Yesterday I had learned of how to detect and control mana inside my body, and released my first dark magic. Thanks god dark magic was not some heretic magic and people treated it as one of the elements magic. I always read fantasy novel that stressed dark magic as demon power or taboo among magician.
Today I don't need to attend academy like full time student. So I will continue my mission to upgrade my rank in adventurer guild.
After breakfast, I went to guild. There was more adventurers assembled at guild during morning to pick high reward quests. If you're late, you can only pick less popular quest that offer low reward.
I brought myself to F rank quest board. I only need to choose two quests to jump into next rank. First I choose to hunt goblins, as usual. Second, I pick quest that required to hunt horned rabbit, F rank monster. I can handle both type of monsters at merely F rank level.
It was shame that I didn't have any friend among adventurers. If not maybe I can form party with them and took quest that required one party of adventurer. Joining a party was more advantage and profitable as you can choose high rank quest which offered high reward.
One party can receive member up to five people. If you gathered adventurer that can cover your weakness and add firepower in one team, your party was already eligible to subjugate one small herd of monsters.
I went out from guild after submitting two quests. I was quite confident with my new leather armour and sword. I walked out from east gate until I arrived at forest.
To find goblins, you need to wander inside forest for a while because goblin did not have specific place to stay. But to find horned rabbit, you can always find at open area near to forest or hill.
I decided to hunt rabbit first. I wondered how much different normal rabbit to monster rabbit. At open field just before the forest, I moved in stealthy footsteps in order not to warn the rabbit.
Horned rabbit was quite sensitive monster. They had keen hearing and could detect any sound from far distance. They would avoid direct conflict when fighting but much more preferred to ambush careless adventurer.
That's why many beginner adventurer got injured when hunting horned rabbit despite it was weak monster among F rank monster. I need to be in vigilant mode and always scanned my surroundings.
One, two, three. I found three horned rabbits that busily ate green grass. For this time, I was also want to avoid direct hit with my sword. I want to test my power in magic spell.
I hided behind tree and these little rabbits was 100 metres from my location. Like yesterday class, I put forward my right hand to direction of horned rabbits.
'Dark bullet.'
I whisper slowly to avoid being detected by them.
My dark bullet traveled fast from my hand and penetrated the head of one of the rabbits. It died instantly and proved the fatality of dark magic.
Two of horned rabbits become alert when the dead rabbit suddenly dropped. They were still stayed at place because they can't measure the danger level when they can't see the one who attacking them.
Their long ears moved up and down as they tried to detect any sound from attacker location. Never mind, please detect the sound of my next attack.
'Wind slash.'
I imagined the wind in the form of sharp blade and it fastly slashed the second horned rabbit. My high magic power once again proved its fatality when my wind slash hit the rabbit.
That horned rabbit then flied away due to impact of high speed wind and it collided with near tree. I guessed it was also died on the spot when it hit the tree.
The third horned rabbit analyzed the dangerous situation and it took decision to run away. Sorry, I will not spare my prey.
'Earth stone.'
Three small stones flied away from my hand and it crushed the skull of third horned rabbit. Direct lethal hit. In less than one minute, I successfully killed all horned rabbits without sweating.
Then after watching three of my prey died, I out from my hidden location and walked to them to collect their dead bodies. Unlike goblins, body of horned rabbit can be utilized.
Their meat can be cook and it had delicious taste. It skin can be used as clothes and it horn was a medicine material to make magic potion. So you need to collect their bodies to prove you had subjugated horned rabbit and completed your quest.
I put the dead bodies in my big sack. I bought the new sack for the purpose to store other thing. My previous bag was mainly used for storing herbs. So I need another storage item for gathering the adventure material.
Fortunately my magic attack did not make the rabbits bleed so much and their bodies still in good shape. There was still some space left inside the sack because the rabbit had tiny body. I thought to add one or two more bodies inside it.
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'Light bullet.'
'Water ball.'
'Earth stone.'
After 15 minutes, I found another two horned rabbits at different location. I executed three more magic attacks to harm the rabbits. As expected, they all died directly from my attack.
I concluded that my most lethal magic attack was dark bullet and the least dangerous was water ball.
My dark bullet can corrode the skin of enemies that can consume some power from them. So, even if they didn't die from fast attack of dark bullet, they would be weaker from corrode effect.
While water ball at level one was just gimmick magic. When I launched the water ball toward the horned rabbit, it became wetter and that was it. So I used another magic attack to kill the rabbit.
I didn't use fire ball magic because I scared to impair the skin of rabbit. I will get less pay from it. Furthermore, fire ball even though at just level one, had capability to burn the forest if being executed continuously. I will only use fire ball at open space.
Then, my sack became full with five dead bodies. I should stop hunting the horned rabbit. Anymore than this can be a bad waste.
When noon arrived, I spotted four goblins that loitered around at river bank. I think they were busy entertaining themselves. They spoke loudly and laughed while doing some stupid stuff. Geez, what was wrong with these goblins?
If facing with goblins, I can finally use my sword. This sword need some blood sacrifice to be reawakened. Hehehe.
Without hiding anymore, I showed myself in front of little green monsters. Consider this as mercy because I gave them a hopeless chance to defend themselves.
Just after they saw me, they were in uproar and anger. These little goblins dared to show their angry face toward me.
"Dark bullet."
I shouted the spell and the bullet hit to nearest goblin. The dark bullet hit to chest area and instantly corroded its skin. That goblin screamed painfully and hold its chest to stop the pain but it was useless.
I dashed to that goblin without giving the chance to another goblins to react in chaos situation. I slashed my sword and stabbed it to his chest area. He died without having chance to fight me.
Two goblins ran toward me and they thrust their little swords to me but I stepped back a second before they had any chance to do it.
"Wind slash."
In close distance I released wind magic directly to one of the goblins' face. My wind face had blinded his eyes and he yelled loudly due to pain.
I thrusted my sword into his head and pushed it to the ground. The second goblin died.
The third goblin jumped to my chest area and slashed it but my leather armour had proved it high defense stats. I kicked him to his face and stomped him to the ground.
"Earth stone."
Three stones consecutively hit his chest and formed little holes on it. The third goblin died.
The last goblin stood in fright when all his friends died. Sorry little guy, either we killed you or you killed us. It was never a peace option between us.
He knew he never had a chance against me. Then he ran towards inside the forest to escape from death mark. It was useless.
I threw my sword toward him with strong force and it hit his back deeply.
"Water ball."
My water ball hit his head and he fell on ground and never up again. The fourth and last goblin died. I killed all of them without sustaining any injury, again.
I cut their left ears to prove that I had killed the goblins. Their bodies can't be used to our needs unlike the horned rabbit.
People hunt goblins because they want to kill them. While people hunt monster like horned rabbit because they wanted materials of horned rabbit.
After I finished both of my quests, immediately I returned to guild. I presented my quest papers and put my sack at counter that contain bodies of horned rabbits and left ears of goblin.
I got reward of 75 Gal from horned rabbit quest and 30 Gal from goblin quest. With this, officially I had upgraded my rank from F to E ranked adventurer. In less than week I had progress in adventurer life.
I gave my adventurer card to receptionist so guild can processed my new rank. There was new brand capital E on my card.
I walked back to inn with happy feeling. But I never aware that someone had secretly spied on me when I had done my quests at forest.
I never realized about it.