By the time the party had arrived back at the town. It was already late into the evening and the gates were already scheduled to close for the day. Cecil and the rest hurried on into the city and quickly headed towards the plaza. On the way, they could also see other parties heading in the same direction. There were so many that if it wasn't for the sky being dark, Cecil would have thought that it was still in the middle of the day during rush hour when the townspeople were hawking their wares or were working in the taverns, restaurants, and shops.

When Cecil and his party arrived at the plaza, the entire place was packed with people. The races were diverse, but a majority of them were Lizard-kin after Cecil took a glance around. There were others like him and Lucia who were from the fox race. He also saw dwarves, elves, cat-kin and dog-kin.

'Wow.... this has got to be the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life!'

Cecil's eyes were sparkling as he looked around like the kid he was. He was so fascinated that the bull shit his father and grandfather had fed him as a child was actually now true and being displayed right before his eyes. The atmosphere was boisterous and everyone was speaking among themselves, creating a ruckus. Parties were comparing with each other on how much they had. There were also many parties like Cecil's who were carrying monster materials with them.

Cecil's party stood out since they had a wagon with a whole bunch of monster materials in it being pulled by Silver. Right as they entered the plaza many of the adventurer parties directed a glance towards them. Many of them were bewildered at the sheer amount of materials that the party had. The wagon was practically overloaded with materials that it had formed a small hill. During the latter half of the day, Cecil had participated in the party's hunt. So he went on a killing spree while experimenting with 'Mana Cutter' and 'Mana Blade' techniques. The result was the mountain of materials on the wagon.

Actually, the wagon was only a small upgraded version of what was originally a small cart. The party had created a cart at first, but then Cecil upgraded the cart to a wagon because of the sheer amount of materials he harvested after his experiments.

Cecil's party attracted a lot of attention, but most people didn't put their attention to the party members. Instead they had their attention directed towards Silver who was pulling the wagon. A 4 meter tall and 5 meter long wolf would of course attract attention. But some of the adventurers seemed to come to some sort of realization after seeing Silver. The other adventurers seemed to have made the conclusion that the party of teenagers was only able to have such a bountiful hunt because of Silver.

With this conclusion, they stopped paying attention the Cecil's party while some even scoffed and directed a disdainful gaze towards them, especially since they saw the small, black, 3-tailed fox that was acting like some curious child leading the party. Cecil was preoccupied with the sight before him so he didn't register any of the other adventurers' change in attitude. This wasn't the same with Lucia and Scarlet Blaze though.

Milly, seeing the change in atmosphere around them and the scornful gazes that were being directed towards them immediately scoffed, "Heh, they think all of this was because of Silver."

"With Cel, acting like that... it's not really a surprise that they're acting that way though," Lucia responded.

"Hmph, that curious child upfront is the exact reason why we're in this situation in the first place. Not like they'd understand anyways. Anyway, why is Cecil like this though? It's like his first time seeing such a gathering."

"Well... it actually is though. He's been living in the forest away from our village with his parents. So he was only exposed to society around a month ago."

"WHAT?! Seriously!" shouted Tyr.

Everyone was surprised hearing this, but Tyr as usual, couldn't refrain himself from shouting.

"Hmmm... that explains why he's a bit introverted. He talks a lot with you though Lucia."

"Hehe, that's because I'm his only childhood friend~"

Lucia lied, but she wasn't entirely wrong. Other than her, there were only two other people, a boy and a girl, who Cecil actually played with during his free time back on Earth. It was only once so Cecil had already forgotten about them, since he had to go back to his arduous training soon after.

Anyway, Lucia being Cecil's only childhood friend was the back story of their relationship that Cecil spun up. He couldn't go around announcing that he was an otherworlder now could he? So Cecil was Lucia's childhood friend and his parents had passed away 4 months ago in an accident. Cecil began living with Lucia's family in Fauxe Village only 3 months ago because their parents were friends and they found out about the unfortunate accident.

Since it was about time for Lucia to go pursue her education at a proper facility, she and Cecil were now on their journey towards Angla City, the capital of Anglaria Kingdom to enroll in Arks Royal Academy, which was the number one Magic Academy in Anglaria Kingdom.

"I see, so because Cecil was living deep in the forest with his parents... that explains why he's so adept at magical combat." Miles said.

"S-so Cecil's a-an orphan? ... h-he lived i-in such a d-dangerous place too..." Cathy said sadly.

"No worries Cathy! Cecil's already over it. He wants to live happily now for the sake of his parents! So don't feel sad on his account, it'd only ruin his mood and remind him of bad memories!"

"Y-yeah... g-good luck Cecil!" Cathy responded to Lucia.

Hearing his name, Cecil turned around and asked.

"What's that? Someone call me?"

"Eh?! N-no! J-just... b-be happy Cecil!" Cathy stuttered.

"Uhm... okay? Haha! Anyway, this place is great! Shouldn't we hurry and submit the rest of our proofs now? The booth is just up ahead! Let me go! The clerk lady already recognizes me from my previous returns!" Cecil said cheerily.

Hearing the word 'lady' come from Cecil's mouth, Lucia's smile froze and cracked a bit.

"Ha...hahaha... I'll go with you, Cel..." Lucia said darkly.

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"Okay!"

"Remember... just shut up and let me do the talking..."

Seeing Lucia's abrupt change from a warm smile to a cold deadpanned face, it was Cecil's turn to stutter in response.

"O-okay...?"

He put on a clueless face, wondering why Lucia suddenly looked at him like that. He shrugged and started looking back at the crowd of adventurers again. Milly and the rest could only smile wryly at the two. Unlike Cecil, the rest of them new exactly what was up. Lucia's atmosphere would always change whenever some unknown female got close to or was mentioned by Cecil.

Lucia took the proofs of subjugation from Milly and started dragging Cecil by the hand. Cecil, of course, was still clueless at the change in Lucia's mood. Back to his curious fox mode, Cecil was constantly glancing at the adventurers around him while exclaiming words of fascination and awe in English. Others might not understand a single word he was saying, but Lucia, after spending a month learning, had already grasped quite a lot about Cecil's home language.

'This idiot...' Lucia could only sigh, but still smiled at his curious antics. 'Whatever let's just hurry and turn this in.'

They were pushing their way forward into the crowd. They were moving really slow and with Lucia's small frame, she was constantly being pushed around by the people in front of them. She was starting to get annoyed.

While they were making their way forwards Lucia was abruptly knocked back by a group of adventurers who were ahead of them. The group was horsing around, but all they did when they saw the two was scoff at them, not bothering to apologize. If it wasn't for Cecil quickly catching her from behind, she would have fallen hard on the ground.

Lucia was infuriated. Right when she was about to raise her voice and shout at the people in front of her, Cecil had already stepped forward and stretched his arm towards the person who knocked her back. Lucia was alarmed and took a glance at Cecil. She saw that his usually smiling face was covered by a mask of cold indifference.

'These bastards...'

Cecil empowered his outstretched arm and pushed the person who had knocked against Lucia. He didn't care whether the person did it intentionally or not, all Cecil saw was a group of idiots who had almost knocked down Lucia. If it wasn't for him catching her, Lucia would have probably hurt herself, so he thought.

The person who was pushed was sent tumbling into his group of friends. The tumble had also sent their friends colliding with the other people around them and a small clearing had formed in the crowd of people in front of Cecil and Lucia.

"Move," Cecil said coldly. His voice immediately silenced the adventurers who had just got up and was about to start cursing at him.

Cecil had started projecting his killing intent into the surrounding. The pressure that was coming out from his small body had caused the area to turn cold for a moment. He grabbed tightly onto Lucia's hand and walked forward. The adventurers around them were bewildered at how such a small boy was exuding such a fierce amount of pressure. The pressure was enough to silence the man who was sent flying by Cecil. Although he was a grown man, he was sent flying like a ragdoll, frightened, and silenced by a child.

His initial anger from being knocked away had turned into shame then it quickly turned into rage. He was about to draw his weapon and threaten the kid, but then he saw the cold look in the fox boy's eyes. Unbeknownst to him, Cecil had arrived just a step from where he was standing. Cecil glared at the man and enunciated coldly, "Move."

The man shuddered and moved out of the way quickly, his rage was quickly doused by the cold word Cecil had thrown at him. After 'pouring' cold water over the adventurer, Cecil continued on his way towards the event booth while retracting his killing intent. Behind him, Lucia was staring at Cecil with a red face and eyes sparkling. She started giggling and smiling from ear to ear. Seeing as Cecil was heading towards them, the rest of the crowd obediently made way for the two.

When they arrived at the booth, Cecil stepped back and gently pulled Lucia in front of him, "Let's hurry Lulu... my mood's been spoiled now."

There was a light scowl on his face because of the earlier event. Lucia smiled at him and patted his head before saying, "Okay, Cel~"

She then stepped forward and started talking with the lady manning the booth.

'Damnit, that bastard just had to ruin my mood.'

Remembering the fool who dared to knock down Lucia caused an unexplainable fire to burn in Cecil's gut.

'Tsk, what's with me? I feel so stupid getting worked up like that. Lucia could have probably handled the situation herself easily.'

While he was reflecting on himself, Lucia had finished turning in the large amounts of proofs of subjugations. The clerk lady was shocked at the amount of proofs the little fox girl had turned in. She quickly cast a spell and a numeral popped up on the board she was holding. She looked up again at Lucia and noticed Cecil frowning behind her.

'Ah, isn't this the boy from that party?' She thought. "Okay, so that's another 176 for... Scarlet Blaze, yes?"

Lucia was surprised hearing that the clerk lady already knew her party's name before she even gave it to her, she then saw where the lady was looking at and turned back to look at Cecil. She then remembered what Cecil had said earlier. She quickly responded to the lady's question, "Yup!"

"Hmhm, good job. You little ones sure are diligent. Here's today's bonus for crossing the milestones!"

The clerk handed Lucia 2 bank cards.

"Oh... t-thank you. What's this for?"

"It's the bonus for every adventurer party if they could hand over 100 proofs of subjugations in one day. And if I'm not wrong you've got yesterday and the first day's bonus for the 100-mark milestones already, yes?"

Lucia then remembered that Cecil had handed the party 2 bank cards yesterday which they had divided the amount equally amongst themselves. Cecil didn't explain where he got it since he was too preoccupied with his meditation and experiments. The party only assumed that one of the bank cards was payment from the materials the party sold, while the other card they didn't know what it was for. Now she understood where it came from.

"Your party have consistently been getting the 100-mark milestones since the first day of the event! You guys might be this time's champion! I'm rooting for you!"

"T-Thank you!"

"Okay. The ranking announcements will be on the day after tomorrow. It will be announced in the plaza at noon. Don't be late okay! I have high hopes for your party getting first place!"

After getting the information, Lucia once more thanked the lady. She then turned around and grabbed Cecil's hand and started walking back towards Milly and the rest of the party. On their way back they didn't meet with any problems from the other adventurers and Lucia made sure to stay clear from the previous group that Cecil had caused trouble with. She wasn't worried that Cecil would cause any problems, but if the previous group pushed Cecil's buttons in the wrong way, Lucia knew all too well what he would do to them.

Once they met back with the rest of their party members, Tyr immediately asked a question, "SO! What should we do now?"

"Let's settle these materials first, and then head back to our inns and rest," Miles replied.

"Oh yeah, here's today's bonus for passing the milestones!" Lucia said while taking out the 2 bank cards from earlier before passing them to Milly. She explained to the party what the bank cards they've been getting from before and the group immediately understood.

After realizing that they got 2 this time instead of just 1, Millyimmediately pushed the cards back to Lucia.

"Keep them Lucia. Today's efforts were mostly due to Cecil anyways, so let him keep the bonus. He also lost a rather good sword on the first day. Besides, we'll be splitting the materials equal ways remember? It didn't sit well with me at first, but now that we can give the bonuses to Cecil, at least this will compensate his efforts a bit."

"The sword wasn't really that precious or anything, and it was OUR efforts, mind you. I didn't do anything for the first 2 days remember?" Cecil retorted, feeling a little bit dissatisfied because they were the ones who put him on the bench until the last day.

"Cecil, just take them. If we get first place, then it's because of your last spurt today. We got half of what we hunted for the past 2 days today just by your efforts alone," Miles said in support of his sister's statement. Even the always serious Miles agreed with his sister. Cathy and Tyr were also nodding in agreement.

Cecil scratched his head and took the cards, "...Well, if you insist. Thanks everyone."

He then took out his newly issued bank card and pressed them together. The cards merged and the credits inside the two cards were transferred into Cecil's bank card. He then took a look at the bronze colored bank card in his hands.

Bank of Alterna - Bronze Card Name: Cecil Silvaria Credits:

150g (gold)

66s (silver)

854c (copper)

The bank cards also had their own rankings. Starting from bronze card, the bank card ranks go all the way up to a diamond card. The way to upgrade them is by having the required amount of gold inside the card for the upgrade.

1 - 9,999 gold for Bronze rank 10,000 - 99,999 gold for Silver rank 100,000 - 999,999 gold for Gold rank 1,000,000 - 99,999,999 gold for Platinum rank 100,000,000+ for Diamond rank

The only benefit in having a higher bank card rank was the prestige and recognition one would get when using the card in any kingdom. A kingdom's royalty would sometimes take notice of you if you had a high enough bank card rank.

'So we get 50 gold for every milestone. How generous,' Cecil thought. "Alright, since that's settled, let's hurry to the guild. I wanna drop the wagon off then head to the ranch with Silver before the gates close."

Cecil was already heading towards the adventurer guild before he even finished talking. The party followed after him with Silver in tow. Once the large wolf started moving, all of the adventurers in front of the party made way for them.