Cutting off both ears of the Goblin king, they head back to "Ares".
Adventure's guild
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Afternoon, the guild was back to its customary liveliness. Adventurers settled down, chugged their ale and started to brag about their dauntless adventure. It was the usual.
At this time, the well-kept wooden door swung open. A young man and a sweet fox-ear girl walked in, holding hands. That was obviously Emyrs and Alice. Arriving in front of the reception area, they were met with a loving smile from Anna.
Anna: How did it go?
Emyrs: Pretty good.
Anna: Then could you hand over the proof of the monster parts so that I can administrate the completion of you quest.
Emyrs nodded.
He then took out a small leather bag that contained 10 pairs of goblin ears and 2 pairs of goblins warriors ears.
Anna placed it over a table behind the room of the reception area. She opened it and poured out the content. She then inspected it roughly before heading back to Emrys and handed over 70 copper.
Anna: And about the inspection of the goblin mine?
Emyrs: There were more than 2 thousand goblins and a goblin king-
The lively chatter of the room died down into absolute silence. All eyes turned onto the speaker, Emyrs.
Anna: (shocked) A goblin king?! Are you sure it was a goblin king?
Emyrs: (nodded truthfully) I am certain that it was goblin king.
Anna: (In a daze for a short moment before returning back to reality) Wait for a moment, I'll go ahead and call the guild master.
Anna bolted up the stairs and went into the rightest part room on the 3rd floor of the "Adventure's guild". Slammed open the study, polished wooden door. A middle-aged man with an ocean blue hair and a pair of dark blue eyes, seemingly untroubled by the world, was sitting on a leathery chair reading a tattered obsolete book.
On the front cover off the book was written 7 words, "How To Be The Best Guild Master".
Anna uttered everything to the guild master about the sighting of a goblin king from an adventurer. After listening the guild master couldn't sit still when such a disaster was nearby. He frowned, and his eyes turned serious. Shooting out of his seat, he rushed back to the reception area and dragged Emyrs into his office with a bewildered Alice following closely behind.
The guild master sat down, lets out a sigh before glaring at Emyrs.
Guild master: (in a serious tone) Tell me truthfully, was the appearance of a goblin king the truth? You should know that this is not a joking matter.
Emyrs: (with a poker face) Yes, I had personally saw it.
Guild master: (looking at Emyrs poker face, his eyes twitched for a moment before continuing) Tell me in detail what you saw.
Emyrs then started to explain his journey of how he saw the goblin king in detail, of course he was partially economical with the truth, after all Emyrs didn't want his abilities to be exposed to strangers because he wanted to live an amusing life. A life full of different encounters. A life full of joy and sorrow. Not a life full of lies
Being too powerful and too famous would only lead to a life full of lies. A life where your trusted friends and co-workers would act kind to you in the surface, but it is after all just an act, they maybe plotting against you, it was especially true the more powerful and famous you are. Emyrs knew that no matter the world, no matter the place, greed will always be there and where greed is, corruption tends to follow. One day, that greed will fully consume their hearts and betrayal for more power would come.
Emyrs had seen many faces in his life. Even if he is still currently young, but as the only child of his father's big company, his father dragged him around to meet different kinds people and listened to their stories. Furthermore, Emyrs life was like a roller coaster going up and down. He was bullied as a child by his school mate but loved by his father college's sons and daughters. It was from this that he learnt the horrible truth of human society. As long as you have power and fame, people would put on their mask and starts to act kind and treats you with respect, but in the end, it was just a mask, not their true nature. Who knows what they are thinking?
However, Emyrs found out the truth the hard way.
At the age of 10, Emyrs had already lost all hope about human society, he began trying to fit in, wearing the same mask that everyone wears, concealing his true feelings.
At the age of 13, he began to wonder if there is any meaning to keep on living.
A year later, a tragedy struck Emyrs, his parents were executed for committing a heavy crime, but Emyrs knew his parents would never had committed any crime. Thus, he began his search for clues
At the age of 17, Emyrs pieced all the clues together, but he couldn't believe it himself. The clues led to his parents death was caused by his father's most trusted colleague. His father's most trusted colleague sold himself to a rival company and betrayed his father's years of kindness and trusted placed in him. "That" man fabricated a crime for his father in court to remove his father from his position, Emyrs' father found that and fought back, but it was all for naught...
Because the judge was bribed by the same rival company.
In the end his father was sentenced to death, even his mother , who was not involved in this at all, was executed.
Emyrs still remember the moment when 6 strong men, wearing police uniforms, stormed though their door and dragged his reluctant mother to a large truck with large logo written "police" on it.
That moment carved and burned into Emyrs memory for eternity, a scar that would never be able to recover...
This was the cold hard truth off human society...
There was a wise old saying: "Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied."
Getting back to the story...
After hearing the story from Emrys, the guild master was certain that it was a goblin king.
Guild master: (realized something) But you said that there wasn't any hobgoblin with it, right?
Emyrs nodded.
Guild master: (knit his brows) That's weird... From all the past records goblin kings are usually accompanied by 50 to 300 hobgoblins, thus what you saw was probably something else...
Emyrs:(firmly) I have proof.
Guild master: Really?!
Emyrs then took out a small pouch and handed it over to the guild master. The guild master was dazed when he opened it.
Guild master: (exclaimed) Impossible - the ears of a goblin king!
Even Anna jaws dropped when she heard what the guild master exclaimed.
Guild master: Where did you get this from?
Emyrs: I killed it.
Guild master: You killed it?!
Emyrs: Yeah, I killed it along with Alice. (Points to Alice, who was already by his side at this time)
Guild master: (speechless) ...
Guild master: Even if you say that... it is just impossible for someone on your level to do that...
Emyrs: There are always exceptions. (Lets out a seemingly natural smile)
Guild master: (even more speechless) ...
Emyrs: You could always go ahead and check it if you don't trust me.
Guild master: I trust you. Afterall according to the guilds rules, as long as you bring back the specific parts of the monster as proof, it will be considered as your kill. (This is also why rich family could just buy the specific parts of a monster and bragged about how their children fought that ruthless creature and slayed it.) Thus, your quest would be complete and as for the additional rewards for slaying the goblin king... your team will rank up to rank c, that's fine right?
Emyrs nodded
Guild master: Anna, help these adventurers to rank up their adventurer's card.
Anna lifted her dropped jaw before nodding her head and leading Emrys and Alice out.
After half an hour later, Anna had finish updating their adventurer's card.
Anna handed over two shinny copper cards to Emrys. Emyrs handed one of them to Alice and both of them said goodbye to Anna and left the "adventure's guild".
Moments after they left the "adventure's guild", Alice realises something...
Alice: (tugs Emyrs' shirt) Ne~ Ne~ Emyrs, I think they forgot to give us the reward for completing our last quest...
End