After few minutes, she got her composure back, and was embarrassed by her previous behavior. Mark wanted to change the atmosphere, so he asked her some simple questions about that mysterious expert to change her mood.
" That lady, well..... I forgot to tell an important message left behind by her, she said if you want to know more about yourself then come and visit her at Royal academy ".
Royal academy, well it looks like I really have to go to that place it really shares some history with me, many characters that started to enter into my life are related to that place.
Mark had stated to do ask more about the village that he was staying, and few things related to her to elevate her mood which had fallen down as a result from her loosing the village Chief, it was her grandfather, must be hard on her.
After few minutes.....
She, some how started to trust Mark more than before, and suddenly had exclaim an secret, that only Village chief and herself knew well, she didn't want to put more burden on Mark than it was already present on him, but she felt that she can trust him by telling her secret as he may one day become a leading figure who may have an important role in the survival against demons and had a hunch that this secret may be related to him as well.
" Ascension... , platform.... ! "
Ascension platform....., these two words which had slide from her petite mouth had nearly startled him with excitement, it was a term that was recorded in the history, in both cases of Norsus and soveraiz had undergone their body strengthening at ascension platform, it was a mysterious artifact that appears on this continent very rarely, and when ever it appears chaos would befall this continent, blood would continue to flow as rivers drenching the lands, the population of weaker races would be drastically reduced.
The first time ascension platform appeared was at giants cave where the demons lusted over it's benefits and started a war against them, those powerful forces when they had, collided made the entire continent tremble with quakes, which was still regarded as the first great war of this continent.
But at last it was obtained by Norsus which had let him to obtain power, enough for him to build a kingdom and expand it to a vast dynasty that had able to stand an rivals against most of the species of the land, tough they were weak when compared to demons that has their heritage over tens of thousands of years, but being able to stand against them starting from nothing had shown the powers that this ascension platform could bring about, tough law's can aid in increasing their strength, but mana it taxed was too much for them to handel and after undergoing his
If we look at its history, it's relation with Soveraiz, who had founded it by coincidence or we can call it a devine fate, he had obtained enough power for him to make other races to comply with his ideas and had leaded to the foundation of adventure guild that had played an major role in the fights against demons, now that he hears that same name that had been recorded in the annals of history, for the generations to know about it's benefits, how could he not be extremely excited.
John had also came to know about this information by coincidence and his greed intensified, as a result the situation of this village had led to the following circumstances.
John, as being a young lord of his family, he had to study from a very young age, and being a pampered young master, he naturally did not had any difficulty finding beauties that were willing to spread both their legs for his pleasure, but Mark still had few doubts, which were cleared at present and he knew the real reason for John's pursual and his impulsive behavior.
Ascension platform, what is her connection with that artifact, Mark was curious to know.
" What is the connection between that ascension platform and you sister Ira " , Mark had to ask at he could not control his anxiety any longer.
"Activation the ascension platform is not so simple, a price had to be made, a certain amount of equal exchange has to be made in order to obtain the power they wish, four individuals that were born with pure nature's blessing had to be sacrificed, and well...., I am one among them".
What...? sacrifice....! , why did the legendary ascension platform that had been printed in the histories for its blessing had turned out into a sacrificial platform, where sacrifices had to be made for attaining a certain purpose.
Target
Name : Ira
Class : Human
Age : 22
level : 8
Attributes
Attack : 7
Agility : 3
Health : 80
Defense. : 4
lntelligence : 20
Sense : 120
Mana /Qi : 200
Skills : cure, heal
Armaments : plain robes
Blessing : Goddess of nature ( can heal all ailments)
"Goddess of nature....., so this blessing was the cause for all the troubles" mark had exclaimed in his heart.
" System what the hell is going ? why should she be sacrificed ? " Mark knew that there was a thing called ascension platform but why did it suddenly turned out into a sacrificial platform, he did not want his saviors life, to end up as a sacrifice for the benefits of others .
" Ding, host class is low for system to gather the necessary information ".
When mark was about to curse the system for its uselessness, the system had prompted a quest which was nearly impossible for him to complete an his present level.
" Ding, host had prematurely unlocked first part of Main Line Quest, it is an mandatory quest, failure of acceptance of quest will result in host's death ".
Main line quest: Part 1
(( Difficulty – A class 10 star ))
Location : Ascension platform
Time alloted : 4 years
Type. : Rescue and protection
Target : Ira
Number : 1
Reward : Skill : Joker ( user can transform their shape, voice and aura's corresponding to that of the target which had been chosen, time limit 1 year, cool down time 1 month), Reaper's blades (Attack +1000000 , Agility +1000000 , Life Absorption - 10 % of the damage dealt to the target will be converted to health and added to the user) .
Explanation : Demons will use the quest target to gain power from ascension platform, failure of host to stop them and rescue the quest target will lead to birth of a new demon emperor and the era of War would once again prevail in the lands of this continent, host had been provided with a time limit of four years and failure would result in host death .
What the fuck's with this difficulty, I had not even challenged a D class quest so far and suddenly an A class quest popped up, on top of it..., a ten stars quest, system do you think this difficult is a bit more excessive for me to handle.
" Ding, responding to host, the quest is mandatory, without a choise and at worst case...., host may die without a grave "the system prompted the previous message in a careless tone, as if it said aren't you a slayer, you have me the system, can't even complete this quest and are you really worth of my notice.
" Die without a grave...., hey, hey, since when did my life became so cheap."
Why did she quested a rescue mission, while she is present right beside me, Mark was unable to understand the reason for the this sudden main line quest and it was related to Ira , but he knows one thing for sure , system never prompted a false message thus far .
When a series of questions were ringing up in his head, system had prompted an another message.
" Ding , a strong mana has been detected , suggesting host to hide or escape , host current power can't fight against the current threat ".
After the system has been updated , it started to prompt warning messages, when a target with a large amount of mana was near to Mark, and the same had occurred at present, a strong mana waves were recorded by the system, and as usual it was warning him.
A huge blast had taken place few hundreds of meters away from the village.
"Come and surrender yourself, bitch... , I might be merciful enough to spare these pheasants..... alive..., I know you are hiding somewhere at this rundown place, even if that old wrench had used some spell to hide your presence, do you think we don't have our methods to find you."
it was a warning to villagers and to Ira, that this would be their fate of they did surrender her out.
"So is this how, she going to be kidnapped...."
Mark had exclaimed to his mind, so the systems prompt was not just for show.
Author notes:
Ascension platform = needs 4 pure natures blessing to activate, Ira an blessing holder of pure nature's body ( Goddess of nature's blessing).