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Chapter 6: Sign of disaster

"Papa, wake up wake up" (Nami)

The excited Nami hopped up and down her father chest.

"Five minutes" (Shen)

*Splash*

"Papa wake up" 

Being splashed with water didn't budge Shen one bit as he continued to sleep. Little Nami puffed up her face like a cute squirrle.

"Mooo, PAPA WAKE UP" (Nami)

Out of option, she filled the whole room with water drowning everyone in it

"Ok ok I'm up. Geez, Nami, how are we going to deal with this" (Shen)

"Breakfast time. Papa hurry up" (Nami)

"Alright, I'll be there in a moment" (Shen)

-At the restaurant ground floor 5 minutes later-

"Morning" (Shen)

"Good morning" (Everyone else)

"You're late" (Sandra)

"Can't help it. It's been a long time since I had to get up this early. So what's for breakfast?" (Shen)

"Sunshine egg and bacon with salad. Typical but never old, sir" (Waitress)

"Is that so? Then I will take two servings" (Shen)

"What would you like to drink, sir? Coffee or orange juice" (Waitress)

"Coffe please" (Shen)

"Right away sir" (Waitress)

"Any plan for today?" (Sandra)

"I guess we will stuck here for a while so we should have some kind of identification and the easiest one to get is the adventure card" (Shen)

"So adventure guild then. I wonder when did it appear. We didn't had one in the old days" (Sandra)

"Yeah, although almost every fantasy fictions nowaday have adventure guild but it's actually kind of weird that this world had the same idea" (Shen)

"Dad, can I have an adventure card too?" (Dante)

"Dunno, let's ask them later" (Shen)

"Here's your order sir" (Waitress)

"Ah, thank you. By the way, do you know where's the adventure guild?" (Shen)

"Yes, you just have to turn left when you leave and go down to the end of the road, to the city center, there you can find the adventure guild. It's very big and have a sword, staff and shield sign. It's impossible to miss" (Waitress)

"Thank you. Oh, once more question. Is there any special place in this city?" (Shen)

"Sorry sir. This is a city for adventure due to the dangerous Warmark forest so there's no tourist attraction. However, if you are interested, there's a market place especially for adventures and mercenaries and there is also a church of the God of War and Goddess of Destruction" (Waitress)

*Pfttt*

Hearing the shocking news, Sandra immediately spat out her coffee onto the unlucky monk sitting opposite of her.

"A what?????" (Sandra)

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"A church, madam. Is there something wrong?" (Waitress)

"Can you tell me more about these Gods?" (Shen)

"Yes, the Vincent Sibilings, God of War Shenma, Goddess of Destruction Sandra, they have been worshiped since the day Warmark Empire suddenly got destroyed. And the fact that Her power caused this world to evolve have made them main deities of every inteligent race. Some race even revered Her as their Creator because they was born only after the Great Cataclysm. No other known Gods had such an impact on the world like them" (Waitress)

The waitress was clueless about the living legend sitting in front of her so after explaining to Shen, she left to resume her duty.

"Great, we even have a cult now" (Shen)

"You are not happy about being worshiped?" (Karma)

"Of course not. We are no God, well, we are all Demi-Gods but still not God. Beside, I dislike that kind of attention" (Shen)

"I guess we have to be careful when we use our strength, especially myself. Oh, we need to hide our surename too" (Sandra)

"Ahhh, how troublesome" (Shen)

After the family peaceful breakfast (let's just consider the champions part of the family), they went to the adventure guild, except Ryze and Karma, they wanted to research this world magic so they went their seperate way to the Magic Institue at the Eastern part of the city.

The adventure guild was a three stories building made out of wood and stone with all kind robust-looking people carrying weapons walking in and out regularly, it indeed stood out like a sore thumb. The huge sword and a staff crossed behind a big shield sign that covered half of the upper floor made it even more obvious.

Currently, a group of 13 people with both kids and adults walked in under the puzzled eyes of everyone around them.

"Halt. No mount is allowed. There's a stable in the back. Please lead your mount there" (Guard)

The guard obviously refered to Kled and his lizard Skaarl.

"Ya ain't gonna seperate me and my trust worthy companion, right Skaarl?" (Kled)

"Grelffff" (Skaarl)

The 'trust worthy companion' just yawned unconcernedly then walked to the back of the building.

"YOU DAMN BETRAYAL LIZARDDDD" (Kled)

"Well... all good then" (Guard)

The interior was quite decent considering all of those suspicious guys walking around. It had a counter a restaurant neatly arranged to the left and right respectively.

Without a second thought, Shen walked straight to one of the empty counter.

"Good morning. How can I help you?" (Receptionist)

A ginger haired, big blue eyes cat-girl asked energetically.

"Me and my family here want to register as adventures please" (Shen)

"Please fill out this form and pay 1 silver for registration fee each person." (Receptionist)

"Got it. Here 13 silvers" (Shen)

"Pardon? Isn't it just 2?" (Receptionist)

"There are 13 people so 13 silvers. Can't you count? You have to learn some basic math in this job you know?" (Shen)

"I don't get it, sir. So you are saying that the kids are joining too?" (Receptionist)

"Yep. Is there an age restriction or something?" (Shen)

"No, there isn't. But they are too young, adventuring is not a job for kids. You are aware of the danger right?" (Receptionist)

"Ah, if you worry about their strength then it's fine. They are pretty strong you know?" (Shen)

'How the hell do I know?' The receptionist scream inside her head.

"Oi, did you hear that?" (Mob A)

"Hey pretty boy, I don't know what ya thinking in that arrogant head of yer but don't ya dare look down on us" (Mob B)

Two rough looking guys stand up from the nearby table and approach Shen.

"Oh, I don't look down on anybody. I just stated a fact" (Shen)

"Hey Shen...." (Sandra)

"Why you.... fine, prove it. Kate, can we borrow the training field" (Mob A)

"Yes, it is empty right now. But they are just kids...." (Kate)

"It's fine, I will only teach them a slight lesson so that they won't waste their life out there" (Mob A)

The training field was just a big room with an elevated square ring in the middle and all kind of wooden weapons for training line up at the corners. A big crowd had already gathered to watch an ignorant kid being beaten up.

"Shen, what did I tell you about laying low. This is exactly the opposite" (Sandra)

"It's ok. I won't step in. Let Nami do it. This way all of us will get identity card" (Shen)

Shen didn't know that only adult 16 years or above needed identification, well, poor adventures.

"Oi, what's the meaning of this. Ya think this is a joke. Letting a 3 years old kid fight. Do ya have no shame" (Mob A)

"Ah, it's ok. Just consider it's a training section for her" (Shen)

In front of the nearly 2 meters tall guy with budging muscle was our little Nami in all of her cuteness that stood completely  of place. Her petty body wasn's even larger than the man bicep.

"Hey little girl, get off the ring if ya don't wanna get hurt" (Mob A)

The little Nami just stood there while tilted her head adorably.

"Nami, go easy on him, ok?" (Dante)

"Kay" (Nami)

She replied excitedly as if this was just a game to her.

"That's it. Don't blame me if ya get hurt" (Mob A)

Mob A finally snapped due to the family's arrogant attitude. He advance with an out stretch arm intending to throw the little girl out of the ring. However, his hand only caught thin air as said girl side step to the right and grabbed the enormous arm almost bigger than her own body and flung him through the air, straight to the wall to the far end of the room.

*Silence*

Everyone jaw dropped to the ground (except the family as they had already no the result). Can't blame them though. 

The sight of a adorable little angel threw a giant man with enough force to leave a human shape hole on the wooden wall was too sure real for any of them. Nami, trained by her montrous father, was an expert in jujuitsu, well, 3 months of training can't realy make her an expert in technique but her abnormal stat made it up perfectly along with the fact that her opponent let his guard down. After 5 minutes of eeri silence, the only sound in the whole wide room was the excited giggles of Nami

"They are cheating. There's no way in hell such a little kid have that kind of strength" (Mob B)

Someone finally snapped out of it. It's Mob B.

"You can have a try you know?" (Shen)

"Good. An adventure pride can't be trample like this" (Mob B)

Mob B jumped on the ring and without a word sprinted toward the still excited Nami aiming for a headbutt. It was a mystery why he got so serious with a little girl. But rushing blindly toward a jujuitsu martial artist was a big mistake. Nami lied on her back, grabbed his head and pushed him in the chest with her two little legs. The force behind those small legs and the man own momentum flung him flying through two layers of wall out to the street. A poor passerby almost had a heart attack when something big flight pass his face.

The room was once again sunk into dead silence.

"Soooo, can we have our guild card now?" (Shen)

*Nod Nod*

-Meanwhile in a small shack in the slum-

*Knock Knock Knock*

A burly man was knocking the door intensely 

"I know you're in there. Open up. You're one month behind. Don't make me force the money out of your sorry ass. Hey, you hear me?" (Burly man)

*Knock Knock Knock*

Despite the man constant knocking the owner of the shack just lied still on his bed. His body was covered in sweat. The man had a really sick look and was convulsing strongly, his breath was short and weak.

*Bam Bam Bam*

Tired of knocking the burly man at the door began to slam the door open but the makeshift barricade temporary hold the it in place. 

Suddenly the shack owner stopped moving, he breathed no more.

*BAM*

With one final push, the door gave in and the burly man rushed in the room only to see the owner lifeless body. He approached to check him out.

"The fuck? Why did this bastard suddenly die out of the blue? He was still healthy yesterday. Haizz, is there anything salvable in this place?" (Burly man)

Thus he started searching around in the one room shack with barely any furniture, runmaged through every nook and crany in the place for some hidden valuable. 

Unbeknown to him, the once lifeless corpse raised from his dead. It inched closer and closer. The burly man was too focus on his search that only until the corpse was right behind him did he notice. It was too late though as the corpse sunk its teeth into the man exposed neck and teared a large chunk of flesh out ending his life almost instantly. Not even a sound escaped his mouth due to the missing vocal cord. The walking dead then fed on the man internal organ. After a while, it left quietly to search for another victim. It was not over yet as the corpse of the burly man also began to convulse and twitching in similiar fashion and once again raised up.

Hell was about to break loose in the city of Piggen.