CHAPTER 16: UNNEXPECTED ATTACK
Kaito and Haruto had been staying in Installia since they met them, which was 4 days ago and in that time everyone has been enjoying themselves in the festival and right now the most awaited event by the people of Installia had arrived on the 5th day, the match between the students of the empire and the kingdom and, the quest has also officially ended and Haruto has been recognized as a substitute player and he also got a level as a normal player would . As so the Seraphim guild was given a task to collect the price for the competition which was 10 mana stones but which are known as monster core in Gorgoria and as so, Kaito and Haruto were also invited to go to the hunt and see how a guild operates and right now they were getting ready for the hunt.
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The players and the guild members arrived at the place designated for the hunt, it was a very large land with nothing on it just some grass.
Kaito was amazing the scenery while thinking of how they got here. They were at one of the rooms in the guild and moments later they were standing where they were now. He thought it was teleportation because as he has seen since meeting the humans of Gorgoria, people could use magic and not magic that are shown by people on Earth but real magic. He thought it was some kind of teleportation magic and he thought that this kind of thing will help in the real world but, there wasn't really any magic on Earth so he brushed the idea off.
The group started moving and as they started moving monsters started to appear, goblins, wolves and sometimes orcs but, the guild members who were brought along were dispatching them easily and one of them was the cat girl who was at the receptionist table before. Kaito and Haruto were surprised by her movements and attacks as she didn't seem to be able to hurt a fly the first time they met her and she wasn't just strong, she could probably beat dozens of C ranked hunters and she also seemed to be the strongest one in the group.
The sidelined players were also watching the guild members gathering cores of the monsters, they gathered about 8 cores from the monsters that they dispatched and were looking for another monster to kill and take its core and as they were looking for one, they heard some noises coming a little far from them, they went to where they heard these noises and they saw a wolf and an orc fighting. The wolf was being overpowered by the orc and the fight was very one sided. Everyone thought that those two would be the last one's they hunt except Isabella, Alex and Aya.
"Wait, there is something wrong with this fight, a wolf can easily defeat an orc. I will check it out" said Isabella and she started running towards the place where the event was taking place. Her speed was unbelievably high even for a hunter and it was because she was a player.
As she got closer to the fight she felt something which made her stop running and jump backwards and fly away as to get a more clear view of what she felt. As she got a little high she saw something weird about the orc. It was clouded in something black as it had been corrupted by something. She got back to the group and told them what she saw and they decided to hunt those two but said she will take on the orc.
They all traveled to where the fight was and Isabella punched the orc away from the place of the fight while the guild members took on the wolf.
The wolf was defeated easily by the guild members but, it seemed like the orc was giving Isabella a hard time but that was only true for some seconds as she easily killed it after some direct punches hit it.
"Woah you seemed to struggle there master, was there something wrong with you today?" asked Aya
"No, I'm fine but, the black thing that it was shrouded in seemed a little fishy so, I didn't kill it immediately and didn't I tell you to stop calling me master, you're well beyond the level to be my student."
"Oh that makes sense and I really like to call you master"
After that they collected the monster core that were dropped by the wolf and the orc but, because the core seemed to be also infected by whatever the orc was shrouded in, although they took the orc's core they thought to research it rather than to give it to the competition and hunted another monster and returned back to the guild.
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The team sent out to gather the prize had returned and as soon as they did, there was a man waiting for them alongside a messenger from the royal palace. The man who came to take the prize took it and went away while the messenger asked to talk privately with the guild master although, he didn't know that he wasn't here.
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"Sorry but the guild master isn't here right now and I am the head for now" said Isabella to the messenger's request.
"Ok well, because it's urgent I will just tell you" the messenger said seeming to be afraid of something. He cleared his throat and said, "His majesty requests an immediate audience with the Seraphim guild and the details of this audience will be told in the audience"
Isabella and Alex looked at each other and Isabella said, "Ok well, you three go to the competition and enjoy we will take care of the situation here." Kaito, Haruto and Aya left the guild as ordered of Isabella and headed to the competition while she asked of Alex to go and call the guild master from the real world and meet up with her in the castle. As so she headed to the castle with the messenger.
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Kaito and the other two arrived at where the competition was taking place and there were a lot of people who came to the competition. There were a lot of shops selling potions, clothes, food and other things, it seemed like the competition was like a promotion place to shoppers. The 3 agreed to explore this place and meet back at the guild after the competition had ended and they parted ways.
Everyone was looking into different things, Aya was looking for perfumes hoping that it would be different than the ones on earth, Haruto was looking at the different ores of this world and Kaito was just wandering around looking at things.
While Aya was looking for perfumes, she felt a strong presence behind her. She quickly turned around to look at who it was and she saw someone with a white long robe pass her. Their face was covered and she couldn't know who it was but she knew the person was strong.
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Kaito was also looking around at everything that caught his eye and as he was passing some shops, he saw some guy shouting and asking people where the arena was but, people ignored him because he seemed to be insane. Kaito saw the person and he looked like he was sane and was just lost, he went up to the person, he was wearing a white long robe.
"Hey what wrong, are you lost?" asked Kaito
"Oh, oh yeah, I can't find the arena where the competition is supposed to be" replied the guy
"Oh if that's the case I can help after all, I will be heading there after some time"
"Really, thanks you're a life saver. Oh and by the way, my name is Ciritus, one of the representatives of the empire" he said smiling
Oh so this guy is one of the competitors of this competition, he doesn't look that strong though. Is he hiding his powers? Well it maybe because he is a student, anyway I should just introduce myself as well., thought Kaito
"I'm Kaito, it's nice to meet you" he said extending his hand
"Oh well Kaito, nice to meet you as well!" replied Ciritus with a big smile on his face and he shook Kaito's hand
After they explored some of the shops, a voice was heard all around where the event was taking place, it was the commentator! He announced that the competition was about to start and that people should start gathering to the stadium. Kaito and Ciritus who heard this, looked at each other and decided to go to the stadium as it would be a problem if one of the participants didn't appear in the competition.
They arrived at the stadium a little later and parted ways and Ciritus asked Kaito to meet again some day and Kaito agreed. While looking for a place to sit in, he met his two friend, Aya and Haruto sitting together. They greeted each other and he sat with them.
Moments later the commentator's voice came up again and he said, "Greeting ladies and gentleman from the kingdom, the empire and wandering adventurers, today is the inter union competition of the kingdom and the empire between students will start now and the first event is a 1v1 between the strongest people from the kingdom and the empire, so, everybody welcome, Ciritus Eadwig from the empire and Edgar Cuthberst from the kingdom." as those two stepped on the stage. As the commentator finished the introduction a lot of people where talking about the representative of the kingdom, "Hey is that 'THE' Ciritus?", " 'THE' Ciritus, isn't he the one who defeated the boss of one of the world's hardest dungeons although he was still 15 and with only 3 strikes", "Yeah its him, I heard he was participating in this competition", "Oh I feel bad for the guy going up against him but because he is the strongest of the kingdom, could he give him some challenge?", "Nah no way, I'm betting the match will end in a single strike" and after a brief moment of silence everyone started shouting at the top of their lungs saying that he should end the match with just one strike and he was laughing it off. Kaito who was surprised that the guy who he had just met was some kind of hero and was strong.
"Well okay let the match begin"
After the commentator said that a loud thud was heard and an orc shrouded in some kind of black aura got in and started shouting, everyone in the stadium started running including Edgar but there were a few people that didn't move and they were Kaito's group, Ciritus and what seemed to be his teammates and some adventurers who were attending the competition.
As this was happening in the stadium there was something serious going on in the royal palace, 5 people were there including the kings of the kingdom and the empire and the other people were all players and they were, Jonathon Wallace, Ryota Takahashi, Alex and Isabella.
"So you are telling me that everyone in the stadium and probably the whole kingdom in in grave danger and you want us to help?"
CHAPTER END