'Why? Why? Why is this happening?'
"Haaaa haaaaa"
It's been a while since I've started running. It looks like there is no escape from this forest.
It's no use looks like I'll die here...
While thinking this and running for my life after I encountered an ogre king during my exploration with my friends. They all are dead, I'm the only one left.
"ahh!" I slip on the wet grass and fall down.
" Damn it! now of all time. Looks like I'm going to die without seeing my family again"
While crying out loud I've been praying to god
'Please save me even if it the devil I'll do anything please save me'
"HELP ME" I screamed at the top of my voice as the ogre king is approaching me.
The ogre king found me. I'm struggling to stand up. I'm trying to crawl away from the monster. In the corner of my eye, I see a humanoid figure. I tried to see if its someone but before I took the head of the ogre king fell down from its body as if it had been cut clean off.
Now in front of me is a person, a boy maybe not older than 16-17 holding a scythe.
"Are you ok miss?"
After turning my way this mysterious figure spoke to me but due to all the fatigue, I felt my eyes being heavy and fell on the ground unconscious.
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It has been a month since that incident with Ria, and now I'm in a kind of relationship with her. Out of nowhere she comes and hugs me, kisses me in public, and above all in the morning, I find her in my bed. The weird thing is I actually enjoy her carefree nature and sometimes think whether I'm worthy of all the love she has shown me.
I'm right now walking towards the guild to get a request to get myself promoted to S-rank. Oh yeah! I've already been promoted to A-rank a few weeks ago after I defeated the Goblin King with Ria and others.
Right now the Golden dragon's Rank is A and our individual ranks are:
Ria: A-rank
Rina: B-rank
Fina: A-rank
Andy: A-rank
And as for now, I'm a well-known hunter and the grim reaper is a feared name to all hunters below C-rank.
And now I'm on my final mission as an A-rank. We are going for a search and rescue operation. It seems like the 3rd daughter of Marquess Renji has gone missing with her friends who had gone exploring in the Raji forest.
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Job title: Search and rescue
Requirement: Find the 3rd daughter of Marquess Renji who has gone missing in the Raji forest.
Details: the group has the following members;
3rd daughter of the Marquess
2 attendants
1daughter of knights
3 escort party of Rank-c
Additional information:
The is an all-girl group. there is a total of 13 members in the group including the Marquess's daughter who has gone on a hunting trip with her attendants and her best friend, daughter of the Rozr knight family.
Task: to find and rescue the daughter from the forest and report directly to the royal knights.
Reward: 10 gold, 5 million silver royal coins
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She seems like she knows who we are tasked to find as she has gone dark after receiving the quest data. More like an expression of worry and concern.
We received this quest but before officially starting the quest we set off to the Marquess's mansion for the introduction with the Rozr family so they can join us.
" Hey, Ria what's wrong you look too worried?"
"Oh sorry, it's just this mission ..... The girl we are looking for her name is Ragani. We grew up together, kind of. It's just she's such a kind person. I'm too worried"
As soon as she says that I hug her lightly kissing the side of her head and whispered in her ear " Do you want me to go full speed and scout the forest and find her ?"
"Yes please"
she replies with an almost crying tone.
.....
After an hour of carriage ride, we have reached the Marquess mansion.
"Long time no see Ria. SO it was you who accepted the request?"
After hearing those words Ria turns behind to see an old man around his 50s standing behind us.
"Oh hello, uncle ken. Yes, I took the request of finding Ragina with my party."
As soon as she says that the old man's eyes turn towards me with a sinister aura as if he didn't approve of me being at the same Party as Ria.
Noticing that aura Ria adds, "Any way you already know two of my attendants and my party members, and here is Andy is also known as the grim reaper, and the person we in a relationship with.
"We..."
"Yes; me, Rina, and Fina."
The old man was a bit too shocked with her claim but Rina and Fina agreed with her, he couldn't stand straight. I don't get it but the view gave me a sense of superiority.
"Ok, then let's call the knights who are going with you guys."
In a hurried tone, the old man said as if he wanted to change the topic as soon as possible.
Seeing this I can't hold my laughter. seeing that Rina hits me with her elbow telling me to control the laughter and to rub the smug out of my face.
"Hello, I'm Ronan, the head of the 3rd division royal knights. "
A mid-aged man arrived at the front door from inside the mansion.
"Good afternoon Ronin. How are you doing?"
Ria greeted the mid-aged man.
"Oh Ria! so you are the party that accepted the request. Well, let's get along."
After the introduction we decided to leave.
"Ok ill go on ahead meet you there ok."
I kissed Ria on the forehead and hugged her.
I take a deep breath and take my wings out of my back. A jet black wings long as two average men. This is the power I discovered after I experimented for a long during my promotion and training sessions.
I have the power to absorbed organic matter from my surrounding which enables me to create things out of thin air. And if I have already produced or created something it just stays inside my body and can be taken out anytime I want more like the scythe I first produced during the Roxy incident.
"What the hell is that????"
As soon I take out my wings I could feel the uneasy and surprised gases from the people who didn't know about my powers which is almost all of them. The old man's composer suddenly dropped and became pail. Maybe it was too much for an old man to handle.
After spreading my wings I flapped them and start flying. I started flying towards the forest at full speed which made me reach there in less than five minutes.
"Damn this is too fast"
As I was not used to flying I started to feel sick but it went away when I stopped above the forest.
"Now to search for the missing person."
As soon as I decided it I smelled a stench of blood coming from the deep part of the forest.
"Shit!!!! am I too late"
With the thought of being late, I hurriedly landed in the place where I smelled blood and found eleven dead bodies, all with armor and protective gear so I know it wasn't the person I was looking for.
"HELP ME"
I hear a faint cry for help and decided to sprint over. In the near second, I reached where the voice was coming from. There there was a girl on the ground who almost lost hope of living. There was an A-rank monster the ogre king approaching her.
Without a moment of hesitation, I took out my sight and swing it on the Ogar king and its head came clean off.
"Are you ok miss?"
I asked the girl on the ground with a gentle smile as she slowly lost her consciousness and passed out.