Sera walk back and forth facing the wooden floor of the inn. She was thinking, it's been a day since she run away from her home. She is aware that her mother is already out in the town searching for her. The town is twice… no thrice bigger than their village. She must go to another town before it's too late right. The only problem is that, she used half of her money from buying armor and equipment for her and got Forest. The new shoes she is wearing right now was expensive it gave her a boost somehow.
"Another quest again?" she asked herself. She put her clenched fist under her chin. Her eyes wonder inside her room.
"Maybe I'll try helping out a hands to some people in needs first. A quest like that and move on to the next town." She nodded. She turned around stomping his feet hard s she can.
"But… where can I find a wagon for me and him… Is it nice to have a horse? I do not know how to ride a horse!"
"Maybe... Forest can. I should ask him too! Why am I the only one thinking hard and carrying these burden all alone?"
"It was his fault that I need to earn money for the two of us. Not only that, a meal for two is expensive" she let out a sigh after taking a deep breath. She steps out of her room and went to the next room where Forest is.
She knocks three times and Forest opened the door. She went inside without saying a thing.
"I'd like to asked you several things." she stated with her back facing him. Forest didn't respond to her, he just sat on the wooden chair beside the door.
"You still can't recall our past?" She asked turning around to him. Facing him to see his reaction. He nodded in respond to her.
"I can't keep you here in this world either. In this human continent. Demons are our enemies. Humanities enemies to be precise. I knew you know it." she got to say what she had to say. She need him to be aware about how their world moves.
"Also… I can't just leave you there. In some reasons, I am scared of you and I thought you will just kill me easily if I disobey." She sat on the bed and look down on the wooden floor.
"My expectation is the opposite of the reality." She softly said.
"So you can't help me. If that's what you want then." Forest look straight to her. His face don't say anything. It remain in neutral state.
"How could I… I can't abandoned someone I met already… taking responsibility makes me, who I am." She replied.
"I want to ask you again to take another Quest. A quest with high reward and let's move to the next town."
"I know I am quite pushy. This way, we can see how great we are as partner." She said with a smile. The topic is began to stray off again.
"It is okay to me… thank you for your kindness. Someday I'll repay your kindness." He smiled to her. Their eyes met as she raised her head.
Her father face began to show in her mind. Out of nowhere she began to remember her father. Her father was a adventurer too, the adventurer she looks up too.
I already saw the whole world, Sera. There is a continent different from us… they look different than us… they are called beast and demons. Elves and dwarves and some fairies too. They are great at magic, strong, fast than us. I got to travel around with my party, we have one beast in the party. she age slowly. That truth is that, we are totally inferior compared to them.
If ever you come across to any of this you should help them. They suffer more than us someday you'll know.
She shakes her head and smiled to him.
"Let's go? We can't stay here for long"
"I liked to discuss to you my plan in the future. This is for you to be aware of it… okay?" Forest nodded as he agree to her without any further question about it.
In the Adventurer guild, she face the wooden wide board filled with papers with written quest. She is still a copper plate, however, everything she saw is for silver plate.
"Nice to see you here, Sera" Hilda stood beside her. Wearing a smile that doesn't fade.
"Any quest recommendations? That has big reward?" she asked.
"HMM?" Hilda pretended to think putting her hand on his chin as she look up on the ceiling.
"There is a labyrinth north east of the town. Some adventurers already went on it already. It's is not that dangerous for copper plate like you. there are many monster lurking inside the labyrinth not only that, there are rumors that, there migh be a hidden passage there that leads in the treasury room, however, no one found it yet."
Sera look at Hilda intently.
"This is the quest paper pertaining to that quest. We took it down several months ago since the adventurers who went here claim that they already check every interior and possible secret passages and some magic portals."
Hilda cut her words as Sera raised her hand to her to stop her from talking
"Okay we will take that" she exclaimed. "You said there are monster inside. What are those and how much is the possible outcome of we can earn?"
"A gnome. Vampire bats, a specter, skeletons, slugs, slimes, and a roaches. You can earn more than twenty silver with those"
'I see… enough for us to buy one horse and food.' she thought.
"Can we have the map?" She asked to her.
"Wait a second" she replied and she went to her desk. Sera look around the room. Adventures with different plates was having a nice time in their tables. They having a feast, she felt envious of them at the moment.
Forest just watched her from behind. Locking his telepathy away to avoid hearing different thoughts inside his head. Only sera is the person he can linked to somehow.
After a couple of minutes waiting for Hilda and for the map. Hilda deliver the map to them. They went off immediately after getting the map. Sera don't want to waste her time anymore.
What she need to do right now was to earn money as fast as they can and leave the town immediately. She is not worried about how her mother will find out how she become a adventurer, the thing is how can she explain to her that she is with someone that is not a human.
Demons are their enemy today. That is what the Royal kingdom have announce years ago. Until right now, the kingdom did not yet given up on killing every demons in the world.
Sera can't understand why the kingdom is trying to put end on the existence of the Demons. Is it because they are something that should not be existing at the first place. However, Sera's father words touch her heart so deeply through his story from roaming around the world. Right now she wanted to see it for herself that His father doesn't lie.
Your father was a liar. There a no good demons no good beast in the world. do you know why they look like different from us? Its because they are punished by the god of life to be like that.
They are disgusting. Like you and your father.
She shakes her head off from stupid memories from her village. That was the time she first beat up a boy older than her. He ended up crying and running on his way home to tell his mother about beaten up by a younger girl.
she took out her staff from her magic pouch. She will going to use her magic while forest will be using short sword she just brought yesterday.
From the distance, around 4 meters away from them. Forest detected something that is about to attack from a distance. A hobgoblin saw them from there.
"A hobgoblin before us. He might saw us" He told her. She nodded. This might be a tough adversary of them.
[Hobgoblin has thick hides, they also wear armory. Uses clubs, mace and sword. They have night vision, sharp fang that can tear out your muscles from your bone when you got bitten by it. They have great strength and power.]
"Let's try go all out here. Buy me some time as you attack him in a close distance. Hobgoblins are not joke when they fight. Also, there is no turning back here. We need to give ourselves a fight to now what are our capable off." Forest nodded in agreement. They did great last time when they hunted some Lamias on the east forest. Lamia are tough but their physical attack are weaker than hobgoblins who are great at swords.
The hobgoblin was moving forward to them. Sera gulped as she felt a monstrous aura filling up the gap between them and the monster. She distance herself to forest. Forest took out his sword and ready himself to the hobgoblin that will soon racked them up.
The hobgoblin swing his mace taking don the tress in front of him. it made a shockwave to them. Sera leap back and ready to cast her spell to the approaching Hobgoblin.
Some spheres of water float around Sera. Forest was in his post, he is waiting for the enemy to attack first. However, it didn't launch any attack, it only taunted them as it look at Forest in disdainful manner.
Sera released her magic she spell to him. The water bullets flew toward the hobgoblin. Unfortunately, the hobgoblin they are fighting did killed several adventurers already Magic like that is just a child play to him.
It leap sideways dodging the bullets released by Sera. It was so fast that she didn't saw that coming. The Hobgoblin Laughed through its nose. A laughed that you don't want to hear at the first place.
Forest ran towards it. Attacking him with his sword. The hobgoblin block hi attack with his mace. Sera did not let her chance to attack again. She casted a wind blade to him. He leap as she released it. Forest quickly leap back from it.
Forest swung his sword toward the hobgoblins' muscular body. It dodge and block his attack. He was nimble and also has great reflex in avoiding Forest sword. Forest was in state of being desperate to land an attack.
He retorted his attack after Sera magic.
Sera tried to casted multiple magic at once. Her casted water blades, it flew towards the hobgoblin. After the water blades, forest attack him from his back. They are trying to surround the hobgoblin, making him confuse. Hobgoblins are dumb, they are unintelligent living creature that only cling to their survival instinct using their brute to kill. However, it seems that this hobgoblin was different from the usual.
Forest ran, leap and rolled on the ground as he avoid the goblin mace as it swings in the air. As the goblin focus was in Forest, Sera raised her staff and launched a multiple fire balls and threw it toward the Hobgoblin. Forest acted as the magic flew towards them. He thrust his sword toward the hobgoblin yet it was blocked by its mace. The hobgoblin parried his attack and swung his mace as counter attack. Without realizing sera fire balls is out of reach.
It landed on his buttocks. And to the ground. A Flimsy fire magic burned him lightly. He groan and grab a stone from the ground and threw it to him. Forest leap and strikes, he swung his sword with his full strength. He did manage to land a scratch to the Hobgoblin. The hobgoblin kicked him after the attack. He was sent flying and was able to get a grip to himself afterwards.
He ran again and desperately swings his swords as it clashed to the Hobgoblins mace. He was blocked and dodge. The hobgoblin strikes, it swings his mace downward and forest quickly dodge it and manage to slash the Monster chest. The blood spurted on the ground. the hobgoblin quick reflex manage to knocked Forest down on the ground his cloak hood fell of that made the hobgoblin step back making a distance to forest with his eyes almost popped out.