BANDIT FOREST
POV HYAKKY
After a tiring fight with the bandit boss, we were able to complete our first mission and I was even able to get a new minion that I was able to give a name to. [Slayer] But the most strange thing is that he can talk. Aside from that, now it's time to receive our reward.
[DING]
[CONGRATULATION FOR COMPLETING THE MISSION BANDIT OF THE FOREST]
[RANK:B]
[CONCRATULATION YOU HAVE RECEIVED 5000 GOLD COINS]
[CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE RECEIVED 1000 EXP POINT]
[CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE LEARNED A NEW SKILL SOUL FLAME]
[NAME:HIAKKY]
[LVL:7]
[EXP:1450%/1500]
[CLASS:NECROMANCER]
Eh Soul Flame never heard of this kind of flame, maybe it's a necromancer version of the pyromancy magic. Let's take a look
[SKILL]
[SOUL FLAME]
[GRADE:?]
[COST:15]
[PROFICIENCY:0%/100%]
[DESCRIPTION: THE USER CAN USE THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE KIND OF FLAME TO EVER EXIST, CREATED FROM THE RULER OF THE UNDERWORD HADES. THE CASTER CAN MANIPULATE THE FLAME HOWEVER HE WANT. IF THE SKILL IS USED FOR A PROLONGED TIME IT WILL CONSUME 10 MP]
I try to use the skill by making the flame appear on my hand. It worked it's a black flame with some red in it, like my soldier. But it's really difficult to maintain it, so I deactivated it.
I look toward Kira to see what she got. "Hey Kira, what kind of skill did you get? I got I skill called Soul Flame" She turned toward me with a smile on her face, "I got a great skill, let me show you" She then took her katana out, and her blade started to get covered in a red energy. (could this be...) "That's [Weapon Aura] right." she deactivated the skill and sheathed her sword "That right, take a look here" Shen then opened her skill window and I looked at it, I have to admit it it's not bad.
[SKILL]
[SWORD AURA]
[GRADE:D]
[COST: 5 AU]
[PROFICIENCY:1%/100]
[DESCRIPTION: THE USER CAN COAT THE WEAPON THEIR USING IN AURA. THIS WILL MAKE THE WEAPON STURDIER AND MORE POWERFUL. WHEN USING THE SKILL IT WILL ADD 5 POINT STR. WHEN THE SKILL IS USED FOR A LONGER TIME, IT WILL CONSUME 5 AU]
even if the grade is low this skill is very useful to have for an aura user because it gets stronger the more you use it. After that, I drank a healing potion even if my HP were still high it was better to have more HP.
[LOW-HEALING POTION]
[GRADE:D]
[DESCRIPTION: WHEN DRINKING IT CAN RESTORE A LOW QUANTITY OF HP]
it's bitter but as they always say the best medicine is always bitter. "Kira aren't you going to drink this potion" She seemed hesitant that strange, could it be..." Kira, you don't like the taste of the potion right?" she sighed "W-well that's right, I'm not good with bitter things. Before I was able to drink it because I was more focused on the fight" I giggled a bit at her response (she is really cute while beginning all hesitant like this)
"If you drink the potion I will buy you something sweet to clean your mouth" She reluctantly drank a healing potion all in one go and gagged a little "So bitter" I patter head "Good girl good girl" she started to pout at me "Don't treat me like a child" "OH I DIDN'T EXPECT TO SEE YOU GUYS SO SOON" We turned toward the voice to see a man in a light armour that covered his shoulder and chest he had a bow on his back with a quiver for the arrow on his belt. He was standing on some branches of a tree, he was Rodrigo the captain of the Lion of East (What he's doing here) he jumped off the tree and landed in front of us "What are guys doing here?" he asked us while dusting some dust from himself "We could ask you the same?" I said to him, and he looked at us with a big smile on his face "I heard some rumour from my squad about a group of bandits in this area, so I went to check around, to see if maybe I could have sent some of the new cadets as a training mission." So scouted the area to see if could send some of my ex-classmates for a training mission. Not bad. He then looked toward my minion seeing the boss bandit "But I see you already preceded me. You guys have some spirit, I LIKE IT. WHEN YOU WANT TO BECOME STRONG THE ONLY WAY IS CHALLENGING YOURSELF WITH HARDER TASKS." He then started to laugh hard, why was he shouting, (I was right he's like Rengoku from Demon Slayer.) "Sorry guys you must be tired so I'll let you go" I nodded to him, while Kira bowed a little to him and said "Thank you Reng-captain Rodrigo." (I'm not the only one to things he is similar to Rengoku) he didn't seem to notice and left. I called back all my minions except for the wolf we were too tired to walk so we decided to ride on him.
We are going slowly so we had a moment to relax. The silence between us was kind of awkward, but then I remembered something "Kira This was your first time killing someone, are you alright? I asked her turning my head toward her, she looked at me a bit shocked "That's right I was so focused on completing the mission that I forgot it." Well, it's not strange even I just realized it now. She then thought for some second and said "To be honest I'm ok, I had already made up my mind that one day I would have to kill, and that was a kill or to be killed situation." I smile a little seeing that she seems okay because she is right. The moment I heard about the prophecy, I already knew that blood would be dribbled. I then hear Kira ask me a question "How about you Hyakki? Are you ok?" I answered her by saying "Yes I'm ok, like you I already made up my mind with this fact. Since I always knew that I would stray from the other and choose a path like this." She looked concerned, she then rested her head on my back and said "You are not alone Hyakki, you can always rely on me" Hearing her say it made me happy I smiled a little and said, "Thanks Kira, I will."
FIRSTHALL VILLAGE
POV HYAKKI
We finally arrived back at the village and before entering I called back the soul wolf and we went to the mercenary guild.
MERCENARY GUILD
When we entered I noticed the elf girl receptionist coming to us with a worried look "Are you guys ok?!" She asked us with a worried tone. "Yes, we are ok why?" Responded Kira, she seemed to relax a bit then proceeded to explain "Thanks to the gods. You see I received a notification that your mission has been upgraded from rank D to rank B. I got worried, that even after the notification of the mission was completed I couldn't relax until I saw the both of you safe." she seemed to really care about us, strange we don't even know each other at all "Sorry for the question, But why are you worried for us while we just met" I asked her, she seems to become a little nervous "Well you see. There aren't many people who want to become a mercenary, and many of them lose their own lives while doing a mission, since the two of you are so young it would have been horrible to lose your life so early just for some money." Well, she's not wrong, a mercenary doesn't work for a military force so they need to get their equipment by themself, and sometimes it's not enough. "You can rest assured we won't die so easily," I said to her to make her less worried and it worked. "In any case come with me I need to give you guys the rest of the reward." She then started walking toward the reception (Hmm rest of the reward me) I was getting confused so I looked at Kira to see her confused as well. we followed her and I said, "Excuse me, but we already got the reward from the mission miss..." "Elain my name is Elain Wood. For the reward, you guys received only a part of it. sometimes it happens when a mission changes grade that when calculating the new reward there could be some mistake." So the rewards are not complete. Both of us were shocked to discover this eventuality, and now we are thinking what's the missing part? When we reached the reception Elain said to wait for a moment. "You see Necron, Red Ronin your mission changed from D to B but the EXP you received from it was too little, so here is the rest of it." Me and Kira were all of the sudden involved in a blueish aura then a notification from the system appeared.
[CONGRATULATION YOU HAVE OBTAINED 10000 EXP]
[YOU HAVE LEVELED UP 8]
[YOU GOT 3 STAT POINT]
[YOU HAVE LEVELED UP 9]
[YOU HAVE GOT 3 STAT POINT]
I leveled up twice
[NAME: HYAKKI]
[LVL:9]
[EXP:15%/2000%]
[CLASS: NECROMANCER]
This was indeed a good surprise, I levelled up twice and got some stat points, and I already decided where to put them.
[HP:300]
[MP:1400+10]
[STR:11]
[AGI:12-->14]
[INT:23-->27]
[PHY:10]
I have put most of my points in int. Since I'm a mage I need mana and added 2 points to agility just in case I should dodge some attacks. I then look toward Kira to see how she's doing. "Kira, how did it go to you?" She then looked at me with a smile on her face "I'm level 8 now" Oh she levelled up 3 times good for her.
We turn toward Elain and we thank her, and then Kira ask her a question "Elain do you know a place around here that sells sweets?" why would she ask that? I then see Elain think for a moment "Ah yes, there's dinners on the right that make good pastry. It's called The Wanderer" Kira's eyes lighted in excitement, she then thanked Elain again and dragged me out of the guild, with abnormal speed.
"Ehy Kira, in such a rush?" I asked her, she turned toward smiling at me and said "You promised me that after taking the mission you would have bought something sweet for me, so now we are going to that dinner." Well, I did promise her that, I look at her beaming at me while still dragging me to the dinner, (she's cute) Oh well I wanted something sweet too so let's go.
THE WANDERER
We were in front of the building now, the outside didn't seem different from other buildings. When we entered we saw that there weren't a lot of people but we could smell many different good flavours. We sat at a table, then a waiter came with a menu, I looked at the sweet and desserts section, there were different obtion, after some thinking I asked for a chocolate parfeit while Kira asked for a Strawberries cake. When it arrived they looked so good, so we tried it and they were good. I looked at Kira from the way she was eating the cake I could tell she liked it and she was cute while eating it. I then heard some other costumer whispering betwewn them "Look how cute they are" "Really a cute couple" I was getting embaresed from their chatting, on the other hand Kira started to smirk at me "Ne Hyakki, now that I think it this seems like a date don't you think?" Ehh what is she saying?! Well maybe from the outside we could pass as a couple...STOP THINKING THAT WAY.