The loud sound of the tavern reached even the people passing along the street, a loud chant was heard in the distance, the smell of butterbeer and mead seasoned the air, a chant in the dwarven tongue was sung, a famous hymn about the adventures of the first dwarf "Immortal" Telthr Doissmerr, seeking the finest jewels and stones in the farthest mountains of the kingdom of Roseux.
In that same street, passed a knight, newly accepted member of the Guild of Britania, one of the 7 biggest Guilds of the kingdom.
His step was hurried, he wanted to get to his guild as soon as possible and get the request for the next mission, but when he heard the chant in the tavern, he kept singing, in the right key and with the exact pronunciation of each word.
This young knight had no skills in combat, his power was comparable to an ordinary human, however, he had an extraordinary memory, he could remember everything he studied, or heard, he could become a great member of the royal court of Roseux, but he had a dream, to become an "Immortal" knight.
The Knight continued singing happily, until he reached the entrance of the Britania guild, where he could hear an even greater commotion.
"So you're telling me that an asshole like you managed to break into a werewolf clan's lair by himself?" The voice was that of Fiatrix Mouselle, a transformation mage.
"Yes! I managed to break in and steal their moon jewels, so they lost a lot of their magic power, we can break in anytime" This voice was from Ugal Portmas, a skilled rogue in the guild.
"I think you lost some bet and now we have to clean up your mess" Fiatrix went on, suspicion in her voice.
The Young Knight enters the guild hall in the middle of the discussion.
"Ohhh, you're new around here, I've never seen you before" Said Fiatrix
The knight's clothes were very simple, leather armor of the simplest kind possible, looked new and uncomfortable, a short sword at his waist, and no shields or anything flashy, he looked more like an ordinary citizen than an Adventurer.
"I joined the Guild a few days ago, but I was only in this hall once, which was on the day of my registration" Said the young knight "My name is Sabber D'doria" Sabber continued
"Don't be shy, Sabber, we are assembling a small group to invade the lair of a small werewolf clan" Ugal said with a smile on his face.
"Are you already wanting to call the rookie to your troubles?" Fiatrix spoke with a certain disdain
"You can count on me, I'm in need of a lot of field experience" Sabber said with enthusiasm
"Oh... Don't you have experience in combat?" Ugal spoke with a bit of disappointment in his voice.
"I see you have a sword, are you a warrior?" Fiatrix asked
"Yes, I know some swordsmanship" Sabber was a little embarrassed.
A childish voice rang out from the hall counter
"Sabber has no combat skills, he has a super memory" The voice came from Gannia Rotts, one of the guild's attendants and one of the ones responsible for redistributing the quests, despite having a voice of a little child, Gannia must have been around about 30 human years old, she was tall, kept her blond hair tied up in a ponytail and white bows, and the size of her breasts drew attention even more than her voice.
"Super memory? So you're a mage or something?" asked Fiatrix
"Not exactly, I don't have any magic powers, I just remember things very well" Said Sabber, even more embarrassed.
"But if you don't have combat skills and no magic, you're just an ordinary human" Ugal spoke with some disdain, since to enter any Guild, you need to have a superhuman ability.
The Britania guild, despite being among the 7 largest in the Roseux kingdom, was the most infamous among the 7, and several times almost lost its title of "Superior Guild".
"I think the old man is getting senile to let someone like that into the guild, he must be wanting to close the guild doors for good" A deep and dense voice echoed throughout the hall, sitting right in the corner of the main hall, Bras Eldir, he was twice the size of an average human, and five or 6 times as wide, his body was huge, and every muscle well defined, a clef bigger than Sabber's body was right beside him.
"Many Immortal wannabes end up getting killed in the first few months, you'd better just worry about keeping your head on straight and your bones out of some monster's mouth" Fiatrix spoke in a more serious tone.
"Don't worry too much, there are many ways for an ordinary human to help in the guild, just do what you're told and everything will go well for you" Ugal also spoke in a more serious tone.
Gannia kept talking
"Since you're here and needing field experience, I have the perfect job for you." From a pile of mission requests, Gannia looked through some papers and pulled out one.
** MISSION - FIND FEFE THE LOST KITTEN **
** THE BLUEZAL FAMILY'S PET CAT GONE, THEY SAW FEFE COMES IN THE MIDDLE OF GARLIX MOUNTAIN, THE FAMILY IS VERY SAD WITH THE LOSS OF FEFE AND ASKS FOR HELP FROM THE BRITANIA GUILD IN THE SEARCH FOR FEFE THE CAT **
** REWARD — 200 LUXOLS — **
Fiatrix and Ugal's faces changed expression completely, turned pale with the mission proposed to Sabber.
Gannia went on
"We must have a commitment to the community and help in everything, to become the best guild, and you need to know more about the different regions of the kingdom, I saw in your history that you had never left your village, the first time you left your village went to join the guild" Gannia spoke with a gentle smile on her face
Sabber D'doria just accepted the mission and left as fast as he could towards the Garlix mountain, he was very embarrassed since everyone who was in the hall heard that conversation.
Sabber left the city crestfallen, humming that song he'd heard earlier in the tavern, in honor of Telthr Doissmerr, the first "Immortal" dwarf.
"Immortal" is the name given to heroes who do great deeds in the course of their lives, and are selected to rule the realm. There is a summit where the current Immortals, 12 Immortals, make decisions about the future of the Roseux Kingdom, their decisions need to be approved by the Royal Family.
Whenever an Immortal dies, another Hero is chosen to take his place, and all the deeds of those heroes who achieve the title of Immortal become books, stories, songs, and hymns, and it is quite common for cities and villages to be named after the Immortals.
The Immortals dome is made up of 12 Chairs, which are also called "Houses", and these Chairs, or "Houses" are named after the original 12 Immortals, who founded the Roseux kingdom along with the royal family.
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Sabber could already see the Garlix mountain in the distance, he had to ask for some information to be able to find it, this is a very inhospitable region of the Kingdom, for this reason there are few roads and few villages, and Sabber had to ration food and water, because he don't know where to find more food, and had been walking for a long time.
As soon as he arrived at Garlix Mountain, he saw a small road, already almost covered by weeds, and when climbing for a few hours on this road, he found the small farm of the Bluezals.
"Hello! My name is Sabber D'doria, and I come on behalf of the Bretania guild for the mission to find the Fefe cat" Sabber, despite everything, was excited about his first field mission
"Ohhh, they sent a young man to help us! I'm very glad of your help, Fefe has been with us for many years, he's used to our food, I'm afraid he's hungry" Old lady Bluezal was pleased with young Sabber
"I will give you some special stew, Fefe loves this stew, if he smells it, he will run to you, and it will be easy to recognize him, he wears a red cloth around his neck and a small golden bell next to the cloth" A old lady continued
Sabber took the stew and set off across the mountain in search of Fefe.
He walked in several places on the mountain calling Fefe's name, but got no response, and there was no sign of other animals around either, so Sabber began to suspect that Fefe had been devoured by some magical or wild beast.
Sabber was more attentive, thinking about the possibility that there was even a wild beast on the loose in that forest, so he looked carefully where he went, and after a while he saw Fefe's red cloth, it was torn and in front of a cave entrance.
There were no signs of other animals in the vicinity, nor of footsteps of any creature around that cave, but entering an unknown cave like this was almost madness, but Sabber's determination spoke louder and he decided to enter the cave.
It was all completely dark, but Saber soon found an old torch on the ground, probably that cave had been explored before, so there was no danger.
Even with the torch, the visibility was limited, he couldn't see things much beyond 2 meters, it felt like he was walking in the depths of the ocean, surrounded by the dark waters.
Sabber thought he heard a sound, or someone calling to him, so he started to move through an entrance on the right until he dropped through a hole in the ground and arrived at what appeared to be an ancient temple.
There were columns throughout the space carved in solid stone, columns over 20 meters, with several designs carved into them, that space was huge, but right in the center of it all, there was something like an altar.
Sabber went to this altar, had to climb some steps, apparently, this place was made by human hands.
in the center of this altar, there was a massive stone table, with a small chest on top, Sabber was happy with the find, and soon he went to look what was inside the chest, and as soon as he opened the chest he had a surprise, there was only an aged parchment on it.
Sabber knew it was dangerous to look at scrolls anyway, they could be loaded with some curse or attack magic, and he would be hit, so he decided to keep the scroll to take to a specialist.
After sabber took the parchment, he looked at the drawings on the columns more closely, and saw what appeared to be humans and dragons, drawn throughout the columns, were very realistic images, he had never seen that before, as dragons are seen rarely, sometimes centuries apart.
Sabber was looking at each drawing closely, paying attention to every detail, for he wanted to memorize every detail of those dragons exactly, when he heard a strange sound.
"Meow, Meow, Meow!" It sounded like a cat's meow
Apparently Sabber had found Fefe the cat, and soon went to rescue him, he took the stew and Fefe ran to him
"Look! I found the runaway cat" Sabber spoke to the Cat, and received a curious look in response.
Another sound began to fill the space, it seemed to be something crawling, Sabber raised his torch and took a few more steps to see where the sound was coming from, and as he approached he saw what seemed to be impossible.
A gaze gleamed in the darkness beyond the glow of that torch, eyes reddened, glazed over Sabber, and an inner roar that made the entire temple shudder.
Sabber couldn't tell what he was seeing, only his eyes were almost the size of him, and they were moving around in that darkness, making a sound in what seemed to be his throat that made everything around him quiver.
Sabber knew he was in danger, but he couldn't imagine what kind of danger, his small body was up against, but only one thing came to his mind to "flee".
But before Sabber made any move, the beast's mouth opened, and it was filled with fire, the fire was so great that the entire temple was lit and cleared.
In that instant, Sabber's "run away" thought took shape, so he, ran, but as soon as he turned around, he saw Fefe on the ground, he picked up the cat and when the beast saw the cat in Sabber's hand, he turned around.
turned to the side and spit fire on the side of the temple.
The fire was so great that it filled the side of the entire temple, and circled everything, Saber had to stay behind one of the columns to protect himself, and when the fire filled the entire space, he could see what was chasing him.
It was a dragon.
It was much bigger than the designs carved in the stone, it was dark red, its scales reflected the glow of the fire, it looked like it was also on fire, only its head seemed to be 10 times bigger than Sabber, its wings were almost immeasurable by the look, and it seemed that what was causing the crawling sound was his tail, which was moving from side to side.
For a moment Sabber was in a state of despair, but the sound of Fefe's meow brought him to his senses, and as soon as the fire stopped circling the temple, Sabber moved behind another of those pillars to hide. of the dragon's gaze.
Sabber leaned completely against the rock that was already heated, and tried to formulate a plan, and began to remember the legends and everything he knew about dragons, but nothing seemed useful at that moment, as he was alone, holding a cat, with a poor quality sword that he bought from a traveling merchant rather than a blacksmith, which are much more expensive.
In a fraction of a second, dozens of plans flashed through his mind, but all resulted in his death, he saw this result time after time, then the dragon launched another fire attack, this time it went over the top, and almost covered the entire temple. with a single attack.
Even with some distance from the fire, Sabber felt a scorching heat, just being in that place, until he remembered something he saw, it was an image in a column that was a little ahead of him, in it there was the image of a man holding a kind of scroll towards a dragon, maybe that scroll he found was the answer to being able to survive that cave.
Before he could rejoice in his plan, the dragon attacked again, above the columns, and the heat Sabber felt was even greater, it was then that he wondered why the dragon had attacked from above again instead of attacking directly, then something came to mind, and his plan was complete, now it was time to execute it.
The dragon carefully watches the column where Sabber hid, and as he didn't come out from behind the column with these attacks, the Dragon went towards the column, but as soon as he took a few steps, Sabber comes out from behind the column holding Fefe in his arms. in front of his face like it was a mini shield, and what he thought was right, the dragon didn't mean to hurt the cat.
The dragon seeing that scene seems to get angry, he hits his tail hard on the ground, and everything shudders, but that doesn't shake Sabber, he has a confident smile on his face, and when the dragon notices Sabber's smile, he gets even more angry and lets out a huge roar.
Sabber, seeing that the dragon wasn't enjoying that situation, decides to act fast, and lets go of the cat to be able to use the scroll, and as soon as he has the scroll in his hands, he feels that heat from before, the dragon's mouth is already full of flames, ready to attack, Sabber hesitates for a moment when using the scroll, it seemed that all that was before him was fire, he could see nothing but the flames, but before the dragon shoots that fire, Sabber opens the scroll towards the dragon and a golden glow comes out of the parchment, and that glow is so strong that Sabber closes his eyes, and all he hears is a great roar, and as soon as he opens his eyes, everything is covered in smoke.
A white smoke covers the entire space, it seems that that scroll worked somehow, those images of the fire, and the dragon had completely disappeared from his front, leaving only a white smoke, which was getting thinner and thinner and after the The smoke completely cleared Sabber saw something that left him completely open-mouthed. There was a naked young woman lying on the floor, she seemed to be completely asleep, she appeared to be a few years younger than Sabber, and much smaller, and to top it off she was naked.
Sabber didn't know what to do in that situation, still trying to think of something, or understand whatever had happened, but before coming to any conclusion, the cat Fefe rubbed himself on her and started meowing, until she woke up from her sleep and see Sabber, standing, looking at her.