The next day of the expedition I received my payment, I received three hundred gold coins and a small amount compared to what I did alone in the dungeon, but taking into account the risk and the time I spent on the expedition and a very good value.
Aside from fighting the assassin guardians, I wasn't exposed to any real danger. So, it's natural that my pay is reduced, and my biggest contribution was killing a lot of common monsters and wounding one of the assassins.
I wasn't the person who contributed the most, nor can I approach the top ten contribution, but I believe I had a very good performance, apart from the fight with the first keeper I was basically useless I had a consistent performance throughout the entire expedition.
I doubt that there is anyone who can complain about my performance and if possible, now I have to be able to convince or find a group that does expeditions every week, for me to apply.
After receiving my payment from Hilda, I asked how the expedition's evaluation had gone. According to Deneve, Katarina should have been reprimanded and possibly lost the right to lead expeditions, but from what Hilda told me, Katarina was reprimanded and penalized, but she will still lead the next expedition.
It seems they have taken into account the positive results of the previous expeditions that Katarina has led, but if she loses or makes one more mistake she will be removed from the leadership.
I don't think she was a bad leader, the fight with the giant kruthik she was a good leader and had a huge performance on the kruthik's subjugation.
I've talked to my acts to see if any of their families have a group of adventurers going on expeditions or if they know of any reliable group for me to write to. My research turned out to be fruitful, Torris said that the younger generation of the Yates family is making expeditions to the bloody arena dungeon, just as the Menfis family probably chose this dungeon for the same reasons as the Menfis family.
Raziel has found a group to explore the moonlight forest and the black lair, Raziel has been researching various groups of adventurers because apart from me he doesn't know anyone who is interested in exploring these two dungeons.
Unfortunately, his family doesn't even have a group of adventurers available for Raziel to join, his family's forces that aren't too big are focused on the land dispute. They've been working as mercenaries clearing out various resource locations, Raziel even told me that his family managed to conquer the same resource location twice in the same week for different people.
I'm going to accompany Raziel to meet the group of night owl adventurers, part being a group of five warriors with the shadow element. I might draw a little attention to the fact that I don't have the shadow element, but I can make the excuse of having an abnormal sensitivity to mana and that's why I can fight in the dark, it can sweat weird and it's a skill. very rare, but it's better than them knowing the truth and with a straightforward explanation like mine, it's very hard for anyone to doubt that it's true.
So now I might be invited to join the next expedition led by Katarina, I have to try to join the group of night owl adventurers and maybe Torris can get me to join the group of the Yates family.
Now despite not having a certainty or confirmed participation, I have much more chances to enter the dungeon than before, maybe I should talk to Lofar and Calen they must know some groups of adventurers that I can join.
But leaving the dungeons aside, my classes have become much more difficult, especially my teacher's aura, when he found out that I can make aura blade he has made me train every day at the end of his class. Because of that I had a big improvement, since after each class he always corrected and advised me, thanks to his help I can now shoot my aura blade for a distance of almost ten meters.
He even gave me a specific exercise to do after reaching ten meters, he said the next step was to fuse a concept of one of my elements in my aura, I should start injecting some of my elemental energy, into the aura blade to give it a different effect.
My fire element will make the aura blade hotter and possibly its color from light gray to reddish gray, the wind element will make it sharper.
In fact, I think the wind element is the element that best matches the aura blade, if I'm not facing an enemy who has weakness to the fire element or resistance to the wind element, I believe the best fusion is my aura with the wind element.
For the fire element to make a big difference in the attack power of my aura, I'll have to have a very great mastery of the fusion of the two, since the wind element is its advantage and much more effective, making it the priority of my training.
Since I have reached the almost basic mastery of my aura, I have been researching aura arts, to learn. I was shocked by the variety of aura arts, the more than five variations of the aura blade, they go from making the aura vibrate which is a variation I'm very interested in learning as both my wind element and the fire are compatible with this variety.
Varieties that I don't think are worth learning, even though it can be useful like the concentrated blade, which consists of decreasing the size of the aura blade to concentrate it into a small shape. It can be useful for breaking a solid defense, but I don't think it's that useful for me.
But varieties like boomerang blade, which I find a more useless curious variation.
The other arts of aura, for movement, for defense and for strengthening the body are not priorities for me. I just don't have the energy or time to train all the aura arts I want to train.
I really want to learn how to use my aura to strengthen my body and learn the aura shield which is the simplest form of defense using aura, defense and my weak point. And joining two elemental shields with one aura shield can become a solid defense that suits my fighting style.
But because of my lack of time, I'll just risk spending my time learning the aura shield, it shouldn't be too difficult since using my aura close to my body is not a big challenge and the aura shape shouldn't be too complicated to master. And I'll have to spend a lot of time training the union of three shields, just to have a rudimentary mastery in the fusion of fire and wind element shields already and a good challenge, joining one more shield can be complicated, but how is it made of aura and not of elemental energy so maybe it's easier to put them together.
As the days went by, I went to visit Lofar and Calen, to ask for their help as I'm waiting for my answers and Hilda has run away, when I get close to her, she's been like this since yesterday. I think Katarina must have barred my participation in the Menfis family expedition, it might be cruel of me but I'm hoping she'll be screwed on the next expedition.
When I arrive at Lofar's workshop, I find two adventurers expelling from his workshop. Every time I come here lately; I see him fighting with someone.
I dodge the two adventurers who are leaving the workshop.
"Hi, Lofar. How is your day going?"
"If you came today to complain about something, you can turn around."
Looks like someone is in a bad mood.
"Too many problems today?"
"Lots of annoying customers who don't want to pay or want to return what they will buy. Bunch of jerks"
"Well, I came today to ask for your help, but it's not about equipment. I came to ask if you can recommend me any groups of adventurers you are recruiting to enter the dungeons, over the next month and a half I will have to depend on the money I can earn in the dungeon, quests are a tricky subject these days."
"Complicated. That's a nice Ulric euphemism, and why do you think I can help you? I'm a blacksmith not an adventurer's agent?"
"Because your work is of high quality, so you should have several good-natured, trustworthy clients, my problem is finding a trustworthy group."
"I can't believe the word trust is coming out of your mouth, why didn't you go to Calen's shop?"
He really is in a bad mood.
"You're being exaggerated because you're in a bad mood, you're the one who sent me to Calen's shop because you don't specialize in bows. This is just an example of how you care about your customers and not about making more money."
"That's why I came to see you, you're not only my favorite blacksmith but also a friend, if you needed my help I would help you, that's why I came to ask for your help without a single burden on my conscience."
"Serious? Because I have an order to make for you. I want you to go after some black werewolf teeth, with your shit luck you can face them exploring the moonlight forest."
"Like this?"
"I want black werewolf's teeth, they are elite monsters of level two and three, they appear in the dungeon in the moonlight forest, but they don't show up normally they are a rare creature in the lower number floors. With your luck they should come to you."
"But to enter the dungeon I need to be part of a group, so you must meet some groups so I can go in and get the teeth you want?"
"I have to ask some customers; come back in two days I should have managed to arrange a group for you to join."
"Thank you Lofar, I'll be back in two days."