Keimen Kingdom, Shandel City. “Old man Khan! I brought something in!” A loud voice rang out in the usually quiet Adventurer Guild of Shandel City. The adventurers present all looked at the bloodied woman with scared expressions. She dragged large bodies behind her like it barely weighed anything. It was a pile of orcs in armor. They were all dead and tied up. Khan from the reception desk looked at the woman expressionlessly and sighed. “I hate it whenever you come to town.” He took out a piece of paper from his desk. It was a request to the guild for a monster that was terrorizing one of the villages on the outskirts of the kingdom. No one wanted to take on the quest even though it was labeled a C rank quest, due to the village’s close proximity to Larm. They believed the guild was severely underestimating the Quest’s danger level, and it turns out they actually were. The woman stopped at the receptionist and slammed down on the desk with a grin. “I was passing by when I found
‘What was that?’I asked Sunalla after I managed to calm down. Sunalla grit her teeth then spoke.“Daxia.”‘Who?’“The Queen of The Bloody Seas, Daxia. Ruler of SharkFang Kingdom, one of the 3 nations of The Mass Blue.”‘3 nations?’Sunalla shrugged.“Yes, three nations. Atlantis, SharkFang and Exsuole, although the last insists it’s an Empire.”‘So… why did Daxia come after us?’Guppies swam up to the princess and she played with them quietly.“Because we retrieved the princess, obviously.”‘But… I thought you said she was away.’“She was. It should have taken her at least a full day to catch up to get to the tower from the Bloody Sea. At least 3 days to get to where we were. Daxia, does not follow the rules of logic.”‘Isn’t it because she’s too strong?’“You could say that.”“So, when are we going back?”Yokino asked from nowhere.“Tomorrow. Daxia would have grown bored by then.”In the end, they decided we would return the next day. I decided it would be best for me to focus on ot
Day 47As early as possible, Sunalla made us head out. He suggested we go to a different location just to be careful. Yokino opened up a portal and we all swam through it, but there was something off that happened this time.>‘What?’The agent was alerting me to a bizarre incident that was happening to the portal.>Someone was hijacking our portal’s destination.‘Is there something we can do about it?’>‘So, we just get teleported wherever their taking us?’Just as I asked this question, I was spat out into the ocean once again.DING[You have entered a place with high pressure][All your stats will be lowered by 5%][Some of your attacks will not carry the same level of power as they do normally.][The skill [Pressure Resistance] has gone up 1 level]I took in a big gulp of water and prepped myself for enemies. However, I couldn’t sense any nearby. Rather,
Given the fact that we were in an area my magic wasn’t going to work in, we had to swim all the way. The princess was naturally faster than I was, but I managed to keep up with her since she couldn’t go too far from my view. We managed to make some progress, whilst also getting information from the princess. This meant I finally got a gist of the state of affairs in Atlantis.Her father, the King of Atlantis, announced that he would be stepping down as King to allow one of his children to take charge. Naturally the right to succeed would be passed down to the first born, however she was more popular than her brother, so the people wanted her to become princess. Basically, those in support of her brother were trying to get rid of her.Her supporters arranged for her to escape, but during her escape, she was kidnapped by the bandits from SharkFang. She assumed it was her brother having planned for her escape, but fortunately, Sunalla got us to rescue her before anything bad could happen
Day 50We managed to get out of the location where I couldn’t use magic. So obviously, the first thing I tried to do was create a portal. I managed to do that. That was how far I got before…“Found you!”DING![Notice: Sensing Incoming Waves of Immense Chaos Energy]Behind me, moving as fast lightning was a blackness. In fact, I couldn’t say it was moving. It was basically flashing before me, closing the distance in mere seconds. And I knew for a fact that I was looking very far away.[You have been inflicted with [Absurd Fear]][You will not be able to move till you overcome this fear]My body was stuck in place. Behind me, the princess on the other hand was moving towards the portal. Kawaii grabbed me, it would seem she realised that I was stuck. But that wasn’t the important thing here. What the heck was this thing coming after us.I blinked, then there was a hand over my body. It grabbed me hard and it felt like my bones were shattering.[You have received the status [Broken Bones
The scent of fluxior herbs being melted by acid wafted through the air. The bubbling of chemicals in glass containers over a bright orange flame sent puffs of white gas from the container’s tip. There was a large set up of tubes on a desk, with substances of all sorts, being mixed methodologically and with the utmost care, just to produce one single potion.The potion possessed a dark purple colour as well as bowel-aggravating scent. The one in charge of the experiment took up the vial and looked at it closely, her dark eyes scanning for any errors. Putting her hand to the tip, she shook the vial vigorously for a few more seconds, then brought it back to observe. There was no visible change and the woman shrugged. She put down the vial in a tube rack, where other vials of similar colour were found.They all possessed varying shades of the colour, purple.Slowly, she removed her white gloves made out of slime resin and quickly disposed of them into her special storage ring. Normally, a
The leaves on the tree rustled gently in the hot afternoon sun. Under one of the trees, a young man rested with his arms folded. The bangs of his blonde hair covered his eyes, providing a bit more shade to his eyes. The scent of something cooking wafted through the air and tickled his nose and roused his stomach.His eyes opened slowly and were met with sunlight piercing through the gaps in the trees. He sat still, just looking up at the sky in thought for a second, before a smile crept onto his face. Quickly, he jumped up and made his way towards the camp site.It was a good 5-minute walk to the campsite, way shorter if he decided to run. He was only able to smell the food due to his high sensitivity he had built up as an adventurer. He chose the distance since it would allow him to react to any form of danger with the party members in time, while allowing him enough break time from the members. He usually did this whenever his party set up camp. This was his own way of clearing his
“Huuuuuuuuuuuhhhhh?!”Daxia’s cry echoed out in the ocean. Even though I could feel my ear drums bursting, I didn’t move to cover them. Akira’s attempt at manipulating Daxia seemed to be going on well enough, so I wouldn’t dare to even ruin his plans.“Come on, come on. Everybody wants someone strong on their side.”‘I’m sick and tired of you overpowered freaks doing whatever you want. I just want to go to Atlantis.’“Eh? Why would you want to go to such a boring place? Atlantis is just filled with snobby brats hiding behind shiny armour.”‘Well, snobby brats aren’t causing my mana to run rampant, now, are they?’“Come on, we both know you aren’t interested in Atlantis. People like us prefer the wild, where no tamed men stay.”‘I hate the wild. I almost died on more than a hundred occasions in the wild in only under a month. I want tamed for once.’“So, you admit that you’re just like me. Born and bred in the wild.”‘You’re only hearing what you want to hear.’“Yes.”‘AH! You admit it