faes smiled wryly after hearing the village chief. this wasn't a new situation for her and sky, many people from before had done the same after looking at their appearance.
"the village chief is worrying too much. this type of quest we have already done a dozen before and we aren't alone. we have four more members in our team and they are also king establishment stage cultivators along with being adults" faes told the village chief about other four people who were none other than their aide's currently going through their business in mystic fog castle.
"even after that the quest is no longer the same. the difficulty has increased, i cannot let anyone give their lives away, we will just relocate to somewhere else and being farming." the village chief shook his head.
"village chief i understand what you are trying to say but don't worry we have completed quest of much higher difficulty before. and think about it if you relocate will others agree? even if they agree how will they forget about what they had been doing for years?"
"the lives are more important than their emotions" the village chief wavered for a while before returning back to his decision
"i agree but i want to ask if you have to choose between a few lives and hundred maybe thousand of lives which will you choose?" faes asked while sky just glanced around not much interested in the topic.
the village chief finally had a change of an expression
"ofcourse hundred are more important than a few" the village chief frowned
"then why are you stopping us? the mining village is the biggest ore and other raw material suppliers in the world. if you don't let the miners mine and begin farming then what will happen? instead of few miners and adventurers who are currently dying people all over the world will have an increase in mortality rate. you know why?" faes stared at the frowning village chief
"because if the supply or ores and raw material decrease then the quantity and quality of weapons all over the world will decrease hence causing the soldiers and adventurers who go hunting and doing quest to have more possibilities of dying. the difficulty of quest will also increase decreasing the strength of the whole world! just imagine if something similar to what happened centuries ago were to happen again? how will the world survive?" faes was bluffing. she knew that there were hidden experts and other powerhouses who don't need weapons but this bluffing was necesory to make the village chief let her go to the mines.
"you are right!" the village chief finally understood what faes was trying to say and she was correct. he watched faes and sky with newfound respect and also felt proud.
"i will tell you about the problem but you have to promise me one thing first" the village chief said
"what?" sky asked
"that if the situation gets out of your hand then you will not proceed but leave the mines coming back" the village chief still didn't wanted them to get hurt. now he was even more worried about them than before. 'they are prodigies and need to stay alive'
"we will try our best" faes and sky exchanged glances before answering.
"fine then let me tell you about the problem.
years ago a miner found a sealed area in the deeper part of the biggest mine. out of curiosity they unsealed it but what greeted them was death. the sealed area contained a legendary beast and its progenies. after the seal being destroyed they began to infiltrate the mine killing the miners and adventures who went to kill the beast.
after hundreds of death we left the mine to the beasts in hopes that one day someone will help us reclaim it. but recently the number of beast have increased and they have began to infiltrate the other smaller mines too.
currently five mines including the main one is infiltrated by the beasts." the village chief said
"legendary beast? again?" faes and sky excitedly looked at each other. they have fought few legendary beast before and knew their powers but it didn't stop them instead it made them more excited.
'its definitely because of the luck or that god!' faes glanced towards the sky 'i don't know if i should curse at you or praise you for making me encounter lots of legendary beasts!' she was again talking to the god but she cant do anything now other than looking for the beast.
"yes legendary beast! also they are snakes. the people who came out alive told that the beasts were snakes while they were all snakes they also have differences.
there are common snakes non poisonous, after them few are elite snakes which can use poison. and in the end there is the legendary beast the snake king. the adventurers who returned spoke that it can command earth to do its bidding and also other than that they spoke something like they lots control of their bodies and began flying around along with other objects. the objects were flying as if something was controlling them" the village chief cant make head and tails of the description. how can objects and people fly without someone's consent?
even though the village chief didn't understand faes did.
'telekinesis? it had to be it!' faes was sure it will be something like that otherwise why would things fly out randomly?
"i understand. did the others say something else?" faes asked
"they said that the legendary beast didn't used poison but they barely fought it hence we not sure about that. and the other snakes were also defeated with fire and ice magic mostly out of all attacks." the village chief said.
"then we will prepare to go raid those mines we thank village chief for his help." faes said as she got up.
"i will have my assistant prepare a guest house for you and your team. when are they arriving?" the village chief asked
"they will be here anytime now, you don't need to worry about them. they will find out where we are without anyone's help." faes waved her hand as she and sky left the study.
the assistant took sky and faes to a small place which had six rooms and other necessary things before leaving them alone.
following which faes and sky entered mystic fog castle meeting with the others and making plans to defeat the snake king.
"there are five mines taken over and we are six people. each of you should be handle a mine themselves hence you all can go to conquer the four mines while sky and i will go to the main and biggest mine. i am sure the bigger mine will have more number of snake beasts than others hence while we deal with the snakes you will be done with the other mines and after that join us. when we all gather once again we will defeat the snake king together!" faes concluded their meeting with everyone agreeing now they just need to make necessary preparations according to what information faes had gotten.