“Hell yeah, now we one step closer to be a true adventurer, hey Elliot go on pick any quest. I give you the honor to pick our team first quest” says Alex, Elliot walks to the quest board and take a random quest he finds easy to be completed. Alex feels uneasy about his decision for letting his friend make a choice so he goes and checks on his friend quest and what he sees about that quest is a quest to help a young girl finding her lost pet. “Rejected,” says Alex, and then he goes and chooses the proper quest. “Let’s do this quest Elliot, a hunting quest. It says we need to find 3 Mandrakes near the outskrit and submit it to the shopkeeper in the marketplace”. Elliot let Alex handle the quest registration and he goes to the library looking to borrow a book about plant and monster. Both of young adventurer start their first quest today, as they passing through the main gate of the city, the guard let them out after seeing adventurer tag that belongs to them.
Quest `Please find 3x Mandrake plant monster to me at the end of today. Client - [Push Potion Shop] Rank: D Rewards: 100 Bronze Profession Point: None
*Pretio outskirt*
After walking for 30 minutes, Elliot and his friend reach a plain field where they need to find these Mandrakes for their quest. “Listen, Elliot, I will be the leader for this time because I know several things about Mandrake. As you can see, Mandrake like to hide in the ground and only let it flower head point out. The flower is yellow and red in color so we easy to find it here.” Mumbling Alex while acting like a leader, “one last thing Elliot, Mandrake can scream very loud, and it tend to attract monster using its scream so before you pluck it out make sure to stab it before it can make any noise”.
In few minute of searching for Mandrake, Alex finally found the flower just like he describes to Elliot. Elliot tries to shoot it from a distance but Alex stops his friend and wants to do it by himself. Alex walk like normal toward that flower and slowly touch the flower, but suddenly Alex stops his movement because this Mandrake is not hiding in the ground but instead it’s walking on the ground using its 2 little feet’s. Alex face start to change because the Mandrake has made eyes contact with Alex, right after that, Mandrake starts to scream while its face change into ghost alike face, Alex runs away quickly before the monster came up due to attraction from Mandrake screaming, before he manages to alert Elliot about the danger, he can see that his best friend is nowhere to be found. Realise that he has been abandon by his friend, Alex runs with a tear in his face. The sound of Mandrake still can be heard by Alex's ears, he feels weird because to him, he has been running quite fast and far from that monster. When he decided to look behind he can see that Mandrake actually runs together with him, follow by 8 monsters that look like a rabbit, “I hate you Elliot” scream Alex.
During the time which Alex try to save his life, Elliot at the other hand prepare to shot down the monster which been chasing his friend, he will shot the enemy from the safe distance, using [Hawk Eye] and [Accuracy Boost] to help him, Elliot with ease able to shoot down several monster with direct hit on the head. Alex who notice that Elliot try to give him cover from distance stop running and use his [Shield Bash] to Mandrake, that plant monster fall down and before it able to stand up again, Alex stab that Mandrake on the head using his sword to kill it. As for the remaining rabbit monster, all of it runaway after the effect of Mandrake agro scream has been stops by Alex, “Where the hell have you been Elliot, you almost make me kill just now” says Alex. Elliot claims that was Alex idea to let him go alone and take care their first pray, as a friend Elliot has to obey that decision. Alex becomes quiet because he knows that was his mistake for that scenario to happen.
“Say, Elliot, did you know that Mandrake walks on the ground and chase the people with their scream? Well, I just remember that you got a book about plant and monster right before this quest did you not,” asks Alex, Elliot with poker face claim he doesn’t know what Alex talking about. After hear Elliot answer Alex hit Elliot head again as the punishment for not letting him know, “we got one and now let’s find another 2 more this plant monster than our quest is done” says Alex. Elliot nod and start to take initiative to spot the enemy with his [Hawk Eye] skill, inorder to avoid the same case happens twice, Alex just leave to Elliot to kill Mandrake from save distance and his job is to fend off any attack just in case Elliot not able to kill it with one hit.
Finally Elliot and Alex manage to fulfil their quest after struggle hunting the Mandrake, “did you say that become adventurer is an easy job” ask Elliot to Alex. “I did not expect it was this hard man, well from now on let try our best to survive in this world together” says Alex. Before Elliot able to say anything, Alex has spot another yellow flower right behind him, “that another one Mandrakes let me kill it this time”. Elliot notice something fishy with that flower, Mandrake flower is yellow and red in color but that one is yellow and blue in color. Based on the book that Elliot borrow that kind of flower is belong to monster plant named Mandroke, it’s not an aggressive type of monster but once it is touched it will explode.
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Hitting that Mandrake with his sword, that monster explode with small blast power which makes Alex flying behind and rolling on the ground, Elliot who is watching that scene laughing to what just happen to his friend, Alex stand up without any damage and go to his friend “let me borrow that book after this okay” says Alex. “I will lend it to you, if you pay me for 10 pieces of bronze coin my friend” says Elliot; “you are rotten to the core” says Alex back.
*Pretio Town*
Those two go to the marketplace in order to send the Mandrake to their client in order to finish the quest, “Well, here we are Elliot [Push Potion] shop, here is where our client stays” says Alex, upon opening the door Elliot can see many types of potion and magic item being display in that shop. “oh, what we have here, 2 young adventurer did we” says the shopkeeper. Alex explains that their purpose for coming today is to deliver the Mandrake based on the request of the quest.
The shopkeeper checks the condition of that Mandrake and asking for them to give their adventurer tag for her to sign prove of completion, based on the shopkeeper the Mandrake is used to make bait for a monster, this because of the blood from Mandrake smell sweet. Before Elliot and Alex leave the shop, the shopkeeper gives both of them 5 health potion, “use it wisely, that potion is quite pricey you know”, after saying thank for the gift Alex and Elliot go to Adventure Guild to submit their report.
In Adventure Guild, Alex let Elliot go and send the report to Lisa while he listens to other adventurer talking to gain some information.
“You know, a few days ago people from Moraka Village said that they are an encounter with one of those,” says adventurer A.
“Oh, I also have heard about that from the traveler that passing through that village,” says adventurer B.
That conversation has gain Alex interest so he tries to be friendly and ask what is happening at Moraka village after few short conversations Alex find out there is a Dungeon just appear near Moraka village. In this world Dungeon is a place where monster treats it like a house and also where people can find a treasure that worth a lot of money, typically Dungeon can consist of many floor level and at the end of the Dungeon will be the keeper to protect all the treasure. The strength of keeper in the Dungeon depend on the size of the Dungeon itself, in other words, the bigger the Dungeon the stronger it keeper will be, but once the keeper is being killed the Dungeon will disappear in 2 days.
Elliot has returned with the reward in his hand, “Elliot let go to Dungeon right after this” says Alex with the smiley face, “No way, I don’t want to go there” replies Elliot without taking time to thinks. He notices that Elliot really serious with his decision for not going into the Dungeon, Alex doesn’t have a choice except to hold back his desire to explore the Dungeon. “I will go home now, see you tomorrow Alex” says Elliot, Alex wave his hand as sign of goodbye then he check the amount of reward there is something wrong with the amount he gets from Elliot, “crap, I so focussing on Dungeon I totally forget that guy cannot be trusted when it comes to money, dam you Elliot” scream Alex. As for Alex, he going to talk to Lisa about the idea of going into Dungeon and Lisa agree with Elliot to forget about that idea for time being. “Both of you just become adventurers, you know how many people die in the Dungeon, it not a playing ground for a young adventurer like you and Elliot. I think Elliot knows about them and that why he doesn’t want to let you enter the Dungeon” says Lisa with the respectful tone toward Elliot way of thinking.
The truth is, it not like Elliot really care about Alex but he don’t want to let his precious human shield to gone and need to find the new one to replace it, to Elliot going into Dungeon just waste of time because there will be many people that already try to conquer that Dungeon so there is high chance of their effort will be empty and not gains anything. That what going on in Alex mind, but he doesn’t tell it to Lisa in order to keep his friend from called as a lazy adventurer.
*Elliot bedroom*
“Well many things happen in one day, it seems that life of an adventurer is not as bad as I think” thinking Elliot in his mind before he falls asleep because tired with today hunting, “Hey, hey wake up please” voice from a familiar person to Elliot. When he opens his eyes once again he found himself in the same place like his last dream, he looking and found out the same girl standing in front of him is also the same girl. “Why didn’t come to the place I ask you to come before this, you know how long I be waiting for you there?” ask Eliaza, Elliot think that just another weird dream and he try to ignore it like before but Eliaza don’t let him sleep this time and keep him awake by showering Elliot with water out of nowhere. “Now that you have awake let me tell you something, in your world something that is called as The End will come, during it appears many people will die and the town will be destroyed, in order to avoid that, I have personally chosen you to be a savior of this world. Now be strong and”, “please choose other people” Elliot interrupt Eliaza during her explanations.
“But why, don’t you have dream to become a hero that save people and create a harem with many beautiful princess from around the world” ask Eliaza, Elliot face become speechless and say “it not my business if something will destroy this world, you say you are a goddess then use your power to settle thing up, as for becoming a hero, I just become an adventurer I don’t think to sign for another problem job in the future”. Then Elliot just ignores Eliaza and going back to sleep, “I will not give up on your, mark my word you nut head” scream Eliaza.