"Yay～ We finally go home!" ［Yuna］
"Not yet, we still have another quest left, remember?" ［Grey］
"Uuu... But I'm starving already..." ［Yuna］
Her cheeks puffed cutely, Yuna pouted as she heard Grey's words. Grey oher hand just chuckled silently as he observed his partner, patting her head as to fort her.
St the monster drops in his "Iory", Grey and Yuna started to run once again, heading towards their quest location which was just located a couple of kilometers away.
A few days has passed since Grey had a friendly cook off with Gerd. Although Gerd and Family were shocked by Grey and Yuna's ranks, nothing much had ged from how they treated the two. They were as friendly as always.
Currently, Grey and Yuna are taking their final quest for the day. The quest was about subjugating a group of D-rank shadow bears located just in the nearby mountain range located west of Galderia.
Acc to the ts, the Shadow Bears have beeing the livestock of the vilges nearby. While there weren't any casualties as of yet, it was best to subjugate such threats as quickly as possible.
With the rate Grey and Yuaking quests, it would normally take them about half a month to get another promotion, but with the rarity of the high-ranked quests, it will take them more than two months, which is still a very quick rate.
It's already been two weeks sihe two arrived at Galderia. And with their routine being almost the same every single day, time seemed to pass very quickly.
"Alright, we're here...?" ［Grey］
"Is something wrong, Grey?" ［Yuna］
"Well, you see..." ［Grey］
As Grey activated his "Heaven's Eye", he scouted a rge area in a single sed. He had also found the targets of subjugation, but the problem was, the Shadow Bears weren't the only ones he had spotted.
The Shadow Bears the two were supposed to subjugate had already lost their lives, torn to shreds, and their carcasses being wolfed down hastily by another beast. A beast much strohan it.
It was a gigantic wolf, its fur the color of gray, and fangs and cws sharper than any dagger. Just a sie and it easily tore through the tough hide of the Shadow Bears. In front of its fangs, they were as thin as paper.
Grey and Yuna rushed towards the beast, arriving there ihan a minute. But the moment they arrived, the state of the Shadow Bears was worse than Grey had thought. There was barely any flesh left.
??Appraisal?? ［Grey］
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[Beast]
[Species] Fang Wolf
[Status] Healthy, Agitated, Starving
[Sex] Female
[Age] 28 (Adult)
[Mana Capacity] 3,208 [Mana Quality] B
[bat Power] 1,532 [Threat Level] B
[Attribute] Wind
[Intelligence] 79
[Description]
A e-type beast infamous for being overly violent and incredibly fast. They are endemic to the Magura Forest, and will attack everything that enters its territory indiscriminately. When it senses danger, it will run as fast as it aroy anything on its path. The pelt of the Fang Wolves are known for its sturdiness and are multiple times strohan iron.
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B-rank!
It was a beast capable of pletely decimating vilges in a matter of minutes! Its strength was parable, no, it was even higher than that of the Org that Grey and Yuna had fought about a week ago.
But what worried Grey the most was not its bat power, but the information within its status board which felt very simir. It was simir to the Magma Crawler which brought upon ruin to Yuna's home vilge.
It had an "Agitated" status simir to the Magma Crawler. What's more, it was also a beast whose habitat should have been located thousands of kilometers away. There was too much simirity for it to be a ce!
"Grey, what are you waiting for?" ［Yuna］
"Ah, sorry... What were you saying?" ［Grey］
"Grey... Are you okay...?" ［Yuna］
Her face full of worries, Yuna asked Grey a question seeing how he ag out. Something very uncharacteristic of him.
Meanwhile, Grey was thinking whether he should tell Yuna about his findings. But soon decided not to, fearing Yuna might bee emotionally unstable once again.
He would rather firm things first rather thaurely give statements without any strong evidence. Grey could only imagihe sequences if he did things without much thinking.
"No, nothing. I was just thinking how we should report this to the guild." ［Grey］
"ht..." ［Yuna］
Yuna fixed her eyes towards the corpse of the Shadow Bears with a troubled look. After all, all proof of its subjugation was already devoured, only bones and a little bit of flesh remained.
For now, Grey would keep his findings to himself. He would only say it to Yuna when he had firmed things, hoping it was the right thing to do.
Deg to leave things for ter, Grey focused his attention towards the Fang Wolf. Taking caution so that it does not notice them, otherwise, it might cause further harm to the nearby vilges if left alone.
Although its strength was lesser than the Org, its speed was ahing. It was fast enough to match the speeds of A-ranks beast. Not to mention that it had wind magic at its disposal.
"Yuna, I'll hahis." ［Grey］
"Un... sure!" ［Yuna］
Leaving Yuna to spectate, Grey went out of hiding and faced the Fang Wolf up front. His face was as calm as the sky, without a trace of worry to be seen.
Grrrrrrr Rrrrrrr
The Fang Wolf stopped dev its meal as it saw Grey approag it. Growling aggressively as to intimidate the human before it. It tried to establish the fact that it was the prey.
Unfortunately for it, that's where it went wrong. Rather than being the predator, the Fang Wolf was the prey instead. It was like an ignorant rabbit which didn't know it was fag a tiger.
Without making a single noise, Grey closed the distaween him and the Fang Wolf. The wolf tried to react, but before its body could keep up with its mind, Grey had already released his strike towards its open abdomen.
The moment the punch ected, a slight crack could be heard reverberating in the air as the ribs of the Fang Wolf were shattered to smithereens. The fragments of the bones, pierg its internal ans, causing internal bleeding.
Its ans crushed, the Fang Wolf was sent flying towards a rge tree, yelping as its shoulder bdes cracked upon impact. Still, the Fang Wolf was able to stand up even with all the damage it had received.
Eyes full of hatred, the Fang Wolf rushed trey with the iion of biting Grey's head off in a sie. It was so blinded by rage that it only took Grey a siep to evade its attack.
Not being able to stop its tracks, the Fang Wolf once again crashed towards ane tree. It tried to brake with its front limbs, but with its shoulder bdes broken, it only made things worse.
The Fang Wolf stood up once again, its whole body trembling from injuries and its internal ans totally damaged. It was only then that it realized that the small creature before it was not just any simple prey.
Aaawwoooooooo
As the Fang Wolf howled, strong gusts of wind gathered from the surroundings. Rocks, twigs, and leaves being sucked as if they were dragged into a vortex. The beast was trying to unleash magic with strength parable to a real tornado.
Grey oher hand was as calm as before, undisturbed by the strong bursts of winds sug everything in the surrounding. All he could think of was to pare the beast's magic to his.
'The's see whose magic is stronger.' ［Grey］
peting with the Fang Wolf, Grey gathered a clump of mana of both of his palms, densing more and more mana as time passed, gathering strong bursts of wind with it.
Suddenly, there were two vortices gathering the air in the surrounding area. Even the smaller trees were starting to be uprooted from the sheer strength of the winds which surpasses that of a storm's.
??Pierg Gale?? ［Grey］
Grrrrwoooooo
Giving it all in a single shot, the wolf released a rge tornado trey, destroying anything on its path, shredding the leaves from the trees, and uprooting the grass from the ground.
Responding to the Fang Wolf's gesture, Grey released his spell to ter the Fang Wolf's tornado. The palm-sized orb which hovered on top of Grey's palms turned inte javelin as it pierced through the Fang Wolf's attack.
It didn't matter whether it was a tree, boulder, or even if it was a wall of iron, Grey's spell pierced through everything, bsting them into oblivion.
Of course, the Fang Wolf wasn't safe either. The moment the spell met it, it pierced through its tough skull, destroying its whole brain. A few seds ter, the Fang Wolf's body fell limply to the ground with a thud.
Grey wao find simirities between the Fang Wolf and the Magma Crawler by fighting, but aside from those in their status ss and their aggressive attack patterns. But that was at least another simirity.
"That was intense." ［Yuna］
"Ah, sorry. You weren't hurt anywhere, are you?" ［Grey］
"Un! I'm totally fine!" ［Yuna］
"Then that's good. Let's head baow." ［Grey］
"Yay～ Finally!" ［Yuna］
Colleg the Fang Wolf and the Shadow Bears' remains then st them to the "Iory", Grey and Yuna quickly headed back to the guild to report the pletion of their quests,
Of course, they made sure to report everything to the guild. From their normal quest up until the one involving the Fang Wolf.
"A Fang Wolf, huh...?" ［Gastom］
"Yeah, we found it at the same location as where the Shadow Bears from the quest were located. Also, when we arrived, it was feasting on the Shadow Bear from the quest. It looked like it was starving for weeks without food." ［Grey］
At Grey's statement, Gaston fell silent for a moment as if he had some clue about the matter. His behavior was strange enough that Grey figured out he was hiding something from them.
While Grey didn't think that the Guildmaster was involved in the i a few years ago. He was sure the Guildmaster had some knowledge about it. It was as if these is had happened before.
Seeing how muformation the Adventurer's Guild handles, it wouldn't be stra all if the Guildmaster knew a thing or two about simir is happening around the viity of Galderia.
"I see... I will take note of this. Is there something else you wao ask?" ［Gaston］
Quickly shifting the topic, the Guildmaster just o Grey's observations and asked a question. Grey let him off the hook as he didn't want Yuna to hear about his findings.
"Then we have one more question. How will the Shadow Beast quest be handled? We haven't subjugated the Shadow Bears ourselves, so...?" ［Grey］
"Well, sinething unpreted has appeared, and you have elimi, it will be treated as a success and you will receive additional points. Just show this to a receptionist and they will know what to do. Also, it would be nice if you could sell the Fang Wolf materials you have to the guild." ［Gaston］
"Then, we'll do just that." ［Grey］
Knooock
Just shortly after the guildmaster handed Grey and Yuna a letter , a knog sound be heard ing from the door.
"Guildmaster, we're back! Open up!" ［Kris］
The one knog was her than Kris. Of course, with Kris' personality, there was no shred of formality in his speech. Rather, it was a very casual way to verse with someone who was much older.
The Guildmaster, hearing it, just heaved a sigh of annoyance, although it looked like he was already used to it. After all, it has been 8 years since he had met Kris. He already khe man too well to expeething formal from him.
"Haah... e in..." ［Gaston］
With the guildmaster's sent, Kris, along with Aria, ehe room and quickly noticed there were other people inside.
"Oh, guests...? Ah! It's the rookies!" ［Kris］
"Kris, they have names. At least try to remember them." ［Aria］
"I do remember! It's... right! It's Jin and Sanya!" ［Kris］
"Haah... You're hopeless..." ［Aria］
Aria breathed out a sigh full of worry and disappoi. She has a face which looked like she was residering whether she should really be married to him. Though it only sted for a quick minute.
Just like a week ago, Aria already started rebuking Kris just a few moments after they ehe room. They had once again gone off their own worlds, not minding the people around them.
The spectacle before him made Grey wonder if the two really were eo each other. No matter whigle he looked at, they didn't seem like they got along with one another.
"Then, Guildmaster, we'll be taking our leave." ［Grey］
"Ah, sure..." ［Gaston］
"See you ime." ［Yuna］
Leaving the Guildmaster to take care of the bantering couple, Grey and Yuna escaped the Guildmaster's offid headed towards the reception desk where Tilda was currently w.
Although she was still smiling, the moment Tilda saw Grey and Yu aowards her, she already khey were going to give her a troublesome task. At this point, she wouldn't even be surprised if they were to be promoted to B-rank.
Grey simply hahe letter to Tilda, and the tter received it with a professional smile. And like she expected, the tents of the letter were something along the lines of getting additional points.
After the reception desk, the two then headed towards the Cold Ste to sell the Fang Wolf corpse as promised. And along with it, Grey alsht out what remains of the Shadow Bears and also sold it.
The moment Bartolos saw the corpse of the Fang Wolf, his jaws were opened wide in agape. All that was needed was for his lower jaw to fall to the ground and his eyes popping off and it would be a ical se.
"Lad, Lass, you never cease to amaze me... Just thinking about how you two mao subjugate this monstrosity makes my spine shiver." ［Bartolos］
Bartolos ented along with a shiveriure. After all, who wouldn't be shocked at the corpse of a B-ra.
"So, how is it?" ［Grey］
"Well, with something like this.... It would take half of the guild's manpower. It will probably take us twoー no, three days! Give us three days!" ［Bartolos］
"We're not in a rush to get the payment, so please take your time. It would be terrible if you other adventurers just to finish dismantling our kill." ［Grey］
"True... Then how does week sound?" ［Bartolos］
"Fine by me, how about you, Yuna?" ［Grey］
"Un! I'm fih that as well," ［Yuna］
After iating with how to deal with the Fang Wolf's corpse, Grey and Yuhe cold ste a with the other quest items they got, such as mana crystals and monster drops,
Havi with their adventuring jobs for the day, Grey and Yuhe guild a back to the Rabbit's Den. They then ate a hearty dinner befoing back to their own rooms aired for the day.
Dongggg Donggg
The st bell had rung and the city fell into silence, but along this silent night, there was a dark figure slowly jumping from roof to roof, careful not to make any sound and wake the people up.
He jumped, he ran, he jumped again, and ran again. It etitive cycle of jumping and running throughout the roofs iy. And as the figure ran along the roof, there wasn't a single guard who had spotted him.
The figure only stopped when they arrived at the top of the Adventurer's Guild's roof. Sneaking in as silent as the wind, making sure there weren't any eyes notig them. It was as if the figure was a ninja ba Earth's television shows.
"Haah... There's just o these paperworks..." ［Gaston］
Ihe guild, there was still the Guildmaster w ht. He looked at the window to his right as he thought deeply about something.
Creaaakkkk
Suddenly, a creaking sound echoed from the hall outside of the office. It made the Guildmaster armed and worried at the same time. After all, aside from him, there should be no one else at the building so deep in the night.
Even when he was w, the Guildmaster did not sensing the surroundings. It came as a sho that someone had entered his dete range even without him notig.
"Who's there?! Identify yourself!" ［Gaston］
The moment the Guildmaster yelled those words, the door slowly opened and a dark figure went inside. With the lights from the office, the dark figure's identity was soon revealed, making the Guildmaster shocked and relieved at the same time.
"Haah... Don't scare me like that. So, what do you need, Grey." ［Gaston］
"Guildmaster, we o talk." ［Grey］
CHAPTER 21 END
