Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent! - Chapter 87

Chapter 87: Wandering warrior
The guard who was speaking looked hesitant to approach Alex.

“I’m just a wandering warrior hoping to enter the town to get some rest and recuperate after my tiring journey! There’s no need to worry, I’ll follow the laws of your town.” Alex gave a slight smile, continuing his facade of being a nomad warrior.

Hearing Alex’s words, the two guards eased up but were still a little weary..

But the fact that he was a completely unknown warrior made his situation a little more complicated.

“You can enter the town, but you have to leave any weapons with us before you enter. You can collect them again when you wish to leave.” The first guard spoke again, his mouth curling up into a smile.

“But first we have to confirm that you’re not a fugitive.” Clearly, this was what the guards were after from the beginning, as their faces changed to snide smiles while they kept their swords trained on Alex.

They released their F rank aura to deter Alex from making any rash decisions.

Of course they didn’t buy Alex’s story of being a nomadic warrior! Any random person could make such a story up on the spot, and the fact that he wasn’t wearing any armor didn’t match up to his story either.

How could a warrior venture out without any armor? Of course it was because he wasn’t a warrior in the first place.

But Alex shrugged and pointed to his hips.

“I don’t have any weapons on me.” Alex grinned, holding his hands in the air as if he was cooperating.

In front of Alex, the actions of these guards seemed like child’s play. He knew they were probably just following procedure, but something about the way they acted seemed off.

Their curved smiles revealed they weren’t up to any good, and Alex could even sense a faint malicious intent in the aura they were giving off.

‘This guy is easy pickings! If he really turns out to be a fugitive, we can collect the bounty money! Even if he isn’t, we can still take his money, as a ‘toll’ to enter the town!’

Alex walked in front of the two guards, who had their swords trained on him the whole time, as they made their way over to the guard’s barracks near the outskirts of the town.

He wasn’t aware of the things they were planning behind him, but he would laugh at their pathetic attempts to gain a quick buck if he knew.

He was as poor as anyone could get in these parts!

He didn’t have a single coin to his name, nor did he have anything of value on him that the guards could steal and sell off for any meaningful profit.

The only thing of value he had on him was his clothes, which were just the standard getup he had received from at the start of his University entrance exam.

But if the guards tried anything funny with his clothes, he wouldn’t hold back anymore…

Soon, the trio reached the barracks and entered through the front doors. They garnered a few curious and interested looks from the other guards inside, but when they saw the two guys behind Alex holding their swords to his back, they just smiled mischievously and went back to their business.

Stuff like this happened all the time in these parts, and there wasn’t a single guard who wasn’t in on it.

‘Tsk. Looks like Marco and Brune got lucky on their shift today, this guy doesn’t look like the typical beggar that comes through these parts.’

Soon enough, Alex was brought to a huge wall, filled to the brim with wanted posters, all with a sketch of the wanted person attached to them.

“Wait here while we check your face against each of these.” One of the guards spoke in a dismissive tone, as if he no longer had to hide his intentions anymore now that he was in the barracks.

Alex waited for over 20 minutes while the guards inspected each wanted poster closely against Alex’s face, but nothing turned up.

Alex just scoffed at them.

‘You’re not going to find any records of me in this place you idiots!’

How could there be any records of Alex’s existence down in this place when this was his first time visiting? But the guards couldn’t know that, nor could they verify it.

Finally, after another 10 minutes of no luck with the posters, the guards gave up looking and instead turned their attention back to Alex.

“Looks like you aren’t a fugitive after all. You’re free to go once you pay the toll to enter the town.” The guards put on arrogant faces as they stood in front of Alex.

Their weapons were no longer trained on him but they towered over him in terms of height, not to mention they still didn’t believe he was a warrior. They thought he was just another human like everyone else.

Alex chuckled, and opened his mouth to speak.

“Haha, I’m afraid I’m all out of money, as you can see.” Alex turned each of his pockets and indeed, there was nothing to be seen at all apart from some lint and dirt.

Seeing this, the guards frowned.

They hadn’t expected this, from what they had initially observed, Alex was clearly more educated than the average beggar, and although his clothes were dirty, they were still of high quality. Anyone would look this dirty after days or weeks of travel without being able to properly travel. Clothes like those were hard to find in parts like this.

As they thought about what to do, one of the guard’s faces lit up like he had an idea.

“Well since you don’t have any money, how about you exchange your cloth-” He started to voice his ‘reasonable’ compromise to Alex and the other guard, but he was cut off before he could finish.

“That’s enough.”

Alex dropped his amicable smile and his face turned deadpan. The guards had crossed his bottom line with this.

“I’ve had enough of this little game, I’ll be leaving now. If you try to stop me, trust me, there will be trouble you won’t be able to handle.”

As he spoke, Alex released a little bit of his aura, instantly overpowering the two guard’s own aura.

The guards had kept their full aura on show the whole time as an act of intimidation, but Alex just showing 1% of his aura already sent them with their tail between their legs.

“Y-yes, respected sir!”

The guards bowed in fear, stunning all the other guards in the barracks.

Only the two guards, Marco and Brune, could feel the pressure of Alex’s aura, so everyone else was confused seeing this weird scene play out.