Your decision: run away...

You realize the obvious facts: this group of elite warriors have good armor and good weapons, their fighting skills are also quite high (otherwise, they would not be part of the Duke's bodyguard guard). Therefore, your chances of survival in battle with these warriors are simply negligible.

You're thinking: "It's most likely that escape is my only chance of survival... I don't care about the life of this vile scum Duke... Let him die in a pool of his own blood... I don't want to risk my life and my health for a hopeless attempt to save this moral monster Caelan !

While you were thinking about how to escape, a group of elite armored warriors took swift action.

The consequences of these actions, which you see with your eyes, were shocking.

The heavily armed warriors managed to take advantage of the effect of surprise and realized their advantage in combat skills. They killed about a dozen militiamen with their steel swords, who were much worse armed (spears and simple carpenter's axes). The bodies of these militiamen, disfigured by disgusting hacked and stabbed wounds, fall helplessly to the ground...

Bloody corpses in the mud... Severed hands... Cut throats... Dark scarlet blood that floods the ground...

Screams and sobs of peasants who saw the **** of their fellow villagers...

The clang of steel... The dying screams of dying militiamen...

All this happened in just ten seconds...

You are convinced that these armored warriors will easily kill all the militia of this unfortunate village. And, if you stand in the way, these elite warriors will easily kill you.

So, this group of elite armored warriors had about 20 meters to go to the headman’s house.

You quickly turn around and look at the persons who are standing next to you. Headman of village Garon's ford and duke Caelan. They are shocked by the brutal bloodshed that happened before their eyes.

Headman Buford only lets out frightened sobs and inarticulate mutterings. You notice some liquid running down his pants and dripping onto the wooden floor of the porch. The smell of this liquid is quite pungent and extremely unpleasant. After a second, old human Buford turns and runs inside his house.

You manage to hear fragmentary phrases from his muttering: “Have mercy on me, Lord of the Waves Orlan! I urgently need to escape... In the village there are only forty militiamen who do not have good armor and weapons... And in total there are about 150 residents... These cruel killers hacked to **** a dozen militiamen with their swords in a couple of seconds... They will slaughter all the villagers like pigs...”

Duke Caelan looks pale and nervous. He seemed to have fallen into a stupor due to the stunned fact of the betrayal of his own elite guards. His eyes see the bloody chaos taking place. He sees a group of armored warriors quickly and inevitably approaching him. In his frightened gaze, the horror of realizing what is happening is rapidly growing. After all, **** is getting closer and closer to him.

You peer into the Duke’s face and notice that he has a nervous tic.

Caelan looks at you and says in a weak-willed and plaintive voice: “What... What should we do?!” What should we do to save ourselves, Ulkin?”

You shout back at him: “We don’t have to do anything, you shit-eater! Because there is no “us”, fucking scum! These killers have come for you, to end your miserable life, you stinking parasite! And these killers don’t need my life at all! So die alone and **** on your own blood, you scum!”

You see the horror in Caelan's eyes growing greater. He wants to tell you something in response. But before he could utter a single word, you spit in his pompous noble face.

Then you turn around and quickly run.

Your goal is to escape from this village.

So, you run away from the porch of the headman's house of this village. You run in the opposite direction from which a group of armored warriors is attacking. You quite easily manage to climb over the wooden fence that surrounds the village headman's house. This fence is not that high.

You are running through the dirty streets of the village of Garon's Ford. The sounds of ongoing carnage reach your ears. But gradually these sounds become quieter.

Ten minutes later you leave the outskirts of the village. You are running along a narrow forest road. Fear for your own life forces you to maintain a high running pace.

However, after half an hour of running you feel very tired. You have to stop running. You're just walking along this forest road. You have probably moved quite a significant distance away from the village of Garon's Ford. About three or four kilometers.

You are breathing heavily. You are trying to restore your strength a little.

You think about the situation: “I managed to escape. It is perfectly. This road goes south, along the border of the Sacred Kingdom of Orlania with the forest orc tribes. I have at least some useful equipment: a heavy old ring-mail coat and an old bearded ax. But I have no food or water at all. And one more thing: I don’t know where to go now.”

You continue along the forest road in a southerly direction.

It's evening time and soon you will need to find a safe place to stay for the night.

And you need to choose the direction of your further movement.

One option: you will stay in the territory of the Forest Reach duchy. You will turn off the road and head west. You will bypass the territories closest to the border in order to protect yourself from meeting with orc raiders or human warriors of the Forest Reach duchy. You will have to overcome difficult terrain: forest expanses, small rivers and streams, thickets of bushes. Your goal will be to find a settlement and start a new life in it. Any small settlement is suitable for this purpose, with the exception of the city of Ranelborg.

You absolutely do not want to return to the city of Ranelborg due to extremely unpleasant memories. Your shameful life as an employee of the brothel "The Shaded Lantern" has left an indelible imprint on your consciousness.

You think: “I was deprived of free will, I was made a stupid whore, I was fucked in the mouth and anus, my body was sold for money... I will never return to this fucking city!”

Another option is also possible...

You can cross the eastern border of the kingdom and try to hide in the Great Forest of Delknar. In this forest, it will be difficult for orlanian warriors to find you. However, the forest orc tribes are also a serious threat. In these forested spaces you can take a break from the constant pressure of orlanian laws. You will not feel like a second-class person compared to humans. But you don't know this area well. Therefore, it will be very difficult for you to find a safe place to stay and supplies.

The third option for your trip also involves crossing the orlanian border. You will have to walk for a long time in a southerly direction. About a week. During this time, you will need to avoid unnecessary and potentially dangerous meetings. Then you will cross the border and you will find yourself in the territory of the small human kingdom of Morthem. Thanks to conversations with some of the clients of the brothel "The Shaded Lantern", you know a little about this human kingdom. You will remember that the northern part of this kingdom is a rugged, mountainous area (unlike much of the rest of the territory, which is covered in dense forests). In these sparsely populated mountains it will be easier for you to hide and start a secluded life. However, the issue of finding the resources that are necessary for survival will be extremely important for you.