"Yes of course," the female said. "The leader would be glad to meet the one who saved our lives."
"Yes, and we also need to get going now if we want to get there before before it's fully dark," the male added.
"Alright, let's go. But before that, what are your names?" Riven asked.
"Ah forgive our manners, sir. My name's Aria, and this is here is Kasey," the lady replied.
"Okay then. Let's get moving," Riven said.
"Uhm.. shouldn't we take out the monster's crystal?" Kasey asked, looking at Riven.
"Ah yes, go on,"
Kasey moved to the dead body of the beast and took out a dagger from its sheath by his side. He used the dagger to tear the beast's chest area, then stuck his hand in as if looking for something.
'That's certainly disgusting. He must be looking for the beast's crystal," Riven thought.
"Huh, that's weird, I can't find the crystal," Kasey voiced.
"Really? Let me take a look," Aria went over and stuck her hand inside the beast's body.
'They must be very used to this if they're able to do this without even hesitating,' Riven thought.
"Huh? There really isn't a crystal in here. This is the first time I'm seeing somethings
like this. There's usually a crystal in any beast right?" Aria asked.
"Yeah, I've not even heard of anything like this before. This is quite strange," Kasey answered.
'They can't see the crystal? Is that due to the system?' Riven wondered.
Riven then remembered one other skill he had in his arsenal.
[System related skill-EXP Converter]
Toggle this kill on/off to choose to convert the essence of killed beings to exp or not.
Status: ON
'Is this what enables me get exp from killing beasts? If this is true then these two might be suspecting me for being responsible for this unnatural occurrence.'
'Even though they're indebted to me as of now, I can't make them feel I'm too much of s threat, it might make her go against their words.'
"In any case, we should get moving. You're the ones who said we're getting late in the first place," Riven tried making them hurry.
"Ah yes, we're sorry. It's just too much of a mystery to us," Kasey said.
"Okay, let's get going. We'll tell he leader about this when we get back to camp.
Aria lead the way and they both started running out of the dome area and Riven followed.
'Huh? I thought they would go through bother clear path. Why are they going into the forest?' Riven thought.
Soon, Riven realized he was falling behind the two as he noticed they were both being moved by the earth while running, just like the others from his previous group, only there was no air to aid them.
'That means one of them is an earth mage, and if there's no wind, the other must be a fire or water mage,' Riven thought.
The duo soon noticed Riven was falling behind and slowed down their pace for him to catch up.
"We thought you were a fire mage, sir. Why didn't you use it to speed yourself up?" Aria asked.
"I can? How?" Riven asked, looking at the both of them. He then noticed their subtle change in expression.
'Oh.. It seems it's common knowledge of how to use fire to speed oneself up, so they assume I know how to do it. But why wasn't something as little as this transferred to me from this body's previous memories?' Riven wondered.
"Well... You only have to make flames burst from your palms faced backwards while running. You might've known this before, so I'm sorry if I'm stating the obvious," Aria finished.
"Ah no. Let's just... forget about it and keep moving, Okay?" Riven urges them to continue forward.
He followed them as they dashed and turned at irregular angles and soon they were just running straight ahead.
This time, Riven was able to catch up with them as he practiced what Aria had said, letting out short bursts of flames from his palms.
Soon, Riven could spot lights in the distance, and after running for a few more minutes, they arrived at another dome like structure with torches mounted by the sides when it had gotten quite dark.
Standing guard in front where two men who stepped forward upon seeing the group.
"Kasey? Aria? What took you both so long? Thorne had been expecting you to come back before sundown," one of them spoke.
"And who's the man with you?" The other questioned.
"He's someone we met on our escapade, and we brought him back to camp because we needed to. And yes, we know we're late. We'll apologize to Thorne when we're in, so can we go in now" Aria voiced.
"Yes you can go in, but I'll have to follow you until we get to Thorne's residence," the first guard said.
"Sigh... if you insist Dame," Kasey sighed.
The guard named Dame shot Riven an apprehensive look made some movement in front of the wall, making it open up.
"Let's go in," Aria told Riven.
As soon as Riven passed through the dome it closed back, he was stunned to see it was actually another village, not some make shift structure hastily made but a village rounded by the dome like structure made by the earth mages.
He hadn't taken two steps when the system dinged and brought up the interface.
[Quest completed]
Find a human shelter different from the one you just left
Quest rewards:
+100sp
+2 stat points
[Info]
Host name-Riven Gray
Age-16
Level-1 (5600/100 exp)
Strength-7
Agility-6
Endurance-4
Intelligence-11
HP-100/105
MP-110/110
Stat points-9
System points-200
[Do you want to level up?]
'That's one quest done with, how much time do I even have left with the other quest?'
[Time left-15:18:42]
'I have to get this done with tonight. How should I even go about it? Should I stack the guards or...,' Riven tried forming a plan.
Going through the streets, they soon arrived in front of a house a bit larger than the rest.
Dame knocked on the door and voiced;
"Thorne? Kasey and Aria have returned, and they came with a... guest," he glared at Riven again.
They waited a few seconds and the door opened, and out came the man Riven assumed to be Thorne.