My threat was quite effective in scaring Jayde, and she began to talk about what had happened the previous day.
"Yesterday, as the sun was falling from the sky, a figure in a black robe using a staff with a large blue gem arrived at the village and demanded to speak with our patriarch. Some guards were enraged by his attitude and yelled at the visitor. With just a gesture of his hand, all the guards were reduced to ashes before the patriarch himself rushed out to greet him.
Despite his attitude, the patriarch knelt, and the guest said we had to go to the Hobgoblin village to the south to get the Omaishi back, and that we had to hurry to avoid mistakes. Furthermore, if anyone found the one who had killed him and could capture him, they would be generously rewarded, but if not, just indicating his location would be enough.
