Author mistake, When I plan stuff for future I normally make people in their teenage years, sorry about the personality traits given that early at 6 years of age, but to tone it down I would say that Vadela usually avoids boys and refusing to play with them, and Rohnen is always trying to play with the girls and telling them how pretty they are despite how they avoid him. (Telling people who pretty they are is normally a sign that someone grew up with manners and how if they do not have anything nice to say then don't say it at all, so instead just compliment them) I forgot to change up my drafts in context of the age I gave them, I feel like a beginner all, but thank you for pointing out my mistakes.
----------------------------------------
After the good news of all of us being able to successfully becoming Spirit Tamers, we wanted to celebrate, unfortunately for us, that was when the orphanage decided that we were capable of earning money, so now our stay there has to be paid for.
Our caretaker sneered at us "Now that you are capable "Adults" you can make money for the orphanage, that is if you want to stay there where we house you, keep you clean, feed you, put the clothes on your back, you name it, you owe us"
"How much will the expenses be" I asked them and the caretaker laughs with a loud chortle. "Oh about 10 silvers for housing you alone, 20 for food, plus 5 for the materials required for a bath, cold at that, clothes are quite cheap, but they wear to easily and of poor quality, if a sudden wind comes, consider yourself naked. Additional expenses and higher grade goods are naturally more expensive, you have to pay for next month and each following month after if you want to stay" He explained to us, the greed was in his eyes and tone of speech, and the sense of despair that radiated from us drowned us altogether.
To the average worker, they would make about 1 to two silvers a week, that was hardly half of the housing amount. Silvers could be broken down into 100 bronze pieces, but can be made by exchanging 100 silvers for a single gold pieces, and after that 100 more gold pieces for a diamond pieces, and above that is platinum.
A hunter or adventurer would naturally make more money as they bring in vital meat and furs as well as crafting materials and herbs needed by the village. To make end's meet we decided to go into the adventurers guild to register ourselves.
The receptionist a kind beautiful lady looked at us with pity "Another batch of orphans I take it" she asked in a bored tone.
We just nodded our heads and with a sigh the receptionist got out three tablets and had us hold it till writing appeared.
Bronze Rank Class E Tablet.
This tablet is a probation period and also the newest of the new adventurers.
This tablet will showcase your name or nickname and one of your contracted spirit beasts/ main weapon.
This tablet will record your current quest, you can take as many as you like but if not completed in time or failed, you will have to pay a heavy compensation.
Tablet Information:
Name: Vale Hawtha
Contracted Spirit: Pumpkin Head
Reputation: None
Guild Cash: 0
I was excited to start working but i was even more amazed about the fact that the tablet shrunk down to the size of a pin and the receptionist told us to put it somewhere on our body, it will attach itself in no time.
After much thought I decided to put it on my chest over the heart. Vadela chose to wear it as an ear ring and Rohnen opted to put it on his hand.
We rushed over to the quest board and looked over all the jobs.
"With your current levels I suggest a gathering job, finding herbs used for potions will gather you quite a sum, and their in a relatively easy location, even for beginners" One of the people at the board suggested to us, we nodded our heads and quickly took the herb job, a few people laughed at our how naive we were but we were six years old, how could we understand any of this.
Following the road into the forest we summoned our spirit beasts.
Frost Hatchling, with the natural ability Frost Touch, which envelope an object, creature, or other in ice, at this stage it could only make things slow and cold, and not entirely frozen.
Thunderous Gorilla Ape, with it's skill Berserk Mode, which enabled it to increase it's damage and speed for a short amount of time, the drawbacks however was a reduction in will during and after, complete immobilization for a minute.
Pumpkin Head, it was utterly useless when it comes to combat, but it had a great support ability called Fear Gas, which produces a mist of fear inducing gases that attacked the senses, throwing the enemy into disarray, sadly it only worked on weak willed creatures, and humans had a great resistance to this type of stuff, making it useless.
" We were in search of Thymus, a small minty leaf-grass that is used for medical properties. "Alright we are paid about 1 silver per bundle of Thymus, a bundle normally contains about 20 leaves and it is quite abundant in this forest so it shouldn't be that difficult to retrieve. " Vadela says.
We walked throughout the forest, the trees widely spread so that the ground was sunny and bright, This revealed to sight for miles around us, but oddly enough nothing appeared, no creatures, no humans, nothing for miles to come. Unnatural for a forest I would say.
This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.
"Can we hurry this up, I feel like we are walking in circles" Rohnen complained.
"We just need a few bundles of Thymus, how hard can it be, they grow in the forest right?" I asked and Vadela held up her Adventurer's plate.
"Thymus should be relatively simple to find, they grow in the meadows but can be found in forested areas with lots of sunlight, Look there is even a picture of it " Vadela points out and we looked at our plates.
undefined
"I saw some a bit ago, let's go back and get it" I said and we turned around.
After a few minutes of walking, our little feet were getting tired out and we all decided to take a break.
"Wish we could find a creature to fight, fighting always ranks up Spirit Beasts the best. " Rohnen piped up and Vadela gave a counter argument to his statement, "That is not true, sure fighting is helpful in strategy, but the most useful cultivation method is essence absorption, as enables it to grow stronger by having more energy reserves and also makes it have a chance for gaining new abilities."
"Fighting is always best, at least you can train to use the new powers" Rohnen argued.
"Sure sure, tell me how you're going to fight without an ability to use" Vadela countered.
"Guys....." I said
"Alright, Fight me, I dare you to fight me, I'll show you that fighting is everything" Rohnen roared.
"Watch, Essence will make my hatchling outstrip your ape by miles" Vadela retorted.
"GUYS...." I exclaimed and both of my friends were fuming in anger turned to look at me. "What do you want" they grunted in hostility.
"Since we were walking before till now, I always felt like this place was familiar, but isn't that the same rock we passed by moments earlier?" I asked, pointing toward a rock that looked like a deformed marble bust of a person.
Vadela moves closer to examine the statue, "Now that you mention it, I can see that your right, not even five minutes have passed since we walked pass this rock, I believe we passed it at an earlier time as well"
"See I told you we've been going in circles, now you can agree that I am right" Rohnen announced triumphantly and Vadela smacked him on top the head. "You fool doesn't that mean we got stuck in some trap"
"If its a trap what do you suppose we should do, ask them to release us?" Rohnen scowled.
"If you want me to, If this is an illusion trap then my [Pumpkin Head] can counter it to some extent." I said and with agreement from my friends I activated the rune on my body. Popping out of my head the [Pumpkin Head] lit up and stared at me.
[Pumpkin Head] use Fear Gas I thought and within moments the area was full of the fear-inducing gas.
The area around us distorted and a giant ugly flower revealed itself.
"[Illusion Rafflesia] I warned my friends and ordered my pumpkin to attack.
Summoning their spirits Vadela and Rohnen also sent their Spirit Beasts to attack.
The Rafflesia spat out a goo and multiple Rafflesias started to appear around us.
"They're illusions, try to target the real one" I shouted and my pumpkin tackled the flower that spat the goo, which turned out to be a fake.
The [Frost Hatchling] of Vadela and the [Thunderous Gorilla Ape] of Rohnen also smashed fakes as well and the remaining illusions spat out more goo which in turn made more illusions of the Rafflesia.
"Gosh so annoying, What rank could this smelly flower possibly be. " Rohnen howled in anger and ordered his Ape into berserk mode, which smashed quite a number of the flowers, sadly none of them real.
"Vale, try using fear gas again, it distorted the illusion last time, it should work this time around" Vadela suggested as her hatcling took out another fake and thought it was a brilliant plan.
"If I do use it, then get your [Frost Hatchling]'s ability alright, this should slow or freeze it, now lets go" I suggested and my [Pumpkin Head] used it's Fear Gas ability,
The illusions in the area disperse leaving badly formed images and the real Rafflesia.
Taking this opportunity Vadela's Hatchling swooped in and activated frost touch, the leaves on the flower slowly becoming encased in ice as the flower screamed out in pain. It tried to escape but Rohnen's ape came and smashed it into he ground. Floating up from the destroyed flower wisps started to float into the breeze.
"Quick, that is the Illusion Rafflesia's essence, Vale your most compatible since it's a plant spirit, and a mind type beast." Vadela exclaimed and I rushed over and fed it into my pumpkin head.
The [Pumpkin Head] hopped once, it's body glowing before it retreated back into my body, I could feel it culvitating the essence and we used the time to go around now taking the Thymus that appeared in large quantities.
After we gathered our 4th bundle of Thymus without difficulty, my Pumpkin head sent me a mind message indicating it is finished refining.
"Guys thank you for giving me the essence, My pumpkin head is now a [Level 4 Pumpkin Head] and aside from it's [Fear Gas], it now has the ability [Illusion Circle] which creates a circle where anything inside of it will start to see illusions of the person's choice.