"Let's see where is the market now!!"
Zae at the entrance of the guild hall looking left and right to remember where the market was when he suuddenly see a glimpse of something familiar.
Zae looks at the direction of the central square of the city of Ekinisi.
He starts walking towards the direction of where he saw the fountain. The fountain was emitting a similar aura as when he saw that blue light flashing around at the forest where he first started.
Zae gets into deep thoughts as he starts accelerating towards the statue.
"Huff huff"
"So the aura is coming from here"
Zae stops to catch his breath, but when he saw what was emitting the statue he was shocked.
Zae was shocked to see that a statue of a fountain was emitting aura
though it was still a very small, since Zae's proficiency with extreme sense improved, he was able to sense it.
"Hey!!"
Zae stops some random guy coming towards him suddenly
"Yea you calling me?"
The stranger replies
"Ummm yes, I'm sorry for disturbing but can you tell me about that statue at the middle of the fountain?"
Zae asks in a hesitant way
"Are you new here? How comes you do not know of the world famous water priestess, your parents must have never let you out of the house until now"
The stranger replies with a shocked expression
"Ummm yea .... i guess..... can you please tell me more about the water priestess?"
Zae replies in an awkward way
"Ok then let me enlighten you with the water priestess's achievements. The water priestess was originally not from this world but from another world. All other heroes who came from another world had gone back to their own worlds after defeating the overlord but the water priestess stayed behind inorder to ensure the safety of the people here."
The stranger explains in detail to Zae
Zae was awestruck after he heard the stranger's explaination
"You mean she was here 3000 years ago to defeat the overlord along with other heroes but she stayed back and not returned to her own world?"
Zae asks after he catches his thoughts back
"Yes, from what I've heard, she didn't want to lose her memories from this world so she stayed back but no one knows what happened to her after that. And since she was respected so much by the past king of this kingdom, the king made her a statue here and soon a city was formed and this city was named after the water priestess, you can see her statues everywhere in this city"
The stranger adds again
"Ohh so thats it..... thank you so much"
Zae slightly bows to thank the stranger with a smile
"Don't mention it"
The stranger starts moving away
Zae gets into deep thoughts again
"Ahhh!! shit... Snipe must be waiting for me"
Zae in a hurry started running towards the market.
•Ekinisi market•
"Tsk.... Its been so long why isn't be back yet?"
Kiri standing outside a store and grunting while folding his hands and slightly stomping the ground in impatience.
"Let him come back, I'm gonna get all the items he gets from the achievements we complete"
Kiri swears.
"Hey!! Snipe....."
Zae comes running while waving his hands towards Kiri
"huff huff"
"Did you get them?"
Zae asks as he catches his breath
"Here"
Kiri tosses a bottle of water to Zae
"Uhhh.... thanks"
Zae thanks Kiri with a big smile as he opens the bottle and starts drinking
SFX: glup glup glup
"Aaaaahhhhh!!"
"That was refreshing"
Zae spouts out loud
"You made me wait too long what were you doing?"
Kiri asks as he turns his head around looking at Zae with an angry look
"Calm down bro... I just had some emergency come up he he "
Zae tries to make an excuse with his face facing the other direction
"Ohh what sort of emergency? chasing after girls and getting rejected?"
Kiri says with a poker face
Zae felt like a big boulder came down and squashed his heart
"No!!! and moreover you're single too you can't mock me like that"
Zae adds as he flusters about
"He he atleast I don't get rejected like you"
Kiri with an evil smile
"It was only once dang it, I don't wanna remember that event so shut up and tell me if you got the domain impliers"
Zae quickly changes the topic while being embarrassed about what Kiri had said earlier
"Yea I got them, surprisingly they cost only 50 low class crystals. I thought they would be more expensive considering the effect this item has"
Kiri replies as he pulls out two glasses.
"Eh? are those spectacles?"
Zae asks in an unconvinced manner
"Yea, I was surprised too I thought they would be somewhat like a game console or something"
Kiri replies with a straight face
"That's even worse....."
Zae shouts at him.
"Well forget that.... how do we use it?"
Zae asks
"The storekeeper said that we should wear it then chant imply domain quest or something like that"
Kiri replies while spacing out a bit
"What?? something like that? you're not even sure?"
Zae in an angry tone
"I just told you how to use it.... here"
Kiri tosses one of the domain implier to Zae. While wearing the one that was in his hands
"You're hopeless sometimes"
Zae also wears the domain implier that he grabbed as Kiri tossed them
"He he ... now lets see what it does"
"Imply.. domain quest!"
Both of them chants at the same time. A notification pops out
(You have activated the domain implier.
Would you like to take your domain quest now?
YES or NO)
SFX:press
"Here we go"
Zae says in a very excited tone
some few seconds later
"Ehhh? why isn't our quest coming up? Is this item broken were we scammed??"
Zae starts throwing tantrums after waiting a while and no notification comes after
"Wait a minute damn it, our skills might be very complicated so even the domain implier must be having a hard time finding a suitable domain quest for us"
SFX: ping.
(Domain implier used,
Domain quest received: The Illusion cave raid
Defeat the illusion spider living under the mountains of Apecolo.
Time limit: None
Quest difficulty: SS rank
Quest type: solo)
Appears in Zae's notification as he was clinging to Kiri crying about the notification not popping up. The people walking past were smiling at them as they walked past
"I'm sorry I'm sorry"
Zae apologizes in embarrassment
"Well you got your quest and its difficulty is SS. It must be a super hard quest."
Kiri with a serious look on his face while looking at Zae's quest difficulty
"Oh you weren't there when Reva explained it... The quests in this world are all ranked according to the quest taker's abilities with respect to the normal rank of the quest. This quest should be generally an A class quest I guess"
Zae explains to Kiri about the quest system that he had learnt from Reva
"Ohh.... thats why our previous quest's rank shot up"
Kiri with a surprised expression
"I was worried for nothing then"
Kiri gives a sighs of relieve
"So you do care about me"
Zae with a smirk moving his eyebrows up and down
"You...."
Kiri with a blushed expression
SFX:ping
(Domain implier used
Domain quest received: The shadow queen's lair
Defeat the shadow queen and make a pact with her. The lair is located at top of Apecolo mountain.
Warning:The shadow queen must not be killed
Time limit: none
Quest difficulty: S+
Quest type: solo)
"Eh? why is mine only S+ , is it because I'm much stronger than you or is it that the quest is actually easier than yours."
Kiri with a dissatisfied expression
"Aren't you glad that it's atleast a rank S+.... It will be very hard aswell, don't get too cocky, remember how we got beat at a C rank quest. We pulled through because it was two of us but now its solo"
Zae replies while pointing his finger up
"Yea I guess you're right..... now i feel pity for you"
Kiri changes his expression from dissatisfied to that of worry.
"The location of our quest seems near since both of them are in Apecolo mountain"
Kiri adds
"Yea, but where exactly is this mountain?"
Zae with an awkward face looks at Kiri who looks at him the same way
"Lets go buy a map!"
Both of them suggests at the same time and rushes over towards a store of cartography. They rush into the door and asks the store keeper for a map of Apecolo mountains.
"Mister, give us a map of Apecolo mountain ..... huff huff"
Zae asks the storekeeper in a hurried way and fast as if he was competing with Kiri
"Calm down calm down dear customer.... we'll go and fetch it for you, how many do you need?"
The store keeper asks as he shows a weirded out expression
"Give us two!!"
Zae replies quickly
"That would be 20 blue crystals"
The storekeeper adds with a smile.
PS:The store keeper is a girl
"Okay here you go... two maps of Apecolo mountains... please do come again"
The store keeper says with a smile while giving the maps to Zae.
"Ohh thank you so much..... Here is your payment"
Zae hands over 20 blue crystals to the store keeper and takes the map and starts walking out of the store with Kiri.
"Oh wait customers..... are you going to the Apecolo mountains?"
The store keeper asks suddenly after stopping them
"Yes"
Zae replies and Kiri nods
"I would recomend you not to go there without some Mithril rank adventurers or it will be too dangerous... there are many ferocious monsters in the mountain"
The storekeeper warns Zae and Kiri.
"Don't worry, we have a trick or two up our sleeves"
Zae replies as we waves his hands to the storekeeper and starts walking out
"Okay then, be safe!!!"
The store keeper says as they go out of the store.
"So now we got the map should we move out now?"
Zae asks Kiri with an excited face
"It's getting dark we should rest here tonight and move out tomorrow"
Kiri replies.... Zae looks up at the sky
"Oh yea you're right lets go and find a place for us to sleep and....."
SFX:grumble
"I'm damn hungry I want foood!!!!"
Zae exclaims as he grabs his grumbling stomach
•A few walking later•
"Miss, give us a room for two with two beds please"
Zae in a reception in a hotel.
"Sure, esteemed customer, how long would you like to stay?"
The receptionist asks
"Only for tonight"
Zae replies
"OK let me check if there are any rooms for two left"
The receptionists checks a register.
"You're room number is 101 at the first floor. It will be 50 blue crystals for one night"
The receptionist offers with a smile
"Okay then we'll take it"
Zae replies
"Here is your key and also here is a communication crystal... If you need anything please contact us"
The receptionist hands them the key to their room and a crystal aswell.
"Oh also is there any place near here we can eat?"
Zae asks
"We serve food here aswell, you can order food from the other counter next door"
The receptionist replies
"Oh thank you so much"
Zae rushes into the door and sits on the table and orders the entire menu. Kiri and Zae eats the entire menu like wild beast with a table full of left over bones and people looking at them and thinking if they were wild e beast who didn't have food for years or something
"Ahh! that was good!!"
Zae as he rubs his stomach and walks towards a door with a plate saying 101
Zae and Kiri both goes into the room and jumps into their beds...
They discuss various things they would do tomorrow and goes into bed with an excitement in their face.
"Hey Snipe"
Zae whispers. His face turned towards the opposite direction as Kiri
"Hmmm?"
Kiri replies with a sleepy voice
"I wonder what Noto is doing!!"
Zae asks
"He must be sleeping aswell"
Kiri replies
"Yea"
after another short while
"Hey Snipe"
Zae whispers again
"Hmmm?"
Kiri responds but in a little angry sound this time
"Do you think anyone can live for 3000 years?"
Zae asks as he turns towards Kiri
"Are you going insane? just let me sleep peacefully!!'
Kiri replies coldly and pulls his blanket up to cover his head
Zae also closes his eyes and goes into sleep