Calithetha, a city which is located close to the middle of Ravensword, is the capital of the kingdom, being the center of everything happened in the nation, the city is obviously packed with civilians and wandering merchants that comes and goes, this city had almost everything available, from prestigious school, magic academy, castle, and much more buildings that you won't usually find in another city, Calithetha also the home of many nobles, although some of them are being tasked with managing every city in the kingdom, there are still nobles that isn't related or being dispatched into any territories.
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"There are no records known about her name?.." - Nichova
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"She caused a mass murder of almost two thousands, and after that she just left the scene as if nothing has ever happened.. For now, she is believed to have some kind of goals that is still unknown.." - Nichova's Secretary
"What the fuck.." - Nichova, as he smiled.
He chuckled and also excited, Nichova gets up from his seat and told his secretary that he have something to do for a while.
"But!- What about your task!?" - Secretary
"You do it, thats why you're my secretary, because i know you can." - Nichova
"Oh yeah, one last thing, give that bounty quest paper to the Guildmaster, he will post it on the Quest Board"
After that he left the room and the secretary alone.
Nichova flew from the Crime Management building and into outside the city where he kept moving with Dordén being his destination.
"I have to see this atleast once to confirm!" - Nichova
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[ 3 Days Later ]
At the southeast coastal part of Ravensword, there is a city called Naumo that is located close to a beach, most of the residents there catches fish as a job and also for filling their stomach, if you go a further out from the beach and city, there is a large scale forest that covers thousands of square kilometers, it is the largest forest that can be found on Ravensword, with abundance amount of materials, nature, and dangerous creatures or monsters.
The forest is named Dead Giant because of its size and danger, it is filled with cave system where precious ores and minerals can be found, including mithril and black diamond, unfortunately most people can't even reach the cave entrance as it is located in the deepest part of the forest, deadly monsters always roam around freely in it, with the forest being their own home, it is not an exaggeration to say that one trip to the deepest part of the forest and your life will change 180 degree, that is, if you can make back out alive.
In one of the cave located in the forest, inside of it, there is a strange rock mound that looks like a grave, beside it, None is seen sitting down while looking at the supposed grave.
Her face is still mostly cold, with almost no facial expression at all, all she does is just watching the grave, when all of a sudden, someone else footstep was heard from behind where the cave entrance was located.
From the sound of it, there is more than just one person, since the inside of the cave is dark, there is no absolute way of confirming who these people are, the only thing that is visible is their silhouette that blends in among the darkness.
After turning her head behind, None saw atleast 5 shadows that is standing perfectly still in a horizontal line.
"You all.." - None
"You're here again." - ???
"What do you want this time?" - None
"Come on, None, you need to stop coming here everyday to just stare at that grave." - ???
"You think its just a grave?" - None
The words that were said by one of the mysterious person seems to have made None angry, her red eyes began to glow and she summoned a red burning flame from her hand.
"Whoa whoa, sorry about that, put it down now.." - ???
Even with the light emitting from the flame, it is still not enough to light the face of everyone, but their clothes do became visible, they wore uniform clothes added with a coat that have intricate designs all over it. There are some that wore skirt so there is a woman among them.
"We need to slow down our plan." - ???
None slightly flinched as she doesn't expect to hear that.
"Why?" - None
"Because Nichova Vandelas, the commander of Crime Management, had made his move, he seems to be searching for you, None." - ???
"...is that so" - None
"Yes, he has been flying into every city in the kingdom to find clues about your whereabouts." - ???
"You've gathered more than two thousand souls so far, its enough, we can't risk to fight Nichova yet" - ???
"Don't worry, just stay low and hide, if Nichova really do find you, try not to kill him and just run." - ???
"He can easily reach this place, so stop playing around, None." - ???
"... ... Yes." - None
With that, everyone left the cave, leaving None alone yet again, the way all those mysterious silhouette moved is strange as they dont seem to have taken any step but instead floating away like a ghost, if they were moving like that from the start, then what was the footstep sound that None heard earlier?.
She looked at the grave once more before casting a barrier spell, covering the grave with an indestructible shield, it is a doubt to think if there will be someone that can break the barrier.
None soon left the cave aswell, with a final goodbye as she looks at the grave again.
"Just wait.." - None
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[ Doeren's Academy ]
It has been more than a week since Kyne had arrived and teached here, at last he have grown accustomed to this environment, he is currently still teaching everyone the basic of combats, its not something that can be learned in just a few days, they need to grow their strength and also confidence in holding a weapon.
"I'll test you all one by one every single day, so be prepared." - Kyne
Everyone gulped as they were scared with Kyne, in the past few days that they have been teached by Kyne, he always uses a very brutal ways of teaching, he doesn't hold back, he keeps them awake even if they were about to pass out, without a doubt that Kyne as an instructor is a lot of torture.
But because of the extreme way of teaching, the students also learned how to adapt faster and began showing tremendous progress in combat, each of them showed many talent in different category, some shows talent at sword and melee weapons, while some showed a great control and affinity at magic.
Time passed and without anyone noticing, it is now almost night time.
"Today's lesson is over, go back to your room and good job." - Kyne
Everyone put their swords back to where it belongs and people that is training their magic stopped aswell to go inside the building and rest.
However, Kyne's schedule isn't done yet, after the lesson was over, Doeren came towards him and dragged him somewhere quite, unbeknownst to everyone else, Doeren have been secretly training with Kyne in the dense part of the forest, they fought together against each other everyday with the goal of increasing Kyne's skill and also stamina
"Come on." - Doeren