"Even if you two have a couple of fights with each other, we can't tolerate anymore what you are doing to him." Frea pulled harder the chains.
[Countdown for the next quest will now commence.
All is advised to go to the designated location shown in the system map.
Quest countdown before it begins: 01:59:59]
Everyone's attention diverted on the pop out message of the system.
So it finally begins.
Frea fell flat on the floor as soon as I let go of the chains.
"Frea!" The pink hair whose name was Dina if I'm right? Let go of me as she rushed towards Frea.
The glasses guy Paul, out of panic also rushed to help Frea and seemed to forget that he is holding Argaux.
*Boogsh*
Argaux fell flat on the floor with a loud thud. Ouch, that must hurt a lot.
"You're so mean Via!" Frea said as she stood up with the assistance of the two.
"Your such a meanie Via! Hmp." Huh? Why did I think of Zash just now?
"Paul! You fool! Why did you let go of Mr. Handsome!" Frea shouted in panic as she checked Argaux.
Paul realized what he had done as he also check Argaux. He sighed in relief when Argaux seemed just fine, he guess?
Tsk. Since you're all so dead set in helping him.
"Liberate." As soon as I said that, the chains in Argaux's body crumbled into dust.
"Help him if you want. But I warn you this, never touch a single thing from him. If you do, you'll die. That guy wants to kill me that's why I chained him. And the reason I'm pulling him with me, is because I'm the only one that can remove those chains. If I leave him here, he will be in danger. He still has many uses after all, though his indeed still very dangerous." After that long speech, I then started to walk away from them.
'The kids have been abducted and the next quest is already on its way. I need to hurry and prepare everything. Damn! I said I will protect them. But this happened.
"Wait Via, I said that we will be sticking with each other from now on right? So we're going to follow you anywhere you go too." Frea held my hand again to stop me. But, I shook it off, immediately.
"What's the matter with you?! I never agreed I'm going to join you."
"Tehee. Don't worry as I said, I already decided that." Frea laughed.
"This!"
This girl, I can't understand her intentions at all. We weren't even close at school. We just talked one or two times when I submitted my project to her.
[Countdown before the Quest Start: 1:35:09]
I massaged the temples of my head.
Too much time had been wasted now, I need to leave now.
"Fine then. Do what you want." I said as I continued to walk ahead.
"Yey!" Frea jumped happily. Annoying, this girl is incredibly annoying.
"Sorry if we bother you so much. You see, Frea's ability is poison, but it has a side effect. As she uses it, she also gets affected by it. And we still don't know if she uses a lethal one, will it also endangered her life so much?" Paul explained as he walked beside me, he was already carrying Argaux again.
Poison?
This time I checked every bit of their thoughts and status on the way now.
[Name: Paul Valer
Age: 20
Ht: 6 ft
Wt: 75 kg
Title: Computer Geek, Body Builder
Status
Level: 15
Hp: 77
Mp: 83
Strength:
Agility: 47
Intelligence: 48
Defense: 51
Skills:
Web Net, Smash, Super strength]
[Web Net
With this ability, one could control and manipulate multiple computer systems at once without any need for the internet. Though if used, one's body would be weakened. Long rest is needed after use.]
[Name: Dina Anne Rañez
Age: 18
Ht: 5'5 ft
Wt: 72 kg
Title: Designer
Status
Level: 14
Hp: 65
Mp: 72
Strength: 52
Agility: 47
Intelligence: 48
Defense: 51
Skills:
Perception, Multi-Spark ]
[Perception:
This ability help the user to see things from different perspectives. Though it would cause migraine when used too much.]
[Mult-Spark
The user can brighten herself. It uses mana as its power source. Though after use, her body color would become dark.]
[Name: Frea Beverly
Age: 19
Ht: 5'7 ft
Wt: 50 kg
Title: Wanderer
Status
Level: 15
Hp: 378
Mp: 454
Strength: 52
Agility: 47
Intelligence: 48
Defense: 51
Skills:
Poison Embody, Pep Talk, Nature's Cleansing]
[Poison Embody
Your body has the ability to produce any poisons as long as you know its composition. Though the user would also be affected by 40% of the poison used.]
[Pep Talk:
With this ability, 30% will be added to the persuasion ability. ]
[Nature Cleansing:
This ability can be used to clean when being dirtied. It can also use to purify contaminated things. Though you can only use this up to ten times a day.]
I see, they were not lying. They all got decent skills but all of them had side effects. Was it because they were not characters in this story? It was also the same with my skills that have long countdowns and one was still not working like the solitude.
"Frea has an ability called nature cleansing. Can't she used that to purify herself from her own poison?" I asked.
"Wow! How did you know I have that ability?" Frea said, surprised.
"One of my abilities. Now the question."
"Well..."
"We tried it already but it didn't do any effect on her," Paul said before Frea could speak again.
"We saw you have so many items with you during your fight. We thought that you might have the item poison dispel we earnestly tried to save coins for the whole night. But as soon as we are going to buy it, it was been sold out, the complete 200 stock in an instant!" Dina cried in anger as she formed a fist.
*cough! * *cough!*
"Are you alright?"
"Yeah. I'm fine." I avoided Dina's gaze.
"As you guess, I do have poison dispel."
"I knew it!" Dina said happily.
"But, I will not give it for free."
"Don't worry we'll buy it with coins when the time comes to it." Frea barged in with the conversation.
The two nodded their heads. Since the item wass just 3 ssc. And each of them has around 300-400 ssc each.
"The price will be 30 silver each."
"What?!"-Dina
"That's too much!"-Paul
"We are schoolmates can you give us some discount?" Frea pleaded.
The three of them simultaneously said.
"50 small silver and that's that."
They wanted to retort but just whispered to themselves though I can still hear them.
"Miser." -Frea
"Harsh." -Dina
"..."
I just ignored them since we already reached an agreement. I hurried my footsteps more, then began running.
We were already outside the building.
"Aren't we going to the quest location pointed in this system map?" Paul matched my pace again.
"We are going there later. I have to go someplace first. I'll be needing it to the next quest."
"What is that?" Dina asked curiously. Frea remained silent listening to us. She seemed to look pale right now.
"You'll find out later. Here." I stopped in my tracks.
Dina caught one bottle of Poison dispel and looked at me questioningly.
"The first one would be free. Let her drink that." Dina followed where I'm looking at and her eyes widened.
"My gosh. Frea! You look very pale."
Frea just gave a small laugh.
'Fools did all of you really forget that she uses her skills a while ago?'
"Let her rest there for a while. I'll go on ahead." I pointed out to a small convenience store on the other side of the road.
"I-I can still go on. I said that we wo-uld stick with you" Frea was breathing really hard but still look determined.
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*sigh*
[Countdown before the Quest Start: 1:14:27]
"We will rest here for five minutes after that we continue on our way." Their eyes brightened as soon as I said that.
'Why am I being so considerate of these people?' I wondered.
Dina helped Frea in drinking the potion. She let her took a seat on the bench we found around the area.
After a few minutes...
She looked fine now.
"Let's go."
I ran on. And they followed immediately.
After a few turns. I finally arrived at my destination.
"That is..."
"The Bahamut." I cut Paul's word.
"Don't tell me we need to defeat that or something?" Frea said, her complexion had slowly returned to normal.
"That's impossible right now," I said.
[Countdown before the Quest Start: 1:00:00]
[Sub Quest has been issued:
Reach the location in what the system map shows
Reward: 100 small silver coins
3 fairy tears
3 mana stones
Failure: Penalty of 100 golds]
As expected this really appeared.
The three also looked at the screen and their faces were filled with worry as they read what it stated.
'Only an hour left.'
Our location was on the central road whereas the location of the quest is on the National park. It would take two hours if we walk from there and almost more than one hour even if we run. lf we really do that, we will tire ourselves.
"I did tell you to do what you want," I said.
"What will we do here? The quest will soon begin." Instead of retorting, Paul just asked me a question.
"You wanted a cool weapon right? We will get that from there." I pointed out to a certain direction under the dragon.
"That? There is something under that."
I walked closer.
"Wait, what if that dragon moves?!" Dina shouted, terrified.
"It won't move," I said and continued walking.
They hesitate first. But still followed behind me.
We were inches now to the dragon. It was really huge up-close.
"Woah! It's super huge! This is worth picturing. I'm gonna take a selfie guys. Say cheese!" Frea's cheerfulness also came back as she brought out her phone.
I made a pose of a peace sign as soon as she clicked the camera.
"Wahhh! I thought I would get a surprise face shot." Frea pouted as all of us were ready when she took the shot.
Heh. I'm always prepared for any surprise picture taking since Zash always got to steal ugly photos of mine when she thought she had the chance.
I then turned around and dusted the white coffin in front before opening it.
[Congratulations! You found the tomb of
Do you wish to acquire it?
Yes
No ]
"Paul, get it. It would suit you with your skills."
"Really?" Paul's eyes shone.
"No. If you want I could..."
"Yes! Yes, I'll accept it." He panicked.
Note: He was still carrying Argaux whom I forgot about now. This guy had still a long time to sleep after all.
The sword disappeared into the coffin and in Paul's hand, a long silver sword appeared. Its markings on its blade shone as it started to flow inside his hand.
"What's happening?" Paul looked worried.
"Don't worry, it's a sign that it accepted you as its owner."
This sword was found out in the fourth quest by Rey and gave to his supposed-to-be a new comrade.
Sorry, first come first serve. And in later scenarios of the novel, this sword will be broken and will be thrown so I will just keep it instead. I knew how to make it much stronger than in the novel after all. It would be a waste if you have this Rey.
[Countdown before the Quest Start: 000:32:50]
"Can we go now, we only have almost half an hour?" Dina said anxiously.
"Yes, we better go now."
*snap!
*click!
"Arghh. Why do you look cool whatever angle you have?" Frea said as she continued trying to steal photo shots of me.
I ignored her, same with the others. Paul was still busy admiring his new sword. While Dina was so anxious now.
"Can we still make it? We don't really have 100 golds." Dina was already on verge of crying.
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I heard Dina's thoughts. I see so this is what she is really worried about. But she's right something worst could happen to those who can't pay.
As she said that, the other two also looked at me waiting for my answer.
"We're going to make it there."
"How?" Dina asked.
"I didn't see any vehicle we can drive." Paul looked around.
"We're going to fly."
I then brought out an item in the system.
"Huh?" They all said at the same time with bewildered and confused faces.
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💖H.E.A (*Happy Ever After Group)💖💕
------Frea Beverly created a group chat----
------Frea Beverly named it to H.E.A--------
FreaBeverlyset her nickname to Frea
Frea added Lala_Sanara to the group
Frea added Vialyn Giselle to the group
Lala_Sanara set her nickname to YourdearAuthor-nim
YourdearAuthor-nim: Hi 😁
Frea added Paul Valer to the group
Frea added Dina Rañez to the group
Paul Valer: Helloo
Dina Rañez: 'Sup?
Frea added Argaux Grimm to the group
Argaux Grimm left the group chat
Frea added Rey Walden to the group
Frea added Celene Bree to the group
Celene Bree: Hi everyone!!!
Rey Walden: ↖(^0^)↗
Frea added Argaux Grimm to the group
Frea added Jessica Fay to the group
Frea added Rio Fay to the group
Argaux Grimm left the group chat
Frea added Rea Fay to the group
Frea added Argaux Grimm to the group
Rea Fay: Hello Ates and Kuyas
Rio Fay: I want to sleep. So noisy.-_-||
Jessica: Wanna eat? currently done cooking with the kids.
Jessica: Rio be more polite to your ates and kuyas here.
Rio Fay: Why are you also here mom? (⊙﹏⊙)
Rea Fay: Mom's part of the cast remember.
Rio Fay:...
Argaux Grimm left the group chat
Frea added Argaux Grimm to the group
Frea: Looks delicious Ate Jess ≧◇≦, and by the way, if you left again one more time, something will be revealed here ╰_╯.
Argaux Grimm: ???
Frea: I sent you in p.m
Argaux Grimm: ...
Rey Walden: I wonder what is that?
Celene Bree: Me too.
Dina Rañez: Me three.
Via Giselle: Paul can just hack their accounts if you want.
Dina: That's right!
Argaux Grimm: Do that and you all die...
Via Giselle: Now, I'm more curious. Paul do it!
Rey Walden: Yeah. Do it!
Paul: Sure! Here it...Ahhhh! Argaux is here!!! Help!!!
Paul: ...
Paul: ...
Dina: Paul are you still alive? (*_*)
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