Eccar walked toward the people until he finally stopped in front of them.
They were still staring at him, but their expressions had changed. Some of them looked at him with overwhelming gratitude. One woman had tears streaming down her face, another woman continued whispering prayers with her hands clasped tightly together.
A few others looked almost reverent as though they truly believed he had been sent by their god.
But several people remained suspicious of him. Their eyes followed every movement he made and none of them seemed willing to approach him.
Eccar could not blame them. He would have been suspicious too if a strange man had suddenly appeared out of nowhere and demonstrated enough strength to slaughter an entire group of monsters by himself.
He still had no idea what they thought he was, but that was not his concern right now.
One question continued to linger in the back of his mind: "Was this really what I was supposed to do? Protect these people?"
