After a moment, our surroundings changed. When we looked around we saw a village which barely deserved to be called that at best it could be called a camp. There were about a dozen or more buildings surrounded by a wooden wall separating the forest outside from the village. More than half of the houses were badly damaged.

When I looked at the people around us there were about five groups of about ten each, including us.

Kira: wonder what’s going on there’s no one around.

Ryuu: I got a bad feeling like something is hiding

While we were looking around I felt something above me and when I looked a large bulky body was falling towards me. I instantly moved to block it.

Kira: everyone get down.

As I yelled everyone moved away and I blocked the arm that fell on me that was probably as big as me while the monster was at least twice my size. The weight on the arm pushed me to my knees with how powerful it was. It didn’t stop at the first punch as he lifted his right arm his left one came from my side but since I was ready I instantly transformed my body into half dragon while hiding it under my armor and held off the attack with a bit more ease.

After the first few hits towards me, shining arrows began flying overhead and hitting his face and chest hurting him. It was while he was distracted that Ryuu took his chance and quickly got me out of there.

Ryuu: that was too dangerous, it’s quite powerful

Kira: tell me about it, that thing is as strong as us we need to deal with this quickly; it isn’t to our advantage to fight to long.

It was then that it appeared

Quest event: protect Orilon

Protect the village Orilon from the Troll intrudion before it gets destroyed

Difficulty rank: D

Requirements to succeed: protect the village from total destruction; kill all trolls that enter the town walls.

Requirement to fail: all buildings destroyed and residents killed

Reward: access to the village, familiarity with the residents, a house in town.

Kira: hey did you just get

Ryuu: a quest, yes I did, right off the bat they make us feel the power of the location we were sent to, that’s brutal.

Melody: hey get up there are more coming in we need to act quickly and get rid of this thing.

Kira: ok, first off everyone this thing is easily as strong as we are, since we us dragons cant fight at full power in town fight as half-dragons make sure to hide it from the other players.’ I whispered to my party

Kira: hey you guys go take care of the other trolls; we will deal with this one

They nodded and each group ran in a different directions

When they were gone we turned to the Troll that was approaching slowly and all five dragons began changing until all of our body except our face was half dragon.

Kira: hey guys we will be vanguard you guys rearguards, fire magic and arrows at him to distract him and create openings for us.

At my order they spread out and began firing different spells at it while the five of us closed in on it from different directions.

He quickly aimed for Relon who was the slowest of all five of us and swung its bulky arm his way; I quickly took this chance and ran at his knee with my clutched fist.

Kira: [Storm Dragons Fist]

I yelled and smashed his knee making him lose balance but it didn’t break it as I had intended. Before I had a chance to react, his arm that was raised aimed at Relon swung in an arc with startling speed and hit me, who was standing behind him and sent me flying into the palisade.

Everyone was surprised I was caught by the attack

Levi: what’s with this thing not it took a direct hit but and was still able to hit Kira off guard

Ryuu: calm down we need to stay calm to plan this out.

Kira: ok now im pissed this bastard really wants to die.

I was already up when they began pancaking

Relon: don’t be rash this isn’t an opponent we can handle carelessly like the chaos dragons we used to test our skills on also we can’t use breath attacks here because of the village.

Kira: fine ill calm down but just remember Relon, there is always calm before the storm.

The air around me was swirling violently because my anger was making me releasing mana.

He stared at me with what I think was a grin but no one moved the only sound came from the other fights. After a few seconds a strong wind blew while he was looking at me just before we all disappeared with the wind. He quickly looked around and spotted me as I was running behind him. As he turned as he swung his arm horizontally at me using the turn to add more force into the blow but as it got half way to its target before someone got in the way while holding only a single long sword.

In front of the incoming arm Luis stood with his sword up high and glowing as he poured mana on his edge before swinging it which lifted a lot of dust.

Even with the dust we head the clear roar of pain from the Troll but only after the dust had settled did we see what happened, Luis’s cut went half way through the trolls arm and it was now limp. As it roared in agony and grabbed its damaged arm we didn’t lose this opportunity and fired a volley of attacks.

Kira: [Storm

Relon: [Fire

Ryuu: [Lightning

Levi: [Iron

Vent: [Ice

“””””Dragons Fist]””””

The punches hit almost simultaneous all over its body. I hit is knee again but this time I put more force behind it because I was still pissed off, levi hit him in the gut with vent while relon coming from the front and ryuu from behind hit simultaneous on the front and back of his head, but he still didn’t fall and even showed signs he was healing as he saw the wound on his arm close a bit

Melody: everyone get back its not dead yet.

She yelled as we moved back, with her Julie, Nika and Alice were all in a group glowing as they charged a spells. When everyone had backed off a few meters they began chanting.

Girls: ““””Spirits of the Earth, Strike thy enemy with the weight of the Earth, Shake the planes and raise mountains, “Earths Judgment””””

Suddenly a wide magic circle appeared above the whole town. Suddenly the ground began shaking then below the troll we were fighting large spikes began springing out impaling him, when I looked at the other groups the same thing was happening with the trolls there and all over the town. Every time a new troll jumped over the walls the spikes appeared even before it could touch the ground. After about a minute the make circle vanished and there was an eerie quiet which was broke when the four girls fell down exhausted. I quickly ran over and helped melody as Vent, Relon and Ryuu did the same with their partner.

Vent: what was that spell you just used?

Melody: it’s called Earths Judgment, it’s an A rank spell that we learned only the incantation for but never had the chance to use

Julie: same here I never used it because it’s a complete mana guzzler it last for as long as there are enemies left, it doesn’t matter if we have the mana or not once the spell is case it will continue until all creatures we consider an enemy are dead.

Luis: isn’t it dangerous for the caster as well

Melody: yes but that’s why you need to know your limits, we had to cast the spell together so that we shared the burden or else we would have died just now.

As I looked at each of them I saw they were very pale.

Kira: ‘must have been an exhausting spell if it left them all so drained’ I though.

After a few second we heard one of the doors from the houses open and an elderly man came out.

Elder: oh my, I never thought someone would appear at such a time and save us thank you all.

The old man bowed to us and began crying.

Nika: um sir can we talk later we’re really tired’ was all she said before she closed her eyes and was fast asleep.

Elder: oh my please bring them into my house we have some beds free’ he then turned to the other groups, ’please take anyone injured in as well it would be bad leaving injured stay outside.

After he gave the instructions the doors from the other houses began opening and warily the people came out and guided the other parties inside, while the elder entered his own house.

Inside was vary bare, there was little in terms of furnishing but there were quite a few beds so we placed the girls in them and returned to the living room and sat down.

Elder: well let’s first start with introductions, I’m the village chief Warin, well if it was a village at least, ever since we settled these lands it has been nothing but hardships.

Kira: I can somewhat tell there isn’t much development here is there a reason for that.

Warin: you killed part of it, those damned monsters outside are the bloody problem we can’t even step outside the walls next to the town to cut down the trees and make space between the walls and trees because they are just waiting out there.

Kira: ‘wow that is a problem’ I though.

Warin: im so glad such a powerful group as yours came here the gods must have finally looked towards us, I’m so happy we won’t lose any more lives

He began crying tears of joy again; ’it must have been hard dealing with this for so long’.

I poke Ryuu and Relon, who were beside me.

Kira: so what do you think, think we can handle something like this’ I whispered to them

Ryuu: truthfully if we don’t cooperate with the other groups it would be hard to get much of anything working here I think, we dragons would have a good chance at fighting off the pests outside but I don’t know about our partners.

Relon: I agree, if it was anyone but you who took that first blow when the troll ambushed us they would have died.

As we talked Warin looked at us and coughed.

Warin: um if everything is ok I would like to reward you guys something for saving the town.

We looked at him and gave wary smiles.

Warin: I know what you’re thinking, what we would have to give, right well its simple come with me.

He led us outside and towards some broken down houses near the walls.

Warin: here all these houses have been abandon, the residents were killed by the monsters that invaded so there is quite a few empty, though they are a bit damaged we have wood in storage to repair.

When he looked at us he gave a wary smile but I could see he was sad when he remembered his friends that lived in those houses.

Kira: Thank you and you don’t need to worry about us, will gather our own supplies, you are all burdened enough.

Levi: he’s right we can’t take resources of a town that needs it more than we do, we are strong enough to provide for ourselves but thank you.

He just smiled and walked back to his house.

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Quest: protect Orilon (complete)

Thanks to your cooperation’s with your party you have protected the innocent settlers of this dangerous wilderness from the invasion and gained familiarity with the residents.

Reward: access to the village, familiarity with the residents, ownership of any abandon house (only one building).

Suddenly the crystals Angela gave us began glowing and an orb appeared.

Kaiser: good job super rookies, you managed to complete that quest splendidly with minimal damage and you got ahead of the other parties

Kira: what do you mean got ahead of them and what’s with calling us super rookie?

Kaiser: well one of the objectives of the “hero’s”  under the gods is to covert towns so they worship the god of the party which in turn strengthens the god and as a result gives more benefits to you guys.

Ryuu: so what do you need us to do to get this village to accept you as their god

Kaiser: easy if you guys work hard and become their saviors in this godforsaken land and build a church dedicated to me, after its down Angela can go to that town and help with the rest.

Levi: so just help them out then sounds easy enough

Relon: don’t think so casually there are five different groups here with the same objective.

Kaiser: no I think you have a head start because of the little spell the girls fired off it clearly set your group apart from the others it’s also about your question Kira why your super rookies, you guys are overwhelming more powerful than the normal dragons your age, so you rank the top five already and don’t need to participate in the tournament in three months, anyway I’ll be going now work hard.

With that the orb vanished without giving us time to continue.

Ryuu: so what now

Luis: I think we should first set up our things in the houses, I think one pair takes a house

Kira: if it’s that then I’ll take the house with the blacksmith shop layout, Melody was taught blacksmithing so we need that area for her.

Luis: I don’t see why not I didn’t learn that so I have no use for it.

Kira: ok I’ll be off

I left the others and headed to the abandon blacksmiths house. It was a two story building the first floor was built with a large forge but the metal equipment like anvil, hammers and other stuff were pretty old and useless, the walls were pretty moldy and had many broken spaces here and there.

Kira: it’s going to take a lot of sweat and mana to fix this place. Then walked outside and into the center of town then sitting down I put my palms on the ground and began channeling mana into the ground, suddenly a single sprout popped out and grew quickly until it was several meters tall.

Kira: ‘it sure was a good thing I learned a bit of nature magic it works wonders in situations like this’ it though.

I quickly pulled the tree out with roots cut the roots them off and filled the hole that was left with dirt using earth magic and walked over to my house and began processing the wood cutting them into logs then into wooden planks when I was finally done a few hours had passed and I had a large pile of wooden planks ready. Then I set up Melody’s blacksmith equipment and lit the forge and began melting the old rusted equipment  with some newer iron ore and used them to make nails. Finally I began removing the old moldy planks and replacing them with new ones. When I finally finished it was night already and Melody had woken up already and was helping set up the furniture we brought.

Melody: this looks good this building has a lot of space already and there a lot of space outside to expand.

She said happily as she finishes setting up her bed.

While she talked I was in deep thought about how we could help the town.

Kira: this town needs a lot of stuff but I think the most it needs at this moment is more security we need to get rid of the monsters nearby first, then we need connect ourselves to the outside world and get people circulating in this town’ I though.

Melody: …ra … Kira, hey Kira are you listening.

Kira: sorry I was just thinking…

Melody: let me guess, how we are going to help this town right, well leave that to me and Alice we both helped establish towns during our training months so we have some ideas.

I just smiled and finished up what I was doing and fell onto my own bed tired from today’s events.

In the morning I woke up to the sound of metal hitting metal and sound of people talking outside and down stairs.

When I walked down I saw a large crowd of people with old tools in hand and Melody working feverously on the forge repairing them.

Kira: morning melody

Melody: ah Kira good your up can you help me

Kira: sure

I  said and laughed a bit before picking up one of the hammers and took the next persons item and began fixing them up with her

Kira: ‘I’s so glad I took the time to train even just a bit of blacksmithing at least I can repair equipment’ I though.

We spend the morning fixing all the tools at noon Warin walked in with a few kids with him and put a basket on the table.

Warin: good afternoon, here’s a little something from all of us to you two for your hard work

Melody: oh we didn’t work from pay; we just want to use what we learned to help out others.

Warin: I know I can tell you’re not like those other people who went and started hunting the monsters outside, do you believe they saw us in our situation and they still wanted us to trade our little supplies for the meat they hunted.

I smiled inwardly at his comment, ‘either they don’t know what they need to do for their god or they don’t care anyway that better for us, but just to make this interesting’ I grinned.

Kira: hey Warin what kind of supplies did they want.

Warin: um let’s see bandages, medical plants, some basic needs oh and wood

Kira: if they want it so badly why don’t you raise the price, make them trade more meat for the wood since there is so little

Boy: isn’t that mean

Kira: if you think of about it, it is mean but that is what a good merchant would do when they are low on stock.

Girl: I like the idea, everyone but your group is mean, and I’m going to tell mommy and daddy to only trade cheaply with you guys

Boy: me to ill go tell the others as well

The kids all ran off in all directions, while I let escape a small grin that Warin didn’t notice but Melody did which made her poke me and whisper

Melody: are you trying to make it hard for them

I then explained what Kaiser told us yesterday since she was asleep at the time and she quickly changed sides, what a smart girl I’m sure the others are the same.

Warin: oh my this is going to get bad, im worried about how they will react to the raise, we cant fight against such strong fighters

Kira: don’t worry we’ll watch over the town.

He smiled when I reassured him

Warin: that takes a good weight off these old bones, but im worried they will stop bringing food back.

Suddenly Ryuu, Levi, Julie and Luis appears at the door with some blood on his hands and feet

Julie: if you’re worried about that come, look here.

When we got outside we were surprised outside was a large pile of bodies

Warin: what is this, those monsters and animals aren’t they the ones that are just outside the village

Julie: no they “were” the monsters and animals that were just outside the village

In the pile, that easily reach two stories high, was a many different animals many were monster versions of common animals like bears twice the normal size. The same goes for fox, rat, rabbits, wolves and a few others all were dead.

Ryuu: we didn’t kill all of them just enough to keep them away from the town for a good amount of time and give us plenty of food.

All the villagers had their month open wide at the special they saw, monsters they could barely kill were piled up high with the kids that killed them just smiling about it as if it were the most natural thing.

Suddenly all the villagers began to cheer and began picking up what they could grab, the smaller animals went first.

Warin: thank you all so much, not only did you save us from the invasion you gave us food again it’s like the gods have blessed us with saints.

I instantly saw the perfect opportunity for a quick finish to another problem

Kira: it’s not the gods it’s a single god that sent us ten here, his name is the Dragon God Kaiser, he saw that you were all suffering so he sent us to help you.

Warin: Kaiser I’ve heard of him when I was young, one of the youngest known gods, he reached godhood by doing an almost impossible feat of killing a god of war and ended the Gods War when he ascended, knowing such a god looked towards us is such an honor, if only we had resources to repay him by building a shrine for him.

As the villagers returned for the rest of the animals and they heard our conversation and were listening quietly.

Melody: you don’t need something like that…

Villager women: for the god that sent such saints to our village to watch over us he deserves a proper place if worship, now that we can gather wood we can build and repair our town and grow.

At this point every last village had gathered and were motivated to do this they all had axes and saws ready to deforest the whole area just to build this

Familiarity with Orilon rose to Max

They willingly accept Dragon God Kaiser as their own and will begin constructing a place of worship for him

I quickly called over the others

Kira: listen protect all of them from the monsters, a pare stay inside the town to watch over the other parties we don’t know if they will take kindly to us taking such a quick initiative, me and melody will probably be getting busy from now on in the smithy we need to make large stocks of nails and tools, if anything happens call us.

I give out orders, as the villagers rushed out and the sound of cutting began resounding through the forest.

As we enter the ship melody pulled out a large parchment, quill, and ink well and many measuring instruments you would normally see in movies that show something from the 16 century on earth

Kira: what’s this for.

Melody: I have experience in planning construction so I’m going to make blueprints for the shrine

Kira: make sure to hide them, I don’t know if the other parties will be so happy about the sudden changes since it doesn’t benefit them.

I then began working on the tools and items needed for the constructions and repairs that will begin soon.