the kingdom of nadar though had twenty percent of its area covered with nexa city its capital city the other eighty percent was completely occupied by the factories and other small villages that gathered the ores and other raw material. nexa was the only city but nadar had a few villages. though normally these places were restricted to outsiders but if one were to get a quest they can go to the villages for a limited time.
"baby do you want to visit a village? i see a quest that allows one to go to the mining village in nadar" faes asked sky. they had not even roamed the whole nexa and decided to come to the adventurers guild as it contained a map showing the whole nexa city, faes and sky came here to decide which places they wanted to visit instead of going around aimlessly.
while they were looking at the huge and detailed map faes accidentally saw a quest on the quest board that was nearby the map. instantly her interest was picked and she turned to sky excitedly.
sky was similarly excited to visit a new place and get to know more about the world and hence she instantly agreed.
faes and sky had already created their id's in adventures guild in reptiliance and they had already finished many quest there. now they only need to get the quest using their id's and finish it. even though it was an a rank quest faes and sky were already s rank adventurers hence they didn't have any problem to get the quest.
[quest: save the mining village of nadar and help them reclaim the mining cave accepted
rewards: exp, million money points, ??????
punishment: decrease in health and mana permanently and decrease in a level
time limit: ten days]
faes saw the quest appearing in her own system quest interface and paused looking at the ?????? in the reward. it wasn't in the reward given by the adventurers guild hence she grew more excited after knowing she would get more rewards.
"lets go!" after getting their pass to enter the restricted area faes and sky went to the entry of restricted area. there was another teleportation circle there to take them directly to the village instead of letting them go to the village after crossing the production area and factories in between. 'probably to keep the secrets of production?'
faes and sky didn't fuss about the matter and gladly went to the teleportation circle.
arriving in the village faes and sky noticed that almost every building was made of different stones and metals. roads were made using hard marble and other stones while almost everything that can be made using stone and metals was made using them instead of other things.
'as expected of a mining village' one look and anyone could tell that this place was a mining village. the village wasn't big but only contained a limited area between mountains. aside from the mansion that had an administrative office and teleportation area along with the village chief residence, other buildings were small houses and basic daily need shops and one big clearing in middle of the whole village.
even the population was not more than a few hundred! faes and sky didn't go around as they can already see the whole village from the building they appeared in- the main mansion.
they instead went to meet the village chief to gather more information on the problem.
the village chief was in his study looking at another report that showed the decrease in mining content and the increase in deaths of miners. because of the main mine which was the biggest in the whole area and supplied most of the ores of the different kind being taken over by beasts, the supply of ores decreased drastically.
many adventurers came to fight the beasts but all of them either died or became crippled or mentally unstable at the end of the fight.
after losing over a hundred people barely anyone come to help them. the citizens began to get used to the decreased ore supply and continued mining in other smaller mines but who would have thought that as the time passed the beasts from the main mine would begin to appear in other mines too. because of this the supply of ores was decreasing drastically while number of miners who died were increasing.
the village chief seriously cant watch his people die anymore but if they stopped mining then how were they going to feed themselves? he seriously didn't know what to do anymore.
just as the village chief was worrying over this problem his assistant knocked on the door.
"come in"
the assistant entered the study, her expression both excited and anxious confusing the village chief.
"sir! two adventurers have accepted the quest from the capital city adventurers guild they are here waiting to meet you outside" the assistant told making the village chief sigh shaking his head, another adventurer who were going to either die or end up crippled.
"send them away, we cant let them die. we are going to retreat and relocate our whole village and begin farming" the village chief had just made his decision, he cant let anyone die anymore.
"but sir they are s rank adventurers! none of the adventurers from before were es rank! i met the two, both of them are king establishment stage cultivators but there is only one problem" the assistant was jumping on her place as she described faes and sky
"what problem?" the village chief's hope which had died grew again but what problem could there be? s rank! king establishment stage! these two were enough to make anyone kneel in the current lore much less a village.
"they are kids! one is eleven years old while other is barely two years old though they look older" the assistant said making village chief eyes widen.
two kids? how did they became s rank adventurers? and how can a two year old cultivate to king establishment stage rank? the village chief's mind stopped working for a while before he came back to their senses. two prodigies! there were two geniuses outside wanting to take on a deadly quest! no he wont let them!
if either of them dies or gets hurt then he would be responsible.
"send them in"
the assistant left sending faes and sky inside. once the village chief saw the two of them he nodded. not only were these two so young but they were so beautiful too. he definitely cant let them go to the cave to get hurt or die.
"adventurers i appreciate your help to save our village but i just recently decided to take the quest back and relocate the village. i hope you don't take offence and please proceed with your other work. as for wasting your time i will compensate you with two thousand money points and a ton of gold ore?" the village chief said just as faes and sky took their seats.