A frustrated hero

Dragons

Without telling anyone I traveled to a neighboring country, from early hours I got on a wagon that was in a caravan heading to different parts. Unfortunately for me, I did something stupid, I had no money to pay for it, so at the first stop I left the caravan without paying. The road didn't say anything to me because of the clothes I was wearing at the time, maybe he thought I was some nobleman. All apparently was a gift from the elf, I noticed that it was new by the smell and texture of the clothes.

I stood in a strange town, and decided to walk to get to another town or someone to give me a hand on the way and just as I had thought it happened, but it made me feel very uncomfortable.

A rather luxurious wagon with fine wood stopped when it saw me around.

I kept walking there and a man with a beard and a guy with glasses spoke to me.

-Are you lost?

-I need to go to the city of Yari, I have a mission there.

-I see... Well, you can come with us if you want.

So much kindness from the people of this place made me very insecure, for me it was too much. I was a bad person and I was not able to accept all that help for what I did.

-Young man... What's wrong with you? Do you distrust me?

-No, it's just that we are three days away from getting there and I'm a little embarrassed to receive help.

-Ah...don't worry, I am a duke and I have business there, you are an adventurer, so I need the help of people like you to continue my activity in that place.

It made me feel better to listen to that man. So I decided to get on that wagon and set out on the journey to that place.

[...]

When I least expected it, three days passed since I started the trip, it seemed that we were about to get there. I was dizzy from seeing trees that were almost the same and from the continuous movement of that carriage.

The man who came with me was the same, despite having dozens of books to read. Even he was bored, and he was wearing the same clothes as when we started the trip. He had no weapons, which seemed a bit careless to me. There were a lot of bandits around this place. This man had taken this lightly, but I thought about it a bit and ended up understanding everything. I was in a nutshell the person who was supposed to be in charge of his security, that's why he picked me up. I was carrying two swords on my back so he trusted me a lot. There I realized that not all help was free.

From one moment to another I started to feel cold. Since we were in the middle of the mountains.

This mission seemed to be very complicated, if it was a frost everything would be much more difficult. So I just leaned back a little and started to think about what I could find in that place. I just hoped that it would not be so difficult and return to the city of Altamira to train with the old man.

[...] 

Hours later we arrived in the city. Luckily it was just a frost, some areas were frozen and were starting to evaporate a bit.

The man who was with me in the carriage got off at the front of the castle. I did the same, but I went to look for the guild of this city. I did not thank him for helping me. He didn't seem to care much about that, so I preferred to go to the guild in this city.

I noticed that the floor of this place was made of stone, but not like other places, it looked like a kind of clay mixed with stones. Maybe it was some experiment to make the floor more resistant.  I remembered what the guild owner once told me, I should not look at something for a long time so as not to attract people's attention, so I just walked around the place. Until I saw a building quite large and clean on the outside. I came to the conclusion that this was the blissful guild of this city.

When I entered the restaurant, I noticed that unlike Altamira, this one was very organized, there were no people drinking or making a fuss. The chairs and tables were dark wood and shiny. There were not many people, only a handful of adventurers who seemed to be waiting for something.

I went to the reception and looked at the person who was in charge of the place at that moment.

-Hey...good afternoon.

-Good afternoon...How can I help you?

-I took a mission from the city of Altamira in the mountain country. 

The D-rank mission... If you can sit and wait there with the rest of the adventurers.

It was a bit disappointing to hear that, but I listened to him and sat in one of the chairs next to the group. Most of them were spread out and were lone adventurers like me. They were all male and mostly human, only three elves and one red haired dwarf, some looked intimidating I didn't want to look any of them in the eye.

[...]

I waited almost an hour in that guild hall, but I felt disappointed, it was my first mission it was pretty bad. My body was numb from sitting for so long. I wanted to get out of there, but a woman came out of the reception with a series of papers in her hand. She had tall black hair, a shirt and a skirt, and a dagger on her right side. 

-Well, I see that fewer adventurers came than needed. Well, welcome, the mission you will be doing is to eliminate some small crimson dragons of white color that are in the mountains. There are believed to be twenty of them, but about the size of a cat. You will be paid the equivalent of 50 Yut.

I didn't know how much money it was, but as long as it was enough to pay for my return trip and to eat for two weeks it was all right with me. 

A human adventurer finally gave his opinion of the mission.

-Killing a dragon is not an easy thing to do, some of them throw acid, no one will answer for the damage caused and that miserable payment. It is stupid that they want to give them so little, I prefer to leave.

-All right, I'll talk to the guild owner to increase the payment, please don't give up. The mission must be completed in less than two days, and it can't be mission C, because the risk is minimal, according to the standards for missions.

The man upon hearing the increase became serious and decided to stay. He was a very ambitious person, I did not think I would find someone like that, but what surprised me the most was to hear something about my country that had been invaded.

-The mission to help build a new country was cancelled due to a big problem between the two involved. So no one from either guild will be able to do it.

-Excuse me... What happened there?

-There was a confrontation between the invaders and the stronger country decided to wipe them all out and avoid any revenge or offensive action from this one. They almost killed the king of that country who tried to treat everyone with dignity.

Finishing everyone off meant that the people of my country had been killed. I tried to stay calm, while the woman kept talking.

-Well, they should just go to the mountain and bring back the bodies of those dragons to confirm that the mission is over and give information about the site of what they found, that's all.

All the adventurers looked satisfied to hear that. Some took their weapons and didn't wait a minute to head towards the mountain. I followed them at a distance, but with a lot of anger. All the people I once knew had died, I couldn't stand that news. My mind went blank for a few minutes and the rage started to get the better of me. I was like that all the way to the mountain, I was an uncontrollable person.

I could not stand anything, because it made me even angrier, but while I was upset. The fight against those dragons started. I heard monsters making that strange sound. Like they were throwing fire somewhere. 

I kept moving towards the top. Until I saw how they all ran. There were about five people missing. They were all human.

-What's going on? Why are they running?

-There's a huge dragon the size of a human, it already killed four of them with some kind of acid.

When I heard that, I was totally cold, but the rage I had was more than anything. I pulled out the two swords I had on my back. I was ready to vent my fury against that creature. My heart could not bear the fate that befell my people, I was beside myself. 

I walked down that sloping mountain in the middle of that cold until I could see something. A white dragon with some gray scales was in front of me. Its eyes were blue and quite large. I got the impression that it was protecting the little ones. So I started to think about giving up, but the dragon didn't even seem to want to back down. He was very aggressive, to the point that he threw that acid at me, luckily I managed to dodge it a little, but my shoes were a little damaged.

I felt uneasy and tried to calm down, I took off my shoes and tried to avoid touching the acid. The dragon came towards me, with an aggressive attitude. It bit my left arm. I had to take the sword the old man had given me and stab the monster. However, he still maintained his stance. He left me no choice but to cut off his head. Without hesitation I cut it off and he fell to the ground. His body began to twitch in a daze.

My arm was freed a little, but it hurt terribly, it was an unbearable burning. I tried to leave, but those creatures seemed to have some kind of connection. Other dragons began to appear. There I came to the conclusion that these monsters were much more dangerous than I thought, they grew very fast. I imagined them to be the size of an elephant in two weeks. 

I couldn't handle all of them, let alone the wound I had, but I was alone in the worst possible scenario. I decided to grab my sword and noticed that it had melted. This was much harder than I thought. Those creatures were a living poison. I was forced to defend myself with the sword the stone giant gave me.

When I least expected it. I saw eight of those dragons, all of them seemed to be coordinated and acting in a group.

With only one hand I had to defend myself. The rage I had became a little more intense, how was it possible that I was sent on a mission like this, and they did not investigate anything? I wielded my sword with great hatred and one by one the dragons came towards me, I remembered the position that the old man had taught me and I used it to cut each one of them, but I was splashed all over my body with that substance, my skin began to burn little by little and the smell that emanated from those creatures made me dizzy. I fell to my knees on the floor in a daze. The last thing I saw was the sky, which at that hour was completely clear.

[...]

I woke up in a bed with some kind of creams on me. My arm was somewhat bandaged, but I had no marks from the bite I suffered in that fight.

I started to see the ceiling of that room, I didn't get up at any time, my body ached a little bit. I was a little confused, I didn't know what to do.

I tried to sit on the bed and change position. I got tired of being in the same position all that time, I saw that I was in some kind of white clothes. They had changed me and put that on me.

I felt someone knocking on the door and went into that room. There were two people, the receptionist and a rather old dwarf.

-You woke up...well...we have to tell you that many things happened...your face changed a little bit, you got some acid, although they cured you, it is noticeable that you don't have the same face anymore. Don't worry, your face is not damaged, you just look a little more adult because of what they did to cure you. The guild will pay you 300 Yut, for the damages suffered and for killing some dragons. This one was already entrusted to other C-rank adventurers. 

I was a bit calmer when I heard that, at least I could be calm for a good while. 

-We'll give you other clothes, the one you had was damaged, for now you can't move your arm much, that dragon had a kind of acid very harmful to anything. It destroys metals and materials.

-And my sword.

-Ah... that... is quite strange. So we'll hand it over to you, apparently it doesn't respond to other people if it's not you. 

-Can I go now? -Yes...

-Yes...

From the way she was talking, she had been here for several days already, so I decided to ask her about this.

-How long has it been?

-Five days...

I was a bit surprised, I didn't think it had been so long. I put my hands on my head and noticed that the short hair I once had was gone. Now it was just coming out.

-I'm sorry, the acid took away part of your hair, you were about to die, but it came out again... ....Se decided to upgrade you...

As much as they did all this to compensate me, I still felt very angry, I went through a lot of pain in that fight, nothing they gave me could calm me down.

The dwarf gave me the clothes, as I looked uneasy with what had happened. 

-Well, I didn't introduce myself. I am Armando, the hero of this city, if you want you can join my group I am very interested in someone with your skills. What you did was quite curious. 

-No, for now I just have to go back to Altamira, I have to train again with my master, I still have a lot to learn...thanks for the offer of the level up, but I can level up alone. I will accept the reward. I'm leaving here today.

-I see...good luck adventurer.

Both people got out of there and I shook it off. I wanted to leave that city immediately, I felt annoyed by the pain in my body. At that moment I remembered what had happened to my country. I began to feel very angry and decided to confront the people who were chasing me, I preferred to be calm and get rid of that problem. I did not know what had happened to me, but my mind changed from one moment to another.