Year 1313, Feb 8th.
The day is beautiful with cool breeze with a tinge of heat from the sun indicating the spring season. Hammerwald barony is going through its everyday routine. The adventure guild is also filled with lot of work.
A young boy entered the guild with a spear on his back and heavy armor on his body. The adventurers gave a look to the boy and thought what he is doing here. The young boy went near the reception desk and said "I want to join the adventure guild".
The receptionist Callie looked at the boy and gave him a form to fill. He wrote the name "Ash Sullivan" and the class as magical spearman.
"Please wait here as you will need to be tested if you are capable enough" said the receptionist and went inside.
Everyone were curious who that guy is as they want to invite him to their party. Ash stood there waiting for the receptionist to return.
After 5 minutes she returned with a middle aged man with big shoulders and a moustache. "This is Master Damascus who will be testing your fighting skills and determine whether you are suitable to join or not" replied the receptionist Callie.
Ash nodded and Damascus took him to a training ground which is on the back side of the guild.
Name: Ash Randell
Level 8
Class: Evoker
Subclass1: Locked
Subclass2: Locked
HP: 15000/15000
Experience: 13000/100000
STR: 925
AGI: 930
VIT: 910
INT: 936
LUCK: 920
Skills: Fire bolt(Active), Ice Wave (Active), Mind Immunity( Passive), Poison Immunity(Passive), Spear art (Active), Martial arts(Active), Blacksmith (Master), Alchemy (Master), Electric Arc(Active), Wind Cutters (Active), Blind Immunity(Passive), Acid Immunity(Passive).
Damascus did not talk much. He only said "Just fight me for at least 5 minutes and you will pass".
Damascus took out a great sword and immediately appeared before Ash. Ash's eyes widened as he did not expect that much speed. When Damascus slashed with great sword Ash rolled away before getting hit. He immediately took out the spear and blocked the incoming attack. Damascus continued his vicious attacks and it is becoming tough to defend himself. It is just been 2 minutes and Ash is still on defensive.
Ash decided to put some distance and immediately cast ice wave which made Damascus slip a bit. Ash took this opportunity and immediately did a backflip in air to put some distance.
Damascus is little surprised by the trick pulled by Ash but di not show it in his face. Damascus made his way again to attack Ash but Ash disappeared with his high speed and started attacking from every direction with his spear and high speed. He now put Damascus in defense. Damascus now had to predict which direction Ash is going to attack from.
There were bystanders who were watching the match with awe.
"What is happening? Did he really put Master Damascus in defense?
"Yeah seems like it. When I took the test I only defended myself for 5 minutes rather than attacking Damascus.
"That boy has real talent. One of the high ranking parties will definitely invite him.
Damascus had enough of being in defense and immediately activated stealth to disappear. Ash was dumbfounded on seeing this. "So he has the assassin skills along with warrior skills" thought Ash.
Ash tried to listen for sound of footsteps but he could not hear anything. Suddenly Ash's hair stood up and he jumped away from the position and when he looked back he saw there was a sword in that previous position. Damascus disappeared again and Ash is at complete loss. The stealth attacks continued for another 30 seconds and Ash did get cut by the sword many times on his shoulder and stomach.
Ash got irritated and filled the entire area with ice using ice wave. Now he listened for the sound and immediately he found the source on the left side but spear could not attack anyone. It is a false alarm that Damascus did by throwing a rock. Ash felt a presence in the air and immediately blocked the income great sword with spear. He immediately kicked Damascus with a spin kick which landed on Damascus and Damascus landed on the ground far away.
Damascus picked himself up and activated stealth but it was of no use. Ash threw electric arcs every where and also threw wind cutters. He made the spells hit every corner of the training ground and Damascus had to evade the spells with much effort. But he could not evade all of them as one of the electric arcs hit Damascus and he was electrocuted.
Damascus still stood up with the great sword but he did not activate stealth as he did not have energy to perform stealth and warrior arts at the same time. Damascus charged with a Berserker's rage and Ash felt the sudden increase in power of Damascus. Ash felt danger from Damascus and decided to evade every attack until he cools down. But before Damascus could attack a magic time alarm rang indicating 5 minutes.
Damascus became normal and said "Well done kid. It has been sometime that someone gave me a good fight and I am thankful for you. You pass the test with flying colors ". Damascus said those words and went to inform inside.
"System I need a skill to detect stealth attacks and also a map like in games where I could see the" asked Ash.
"You can buy them in the shop host. It would require 100000 gold" said the system.
"Take it and buy the map and the skill for enemy detection" said Ash.
System did as he asked and a map feature appeared on system along with a new skill on status window.
Name: Ash Randell
Level 8
Class: Evoker
Subclass1: Locked
Subclass2: Locked
HP: 15000/15000
Experience: 13000/100000
STR: 925
AGI: 930
VIT: 910
INT: 936
LUCK: 920
Skills: Fire bolt(Active), Ice Wave (Active), Mind Immunity( Passive), Poison Immunity(Passive), Spear art (Active), Martial arts(Active), Blacksmith (Master), Alchemy (Master), Electric Arc(Active), Wind Cutters (Active), Blind Immunity(Passive), Acid Immunity(Passive), Enhanced enemy detection(passive).
"With these two I might be able to avoid mortal dangers and become strong" thought Ash. Ash came back to the receptionist and she said "Congratulations you are now a member of the adventure guild. Please take this tag and wear it all times when you go on an adventure"
Ash took the tag and it is violet in color. "There are seven ranks in the guild. From violet to red"
"Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange and Red. There is an unofficial rank above Red which is Black and very rarely anyone reaches this rank" replied the receptionist.
Ash wore the tag and thought "So they used sun's VIBGYOR as guild ranks". "You can check the board for any violet rank quests" said receptionist Callie and said "Good luck on your first quest".
Ash said "Thank you" and went to the board for a violet rank quests. Ash did not want to join any party as he wants to be independent for a while gaining experience in violet rank quests. He was not in a hurry because he still has 4 years for the academy. Even Rose will be attending the exam eve though she will be 15 years old because there are cases where academies except Imperial academy took in students of 14 and 15.
When Ash looked at the quests they are mainly ordinary works like collecting herbs, Delivering goods etc. There is one quest which is a combat related. It is the gigantic leeches in underground sewers of the barony which are growing. The quest pay is also good for a violet rank which is 20000 gold.
"Ding! Host has been issued a quest. Please check the status window".
Name: Ash Randell
Level 8
Class: Evoker
Subclass1: Locked
Subclass2: Locked
HP: 15000/15000
Experience: 13000/100000
STR: 925
AGI: 930
VIT: 910
INT: 936
LUCK: 920
Skills: Fire bolt(Active), Ice Wave (Active), Mind Immunity( Passive), Poison Immunity(Passive), Spear art (Active), Martial arts(Active), Blacksmith (Master), Alchemy (Master), Electric Arc(Active), Wind Cutters (Active), Blind Immunity(Passive), Acid Immunity(Passive), Enhanced enemy detection(passive).
Quest: Kill the gigantic leeches in the underground sewers and complete the first guild quest.
Reward: 10000 experience
Penalty for failure: Decrease in all stats by 100.
Ash saw the quest and for the first time system issued a quest with penalty. Ash has already decided to take the quest before System issued it so it did not bother him. He took the page and went to receptionist to get it marked. The receptionist marked it on his name.
Many parties invited him to join for Indigo and Blue rank quests but Ash denied politely saying that he will start with low rank and start climbing the ladder slowly.
"Thus begins my first quest in my life" thought Ash with a smile and made his way to sewers.