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The Minister felt relaxed as he felt himself start to stir, then he opened his eyes to see children around him. That stirred him out of his sleep as the old giant got right up to see what had happened. With the troopers having already been knocked out now being held secured by the villagers with their weapons armed at the troops, and some of the people already rebuilding the destroyed houses and got to work at rebuilding what they already had destroyed. The Minister looked around at what had happened, and felt sober at what had happened, and with Eagle One having escaped, it will be a matter of time before they strike again. But The Minister needed to get moving, but he was stopped by an old man: The Village Elder. "Shalmalokhoon (Blessings). Thank you for what you have done stranger, and it is good to see a fellow Assyrian come to our aid. You have all our gratitude." Most of the people looked to the center and they came to the old giant to thank him for what he had done. The Minister arose from the ground and said to the village elder, "Thank you, all of you, for your gratitude and your grace. But, I am shamed that most of my battle has cost you your homes, your villages, I wish there would be a way to repay you." "You saved our village and my people. For some time we have suffered the same fate of those hunting us down for who we are, we have been use to that, but these men were trained, these men were prepared and we could not defeat them. I just wish that we would finally be allowed to live as living beings among our fellow species and not be seen as outcasts of our kinds, but that is the fate of all Assyrians, truly a terrible fate, no matter what species you are." The Minister felt a terrible remorse wash over him, "Yes...I know of this pain, and I wish that our fellow Assyrians all across this world would be allowed to be granted peace and prosperity. But, I believe that God would not allow those who live by the rules of life and creation to which is his gift to be casted out into the grasp of evil, for I percieve that we shall eventually reclaim our homeland, and our freedom to live and to honor our traditions, our culture, and our history." "Indeed." The two elders that stood before each other shared a look of solemn understanding, one only achieved by men who had lived a long life, and so the elder asked the old giant to come with him. The elder explained that their villages were not as advanced as some of the other villages, which The Minister did not comprehend entirely, (Do know that The Minister was wandering through forests and trees when he first started his journey, which was a month ago, so he did not know about the advancements of technology yet). But, The Minister, seeing that he had done so much already, the least he could do was to help with the villages, and bury the dead. He was a preacher after all and there was a church, so he handled the burial rituals for his people along with the elder (who was also the church priest actually!). He stayed for the night and enjoyed in the festivities, doing his old soul good to be with his people again (even if they weren't his species, their culture was exactly the same) and he felt home for the first time in a long time. But he knew he would have to return on his journey, for it was the only way that he could aid fellow Assyrians like this village in a much more effective scale. The Minister told the elder of this, to which he understood. As the village was celebrating in the festivities, The Minister and the elder were watching. "Now that you have saved our village, we will honor your good deeds. Though, I must admit, some of us that saw you thought you were Tigleth-Pileser." he chuckled, which The Minister warmly responded, "Yes, I would have percieved that Tigleth-Pileser had come to save me as well had I have been held in hostility myself. I was simply blessed by God to have the visage of a man who started for many, especially for my kind, the ability to no longer be afraid of our gifts, and rather embrace them as a gift of the highest blessings." "You are a Chanter, I can tell, we have rarely had visits from chanters, let alone Assyrian chanters, but of course it has always been a sight to greet our fellow Assyrians, regardless of species. You see I have seen what you did to save my people, no semblance could perform such feats of elemental magic, and I have rarely seen any dust on you. Which means that you are a chanter, and a very powerful one as well." The Minister was slightly confused, "Dust? Semblance? Forgive me, but these concepts seem slightly alien to me." The elder did not understand, until he asked, "You have not been here in Remnant much have you?" "No, you can say I have not." "Ah, well, what matters now though is that you will be leaving us soon. I can see that you have some greater purpose then to just come to our village to save only us." "You are very sharp for simply being a chief elder." "It is all in age, now what is it that you are searching for, perhaps I can help you." "No, please, you do not need to..." "No, no, no, please, let me grant you some sense of where you need to go, where you need to be. I can tell that you are lost in a sense." "Indeed, it is hard to hide my sense of finding where I need to be. You see, in truth, I am searching for someone, someone who will grant me the keys to my destiny. I do not know this person, nor of where I will find this individual, but I know that the individual I seek is here in Sanus, or perhaps not." "Well, I may not possess the maps of all of Remnant, but I do know of a place where you may find more information that can assist you. And tomorrow morning, I shall show you where you may need to go, and you may sleep in the church tonight, it does have good rooming." The Minister was slightly happy for this act of kindness, "Thank you, that would be most beneficial from such a long journey, perhaps a recess from resting on the bare Earth for sometime. But, I must ask, where is this new land where I may find more information?" "It is close to this area, an island of sorts that has information on all places on the world, it is an island called Eclipse."