their exit soon after this.

It was better to leave them earlier after finding out they were clueless about people like them.

And with their speed, it barely even took them a few minutes before they reached Tenebrus city.

"That farmer wasn't exaggerating… This place really is massive…"

The farmer kid said that Tenebrus city was the biggest in the entirety of the Evergreen forest.

Alex didn't know the overall size of this place, but he knew that since it was the Primordial Expanse, it had to be pretty fucking huge.

He was only looking at the front gate of the city, but he could tell that it lived up to the reputation the farmers had spewed about it.

The walls were easily nearly 500 metres tall, and they wrapped around the entire city!

They were taller than a large majority of the trees in the Evergreen forest!

It was clear that this place took their security very seriously.

But Alex was also more excited after seeing the extreme security surrounding the city.

For them to invest so much in their security, there had to exist something capable of posing such a threat to the place!