As Marquis Phillips were about to ask more, he suddenly looked at the chest of Zephyr.
"Wait, on your chest! If my eyes isn't wrong, isn't that the legendary.....Heroes Badge!?"
He clearly lost control of his emotion as his eyes stared in shock at the Heroes Badge on Zephyr's chest.
"No wonder you give some kind of special feeling. You were actually like Izroth of the past who could receive the Heroes Badge."
"In the past, Sword Saint Izroth used his incredible strength to solve a large disaster here in White Tiger City. From that time on, I knew those in possession of that badge were people worthy of respect and admiration."
He continued to mumble as his shock wasn't over yet.
"Oh god! You're actually an expert capable of obtaining the Heroes Badge. I've been so disrespectful earlier, please forgive me."
Zephyr then glanced at the badge at his chest. The moment Zephyr obtained it, he knew that this badge is not a normal item even it has no effect on his stats or anything. The Abyss level trial, the reward from it could not be something very simple.
"Do you really respect people with the Heroes Badge that much?" Zephyr probed by asking a question.
Hearing his remark, the Marquis' eyes lit up and and said.
"Because of your report, we now knew that the demons were returning again. Everyone on Tensura now knows that the disaster is approaching."
"So we need a hero, we urgently require a hero to appear...We need heroes like you who can obtain the Heroes Badge to appear and save Tensura."
"So we will...no...everyone in Tensura would use our own ways to provide as much assistance that we can to a hero like you."
Zephyr listened emotionlessly but in his mind.
'That's so troublesome. Just as I possess this badge doesn't mean I want to become your hero. That's so tiring, there's no way I'll do that.'
Zephyr just nodded as he thought that the Heroes Badge was more incredible than he could imagine.
"A person that can obtain the Heroes Badge is definitely someone powerful."
Marquis Phillips' face relaxed as he calmed down and as he quietly sat down. Marquis Phillips nodded his head as he now confirmed that Zephyr was an extra-ordinary person. For him to have the power of the Sword Saint and Heroes Badge, all of his doubts about Zephyr's strength disappeared.
"Then can I ask you a favor?"
Marquis Phillips threw away his pride he had earlier as he earnestly humbled himself to Zephyr. Zephyr didn't reply as he remained silent.
"It's like this, my White Tiger City is located on the west side of the western continent of Tensura. This place can be considered as one of the most peaceful place in Tensura."
"Aside from having a Mythical Guardian, there is no lack of food and resources. Because of that, we didn't encounter a battle that we cannot handle."
"However, after your report that the demons were returning, some anomalies began to appear which was affecting the White Tiger City."
"Monsters ran wild as they were being affected by the trace of the demonic energy resulting for them to be frenzied and demonized. After fighting those beasts for a while, we were able to finally drive those beasts away and prevented a disaster."
"However, that was not the end. Many of those monsters continued to appear near the White Tiger City. With every appearance, we can confirm that this wasn't a coincidence anymore. To stop this from happening again, I formed an elite team to investigate."
"Unfortunately, some only returned. Many were unable to return as we suspected that they were gone and for those who returned, they were not able to remember their encounters."
His relaxed expression changed to a grave one as he continued solemnly.
"That's why Young Hero, can you follow their trail and find out what truly happened?"
Notification immediately appeared in front of Zephyr.
[Main Scenario]
Difficulty: SSS
Because of your words that the demons were returning, all of the human forces were alarmed and immediately sent their various teams to search and investigate the movements of the monsters.
However, of all the teams sent some weren't able to return and some were unable to remember a singe thing. Which made the human leaders cautious of the situation..
Quest Clear Conditions: Investigate and find out the reason why the investigation team are losing their memories.
Quest Clear Reward: Unknown.
Quest Failure: -20 levels, -10,000 karma.]
'Hmmm. Interesting.'
Zephyr's interest was pique seeing it was another main scenario quest that had difficulty of SSS rank. At first, he had no intention of doing the quest but then he thought, he might encounter many interesting things along the way which made him reconsider his decision.
Actually, the main scenario quest was scattered around in Tensura. It only waited for a player to trigger the quest. One can consider this as a competition for the players for who would be the first to discover and the first to complete and reap the rewards.
Unlike other players, because of Zephyr's high luck, he was able to discover another main scenario quest that was connected to the one he had completed before.
"I accept."
Zephyr said in his monotone voice as his face was still very expressionless but the Marquis' face wasn't.
"Thank you, young man. As you have the capability to obtain the Heroes Badge, you are definitely someone strong. To have someone strong like you to take this dangerous quest, I feel much more relieved."
Marquis Phillips gave a nod as his face gave a relieved smile. He thought of a scenario that Zephyr would reject the quest as he could slightly sense that Zephyr had no intention of becoming a hero.
Seeing Zephyr that accepted, he was more than glad even if he knows that Zephyr only accepted because he found the quest interesting rather than taking the quest seriously.
"Cough!"
Alisha who was listening the whole time made a fake cough resulting for both Zephyr and Marquis Phillips' attention to be directed to her.
Marquis Phillips immediately became embarrassed as he totally forgot about her as he only focused on Zephyr. Zephyr on the other hand wasn't bothered as he didn't care about the princess at all.
"Forgive me your highness as I had ignored you earlier. But I hope that you could understand my circumstances."
Alisha nodded as she was also lost in words as she heard that he had the power of the Sword Saint and seeing that Zephyr had the Heroes Badge as she didn't noticed it earlier at all. Her face reddened as she thought of the reason why.
It was that she was more focused on stealing a glimpse of Zephyr as her heart also beats faster if she did it resulting for her not to notice the badge.
She then sighed as she relaxed herself. After relaxing, her fatigue immediately overlapped throughout her body as she hasn't taken a rest throughout the journey.
She then thought it would be better to rest first to avoid displaying her unsightly self to Zephyr if she let him notice that she wanted to yawn and lay in sleep.
"Honestly I'm still shocked but I'm really tired so maybe I would like to talk about it after I rest."
She said to the two of them as Alisha was unable to endure the sleepiness, she then made her way along with Rita on their designated room that they intended to but stopped of the matters earlier.
After Alisha left, Zephyr also left and bade farewell to the smiling Marquis Phillips as he went into the place he had in mind before going to his journey.
But before Zephyr could leave, Marquis Phillips stopped Zephyr as he handed him something.
"This is the map and the mark on it was the location we believe the team I sent were engaged. You should be able to find their whereabouts around that location."
He placed a map on Zephyr's hand. Zephyr opened the map and compared it to his system map function and glanced over it a few times. His eyes were focused on the marked spot and then closed the map.
"I'll await your quick and safe return. I hope you bring back the good news." Marquis Phillips smiled as he said that to Zephyr.
****
Arriving in the smithy of the dwarf Agur, Zephyr knocked and slowly opened the wrecked door and saw Agur who was lazily sleeping on the couch with a satisfied and blissful expression.
"Old man, why are you looking like a kid who got a candy?"
"Kyahh!"
Zephyr asked emotionlessly however, Agur shouted in fright as he suddenly heard him out of nowhere. Agur then sighed of relief seeing it was Zephyr and not some random person.
"Why are you here?"
Agur asked as he thought it would be unusual if Zephyr was here. Hearing him, Zephyr replied in a nonchalant manner.
"I have something I need here, isn't that obvious?"
Zephyr said as if it was a natural thing which made the veins on the forehead of Agur to appear.
"Then why didn't you knock atleast?"
Agur shouted at Zephyr as he was annoyed that his wonderful dream was destroyed by this brat. However, Zephyr just spoke in a lazy tone.
"I knocked at least 5 times but not even a mouse responded so I entered."
Agur was left speechless for a while and then muttered.
"Shameless! This brat is becoming shameless!"
Without responding to Agur's grumpy grumbling, Zephyr then opened his inventory as he took the ring he got from Alicia. Zephyr then took 1,320,000 gold from it and placed it on the table.
Seeing Zephyr got that amount, Agur's eyes widened unable to believe what he was looking. As a legendary blacksmith who lived for more than a hundred years, it was not his first time seeing this amount of money but he was surprised in the different thing.
'How did he got this much in a short amount of time?'
Agur thought as stared at Zephyr suspiciously and said.
"Where did you rob this?"
"You know that your speaking some rude words aren't you?"
Zephyr replied as he wondered why this dwarf was saying where he was doing a robbery. The doubts in Agur's eyes didn't disappear as he stared at Zephyr. Seeing his reaction, Zephyr immediately said.
"There's no way I would stoop so low to steal money."
Agur nodded as he then thought that Zephyr might be capable of gathering this sum in a short amount of time. He didn't probe on how he acquired the money as he didn't want to meddle too much.
Now that the payment for the Aetherius Set was now paid, Agur then asked if Zephyr has another purpose. Zephyr then took the items or accessories he got from the inventory as he showed it to Agur.
"I want to repair these as these items were on the verge of being destroyed."
Zephyr planned to repair his items that endured the attack of Mike since he was still on Elysia. As he had known a blacksmith, he didn't plan to delay the repairs of those items.
Agur then inspected the items that Zephyr had as he was also impressed that Zephyr had obtained these. Ring of the Giants, Hyperlink Necklace, and Phantom's Bracelet. As all items were unique rated, he could tell that Zephyr greatly benefited from these items.
"I understand. I'll try to finish this as quickly as I can."
Agur didn't dally as he don't want Zephyr to wait for too long. For him, Zephyr was a special person as not just that he possessed those 2 top legendary combat class, he could also see that Zephyr was destined to be an existence that would bring a great impact on Tensura.
While Agur was repairing his items, Zephyr looked around and saw some swords on the corner. He then picked one as he inspected it.
[Nether-Phantasmal Blade]
Rating: Unique
Durability: 550/550 Attack Power: 895
* Strength + 193
* Agility + 175
* Vitality + 182
*Attack Speed + 15%
* There is a low probability of attacks impossible to be parried or blocked.
* There is a low probability of attacks dealing double critical damage.
* There is a certain probability of activating the Death Devour' skill.
Death Devour: Any creature that dies within 50 meters will provide wielder with an increase in wielder's Attack Speed by 1% for 30 seconds. Buff can be stacked up to 30 times.
A sword of death created by the Legendary Blacksmith using a piece of material that emits the energy of death. Anyone that wields this sword will be enveloped in an aura of death and will suffer double the death penalty.
Restrictions: 600 Strength, 400 Agility and Advanced Sword Mastery Level 3.]