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-Kafrim Town, Underground.
3rd POV*
Opposite to the merry and joyful town of Kafrim, the underground part of it was enroached by wickedness. There are currently hundreds of human gathering around a person with a robe. Almost all of the humans have madness in their expression as they gazed towards the person. "We will soon achieved what we planned for many years. Rejoice! For you who have been tormented shall rise in this cruel world as a new bonified man!" The person infront started his speech affecting everyone with his words. "Patience.. patience is the thing that helped us reached this place, we only need to wait a little more.. when the time the world is being basked by the brightness of the above shall be the time that we will move!" He finished his speech with all of them hailing his figure.
All of the people here are those who lived in the slums, they were picked by the robe guy to use them for his plans. They have been working for many years now, their wish is coming and no one will be able to stop it. "With this.. everything is laid, we only need the perfect time. And my lady will be able to breathe the air in this world again" the robed man muttered with a maniac smile on his face.
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Ascella's POV*
I am currently facing two dark elves who disguised themselves as humans. They were racking me for explanations about how I could use magic when my age doesn't really support it. Sigh, dealing with people who don't even try to hear your thoughts is really troublesome, maybe I shouldn't have tried approaching them. "..-re you listening!?" Oh, so she is still talking huh? "Grrr! That face! You didn't even digest any words I released right!?" Woah, what great observation. I commend you for that. "D-Dude.. please atleast listen to them, they won't stop unless you will pay attention to them" Jorge gave me some advice that made me raise my eyebrow.
"Sigh.. just one question. I will only answer one question" I said while sighing as the two gained a happy look on their faces. "Then how could you use mana?!", "That's wrong! Are you really human?!" They looked at each other before starting a fight again, this is pretty tiring. "Stop! I'm getting tired of this, continue this farce and I will really leave here... Sigh, and here I was being excited of talking to a magical creature.. this is a disappointment" I muttered the last one but it seems like they heard it. "What did you say?! Just so you know, we are really strong you know! We can destroy this town with just the two of us!" They were quite pissed about it but I just shrugged it off.
"Then who's question should I answer? I don't have much time for this thing so make it faster" I gestured them to be faster as they gritted their teeth. "Then answer Luna's answer!" The other dark elf said while I just tilted my head. "Who is Luna among you two anyway?" I asked as sound of breaking was heard. ""Human! You should atleast remember the name and faces of others!"" Hmm, this is funny. "Fine, fine.. how could I use mana right? Let's just say that I am favored by the universe, yup. Let's go with that explanation" I convinced myself by nodding my head. "No matter how look at it, you just made that up right?!" Their reactions are really amusing.
"But what can I say? It just appeared on me, I don't have any explanation about it" I waved my hand at them. "Natural talent..? You must be a special person then. Did you get a blessing from gods?" They asked again while I just started walking out of the alleyway. "Hey, where are you going?!" Are they fools? "I mentioned it right? I will only answer one question, and now that I finished it, I don't have any business with you people" I explained while dragging Tania with me. Genib still didn't manifest so they didn't see her but that is probably for the better. Well, that was a experience so I won't deny it.. but I hope the other races won't be as pushy as those two. It would really be troublesome.
We went out of the alleyway to continue our tour in this town, it was kind of huge so we took our time to do it. "Tania.. what are those?" I asked Tania while pointing at a group of people looking shady as hell at the side. "Oh, they are people of slums. They are always like that, even when I came here last 2 years ago. I didn't try investigating them since they are not part of my mission, they don't really do anything bad, they just stayed looking shady like that" Tania explained as many red flags were raised by her words. I wouldn't be surprise if they run a rebellion tomorrow, though its not my problem so I won't mind them. They can revolt all they want, I just hope that they won't touch the food stalls of special places since I will really interfere once that happens.
Nothing will stop my craving for food and scenery! Even if a Demon Lord or God come, I won't hesitate and stop them with all of my might. Atleast my resolve has reached that much. Anyway, I am currently walking towards the Castor company with Tania on my side, I will now take the money that I placed there. I requested the orcs to make a warehouse for me where I will put all of my things, they immediately went to do the request even though they are in the middle of their training. I didn't see the dissatisfaction from Atlas's eyes either meaning that he approved of their actions.. I can't really understand their thoughts.
We arrived where we were greeted by Nicole, "Goodmorning Lord Magnum, maam Tania. Sir Julius is waiting for you in his office" she said with the same professional smile as before. "Hm? Does he have a intellegence network in this town? Oh right, your company is the biggest one in this town right? Then there is no need to question it" I said nodding my head in understanding. "Please follow me" Nicole bowed her head and lead us to the office, on the way I saw many people whispering while looking at our figures. They were probably wondering why we are going to the president's office when we look nothing but a bumpkin.
"Hello, sir Magnum. I am pleased to see you visiting this humble company of mine" Julius dramatically said while showing a big smile on his face. "Are you perhaps here to present new unique things again!? Then I must prepare myself so that I wouldn't overreact!" Julius coughed while patting his suit. "Nope, I just came here to get our money. About the unique things.. maybe next time, I still have a lot of money after all" I shrugged his efforts while showing my hand at him. He sighed before gesturing to Nicole who just left the room. "Then I'll look forward to that time. Still, sir Magnum.. you didn't say anything about 2 mages chasing your backs!!" Julius exclaimed as he grabbed his hair and began shaking it off. He is getting insane from thinking about what would happen if he is caught in his act of protecting me.
"Ah? I didn't say it? My bad Hahahaha" I apologized while laughing making the guy pissed. "Don't laugh! This is no normal situation. The two mages are even opening their resources just to look for you two" Julius said while facepalming. I am probably too carefree for a person being chase by a mage, that is probably the reason why Julius is still cooperating with me. "Well, thank you for not letting go Julius, just trust your instinct in this one.. like you always do" I said giving him a smile. He was surprised by my words before he smiled weakly, "I guess trying to hide from you is useless huh? Mages are really troublesome" Julius said with a sigh.
"Oh right, I have a information that I wanted you to know. You are staying in this town so you might encounter them" Julius turned serious as he looked at me in the eye. "Is it dangerous? I have no interest in delving into some dangerous things you know? I prefer facing them when they arrived infront of my face" I waved my hands to stop him. "But this is important.. I'll just warn you one thing.. stay away from the slums" Julius said with grave on his tone. The door was opened with Nicole entering, she was carrying the sack of gold coins in her hands. "I have brought it, sir Julius. A total of 24,900 coins with me" she reported while saluting at Julius who sighed.
"We'll be going now, thank you for holding this Julius. Also if you want a assurance that I am more worthy than those two then.. here" I said before snapping my hand. Everything suddenly went cold as the bright sky turned dark.. Julius immediately stood up and looked at the window. He widened his eyes at the phenomenon that is currently happening, dark clouds started forming threatening to pour some nasty rain. I can see that Julius is currently in awe watching the show so we just left the company without saying anything. "Did you think I overdid it, Tania?" I asked the girl who stayed quiet until the end. "No, it was fantastic" I facepalmed at her words. Right.. different world, different common sense.
I erased the clouds just before we left the building since it would be a hassle to walk in puddles. Though I seemed to heard a loud scream of joy coming from the company.. it must be my imagination. "Let's return to our inn, still I wonder what Genib is doing? She still didn't manifest even though its almost noon" I muttered wondering what happened to that cheeky spirit. "Yeah, I also wanted to talk with Genib" Tania said with a small smile on her face. I still could not understand this woman's personality as it seemed to change everyday. Well, we just recently met so we have a lot of time in our pocket to know each other.
"Ascella.. do you think that the thing Julius warned us is really dangerous?" Tania asked as the thing was bothering her mind. She couldn't stay calm at all, her instinct is warning her that something bad will happen. "Who knows? During time like this I usually ignore my instinct and just go with the flow. Life is like that, you need to follow the flow to live. And I don't really care about it, whether they do some dangerous things.. as long as they don't disturb my peace I won't interfere with them" I gave my thoughts to her so that she could calm a little. But it seems like it gained an opposite effect as she looked at me as if I am scary. Well, not that it matters since she will get use to this kind of thinking.
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