"who's there!?"
shout a big man with a full armor plate and a big sword in his back, his direction is looking toward us. Beside him, there's an elf who have scholar attire, he have a black staff in his hand, he looked at our direction too while he curious about who's hiding behind the ruin.
it looks like we have already been found. well, it's better if we go out now to clear the misunderstanding, the man is prepared for a battle stance. the first one to come out was Jade then me.
"yahhh, to think we would be found out. I'm sorry about that, but you don't need to worry we're not enemy"
Jade walked out slowly while said to the man who already appointed his weapon to us.
"Who are you!? speak your name!!"
hearing a big shout from him there is another guard who comes from the ruin, they point their weapon at us while trying to surround us.
total the guard that surrounds us is 7 people, their attire is not like a guard at all some of them have the attire like an adventure
'7 people huh?;
I counting the people who just go out from the ruin.
"my name is Jade and I'm adventure as you can see I'm a beastman a half-dragon"
Jade answering it.
upon hearing Jade name one of the guards then remembering something the guard recognizes her, he has heard her name. Jade is S rank adventure I'm sure she is famous.
"Jade... half-dragon? green hair, it can't be... captain, she is Jade the dragon emperor. she's one of 3 who have the title of Dragon Emperor, she is affiliated with guild she is S rank who rose up with only just 3 years for being adventure"
upon hearing the guard I'm speechless but I hide my feeling instead of making a face of poker face. I'm speechless because I heard jade nickname
'....'
dragon emperor? ... who?... this girl? did I heard it wrong?... there's no way she is dragon emperor right?. I don't believe what the guard says. I hardly imagined that Jade is the one who rules the half-dragon tribe, to me she's a girl with a muscle brain. strength more than her head.
another guard who heard her name then make a ruckus, some of them maybe remember that nickname, then another voice comes in the voice of an energetic young man the owner of the voice is the scholar Elf.
"wowww, to think I will be meet with one of the holder Dragon emperor titles I'm really surprised, ah sorry about the late Introduction, I'm sir Alcott Von Godfrey pleasure to meet you, young lady"
he approaches us while taking Jade's hand and shaking her hand, he was an elf with green hair like jade but his hair color is different, jade hair color is lime green then this man called alcot is dark green. he is someone who looks likNahve a carefree attitude. he even calling Jayouroung lady.
"pleasure to meet you too sir Alcott"
answer jade while she bowing to him, I tried to follow jade lead, his name sound like some noble so I bowed to him too
the big bodyguard behind Alcott approach us and then interrupt our conversation
"wait, sir Alcott please don't do it, we don't know if she is really Jade One of the three emperors and S Rank adventure, can you show me your guild card?"
he asked about the authenticity of Jade.
"of course, wait a second then"
Jade search for her guild card in her bag, because the bag is a parallel bag it needs time to her for searching it.
"here's my card"
Jade show her card to the full plate bodyguard.
the full plate bodyguard then checking the card from behind and in front of the card, what I looked he imbued some magic to the card but there's nothing changed in the card. the back of jade card there's some writing in there, but I can't read it.
"It looks like this is real, thank you miss Jade, I'm sorry for point my weapon at you"
the full plate bodyguard apologized to jade because of his rude behavior, he already accepts that jade was a real 'dragon emperor'
"Nah, it's okay I know from what I can see you're a bodyguard, and you are bodyguarding sir Alcott aren't you?"
I still didn't have any guild card because I have not yet registered at the guild.
"as you can see... hmm, by the way, he is..."
the full plate bodyguard looked at me, he already confirms that jade is a real deal, so he looked at me asking for my identity.
"ah, he is my partner in adventure his name is.."
Jade trying to introduce me, but I interrupt her. I feel bad covered by jade so I introduce myself.
"My name is Galen, nice to meet you sir Alcott and umm..."
full plate armor bodyguard has not yet introduced himself so I implying asked his name
"ah I'm sorry, this is very rude to me I'm Irvin Holifax, you can call me Irvin"
"then, nice to meet you Irvin"
for some reason, I don't see any suspicion in me from him, and he even didn't ask about my guild card as jade does. it is because Jade already introduces herself as rank S adventure? maybe he doesn't have any suspicion of me because he afraid of making wrath from Jade? well, I don't know but at least this is a good thing for me.
"by the way, miss Jade what are you doing in here? is rare to see S rank class explore some ruins?"
the one who asked was the Elf he is Alcott. The reason why S rank is rare to see at the ruin is that they didn't bother themselves with some ruins who maybe don't have any treasure, instead, they use their rank to be hired for some country because the pay is more promising. but some of them sometimes are like Jade, who doesn't care about the money. they seeking the thrill of finding a new place and new experience or maybe someone who really likes ruins.
"ahhhhh, I just doing some training and hunting in this forest for 2 weeks with him, after we finish the training I thought maybe it's good to visit the new ruin that guild found so we come to here"
I realized she tried to make a lied or excuse, I judge from how Jade speaks the reason why she lied because the existence of Vega village is still not known around the world, that village has become the secret village.
"oooooh to think even S class and one of the holder dragon emperor titles like you still have training. this is truly wonderful, looks like there will be someone who gone to SS rank soon"
he tried to flatters Jade.
Even though the conversation Is in a nice direction, but I can't fathom myself, my heart feels restless and worried for some reason. I just feel there is something bad gonna happen In this place, I try to ignore it and focus to hear the conversation for now.
"hyahaha, you flatter me sir Alcott I'm still far away from SS rank Adventure. but yes, soon I gonna rank up and become SS rank, ah by the way why are the noble like you come to a place like here and even bring all this bodyguard, sir Alcott?"
Jade realized that sir alcot is noble from another country so she asked him.
"of course I'm gonna come here there's no way I don't have any interest in the ruin, I forgot to tell it but I'm the leader of a researcher from Arugos kingdom"
Arugos kingdom if I'm not wrong is one of the countries from the Ethereal continent. they're one of the biggest countries on this continent and the most advanced kingdom more than any kingdom in the ethereal continent. it is said that they have the technology advance the same as the Atlantis continent. In the diary books it was tell that Atlantis continent is have the technology more advanced that any countries in other continent.
"ah I'm sorry if I'm rude to think representative of Arugos kingdom is in here"
Jade apologize, she thinks her behavior is rude toward the leader of the researcher from arugos country.
"no no it's okay it's not rude, I more like if you don't have to be so formal too me"
"then if you say so"
the conversation is pretty much normal, I can't join the conversation I leave the question and the conversation to Jade I'm still not familiar with common sense a people from this time after all.
"sir Alcott and Irvin earlier we're sorry to bother you, it's not our desire to spying on you we just curious about this ruin and coincidentally meeting all of you here"
Jade apologize and bowing, I follow Jade bowing to Alcott, we bow him once again. we don't want to be antagonized by them, after all.
"it's okay it's okay please raise your head, I don't have any hostile feeling to you too, after all, it's this guy's job to be suspicious at anything"
Alcott ordered us then he pointed his finger to Irvin.
"yes, I and my subordinate apologize if we pointed my sword at you, we just want to protect our Lord, we don't know what gonna happen in this ruin so we must be prepared for anything"
Irvin apologizes bowing to us and explain to us he wants to clear the misunderstanding too from before.
"it's okay, I'm glad we already cleared the situation, and if this place already been reserved by another country then we will leave, it's rude after all to taking someone prey"
It looks like there's still an unspoken rule in this world about not taking someone's prey/prize. We still don't know why the Arugos kingdoms send their heard researcher in here. I can just assume that maybe they believe they will found something in these ruins so they try to reserve it first. Jade is polite for not asking their purpose in here, a wise decision.
my heart still feels restless from the first time I come here, I don't know why the more I wasted my time here the more I want to leave this place as soon as possible, it's good that Jade already bring the initiative to leave.
we walked away from them, but then suddenly Alcott shouts to us and said something unbelievable to Irvin.
"hey!! , wait for you two!!, I have some suggestions! Irvin it's okay right if those two become our bodyguard for this mission too?"
"What!??"
the sound of Irvin surprised can be heard by us.