Chapter 96: A Quest

[ Name: Ren Arken

Age: 14

Race: Human

Strength: 200,000 (+1,300,000 [Mana])

Agility: 300,000 (+2,300,000 [Mana])

Vitality: 800,000 (+1,200,000 [Mana])

Mana: ~~~

Spiritual: ~~~

Intellect: 300, 000

Unique Skills:

-Magic cards -appraisal -evil gaze -strengthen -leap -basic magics -Magic mastery -Grimoire of death -Real Clone [Heavenly Slime] -Eye of Wisdom -Sword God -Fenrir Arken -Predator of the sky -Wild Beasts Skills -Knight’s soul -Defiler of the banished, Ataraxia]

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“A quest?” Oz asked to confirm whether what he heard is true or not.

“Yes, a quest. On the west side of the kingdom, there is a bandit calling himself the bandit king. He has followers exceeding hundreds of bandits. Your party’s task is to obliterate him with any means you have, the magic academy will give you the rewards once you’ve completed the mission,” Said Oxius the magic academy’s headmaster as he strokes his beard.

In the morning, Albus suddenly came to Oz’s room and said to him that the headmaster is calling him. With a question mark inside his head, Oz prepares himself and went to the headmaster’s office.

“Why so sudden?” (Oz)

“There’s currently a lot of problems inside the kingdom, I let yourself to guess the reasons, but our soldiers are in a short of hands to handle all of it, that’s why I suggested making a special class in order to help to solve our short of hands. And your generation had a lot of kids with great potentials after all,” (Oxius)

“I intended to give you quests a little bit later, but the situation isn’t really on our favor, so we need to dispatch you, the students from the special class that has the sword saint’s rank, I’m counting on you, Ren,” Said Oxius with an apologetic face.

Oz sighs.

“I bet this is the hardest quest, and since it’s the most dangerous one, you decided to give it to me, am I right Professor?” Oz said indifferently.

Hearing Oz’s response, Oxius smiled with satisfaction.

“Precisely. Good guess, you’re the main reason why I give your party the most dangerous quest, you know? If you want to blame someone, go and blame yourself. It’s your fault to defeat the supreme general of the kingdom…” Oxius sneered while he strokes his beard.

“My pride on the stake, you’ll be disappointed to me if I let him crush my pride, right?” Oz said with a shrug.

“That’s not wrong. Anyway, go tell your party members to gather and embark to the Bareland city, you could start hunting the bandit king there,” (Oxius)

“Fine, I’m hoping for a good reward from this quest, headmaster,” Said Oz as he left the office to meet his party members.

(Are we going for a journey, master!?) (Fenrir)

Fenrir’s loud voice suddenly appeared inside Oz’s mind.

(Fenrir! Could you please don’t shout inside my head!? And yes! We’re going to have a journey) (Oz)

(Yes!!! Sorry, master! I’m too excited!!! Are we going to ride a carriage again!?) (Fenrir)

(Of course) (Oz)

(Yeay!!! let’s go!!! I prefer inside you rather than your other clones, master. They work too much! Even though I don’t do anything, I feel exhausted just by watching them!) (Fenrir)

(You’re just a slacker, Fenrir. How the hell could they choose you like the ice spirit queen anyway?) (Oz)

(W-what do you mean!? I’m not a slacker! Oh well! At least we’ll get some fun by having a journey, so I forgive you, master!) (Fenrir)

(I don’t do anything wrong, though) (Oz)

(Fenrir, you’re overreacting) (Reo)

(Hmph! You’re not the one to talk! You couldn’t even erase that ugly smirk on your face! Don’t lie! You’re even more excited from me, Reo!) (Fenrir)

(Wha-What do you mean by ugly!? This is a gentleman’s face!) (Reo)

(Agh!!! Shut it!!!) (Oz)

Oz could only hold his head, trying his best to endure the pain of having those two spirit king and queen bickering inside his head. With large effort, Oz finally arrived in front of his room. Oz opened his room’s door while his face got pale because of the headache caused by the two bickering spirit king and queen.

Oz sigh.

(I think I’ll go take some rest for an hour before telling the others…) (Oz)

But when Oz entered his room, the only thing waiting for him is the fact that his hope of having some rest for an hour is gone.

“Ah! Ren! You’ve arrived!” Albus’s cheerful voice enters Oz’s ears.

Oz took a deep breath and try to process the scene in front of him while telling the spirit king and queen that still bickering inside his head to shut up.

“Tell me, how does all of you enter my room? I definitely lock this room up before I go,” (Oz)

“Hm? All of us got a spare key to your room, Ren!” (Albus)

(S-spare key!?) (Oz)

“Um… how do you manage to get the spare key? I don’t remember lending my key to anyone,” Oz asked them weakly.

“Hm? What are you saying? It’s simple since we have the royal princess on our side, everyone accepts all of her commands. We just ask the dormitory officer to make six spare keys of your room and he immediately handles it for us after looking that the princess is together with us!” (Albus)

Oz stares at all of them.

(The princess, the heir of the headmaster, the three famous half-elf sword saints, and a good looking man that looks like he came from a noble family…) (Oz)

Oz let out another big sigh.

(Well, I can’t blame the officer to easily lent the spare keys. I could imagine his expression when he saw all of them…) (Oz)

“I won’t ask why all of you need to have a spare key to my room because I don’t want to hear the answer, I’ll ask why the hell are all of you gather here instead, I believe I haven’t told you guys anything about having a meeting and definitely not at my place,” Said Oz with a hint of annoyance.

“We come to play!” Edreale said with a tone that didn’t match with her expressionless face.

(You come all the way here and even make a spare key to my dormitory room only to play!) (Oz)

(Calm down, master!!!) (Fenrir)

(You need to maintain your composure, master. Don’t lose your cool) (Reo)

(AND WHO DO YOU THINK THE ONES WHO MADE ME LOST MY PATIENCE, TO BEGIN WITH, HUH!?) (Oz)

“Don’t be mad, Ren. She’s just joking, Albus told us that we’ll have a meeting about a quest or something similar, so we decided to gather at your dormitory room,” Alfred said with his usual frank style.

Oz shifted his gaze to the ice princess that been looking at him with a flat expression for a moment before giving out a sigh.

“Okay, let’s discuss it then,” Oz took a seat.

“According to the headmaster, the place we’re going to is called the Bareland city,” (Oz)

Bareland city is a city that has interesting terrain, like how it’s named, the land only has bare lands without any forests or any other natural terrain specialties. Because of the lack of forest, magic beasts that need to feed on nature’s mana habits far from the city, making the city no danger of magic beasts.

Because there is no danger from the magic beasts, lots of people decided to live that while merchants make their firms and other business there, making the city prosper. But one day, a sudden appearance of a bandit that calls himself the bandit king changes the atmosphere in the city. The bandit king brought his allies that he gathered before from other places and make a camp near the city.

Having the bandits near the city, the merchants felt their goods endangered by their presence, and it turns out their worries are true. The bandits under the bandit king rob and plunder the merchants that went in or out from the city for business.

Because of the crisis, the city decided to dispatch their knights while the merchants gave them support by hiring lots of mercenaries to help the knights. As one of the most prosperous cities in the west, the knights of the Bareland city are strong and renowned. They dispatch at midnight to obliterate the bandit king and his minions full of vigor, the city lord, and the merchants wait for the good news at their residences for hours.

They waited until morning, afternoon, evening, and when the night came, the city lord and the merchants start to worry. Still holding positive thoughts about the operation, they decided to wait longer, but when midnight came, they never expect that their midnight attack will be retaliated by the bandits. Under the bandit king commands, the city got attacked by the bandits until it’s forced to ask reinforcement to other cities. After the bandits plundered the city to their heart content, the bandit king instructed his minions to retreat and return to their base.

“Hm… The bandit king seems pretty clever,” Peter said with an interested expression.

“He seems to be quite strong too,” Said Sen with a similarly interested response.

“Indeed… So we need to embark to the west soon, we’ll embark tomorrow, this will be our first mission as a party, let’s go wild,” (Oz)