In the Northern Continent of Ampruosiea, The snowy alps where the contestant Lorenzo landed. Lorenzo made it to the city of Vallstorm just a day after he landed in the continent.
It was easy to enlist into a guild after I found a town, or is it a city.
It's all the same to me. Anyway I was able to find a few other contestants, luckily they were my teammates so we were able to form a full party... Well luckily for them of course, it seems I am the only one who completely understands how to use magic.
Also it's naturally cold in this region, I'm not sure how it is elsewhere but so far, I can't tell whether it's cold or not even though it's snowing heavily.
Is it me, certainly I would've felt it now in the other world but right now I don't feel too cold. Is it because I have Ice magic?
Nearly a week has passed since the contest started and I've already gone on 20 quests with my party. We've unlocked quite a number of skills. I'd say we might be far ahead than any other contestant. Along with the quests we've ranked up quite a bit.
"Lorenzo!" It seems I was lost in thought as I stared at my guild I.D.
"What." I answered to my party member.
He's an unbelievably large person, both in height and muscles. He looked similar to a boar, though he was quite young.
"Which quest are we taking? There isn't much for us to do after all, we are only D rank." His name is Sylvester.
"Ugh let's see, there is… ah let's take this one here. To hunt some misbehaving wolves." I said as I pulled the paper from the wall.
"Hunting wolves, that isn't much of a challenge for us." My other party member, Saruka said, she's a middle aged woman and quite short, well shorter than me anyway.
"You know Saruka, everyday you prove why your my favorite teammate." We're all from different countries back on earth yet we can understand each other perfectly, it seems the Wizard left no language barrier between us. "After all a rank doesn't equate to strength.. well not for us anyway. However the damned guild won't let us do any other higher quest, not even the C rank." I explained as I brought the paper to the receptionist.
"Lorenzo, Saruka, Sylvester, and Sarina. You can take this quest or you can take a low level C rank quest to break through the D0 rank. It is your choice." The receptionist said, his body was unbelievably large like a bodybuilder, even more so than Sylvester. I think he's physically the strongest in the country.
"Really we can do that, for real?" I was surprised to say the least.
"Yes you can." The receptionist answered back blandly.
"Oh, I see. Give us the C rank quest then." I told him as I slid the lower ranked quest away.
*THOOM* Suddenly the doors to the guild swung open.
Standing there at the entrance of the doors were the city law enforcement or in other words the police. About a few dozen enforcement officers were there as well as white wolves.
"What the hell is the enforcement here for?" The other adventures whispered amongst each other.
The leading officer, seemingly the captain as he donned a white fur coat different from his fellow officers. He may be the captain.
"We are here for the suspect in the murder of the four adventurers from the lance party. We traced the magicules back to an adventurer from here, so with that being said. Lorenzo Frost, step forward you will be detained for the aforementioned murders." Of course… I should have disposed of those bodies but I was too tired…
Son of a bitch, this is troublesome. Nonetheless I stepped forwards. "I admit, I did that but it was out of self defense." My party members look at me as if I'm a maniac, are they scared of me?
"With no proof-" I should've allowed him to finish before I activated my ice magic against them, sending a large spike from the ground towards the entire enforcement unit.
*Krakle* Ohh♡ it seems the captain blocked it with some sort of blue barrier.
*Step* The receptionist jumped on top of the counter and tried to jump towards and tackle me but ice spikes from the ground behind me rose up and pierced him.
However it seems he activated some enhancement around his arms to block the ice although it still pierced through his arms, it seemed to have stopped there. I was hoping to kill him but his arms are unbelievably thick. I'll keep him up there for now.
"Don't not try to resist, you will only add more charges!, we are willing to detain you but if you do any more, you will face the death penalty." The captain said as he stood calm.
He may be analyzing my magic ability as that barrier stays erect.
Let see my options are quite limited, between my freedom, my death, and living as an inmate….
"Let's see just how much that barrier can take." I said to my party member as six large cones of solid ice were formed above my head.
"Goddamn adventures stirring trouble in our city, they even killed the lance party in just a week of being here." The other adventurers said as they picked up their weapons.
"Are you shitting me? Looks like those scumbags are involving you guys in this too, sorry." I said as I created more thorns of ice.
"It's fine, this may be the challenge I was waiting for." Saruka said as she touched the wood floor below them.
As she touched the floor, the density quickly changed into a rubbery like substance- no it's more similar to a liquid substance although they could sink or drown. Nevertheless this made the adventurers and some of the enforcers lose their balance rather quickly.
Except the captain who seems to be standing still rather calmly, his demeanor hasn't changed one bit. Neither has his stance.
As the adventurers fall I shoot my ice thorns at them without taking my eyes off of the Captain. Multiple of them hit all at once but they aren't lethal hits, still I'm not sure what is considered as a crime just yet similarly if it's to prevent my stagnation in increasing my magical power, I'm sure it'll be overlooked.
As I thought of this, more thorns of ice are created and aimed at the enforcement officers.
That's when the captain changes his stance. As if he was holding an imaginary sword… I see what he's doing.
There's an infinite number of magic types in this world that means he may have one where he can create weapons, there doesn't seem to be any guns or things of that nature in this world so I can assume that he is using something like a sword.
I thought of this while firing my ice thorns at him and just as I predicted, a sword formed as he pulled his hand away from his hip. Swinging it at the thorns with extreme force.
Strong enough to cut through all of my thorns.
I see how it is now, why he's so calm, He's been analyzing our mana from the start. He doesn't plan on letting us go at all, if we fight it'll have to be to the death.
If it wasn't for the penalty, I would've indulged my urges but there's no point if I receive the recoil. That damned Wizard, he certainly isn't an idiot I'll tell you that much.
For now, we'll escape.
I aimed my thorns at the ceiling and blew a large hole into it. At the same time an ice platform was created below me and my party members' feet and shot upwards as a large and dense pillar of ice, much more dense the thorns so the captain can't slice through it.
The captain didn't give chase or even panicked as we got away, he watched calmly.
"What the hell is your problem?" Sylvester yelled as he grabbed my collar.
"It isn't my fault, they were trying to rob me." I knew he meant the killing. Still who the hell is to grab me like this.
I know martial arts to a great degree so I grabbed his hand and folded it inwards to induce pain in his wrist as well as to make him let go. "Do not touch me. We're teammates after all."
"He's right though, that was a sure way to increase our strength now it's gone." Sarina said, she was just as young as me , probably a year younger.
"Hmm, well we will be fine. There's monsters everywhere as well as cities. The word shouldn't spread so fast so we'll be fine." Suddenly as I said those words, a large shadow overlapped our figure.
As I look to the figure behind me, it was none other than the captain who stood on top of a large bird, with the size of approximately 8 meters and the appearance similar to that of an eagle.
"You gotta be fucking kidding me." This is why he was so calm. What an asshole.
"Lorenzo Frost and Saruka Ashino you will be sentenced as well as the accomplices Sylvester Fystovdes and Sarina Doré." He pointed his sword as the bird roared.
Suddenly a large smile appeared on my face, oh crap, I don't think I can control myself♡