"Guys, shouldn't we prepare a little before we head out? We don't know how powerful or tactical our opponents are going to be"
Noto suggests Zae and Kiri as they leave the guild hall's entrance
"That's true but it shouldn't be that difficult with the items we currently have"
Zae replies with a calm composure
"Even if we wanted to resupply, I didn't see any potions in the marketplace and the equipments also look shabby"
Kiri adds with a calm explanation
"I guess potions are hard to came by here, but we did get some few at that cave"
Zae adds
"Considering the amount we got I guess its quite rare aswell. Even when we completed many achievements we only got about 5 mana potions but no Healing potions"
Kiri adds
"Don't worry about healing"
Zae with a proud composure.
"What do you mean?"
Noto asks curiously
"The guild had a few healers, i just borrowed their skills they are quite high level aswell. But its weird though there are many support types here they didn't have mana restoration or energy restoration spells"
Zae replies with a serious expression
"Shouldn't that mean these skills are super rare?"
Noto adds
"That seems to be the case, we still have so much to learn about this world"
Kiri with a serious expression.
"Just leave things as it is now, we need to secure an income first. Lets go"
Zae calms the situation down while slowly starting yo walk towards the exit of the city.
"En"
The other two nods and starts following Zae.
"Well this city is quite beautiful isn't it?"
Zae asks
"Yea, for a city of adventurers its quite beautiful, better than i imagined"
Noto replies while looking at Zae who was walking right next to him
"Look theres the entrance to Rembark hills, Its connected to the west exit huh"
Zae points at the exit at the end of the road.
"Its quite convenient for us"
Noto adds.
The three soon exits the city and enters the Rembark hills.
After some few minutes of walking they reached a small village with about 50-60 houses in their vicinity.
It was quite a small village but since it is a hotspot for mining magical ores the village is quite valued by the city and is protected by the the adventurers guild.
"This seems to be the place according to the map"
Noto looks at the map and informs Zae and Kiri about the village. They slowly move towards the village gate.
"Who are you and what's your business here?"
A guard suddenly shows up in front of the trio and orders their identification
"We're adventurers from the adventurers guild from Ekinisi. We have accepted a quest to capture bandits and the quest tells us that the location of the quest's request seems to have come from this city.
Here are our adventurer cards"
Noto clearly explains the situation to the guard and shows them his card which is followed by Zae and Kiri.
"Bronze class adventurers huh? you can enter. You will find the village chief in the biggest building you can see once you enter the village"
They guard showed no sincerity but gave them the directions to the village chief's residence.
"Okay then thank you so much for letting us enter"
Noto says
They start to walk towards the village chief's house but once they entered they seemed to have a very uncomfortable feeling of being watched.
Zae unconsciously uses extreme sense and finds out that the skills that the villagers possessed were quite unusual
"Guys this quest doesn't seem to be normal, be on your guards"
Zae adds with a serious expression
"What do you mean?"
Noto asks in confusion
"The villagers have abnormally high stats and a good amount of skills, I doubt that they are plotting something here, they should be able to deal with some few bandits of D rank quests"
Zae replies with a serious expression
"They don't have domain yet so i guess it's not a problem if we stick to the quest for now"
Zae adds
"Ok then lets meet up with the village chief"
Kiri with a very resentful expression, he had already got what Zae meant to relay through what he was saying earlier so he was ready for whatever might happen
"You must be the adventurers sent by the guild, You're welcome to Rembark village"
An elderly man with white hair but well build body shows up. He looked as if he was in his forties or so but his physic was that of a 25 years or so
"I am Vormos the village chief of this mining village, If i may ask what rank are you kind people who accepted our quest"
Vormos asks very politely
"Oh here's our cards you can see for yourself"
Zae shows his card to the the village chief while Kiri and Noto follows his lead
Vormos thinks to himself with a very dissatisfied expression
"Village elder these guys are just bronze class, they can't handle this"
A random person who seemed to be the village elder's assistant suddenly speaks up but is silenced by the village elder with a single look
"I'm sorry about my people, they don't seem to understand what they are saying, please come inside i will enlighten you with the details of this quest."
The village elder changed expression as fast as lightning and welcomed the trio into his residence.
"Okay sure, it will be great help to us if you could let us know all that you know about those bandits"
The trio follows the village chief and his assistant into his residence.
"Miguha prepare something for us guest to eat"
The village chief orders his servants to prepare the trio some light meals.
"Ahh thank you so much for your hospitality"
Noto nods and thanks the village elder
"Don't just stand there come and take a seat. Don't mind the furniture they're abit old"
The village chief requests the trio to have a seat in his meeting room which was not that big but was quite spacious. At the middle of the room was a seat for the village chief.
"We will go ahead then, thank you so much"
The trio takes a seat in front of the village chief's seat
Zae thinks to himself while showing signs to the others to be careful
"Let me cut the chase and explain the situation to you. Our village has been producing and supplying magical ores to Ekinisi city for 10 years now, our production has been low this year round and at the same time some bandits numbered around 20 have started raiding our mines to steal the magical ores"
The village chief explains in a very serious tone
"We couldn't do a thing to the bandits since we are too weak to face them. They were all levelled at around 30-35. They even threatened us to supply them with resources from our next mine. We are quite in a hassle here."
Vormos adds
"It seems you guys have been suffering alot under their pressure"
Noto with a sympathetic expression, of course it was fake and he was quite good at acting and he was also on his guard not because he suspected the villagers but he trusts Zae too much that he coild even risk his life for him
"Yes, that is the reason why we requested the adventurer guild's help for this. I know you guys already accepted the quest but are you willing to aid us in getting our resources back aswell as capturing the bandits at the same time?"
The village chief bows his head as to show his sincerity
"Please don't bow your head like this we're still younger than you, We will gladly accept the quest so please put your head up now"
Zae appeals the village chief
Zae thinks to himself
"The food is here our esteemed guest please accept this food as our thanks to you for accepting to aid us"
A woman with several other servers show up inside the village chief's residence with platters of food on their hands and drinks aswell.
"Please esteemed getuest, this is our village's special meal. I'm sure you will like it"
Vormos appeals to the trio
"Sure, thank you so much for your hospitality. We will accept it gladly"
Noto accepts the village chief's appeal and starts eating and drinking slowly and hesitantly while Zae and Kiri followed him hesitantly.
"Do you guys have any information on the bandits?"
Kiri asks Vormos
"Yes, we have some leads which could help you"
Vormos replies
"3 KM North from is a valley, I have received some news from our villagers that the bandits are currently settling at the valley."
Vormos adds
Kiri thinks to himself
"Oh thank you so much for the information, we will depart right away then, we're sorry we can't finish the food since we are in quite a hurry."
Kiri says in a cold manner
"Ok then lets go guys, we'll be taking our leave to suppress the bandits village elder thank you for your hospitality here"
Noto says as he stands up and starts walking towards the exit of the residence followed by Zae and Kiri who were also very quick to leave.
"Have a safe trip adventurers we pray and hope that you will succeed"
Vormos adds as they go out
"Village chief they are only bronze class they shouldn't have so much resources why did you send them there?"
The assistant asks
"You don't say things that are not asked for just follow the leader's orders without question i won't tolerate anymore if you go on like this"
Vormos with a very evil expression
"tsk"
•Rembark village North gate•
"I guess were away from their range for now i guess"
Noto says as they walk towards the direction that Vormos had told them about.
"The village chief's acting was quite good, he already has a domain and is afraid of level 30s"
Zae adds as they slowly proceed
"What? the village chief has a domain that means his level is above ours "
Noto adds with a worried expression
"Don't worry his domain is nothing special its just an attack enhancing domain no debuffs"
Zae replies
"What I'm worried about most are the bandits they must be higher level than the village chief"
Zae adds with a worried expression
"Yea I was thinking about that too, the bandits should be all above level 38 or maybe they already have domains according to what you said"
Kiri as always was very quick to take hold of the situation.
"I know we shouldn't be taking the risk but if we don't stop them some other might have taken our place"
Zae with a very worried expression
"Don't worry we're with you there I can't stand people who plots against people just for benefits"
Kiri with and angry expression.
"Don't worry about us just loom at what's gonna happen now"
Noto adds
"En"
Zae nods while looking straight towards the path
"Snipe lets go ahead, Noto be on the rear, support us if necessary you need to fight in this one"
Zae says these while looking at snipe and Noto simultaneously with a smile.
#Copy skills
#Shadow steps
"Yea lets go"
#Shadow steps
Zae and Kiri uses shadow steps just as soon as they were about 500 metres from the village's gate. They did so because they didn't want Noto who doesn't like fighting to be off from the fights which was surely inevitable. All three of them knew from the moment that they realised the situation that there will be a battle for survival.
But what the bandits didn't know was that it was their bad luck that the trio was the one to accept their bait willingly.
Zae and Kiri slowly vanishes out of Noto's sight
Noto thinks as he also follows them slowly.