Robert went wide eyed for a moment. Certainly he didn't expect the giant physics breaking mountain to be there. Note to self he thought to himself expect everything even the impossible. Though he had to wonder if that was made by the people using magic or it's a natural part of this world, he had hoped it was the former, simply because it was more exciting for magic to be able to do that, but then again he could see more structures such as that if they popped out from the ground like mushrooms. 

Though on the second viewing he saw that the way the village was built wasn't a how a normal village would be built. It was surrounded by heavy forest on one side and physics screwing mountains on the other making natural walls that would make things difficult to be invaded by a hostile army, but what really set that fact for him was that there was only one road, for a forest town one road would be inconvenient to get around and trade with others especially if the town was a hunting town, as they would need to trade for other supplies that they can't get. This wasn't a village, it was more of a fortress in all but name. Robert stopped for a moment and thought to himself well turns out that history lesson are actually helpful, Robert thought back to his younger years when he said that history was rather useless. Which marks the first time today where he secretly made fun of himself.

Robert decided that this would be a great time to ask as any and well he'd rather speed things up. There be more time to go sightseeing with mouth gazed open like idiots, included. 

"So I'm going to ask the million dollar question here." 

Robert gave a small pause to get the others to finish up and listen up, because this one was probably the most important question that will come up.

"Why exactly do you need our help?"